HRT will not take part in Mugello F1 testing next week
Apr.25 (HRT Press Release) After some careful assessment, HRT Formula 1 Team has decided not to take part in the upcoming Formula 1 tests ‘celebrated’ in Mugello, Italy, next week (1st-3rd May). With the first four overseas Grands Prix completed, the cars return to Europe for the first time since they left for the inaugural [...]
Gonzalez on duty for Caterham on first day of Mugello test
Apr.24 (PVM) Caterham GP2 driver Rodolfo Gonzalez will join Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov for Formula testing at Mugello next week, starting on Tuesday 1 May. Gonzalez will be on duty in the cockpit of the Caterham CT01 on the first day, of the fourth official test of the season, with Petrov on duty on [...]
D’Ambrosio to test for Lotus at Mugello
Apr.24 (PVM) Hot on the heels of their double podium success at the Bahrain Grand prix, Lotus have announced that reserve driver Jerome D’Ambrosio will get seat time in the E20, along with Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean, during the forthcoming three day test at Mugello, starting on 1 May. It will be D’Ambrosio’s first [...]
On leave Hamilton wants to drive at Mugello test
Apr.24 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton is rethinking McLaren’s scheduled approach to the rare and crucial in-season test at Mugello next week. The British team announced last week that both Hamilton and his teammate Jenson Button would sit out Mugello, so that testers Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey can run over the three-day session instead. But that [...]
Alonso hoping to become a contender again in Europe
Apr.22 (GMM) He may currently be in Bahrain, but Fernando Alonso’s mind is already thinking firmly ahead to Europe, as the Spaniard prepares to struggle in the race yet again, this time at the Bahrain GP. Ferrari’s number one driver squeezed into Q3 with the struggling F2012 on Saturday, and is targeting some minor points [...]
Ferrari rule out podium chances at season opener in Melbourne
Mar.5 (Ferrari Press Release): Pessimistic? Maybe, but it would be better to define it as realistic. Pat Fry is an engineer and his impressions are based on data. One would be hard pressed to get him to make declarations or appeals just for effect. His analysis of the twelve days of testing carried out these [...]
Lotus: Our front suspension problems are fixed
Mar.4 (Lotus) The team finished their pre-season testing with Kimi Räikkönen setting the fastest time of the day at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona today. Kimi’s 1min 22.030secs lap was the fastest set over the two weeks testing at the 4.7 km circuit. He also completed the furthest distance today, with 121 laps. Kimi [...]
Red Bull: Unfair to judge the updates we have
Mar.4 (Red Bull) After three weeks of relatively trouble free testing, Red Bull Racing faced a number of issues on its final day of testing in Barcelona, which restricted Sebastian Vettel’s time on track. “I’d love to be able to say more about today, but this morning I had an issue, I went off track [...]
Williams: A very productive pre-season test programme
Mar.4 (Williams) Team and drivers report on the final day of Formula 1 preseason testing at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: “We had another good test day to end what has been a very productive pre-season test programme. We successfully ran the first race update package this morning with Bruno, [...]