Massa: I expect to be more competitive
Jun.10 (YallaF1.com) It was announced on Wednesday that Felipe Massa will be with Ferrari until 2012. The news would have come as a relief for the Brazilian who has yet to win a race this season. Massa’s best result was second place, to team mate Fernando Alonso, at the season opener in Bahrain. Since then [...]
Red Bull’s F-duct taking time to prefect
Jun.10 (GMM) Several more races could pass before Red Bull is ready to race a McLaren-style F-duct system. The Austrian team tested an early prototype of the downforce-stalling concept during the practice sessions in Turkey, but it is believed the F-duct will not re-appear at all this weekend in Montreal. According to Finnish newspaper Turun [...]
Alonso welcomes Massa’s new contract
Jun.10 (GMM) Fernando Alonso has welcomed the news that his current teammate Felipe Massa will be staying at Ferrari at least until the end of 2012. It had been rumoured that the Spaniard’s friend Robert Kubica, or Red Bull’s Mark Webber, might switch to the Maranello based team to replace Brazilian Massa, 29. “I am [...]
No Friday practice role for Virgin’s Soucek
Jun.10 (GMM) Virgin still has no plans to give its test and reserve driver Andy Soucek some laps on the Friday of a grand prix weekend. We reported in April that the reigning F2 champion is contracted to do some driving in 2010, but he said the new British team “currently have other problems than [...]
Canadian GP: Ferrari preview
Jun.08 (YallaF1.com) After a year off, one of the most popular races on the Formula 1 calendar returns in the shape of the Canadian Grand Prix. The crowd is one of the most enthusiastic of the year and the entire city of Montreal seems to get swept along in a wave of excitement for a [...]
Petrov: Canada will be totally new for me
Jun.09 (YallaF1.com) Renault driver Vitaly Petrov will be racing for the first time at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal this weekend when he lines up on the grid for the Canadian Grand Prix. After a slow start to the season the Russian has emerged as the most impressive of the 2010 rookies, improving with [...]
Massa stays with Ferrari until end of 2012
Jun.9 (GMM) Ferrari on Wednesday confirmed speculation that Felipe Massa is staying alongside current teammate Fernando Alonso next year. And the famous Italian team also said in a media statement that Brazilian Massa, 29, will still be a Ferrari race driver in 2012. “I am happy to be given the opportunity to drive for Ferrari [...]
McLaren boss says three car teams unlikely
Jun.9 (GMM) F1 is unlikely to consider three-car team entries while the grid is already healthily subscribed. That is the insistence of FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh, amid Ferrari’s continuing enthusiasm about entering a third Maranello built car for a driver like Valentino Rossi. Rossi, however, broke his leg in a MotoGP practice crash last Saturday, [...]
Fisichella conducts Ferrari F10 aero tests
Jun.9 (GMM) As Ferrari bids to return to the pace, test driver Giancarlo Fisichella was at the wheel of the F10′s latest specification late last week. On Thursday, the Roman conducted an aerodynamic test at Vairano, with the specific package to be raced at Montreal’s unique Circuit Gille Villeneuve this weekend. However, the major upgrade [...]