Tag Archive: CNN

Mar 21

CNN and Caterham F1 Team renew multi-year sponsorship agreement

 4th year that CNN has sponsored the growing Anglo / Malaysian F1 Team

10 - Team CaterhamCNN International and Caterham F1 Team have announced today that the leading international news network has renewed its multi-year partnership deal with Caterham F1 Team. Read the rest of this entry »

Dec 06

Red Bull can be Ferrari-like ‘myth’ too – Vettel

Red Bull is “well on the way” to achieving the same sort of “mythical status” as fellow grandee F1 teams like Ferrari.

2012-11-03 - Red Bull Racing - Abu Dhabi - Sebastian Vettel 2990002012-11-02 - Red Bull Racing - Abu Dhabi - Sebastian Vettel 299003That is the claim of Sebastian Vettel, who after winning his third consecutive drivers’ championship with the energy drink-owned team played down persistent rumours he could soon make the move to fabled Ferrari. Read the rest of this entry »

Nov 16

Ferrari ‘approached’ Webber for 2013 drive

Mark Webber has revealed Ferrari was interested in signing him for 2013.

2012-02-07 - Red Bull - RB8 Mark Webber (6)03 - Scuderia FerrariUltimately, the Australian decided to stay at Red Bull, despite confirming suggestions the team’s driver manager Dr Helmut Marko is keener on Sebastian Vettel. Read the rest of this entry »

Oct 27

Ecclestone would consider another Indian GP

Ecclestone confirms Hockenheim talks over 2013

Hockenheimring Baden-WürttembergBuddhInternational CircuitF1 boss Bernie Ecclestone would consider letting in a second Indian race in the future. Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed reports Hockenheim could return to the F1 calendar in 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Oct 26

Chandhok snr worried F1 to lose other Indian driver

Vicky Chandhok is worried F1 may soon be without an Indian driver.

2012-06-09_02632010-03-27 - Hispania F1 Racing Team - Vicky Chandhok - Karun ChandhokChandhok, the Indian motor sport federation’s president, has already seen his son Karun’s F1 career end due to a lack of sponsorship. And now it is suggested F1′s other Indian driver, Narain Karthikeyan, may lose his HRT seat at the end of the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Oct 11

Korea among least-popular races on F1 calendar

Korea, among F1′s new breed of grands prix, is far from the most popular stop on the sport’s annual calendar.

2011-10-14 - Pirelli - Korea 032011-10-14 - Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro - Korea - Felipe Massa 02Well-known British F1 photographer Darren Heath tweeted from the metropolis Seoul: “Fantastic 3 days.  Early train to Mokpo tomorrow. “(It’s) like being in London then heading to Shetland for an F1 GP.  Mad,” he concluded. Read the rest of this entry »

Sep 19

Hamilton on rumours – ‘what’s going on?’

Lewis Hamilton has admitted to a level of confusion surrounding his future in formula one.

2012-09-02 - Vodafone McLaren Mercedes - Belgium - Lewis Hamilton 052012-05-27 - Vodafone McLaren Mercedes - Monaco - Lewis Hamilton 02The 2008 world champion is a long-time protege of the McLaren team, but he has refused to deny intense media speculation he is considering moving to Mercedes for 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Sep 08

Power-players Ecclestone, Todt meet with Ferrari

Montezemolo is not even ruling out Ferrari quitting the sport.

Jean Todt - Bernie Ecclestone2011-01-29 - Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 0017F1 power players Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt on Friday met with Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo at the fabled Italian team’s Maranello headquarters. Read the rest of this entry »

Sep 07

Trio nervous as Ferrari stalls over Massa future

Ferrari has at least a trio of drivers on tenterhooks, as it considers the future of Felipe Massa.

2012-09-02 - Sauber F1 Team - Belgium - Fernando Alonso - Felipe Massa - Kamui Kobayashi 012012-09-02 - Ferrari - Belgium - Felipe Massa“I hope it will not take very long,” the Brazilian, who is pushing hard to up his game and secure a new contract, said at Monza. “I cannot wait until there are just two races left,” he is quoted by Brazil’s O Estado de S.Paulo. Read the rest of this entry »

Jul 03

Accident involving Maria de Villota, Test Driver for the Marussia F1 Team (updated)

De Villota suffers ‘severe face and head injuries’
Marussia says de Villota ‘conscious’

2012-03-08 - Marussia F1 Team - Maria De Villota2012-03-15 - Australian Grand Prix 2012 Thursday #1 536Marussia was cautious on Tuesday afternoon amid media reports test driver Maria de Villota is fighting for her life in hospital. The 32-year-old Spanish female driver crashed this morning into the side of a loading ramp of a team truck whilst conducting straightline aerodynamic testing in the team’s 2012 car at Duxford airfield. Read the rest of this entry »

Jun 29

Deep scepticism has greeted Bernie Ecclestone’s claim he is prepared to promote and pay for a London street race.

Deep scepticism greets London GP idea

2012-06-10_0442The F1 chief executive’s comments were made on the eve of a media event that took place on Thursday in the British capital organised by Santander, the sponsor of the British grand prix at Silverstone.

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Jun 06

Ferrari denies Alonso paid EUR 30m

Ferrari has denied claims it pays Fernando Alonso a cool EUR 30 million per season.

2012-05-27 - Scuderia Ferrari - Monaco - Fernando Alonso 022012-05-27 - Scuderia Ferrari - Monaco - Fernando Alonso 03A French publication called Business Book GP 2012 had claimed the Spaniard is easily F1′s highest paid driver, with earnings almost equal to McLaren’s drivers put together. Read the rest of this entry »

May 26

Politics steered France return off track – Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that politics have stalled France’s return to the F1 calendar.

Grand Prix de FranceFlagworld - F1Until former president Nicolas Sarcozy lost the country’s recent general election, France looked destined for a spot on the 2013 calendar, with Paul Ricard thereafter alternating an annual race date with Belgium. Read the rest of this entry »

May 25

Mercedes moves towards Concorde deal

Mercedes appears on the verge of signing up to formula one’s future.

2012-04-15 - Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team - Chinese Grand Prix - 01Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team logo.jpgThe German carmaker had been locked in dispute with the sport’s chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, after rival top teams were offered better deals for the post-2012 Concorde Agreement. Read the rest of this entry »

May 09

Mercedes hints no plans to quit F1

Mercedes has dropped a strong hint that it has no intention of racing out of formula one at the end of this season.

2012-04-22 - Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team - Bahrain Grand Prix - Nico Rosberg 01 - Teams2012-04-22 - Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team - Bahrain Grand Prix - Bob Bell 01The German marque is currently arguing with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone over the 2013 Concorde Agreement, after only Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull were offered places on the sport’s post-floatation board. Read the rest of this entry »

Apr 12

‘Everybody or nobody’ to race in Bahrain

‘No reason’ to axe Bahrain – FIA

Bahrain International CircuitFlagworld - FIAThe vast majority of the 12 F1 teams have declined to comment on the sport’s deepening Bahrain crisis. With uncertainty surrounding the staging of next week’s race at Sakhir by the controversial Bahraini government, CNN contacted every one of the competing teams. Read the rest of this entry »

Feb 15

Ecclestone, FIA, circuit say Bahrain GP still on

“We are planning to go.  People there seem confident that a race two months away will be alright.”

Flagworld - FIA2011-06-09_0313Bernie Ecclestone has played down the latest reports about violence in Bahrain, insisting April’s 2012 race is still scheduled to go ahead. On the one-year anniversary of the ‘Day of Rage’ unrest, international media agencies claimed violent clashes took place, with youths throwing rocks and petrol bombs and police hitting back with tear-gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades. Read the rest of this entry »

Dec 22

F1 needs American drivers to crack market – Cheever

Bernie Ecclestone has acknowledged that finally cracking the US market will be difficult for formula one.

2005_09_24_flagam_2150Flagworld - F1The F1 chief executive plans to take his sport first to Texas next year and then to New York the season after, with the last US grand prix having been held at Indianapolis in 2007.

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Oct 20

Cockpit canopy might have saved Wheldon – Mosley

Dan Wheldon’s death could have sped up efforts to end the long era of open-cockpit racing.

Dan Wheldon 2011-10-16Max Mosley3F1′s governing body earlier this year, in response to the F1 and F2 incidents in 2009 involving Felipe Massa and Henry Surtees, tested screens and fighter jet-style canopies for possible use in the future.

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Jun 16

Team Lotus to use KERS in 2012 – Fernandes

Team Lotus’ latest sponsor deal will mean the outfit runs KERS technology in 2012.

2011-06-12_13552011-06-10_0395Team owner and boss Tony Fernandes announced this week the green T128 cars will begin running General Electric branding from Silverstone in July. Read the rest of this entry »

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