Breaking F1 News: Donington Park a No-Go for 2010
If you’ve ever wondered what an F1 race staged at this circuit might look like, you can stop. Turns out it’s about 99.99999999% likely to not ever happen, after all. Reasons why after the jump.
If you’ve ever wondered what an F1 race staged at this circuit might look like, you can stop. Turns out it’s about 99.99999999% likely to not ever happen, after all. Reasons why after the jump.
October 23rd marks the day that a new FIA president will be elected to replace Max Mosley, who will finally be stepping down. Will it be Ari Vatanen or Jean Todt? Not keen to go quietly, Mosley’s in the midst of a new scandal on the eve of this important event. Find out what it is after the jump.
"The agreement, I swear it was *this big*!" Mosley said, aghast.
It seems that a plan for peace has finally come about in the world of F1…although that plan was leaked ahead of schedule by Max Mosley himself, jumping the gun by four days.
+Continue Reading So who’s going to fill his shoes? Jean Todt (whom you may recall from such storied motorsport histories as, oh, FERRARI’S) is hoping that it will be him.
Bernie Ecclestone, last Friday.
Last Friday, Bernie Ecclestone once again set the international motorsport community alight, and it certainly wasn’t with his smile. No, as ever, he opened his mouth in an interview (this time with The Times) and a line of audaciously appalling prose flowed forth like water.
+Continue ReadingSir Richard Branson after having lost all his hair due to stress, yesterday.
As we mentioned briefly last week, Manor Grand Prix’s inclusion in the exclusive triumvirate of possible participants to round out the F1 grid for 2010 has indeed prompted quite a bit of criticism. Not just up and down the paddock, either, where one would expect to hear such conversation; no less a news outlet than The Guardian has brought some new and interesting evidence to light. You know, in case you weren’t already convinced we should have been rid of Max Mosley ages ago.
+Continue ReadingA short disclaimer to start out this piece: what will be reported here is mostly not news…at least, not yet. But it’s the furtherance of Ferrari’s previous threat to leave and start their own competing top-tier racing series if the budget caps were to be imposed for 2010.
+Continue ReadingMax Mosley and Stefano Domenicali, yesterday.
Following a leak of letters sent back and forth between FOTA and the FIA, the FIA has officially posted the entire exchange on its website for all to see.
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