“For sure they’re two guys we have a watchful eye over.”
Former team co-owner Gerhard Berger does not think Toro Rosso’s current race drivers are ready to make the step up to Red Bull next year.
Mar 13
After a low-profile winter for Fernando Alonso, some experts think 2013 is Ferrari’s very last chance to give the Spaniard a truly top car.

“I believe his motivation will run out if he does not get the right material very soon,” former driver Gerhard Berger is quoted by the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo was told by Italy’s influential La Gazzetta dello Sport that Alonso, the 2012 runner-up, appeared almost “in hiding” throughout the pre-season period.
Jan 15
Giorgio Ascanelli, the well-known F1 engineer who last year left his post as Toro Rosso’s technical director, is set to return to the sport.

But Autosprint, the Italian magazine, played down reports the 53-year-old Italian has decided to go back to Ferrari. Ascanelli began his career at Ferrari in the mid 80s, and was Gerhard Berger’s engineer. He moved to Benetton and McLaren, at the latter team working alongside the great Ayrton Senna.
Nov 18
Already for a decade, the Formula 3 Euro Series has been considered as the world’s toughest junior racing category.
A new start for the FIA Formula 3 European Championship

Over the last years, numerous Euro Series drivers have made the step into Formula 1 as the sport’s premier category or into the DTM, including such prominent drivers as world champions Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton.