Kingfisher Airlines is dropping its sponsorship of
Toyota’s Formula One team, by mutual agreement.
The move had been anticipated, as the primary owner of Kingfisher is Vijay Mallya, who recently acquired his own Formula One team, the former Spyker team, now named Force India.
Toyota released a statement in which it wished him well:
"Toyota Motorsport GmbH has enjoyed a successful partnership with Kingfisher Airlines, collaborating on several promotional (...
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The word is that Ralf Schumacher will shortly announce that he’s taking a year off from Formula One, but many are suggesting that the sabbatical is actually a swan song for his career.
If true, the decision isn’t exactly voluntary. Schumacher hasn’t been able to find a ride for next season, even though the opening race is less than three months away. Schumacher did a test drive for the new Force India team earlier this month, after which is said that, “it could be (...)
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“We had a number of options open to us and as always we want to make sure that we have the most competitive driver line-up and I think that Lewis and Heikki will be a formidable combination,” said Martin Whitmarsh. “Both enjoyed great rookie seasons in 2007 and share a genuine passion for winning and being the best. Heikki made a strong impression and Lewis’ performance so far has been outstanding and speaks for itself. I am confident that they will push each other on track and work well together off track.
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Fresh from the diversionary tactic of trying to get Renault tarred with the same brush that McLaren used to paint itself as dishonest, it turns out that McLaren can’t stop cheating.
The FIA has determined that their 2008 car uses technical information McLaren stole from
Ferrari.
But, once again, the FIA is being soft. They’ve not banned McLaren, despite the warning issued when they stuck McLaren with a $100 million fine last year.
It wasn’t just a (...
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Nico Rosberg has reupped with the Williams Formula One team, a deal that commits him through the end of 2009. There had been rumors that he might move to McLaren, but "Williams have made me an attractive, far better offer with a new contract up to 2009 and I decided to accept it.
"For Williams, the question of letting me go (to McLaren) never arose," according to Rosberg.
Reports had his performance during the past season catching the eye of the powers that be (...)
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In a piece authored over the week-end for the London Times and TimesOnLine, Martin Brundle complained that the FIA’s decision against imposing a punishment on Renault for having McLaren information “made no sense” after the $100,000,000 dollar fine imposed on McLaren for stealing Ferrari information.
But, he’s wrong.
Here’s what he had to say:
“The McLaren judgment is about negativity and suspicion of possible use of
Ferrari information, but no real (...
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Without explaining its reasons – yet – the FIA World Motor Sport Council today found Renault guilty of obtaining secret information from McLaren-
Mercedes. The case centered on information purloined by a McLaren employee as he left that company to join his new employer, Renault. Renault has self-reported itself to both the FIA and McLaren when it discovered that the employee had brought floppy discs with McLaren information when he joined Renault.
The FIA announced that the reasoning (...
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Kimi Raikkonen says that he wants to spend the remainder of his career with Ferrari.
“Ferrari will be my last team, I’m not interested in going anywhere else. It suits me. I have two years on my contract and it may not be the last." That’s what Raikkonen told the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, according to a report on the BBC. Raikkonen, of course, won the World Driver’s Championship last year, in a Ferrari.
Raikkonen won out over McLaren’s (...)
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Ross Brawn, the former
Ferrari chassis wizard who took a leave from Ferrari and then recently jumped to Honda, has expressed confidence in Honda’s driver, Rubens Barrichello. Barichello formerly drove for Ferrari at the time Brawn was employed there.
Though Barrichello had a miserable season this year, scoring not a single championship point, Brawn has told the Formula One website that he believes the car is as much the reason as the driver.
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After a busy year, in which they were accused of stealing Ferrari’s secrets, after being disqualified from the Formula One’s Constructor Championship, that they could easily have won, after their driver Lewis Hamilton lost the Driver Championship by 2 points, finally McLaren can be happy. They have a better car than Ferrari. A car that won eight of Formula One’s 17 races, a car – MP4-22 – that won the Racing Car of the Year award at the Autosport Awards ceremony held in (...)
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