Lewis Hamilton received last night the prizes for Best British Competition Driver, Best International Racing Driver and Rookie of the Year at the Autosport Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane.
Viviane Senna, who presented Lewis with an award, compared the British driver with her brother Ayrton Senna: “He reminds me of Ayrton, as a pilot.”
After receiving his awards, Lewis said that he was more nervous when he received these awards than he was in 1995 at the (...)
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Giancarlo Fisichella responded to Bernie Ecclestone’s “advice” to leave Formula One, writing an open letter on his official website.
The letter said:
“Dear Bernie,
I read with interest your interview in Auto Moto und Sport, faithfully published by your own web site. You are the father of Formula One and like a father you have talked about your children, including me. I wanted to remind you dear daddy, I mean dear Bernie, that I am the one who won the first Grand Prix in (...)
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Bernie Ecclestone told to the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport that Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella would better quit Formula One rather than to drive for Force India in 2008. Ecclestone “advice” comes after the Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya announced that at the Jerez test Schumacher, Fisichella, Christian Klien, Tonio Liuzzi, Franck Montagny, Roldan Rodriguez and Giedo van der Garde will try to obtain a driver’s seat at Force India.
Bernie said about Ralf’s and (...)
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Force India F1 Team is preparing for the four day test (4 – 7 December) held at the Circuit de Jerez in southern Spain. For the test Force India has called no less than seven drivers: Roldan Rodriguez and Giedo van der Garde that will drive for one day each, Giancarlo Fisichella, Franck Montagny and Ralf Schumacher will join the team for a full day’s testing, Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi will also participate for one day thanks to their outstanding performance in Barcelona. (...)
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Adrian Sutil and Christian Klien are willing to do everything in their power to drive for the new Formula One team Force India.
Adrian Sutil signed a long term deal with his current outfit last year and, although his name was linked in the last weeks with other team, he declared that he is now waiting to see who his teammate at Force India would be. He said: “I have a valid contract with Force India for 2008 and I am not looking around elsewhere.”
He thinks that Force India will choose (...)
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Ralf Schumacher is still looking for a team that would let him drive in the next Formula One season. The former Toyota driver would really appreciate a contract offer from McLaren, that after Fernando Alonso’s departure hasn’t yet decided who will be Hamilton team mate for the 2008 season.
Ralf declared about the free driver position at McLaren: “Every driver out there in the market would love to sit in their super car.”
Ralf Schumacher could be a solution for McLaren, (...)
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Published rumor has the German racing company HWA entering Formula One in 2009, in collaboration with and backed by Mercedes-Benz. HWA has been the builder of Mercedes’ racing cars for the European DTM series since 2000. The head of HWA is a former chief executive officer of Daimler itself, Jurgen Hubbert. Moreover, HWA is the company selected by Mercedes to join with it in the production of the successor to the McLaren
Mercedes SLR.
Presently, of course, Mercedes’ (...
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The Swiss company based in Baar, Switzerland, Sika will be supporting the BMW Sauber F1 Team as a Promotional Supplier from 2008. Sika is a speciality chemicals company well known to BMW and already involved in other motor sport projects run by the group.
Sika will be appearing as the Official Partner of the Formula BMW World Final 2007, which takes place this weekend in Valencia, Spain. Their involvement in the event provides the ideal context in which to announce their role as (...)
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A memorandum leaked to the British press by McLaren claims that the Renault Formula One team had “33 files containing more than 780 individual drawings” constituting “the entire technical blueprint of McLaren’s 2006 and 2007 cars” on the Renault computers.
McLaren’s allegations against Renault will be heard by the FIA World Motorsports Council in December.
According to the memo, which the newspapers, including the Times, have specifically admitted was leaked to them by (...)
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The plan had put Prodrive into Formula 1, but the plan has run into a roadblock: a lawsuit.
Prodrive and its managing director, David Richards, has now cancelled plans to move up to Formula 1, taking advantage of rules changes designed to make entry into Formula 1 easier and cheaper for independent teams. The problem seems to be that the people at the FIA simply weren’t thinking when they dreamed up the plan.
The plan would have allowed private entrants to run (...)
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