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Jarno Trulli’s helmet at Fuji Speedway for the Japanese Grand P…
Rediscover Formula One | 22 hours ago
Well, i dont know how many of you noticed the helmet work by Jarno Trulli in Japan for the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix, but here it is : Jarno Trulli's new helmet It features Mount Fuji (a cartoon version of it) read more
Advantage Hamilton As He Takes Fuji Pole
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | 23 hours ago by Rob
Lewis Hamilton seems to have gained the upper hand in the title race, taking pole position for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway. He edged out Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who had led most of Q3. Felipe Massa languishes dow read more
Glock Fastest In FP2 At Fuji
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 10th 2008 by Rob
Timo Glock was the suprise fastest man in FP2. The German impressed with a time just ahead of a rejuvinated Fernando Alonso. Toyota will be happy with the first place in FP2, as this is their home circuit. Pos Driver Team read more
Hamilton Fastest In FP1 at Fuji
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 10th 2008 by Rob
Lewis Hamilton was just fastest in FP1 at Fuji Speedway ahead of the final season run of races to decide the champion for 2008. He was 0.153 seconds ahead of title rival Felipe Massa. Pos Driver Team [...] read more
Force India Looking At McLaren/Mercedes Partnership
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 9th 2008 by Rob
Force India F1 Team are in discussions with McLaren and Mercedes for a partnership from 2009 onwards F1Fanatics has learned. The team based at Silverstone are looking at having Mercedes Benz engines for next season, and an agreement with Mclaren for read more
Manufacturers Shun Standardised Engine Proposals
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 9th 2008 by Rob
Engine manufacturers Honda and BMW have both said they are totally against the plans to standardise engines from 2010 onwards. Bernie Ecclestone believes a lifetime homoglation, where all engines are identical in contruction and output, but meerly ha read more
Senna Wants Toro Or Honda Drive For 2009
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 8th 2008 by Rob
Bruno Senna has admitted that he is doing everything within his power to try and impress F1 teams Scuderia Toro Rosso and Honda in an attempt to get a race drive next season. The Brazilian driver, nephew of Ayrton, is a front-runner to drive with Tor read more
F1 Cars To Run Green Tyres At Fuji
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 8th 2008 by Rob
Bridgestone Motorsport today unveiled the Green tyres that F1 cars will be running this weekend at Fuji Speedway in an attempt to promote “make racing green”. The idea is that F1 and other racing series can continue in a world dominated b read more
David Coulthard Column
Singapore Formula 1 blog | October 7th 2008 by Bruno
Singapore brought a welcome upturn in David Coulthard’s fortunes as the Red Bull driver scored his second points finish of the season – although an uncharacteristic pit miscue by the team limited his haul to two points rather than a potential fi read more
Canada Dropped For 2009 Along With Some FIA Advancements
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 7th 2008 by Rob
The Canadian Grand Prix has been dropped from 2009 onwards it was revealed today as an advanced schedule for 2009 was released. This means that there will be no North American Grand Prix in 2009. Along with Canada being dropped, it would appear that read more
Ferrari Go Back To Using Lollipop Man
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 7th 2008 by Rob
Scuderia Ferrari have announced that they are reverting to use a lollipop man instead of their traffic light system for the foresseable future. The team introduced the revolutionary traffic light system which was designed for more safety. However it read more
BMW Confirm Same 3 Drivers For 2009
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 6th 2008 by Rob
BMW Sauber ended all speculation of their 3 drivers being involved in changes over the silly-season by confirming Robert Kubica, Nick Heidfeld and Christian Klien as the drivers for 2009. Kubica and Heidfeld stay as test drivers, while Christian Klie read more
Santander Not Defecting From McLaren Yet
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 6th 2008 by Rob
The major Spanish banking group Santander have dismissed popular rumour that they are moving to Ferrari next season along with Fernando Alonso. According to an article in a British newspaper, Santander are looking to increase their status within the read more
Button Excited For Honda’s Home GP
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 6th 2008 by Rob
Jenson Button has declared his excitement ahead of what is Honda’s official home Grand Prix in Japan at Fuji Speedway. The British driver told of how amazing it is to drive for a Japanese team at their home track, and how good the support is. â read more
Mateschitz Backing Out Of Selling STR
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 5th 2008 by Rob
Dietrich Mateschitz would appear to be backing out of his decision to sell his half share in the Scuderia Toro Rosso team. In an interview with a popular Austrian newspaper, the businessman reckoned that he may have been too hasty in his decision to read more
F2 Prize, A Test With Williams
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 5th 2008 by Rob
The brand new F2 series has been unveiled, and Jonathan Palmer also revealed that its top prize will be a test with the Williams F1 Team, for the champion. Palmer who runs Motorsport Vision the team behind the series, along with the FIA is determined read more
Donny Planning Decision By New Year
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 3rd 2008 by Rob
Planners on the local district council surrounding Donington Park have announced they’re confident a complete decision whether plans for the circuit will be allowed will be made by the New Year. Donington Park has been given the F1 race in Brit read more
Singapore Rundown
F1-Blog | October 2nd 2008 by ashleigh
The Singapore night race turned out to be one of the best of the season so far. The bumpy road track had something to do with that, as did the strategy from one of the fastest drivers of the weekend, Fernando Alonso. Alonso had a fuel failure during read more
Briatore To Take A Back-Seat Role From 2009
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 2nd 2008 by Rob
Flavio Briatore, a long time member of the F1 paddock has announced he will be taking more of a backseat role from the 2009 season onwards. Briatore’s contract ends this season, and he meets with Carlos Gohsn in Paris today to discuss the futur read more
Nakajima Safe As Williams Confirm 2009 Line-Up
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 2nd 2008 by Rob
Kazuki Nakajima has done enough to secure his place with the Williams F1 Team for the 2009 season, Frank Williams revealed in a team press release this morning. The Japanese driver raced for the first time in Brazil 2007, and has put in some solid pe read more
Malaysia Rejects Night Race - Moves Times Back
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 1st 2008 by Rob
Malaysian Grand Prix organisers have rejected proposals to turn Sepang into a night race similar to that in Singapore. Despite the successes of last weekend’s event, Sepang doesn’t want to invest huge sums of money to get the track ready read more
Moscow Raceway Construction To Begin
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | October 1st 2008 by Rob
Construction of the Moscow Raceway, a brand new world class race venue in the suburbs of Moscow, Russia is going to begin in ernest next week. The track, designed by Hermann Tilke the man responsible for circuits like Shanghai and Turkey, will be in read more
BBC Nearly Ready To Confirm Commentators - Brundle On Verge Of De…
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | September 30th 2008 by Rob
The BBC, who are set to take back F1 coverage from ITV in the UK for 2009 onwards are believed to be on the verge of confirming their commentators for the forthcoming season. Jonathan Legard is believed to become the new main commentator, with contra read more
Di Grassi In Line To Replace Piquet
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | September 30th 2008 by Rob
It has emerged today that Lucas di Grassi is being lined up by the Renault F1 Team to replace Nelson Piquet Jr next season as the French team look to drop the Brazilian rookie. Piquet, in his first season of F1, has been largely poor and only had one read more
Ferrari Retain Test Drivers Gene and Badoer
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | September 29th 2008 by Rob
Ferrari have announced this morning that they are retaining the services of their two permanent test drivers, Mark Gene and Luca Badoer for another season. Badoer joined the team in 1997, and raced with Minardi in 1999 but continued his testing work. read more
Alonso Takes First Night Race Crown At Singapore
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | September 29th 2008 by Rob
Fernando Alonso became the first ever F1 driver to win a night race event in Singapore yesterday, taking the chequered flag and bringing the curtain down on a bizarre weekend of racing. The circuit felt like Monaco under lights, and as a spectacle i read more
Felipe Massa takes first pole under the lights at the Singapore G…
Formula One | September 27th 2008
Its an evening Felipe Massa shall never forget, the ambience was set, the lights were on and the Brazilian was in peak form. Felipe Massa steered his Ferrari F2008 in 1:44.801s, Lewis Hamilton in his McLaren was second on 1:45.465s ahead of Kimi Ra read more
Singapor Preview
F1-Blog | September 27th 2008 by ashleigh
Lets get back to writing, and straight on with the Singapore Preview. Singapore is not only a new circuit, it’s being run at a new time as well. This is F1’s first night race, as Bernie wanted it to be run at a sensible time in Europe. The track read more
The night race at Singapore Grand Prix is next
Rediscover formula one : Latest f1 news | September 25th 2008
Its time for the mega event, everyone was waiting for the formula one Singapore Grand Prix 2008, not because its Singapore, not because its a great track but because of the gimmick of it being a night race. After initial concerns by drivers and tea read more
A1 Ring To Be Re-Built
F1 Fanatics - F1 News | September 24th 2008 by Rob
The A1 Ring in Austria is set to be reconstructed after Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz was given the green light by local government of the area to build a new motorsport facility. The track will be called Spielberg New and is set to be completed read more
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