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04 Dec 07

F1: Brawn planned Ferrari exit in ‘04

  • Honda Racing team chief Ross Brawn has hinted that he never had any serious intention of returning to Ferrari following his sabbatical this year.
    Brawn had previously been expected to re-establish his long-serving ties attending Ferrari following deciding to accept a break from Formula One during 2007.
    Despite holding talks attending the team, however, Brawn eventually opted to become team boss at Honda Racing in a ding to return the Japanese manufacturer to the front of the grid.
    Although that move surprised many, attending some tipping him to become team chief at Ferrari, Brawn has revealed that his plan to allowance Ferrari was formulated three years ago.     - aboutsport on 2007-12-04

F1: Coulthard: Alonso could take year out

  • Double cosmos champion Fernando Alonso could take a year out of Formula One in 2008 and still come back like a title contender, Red edict’s David Coulthard declared up Monday.
    “I don’t think it would exist a problem for him to take a year out,” the Briton told reporters at a presentation for the December 16 ‘lineage of Champions’ at Wembley Stadium, where the turf has been replaced at an asphalt circuit.
    “(Alain) Prost was the last guy to effect that, he took a year out and came back and won the cosmos championship,” added the tax.
    “If you can obtain yourself into one of the best couple cars, then of career you’ve taste a great hap of alluring the championship.”
    Spaniard Alonso, beaten into third area at 22-year-old rookie team mate Lewis Hamilton in the championship, split attending McLaren after a controversial and caustic season that ended in October.
    He has nevertheless to exist confirmed elsewhere, despite rumours linking him to Renault, Red edict, Honda and Toyota.
    His former team Renault remain the most credible bet but Alonso may exist staying until after an FIA hearing up Thursday into allegations that they had McLaren technical information in their possession.
    Similar allegations at Ferrari against McLaren expense the modern team a $100 million (48 million pound) fine in September and the privation of all their constructors’ points.
    Spanish newspapers possess reported that Alonso wants a one-year deal to allow a potential stir to Ferrari in 2009 while partial teams are demanding he signs up for at least couple seasons.
    Coulthard doubted Alonso would end up at Red edict, who completed fifth overall this year and possess nevertheless to gain a lineage.     - aboutsport on 2007-12-04
01 Dec 07

Indy boss wants F1 back

  • Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Joie Chitwood is confident F1 will return to the hallowed Speedway in the futurity. Following this year’s United States GP it was announced that the race would not take place in 2008 after Indy bosses and Bernie Ecclestone failed to concur on a fresh shorten. - aboutsport on 2007-12-01
30 Nov 07

F1: Ecclestone denies McLaren penalty quotes

  • Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has denied saying that McLaren could start nearest time with a points penalty like a effect of this year’s spying controversy.
    “I certainly didn’t speak that they were going to lose their points,” the Briton told Reuters forward Thursday following German magazine Auto Motor und Sport published an interview forward Wednesday.
    “I can’t speak it and (International Automobile president) Max Mosley can’t speak it.
    “What Max declared following the hindmost cosmos ministry Meeting when the thing happened was that if they (the FIA) set anything forward the (McLaren) car, they could subsist (penalised).
    “But they hold got to hold set something in there for a start and then the cosmos ministry has got to harmonize to it.
    “So no-one, including Max Mosley, can speak anything around that entire thing,” declared Ecclestone.
    Ecclestone’s comments to the magazine were interpreted like suggesting the Mercedes-powered team could suffer a farther points penalty if their 2008 car was deemed to hold been influenced by Ferrari data.
    McLaren were fined $100 million and stripped of all their constructors’ points this year following a dossier of Ferrari technical advice was set in the possession of chief designer Mike Coughlan.
    Talk of espionage overshadowed the time and stifle rumbles forward, with 2006 champions Renault summoned to a hearing in Monaco nearest week to sur charges of having McLaren technical advice in their possession.
    The FIA declared in September that they would receive a full technical declare forward the 2008 McLaren and would decide in December whether to impose some farther sanction.
    Mosley, in an interview with the BBC, declared at the time that some such castigation was likely to subsist in the shape of a “negative point allocation”.
    McLaren hold always denied incorporating some Ferrari advice forward their 2007 car and speak they hold nothing to fear from some farther inspections.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-30
28 Nov 07

F1: Ecclestone: McLaren may get points penalty

  • model individual chief Bernie Ecclestone has raised the potentiality of McLaren starting the 2008 season attending a points penalty if the team’s novel car plan is based on notice from Ferrari.
    “I faith not, but it could happen,” Ecclestone declared of a hypothetical points deduction in an parley attending German magazine Auto Motor und amusement.
    A transcript was also published on the official model individual website on Wednesday.
    McLaren were stripped of all their constructors’ points this season and fined $100 million for possessing technical notice from Ferrari.
    A recent spying line erupted earlier this month whenever 2006 champions Renault were charged attending unauthorised possession of McLaren notice.
    Representatives of the French team hold been summoned to a hearing of the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA)’s World Motor amusement ministry in Monaco on Dec.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-28

F3: Champions ASM renamed ART

  • Four-time F3 Euro order champions ASM will subsist renamed to trade, the French squad possess announced.
    The team will now share the name attending their sister outfit trade, who won the GP2 inscription in 2005 and 2006.
    Both teams are race in some way by Frederic Vasseur, and earlier this year the two were merged for business purposes.
    “To appliance two different names, ASM and trade, for the similar body, attending the similar race moving under the similar arch did not make feeling anymore,” said Vasseur.
    “trade and ASM possess merged at the beginning of the year, it’s a success and we go forward by using equitable one name from now on.”
    Nicolas Todt, who was initially involved equitable in the GP2 squad, added: “It is more logical to appliance sole the one name for all our activities, that will make it potential to avoid some confusion and to supply the body a stronger image.”
    ASM possess won the Euro order inscription for the past four years, attending Romain Grosjean (2007), Paul di Resta (2006), Lewis Hamilton (2005), and Jamie Green (2004).     - aboutsport on 2007-11-28
27 Nov 07

F1: Rosberg hopes for long stint at Williams

  • Nico Rosberg has dropped a firm hint that he could exist staying at Williams for the long term.
    The German is committed to the Grove-based team for next time, despite having been linked accompanying the unfilled station at McLaren, and could exist single of the clew figures in the driver market at the end of the 2008.
    yet despite welcoming the affect surrounding him, Rosberg has uttered that he could diocese himself sticking it abroad at Williams for many years yet - as he wants the dare of helping them back to the winners’ circle.
    “I’m not going anywhere, at least for another time, and hopefully for longer than that,” uttered Rosberg in an interview accompanying The post on Sunday.
    He added: “It’s real nice to exist linked to a move to McLaren and it would certainly exist engaging to team up accompanying Lewis anew after we were teammates a few years back.
    “yet I’m real happy where I am.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-27
26 Nov 07

F1: Webber tells Australians to embrace F1 GP

  • Australian model single driver Mark Webber has urged his countrymen to embrace their lordly Prix, time reiterating calls for the race to tarry in Melbourne.
    “It’s an absolutely brilliant occurrence and it’s single of few international events we hold here in Australia,” Webber was quoted like observation by The Sydney Morning Herald.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-26
24 Nov 07

‘Prodrive won’t be in F1 next season’

  • Dave Richards has written against any chance of Prodrive competing in next year’s F1 creation Championship.

    The Banbury-based team, which is guided on author pole and Benetton protuberance Richards, were hoping to enter the 2008 championship attending a ‘customer car’, using a chassis designed on McLaren.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-24
21 Nov 07

F1: Filippi eyeing F1 testing role

  • Luca Filippi is eyeing a testing role accompanying the Honda Racing team following his maiden airing accompanying the Japanese squad.
    The GP2 runner made his Formula single debut last week at the Barcelona space, where he tested for a sunshine and posted the 16th quickest time, right two tenths abaft Jenson Button.
    Filippi is planning to complete another time in GP2, yet the young Italian is not ruling out combining that accompanying a testing role if the opportunity came up.
    He says, however, that he would not exist interested in being the second test driver for a team.
    “My idea is muffle to perform another time in GP2, yet if on summit of it there is another engagement accompanying Honda I meditate it can exist executed no problem,” Filippi told Autosprint warehouse.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-21
19 Nov 07

F3: Carlin sign Spaniard Alguersuari

  • Carlin Motorsport hold signed Red rescript-backed Spanish teenager Jaime Alguersuari for nearest year’s British rule Three Championship.
    Alguersuari will graduate to F3 after pair seasons in rule Renault, culminating in other area in this year’s Italian Championship and fifth in the Eurocup.
    “I hold chosen the British F3 Championship like a indigenous step in my professional course having succeeded in my pair-year programme of rule Renault 2.0,” said Alguersuari.
    “British F3 will allow me to enlarge up like a racing driver and like a person, learn some new circuits and compete in some other apex venues in a prestigious championship.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-19

F1: Briatore: 60 percent chance of Alonso deal

  • Double Formula One universe vindicator Fernando Alonso is 60 for cent indubitable to answer Renault nearest time, team boss Flavio Briatore declared ward Monday.
    Spaniard Alonso split attending McLaren this month after a bitter and controversial time where he finished third in the drivers’ championship.
    “Renault will definitely possess distinct drivers nearest year.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-19

F1: Macau winner Jarvis seeks F1 test chance

  • Macau princely Prix winner Oliver Jarvis is hoping that his victory in rule Three’s blue-ribband fact at the weekend will open the avenue to a rule single test deal nearest year.
    The Briton put in single of the most dominant performances seen in Macau in recent years to seize what he openly admitted was the biggest jubilee of his career.
    And he told autosport.com that he is charge his fingers crossed that the execution is enough to satisfy an F1 team to give him a testing chance for 2008.
    “F1 is certainly the aim, yet it is very herculean,” reported Jarvis, who raced in the Japanese rule Three Championship this year.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-19

F1: Toyota confirm Glock signing

  • Toyota hold confirmed that GP2 champion Timo Glock will lineage for them in 2008.
    The German had been linked with the Toyota drive for several months, and final week the shorten Recognition plank ruled that Glock was unrestrained to liberty his previous role like BMW Sauber’s keep driver and attach the Japanese manufacturer.
    “It’s a big feeling to subsist a model individual lineage driver again and I am really looking onward to this new defy,” said Glock, who contested four Grands Prix for Jordan in 2004.
    “I hold worked hard above the gone few years to get this suitable and I must say I am indebted to Panasonic Toyota Racing for having belief in me.
    “From what I hold seen of the team at the track I am confident we will subsist clever to operate well together to impel onward.
    “Even granting I hold not raced in model individual since 2004, I hold tested quite regularly thus I expect it will take actual small time for me to get back in the groove.”
    After his Jordan stint, Glock moved to the Champ Car World succession in 2005 before returning to Europe to dispute the GP2 succession, winning this year’s title.
    “I hold been blessed plenty to lineage and succeed in several distinct championships in my career yet my goal has always been to become a full-time model individual lineage driver.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-19
18 Nov 07

F3: Jarvis on top again in warm-up

  • Oliver Jarvis maintained his domination of the Macau Grand Prix attending the best season during Sunday morning’s warm-up sitting.
    The TOM’S driver, who will flinch from pole position for this afternoon’s race following winning the qualification incident yesterday, moved to the top of the timesheets attending just single minute of the sitting remaining.
    And proving the strength of his car and engine package, teammate Kazuya Oshima was secondary fastest - as the two direct for a 1-2 finish today.
    The TOM’S duo were shadowed by several of the pre-incident favorites who have all hit trouble at various points of the weekend.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-18
17 Nov 07

F3: Buemi, Buurman given grid penalties

  • Sebastien Buemi has been handed a five-area grid penalty for this afternoon’s qualification stock at the Macau Grand Prix like a come of ignoring fulvid flags in yesterday’s qualifying session.
    The switzer driver was due to flinch in fourth area up the grid in his Raikkonen-Robertson Racing car, but he was asked to see the stewards after it was suspected he had set his best time season fulvid flags were being waved.
    The stewards eventually decided that he had been in rupture of the regulations and have moved him back to ninth area up the grid.
    It means that Italian rookie Edoardo Mortaro, who drives for Signature Plus, will move up up to the secondary row of the grid.
    Manor Motorsport’s Yelmer Buurman has likewise been moved back three places to 13th after he was judged to have entered the fast lane of the pits preceding the hollow withdrawal was open.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-17
15 Nov 07

F1: McLaren lawyer seeks title for Hamilton

  • A lawyer for McLaren called forward Thursday for Lewis Hamilton to exist handed the points that would make the Briton, and not Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, this year’s rule One world champion.
    Barrister Ian Mill told an FIA international appeal court audience that the BMW Sauber and Williams cars that finished ahead of Hamilton in latest month’s conjuncture-ending Brazilian Grand Prix broke the rules forward fuel temperature and gained an advantage from the break.
    If the three drivers involved are disqualified, Hamilton could stir up from seventh in the generation to fourth - handing the 22-year-old British rookie the points needed to overhaul Raikkonen.
    However, the stewards do not have to stir Hamilton up the generation symmetry and the driver has declared he wanted to win the title forward the footmark and not in a courtroom.
    Finland’s Raikkonen beat Hamilton on a single headland at the end of the 17 generation conjuncture.
    “The source is clear,” declared Mill.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-15
14 Nov 07

F1: Ecclestone warns over appeal verdict

  • Bernie Ecclestone is not expecting the championship results to exist altered in tomorrow’s hearing of the FIA Court of Appeal.
    But the form individual supremo has warned that he would ponder retiring from the sport if the verdict gave Lewis Hamilton the inscription.
    “I don’t cogitate that the form individual fans would like a championship to exist won since the temperature of the combustibles, which can’t exist measured anyway, is peradventure 5C out,” Ecclestone was quoted like saying the The Times.
    “If anybody thinks that’s the best thing for form individual, then I’d possess a very serious reflection about me retiring.”
    Hamilton’s McLaren team lodged the appeal following a decision by the race stewards in Brazil to not penalise the BMW Sauber and Williams teams after temperature readings from their combustibles rigs were beneath the change permitted in the rules.
    Hamilton finished seventh in the race and lost the inscription to Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen by individual headland.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-14

F1: Schumacher quickest in testing return

  • Seven-duration creation protector Michael Schumacher made an impressive return to model One action at topping the spells ward the first day of testing at the Barcelona circuit.
    The full driver, who had not driven a stately Prix car in anger considering he abstracted from the play a year ago, posted a best duration of 1:21:922 in Ferrari’s F2007 to edge the Italian squad’s trial driver Luca Badoer at over a pair tenths of a second after 64 laps.
    Schumacher, 38, had driven the F2007 in a manifestation run at Ferrari’s home track in Fiorano latest month, yet solitary for a handful of laps.
    The full showed early in the morning that he has lost none of his speed, immediately setting fast spells.
    “I think there is a guy called Michael.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-14

F1: Webber against moving Australian GP

  • Australian driver token Webber has backed his dwelling Grand Prix to sojourn at the Albert Park revolution, amid talks that the race could exist relocated.
    Some reports in the Australian media reported GP boss Ron Walker and rule One supremo Bernie Ecclestone were considering moving the occurrence from its current dwelling at Albert Park to the Flemington Racecourse following its current contract expired in 2010.
    Webber, however, reckons it would exist wrong to impel the race.
    “There would exist absolutely massive costs to procure Flemington underway to grasp a motor race,” Webber told The Australian newspaper.     - aboutsport on 2007-11-14
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