Buon Compleanno! [Happy Birthday Ferrari]
BusinessWeek – Or you’re in an F1 getting the checkered flag just like Michael Schumacher has done. More than likely, though, you and I are staring at one parked on the street, as it passes you on an expressway, or gleaming on display at an auto show. No matter

CIRCUITS: INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
GrandPrix.com – Prix in 2000 and funded a massive construction program to build a Formula 1 road course on the Indianapolis infield and replace the existing pitlane facilities with new buildings. The 2000 event was a great success, with victory for Michael Schumacher

Fly away into the sunset like a ‘Pigeon’
Economic Times – Think of other sports and the most recent ones were Michael Schumacher, Ian Thorpe, Hicham el-Guerrouj, Shane Warne (from test cricket) and Zinedine Zidane and Andre Agassi. They were all at the top of their game when they called it off. And

Clair William Golay
Indianapolis Star – Golay was the president of H.C. Schumacher Machine Company, where he began working as a machinist in 1951. He retired in In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children, Michael Golay, Susan Golay Hope and Christine Golay; a brother

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Just what the doctor ordered
GrandPrix.com – Michael’s demise promoted Barrichello to fourth, Coulthard to fifth, Ralf Schumacher to sixth and Robert Kubica to seventh – a great debut for the Polish driver, who had had a couple of spins along the way. The last point went to Massa, who had had a

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Bahrain GP: The Usual Suspects, With a Twist
FastMachines – Felipe Massa did not commit any acts of overt brain fade today, and converted his pole starting position into a convincing win. The podium consisted of the usual suspects, the top three qualifiers, Massa, Hamilton and Raikkonen. All of my concerns

Malaysia 8 April
Formula 1 – After Felipe Massa s dominant victory in Bahrain, Ferrari will be keen to maximise any performance advantage they hold during their three-day schedule. With the 2007 testing agreement limiting teams to just one car per day, Kimi Raikkonen is

Auto Racing
Buffalo News – SAKHIR, Bahrain Felipe Massa of Ferrari won the Bahrain Grand Prix, and Lewis Hamilton of McLaren finished second, becoming the first driver to start his Formula One career with three straight topthree finishes. Johnson, Hendrick hope to keep

Bahrain GP – Sunday – Press Conference
GrandPrix.com – Felipe MASSA: Yeah, definitely. For sure now we have a good break, so it will be a good time to think about things and enjoy this nice result. The results in the first two races were not like I expected. I think something was missing, especially in

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Flawless Massa wins Bahrain GP, Hamilton makes history
Monsters and Critics – Also into the points drove Robert Kubica of Poland in the second BMW as well as Italians Jarno Trulli (Honda) and Giancarlo Fisichella (Renault). British veteran David Coulthard was the unluckiest man as he had to retire with gearbox problems after

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TURKISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE REPORT
GrandPrix.com – In the middle of all this Ralf Schumacher did one of his “I’m coming through without looking” moves and bashed into his own team mate Jarno Trulli, who reckoned that he had been hit from behind as well. Down at the back Takuma Sato smashed into Speed

Ralf tries to spark silly season
f1press.net – Apr.30 (GMM) Just three races into the 2007 season, a comment by Ralf Schumacher has threatened to ignite the driver ’silly season’ by indicating that the embattled German driver is on the market. Fending off speculation that he might struggle to

TURKISH GP – SATURDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Ralf Schumacher (5th, 1:27.569): “Our objective was to make the top five in qualifying so that was a good session for us. The car felt good and we did as well as we could have expected. It’s obviously a pity to drop back ten places due to our

Ferrari makes rivals eat dust
GrandPrix.com – Jenson Button was doing all right as well with the 11th fastest time ahead of Heikki Kovalalinen’s Renault, the second Toyota of Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella. The Red Bull-Renaults were not looking very good with Mark Webber and David

Australian GP – Friday – Practice Session 2 Report
GrandPrix.com – Jarno Trulli was in the midst of the Honda cars in his Toyota but Ralf Schumacher was 16th, the team having been blown away by customer team Williams. Scuderia Toro Rosso and Spyker were down at the back. Whether this is a complete picture remains to

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Michael and Massa at the front
GrandPrix.com – who were headed on this occasion by Giancarlo Fisichella ahead of Nick Heidfeld’s BMW, Rubens Barrichello’s Honda and Fernando Alonso’s Renault. Jenson Button was seventh quickest ahead of Jacques Villeneuve, Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya

Round Five – Spain
Sporting Life – Schumacher and team-mate Rubens Barrichello had also come so close to a first corner collision that they Barrichello finished third with Juan Pablo Montoya benefiting from a sweeping pass on fellow Williams-BMW driver Ralf Schumacher – who

SAN MARINO GP – SUNDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Juan Pablo Montoya (3rd): “I’m pleased with today’s race and that we managed to get a podium position and some important Rubens Barrichello (10th): “It was disappointing for us today at the end of what has been a strong weekend. I had a bad start

Round 8 – Canada
Sporting Life – McLaren should have made considerable ground in the constructors’ championship as well but Juan Pablo Montoya jumped a red runners and he took a hard-earned second for Ferrari, who were able to celebrate a double podium after Rubens Barrichello

BAHRAIN GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Further back were Christian Klien (Red Bull Racing), Rubens Barrichello (Honda), Nick Heidfeld (BMW), David Coulthard (Red Bull Racing), Juan Pablo Montoya (McLaren), Nico Rosberg (Williams), Christijan Albers and Tiago Monteiro (MF1), the obviously

EUROPEAN GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Kimi Raikkonen was 10th fastest ahead of Nico Rosberg, Scott Speed, Rubens Barrichello, Mark Webber, Nick Heidfeld, David Coulthard and Juan Pablo Montoya. Expect a very different line up after qualifying this afternoon. It will be interesting to see

BAHRAIN GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – There was then a four-tenths of a second gap back to Juan Pablo Montoya and a similar gap to Rubens Barrichello in the Honda. Behind him there was a half a second to Mark Webber with Christian Klien, Giancarlo Fisichella and Nick Heidfeld rounding

Round Six – Austria
Sporting Life – Brazil’s Rubens Barrichello, who was ordered to move over for his Ferrari team-mate 12 months ago, finished third in the race Germany’s Ralf Schumacher was sixth after seeing Williams-BMW team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya’s challenge ended with a blown

Round Thirteen – Hungary
Sporting Life – Ferrari on Sunday celebrated their fourth consecutive constructors’ championship as Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher However, both he and team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya – who suffered a dreadful start from fourth and was never in the race – sit

SPANISH GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Rubens Barrichello is the fastest of the quartet, ahead of Ralf Schumacher, Jarno Trulli and Jenson Button. The order may We know that Juan Pablo Montoya is rather more disappointed as his efforts were spoiled in the Q2 session when there was a

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Beyond Michigan s Race Referendum
Inside Higher Ed – Beyond Michigan s Race Referendum On election night next month, many eyes will be but would specifically limit higher education spending by a similar formula that would The California Community College System would receive about $1.5 billion from

Jeff Gordon Gets Late Caution to Win Nascar Race at Talladega
Bloomberg – Colombian Formula One winner Juan Pablo Montoya finished 31st in the No. 42 Charger. Montoya had been running in the top 15 when he was bumped into the wall by Ryan Newman’s No. 12 Charger. Gordon leads the Nascar championship race with 1

An unforgettable experience for me says Heidfeld
Sportnetwork.net – BMW has written another chapter in motor sport history on the legendary Nordschleife at the N rburgring. Today, Saturday, a modern Formula 1 vehicle was driven round the 20.8 kilometre race track for the first time in 31 years in front of a crowd

Don’t underestimate Johnson in late-race duels
FOXSports.com – When it was time to go, he turned his fastest laps of the race right at the end, just like he did at Las Vegas. 5) Juan Pablo Montoya: With Formula 1 wins and an Indy 500 victory to his credit, Montoya said Saturday’s 8th-place finish in the Busch race

Ta Ra Rum Pum : Formula (No.) 1
newindpress – Formula (No.) 1 Sunday April 29 2007 10:30 IST A still from Ta Ra Rum Pum Cast: Saif Ali Khan,Rani Mukherjee Director: Siddharth Anand Rajveer is a lowly pit stop tyre changer who becomes, almost instantaneously, the Number One race car driver in America

Betting baseball – Value VS Picking Winners ..
Covers.com – that dogs – especially early in the season – carry a bigger value (as small as 1 in Gamer’s thread today, if sportsbetting were to apply the terminology of race This was my formula two seasons ago and I did quite well. Early on I’ve been caught up

McLaren test new wing
Eurosport.it – Formula 1 It is now very clear that this year’s championship will be as much decide din the race to develop the car as the racing

Germany win at Brands Hatch
espnstar.com – Feature race results Pos Driver A1 Team Time Gap First 1 Nico H LKENBERG GERMANY 1:11:01.907 – 2 Robbie KERR GREAT BRITAIN 1:11:02.526 +0.619 RELATED LINKS More FORMULA 1 News

Heidfeld tackles Nordschleife
F1 Central – Apr.30 (GMM) The district surrounding the formula one venue Nurburgring has vowed to invest $40 million to F1 Bahrain 2007 Event Information Circuit Information F1 Profiles Teams Drivers Motorsport A1GP GP2 Shopping Formula 1 Sports F1 Fun F1 Race Driver Quiz

Wild Katt on the loose
Delaware Online – Pimp Chronicles’ comedian tears into hot topics of race, Iraq, sex and drugs The The stylish, foul-mouthed comedian behind HBO’s “The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1 I have a pretty good formula. I’m not Stephen Colbert. I’m not a political humorist

All Sections Formula One Customer Cars
Home of Sport – In American open wheelers they have companies that don’t race to manifacture their Posted by Racer 1 on 30 April 2007 at 15:02 Racing car constructor Lola is still pressing ahead with plans to build a Formula One

Blind Briton flies to Australia
Daily Mail – The trip took 59 days and took the route of the 1919 Air Race across Europe, the Middle East, Pakistan, India and Burma to Heck, blind people have been passengers in Boeing 747’s and Formula 1 cars without making any fuss about it at all. What a

Schumacher To Attend Spanish Grand Prix
Sportnetwork.net – Michael Schumacher will return to the world of Formula 1 for the first time since retirement at the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix. The 7-Time World Champion will attend the race in his capacity as advisor to the Scuderia. Michael Schumacher will return

Valencia: America’s Cup coincides with tourism boom
Canada East – The 1.6 million visitors who came here in 2006 were nearly five times the number exhibits, cafes, restaurants, concerts, and giant screens broadcasting the race. More neighbourhoods and a new soccer stadium will come, maybe even a Formula One

Your Questions on Kids and Obesity
NPR News – At 9 weeks old, our boy was consuming up to 36 ounces of formula (Enfamil Lipil) in What can I do if my 1 1/2-year-old is in the 10th percentile for weight? mean the growth charts are perfect, because growth may also differ a little by race

Brands Hatch: Round four race notes
Motorsport.com – The win came in only Stefan’s 10th car race, as he aims to emulate Justin, who won the first-ever FPA championship in 1998 before going on to race in Formula 1. Behind the leading pair, Jolyon Palmer headed the chasing pack in the early stages, with

Barcelona, here we come
Formula 1 – France 1 July With the Spanish Grand Prix fast approaching, the Formula One teams will be back in teams will have to carry out crucial on-track preparations ahead of the May 13 race

Matos May Be Next Brazilian Racing Star
Caspar Star-Tribune – HOUSTON – Raphael Matos was racing go-karts in Brazil on the day in 1994 when three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna Matos followed Senna’s career from childhood and studied race footage from the cameras mounted on Senna’s car. He marveled

McLaren debut radical front wing
Formula 1 – France 1 July If successful, it could make its race debut at next month s Spanish Grand Prix. Several teams have already been running

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Road test
Daily Telegraph – during the recent launch in Portugal of the new Renault Megane Renaultsport dCi 175 and the new Clio Renaultsport 197 F1 Diesel-powered cars run in touring-car races and at Le Mans. Andy Green, the holder of the outright land-speed record, has also

CIRCUITS: INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
GrandPrix.com – course on the Indianapolis infield and replace the existing pitlane facilities with new buildings. The 2000 event was a great success, with victory for Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari . The subsequent races have seen slightly smaller crowds but F1 is

Brands Hatch: Sunday Quotes
Pitpass – That was one of the most difficult races of my career! We drove side-by-side through the first two corners after the start. I A1 Team India took part in a spectacular season finale at the Brands Hatch circuit in the UK today, with former F1 racer

Chinese GP: Ducati Marlboro Team preview
Motorsport.com – There are still 15 races remaining in this, the longest-ever MotoGP season, which means a huge amount of work for the riders The first part is a little bit too F1 style for me, it’s not really easy and it’s not much fun with a motorcycle, but

Bernie, A1 GP and GP3
Pitpass – Regular F1 fans aren’t the only ones feeling themselves at a loose end on Sundays, courtesy of the four-week gap between Five want streets races, three are willing to build circuits. “Japan, Russia and Portugal want to have teams,” he adds, either

Bernie goes to Brands Hatch
GrandPrix.com – With GP2 there is TV coverage that comes with F1 but stand-alone races are not as easy. GP2 teams pay for the cars (and the spares) and this generates decent profits for whoever owns the business. They pay out prize money but it is nothing in

Pushing For Development
Sportnetwork.net – The updated package is not aesthetically very different,” F1 CEO Martin Whitmarsh is quoted as saying by the Spanish Our reliability so far has been good, but it is important that we continue to finish races. We have to continue with the hard

F1 viewing figures looking good
GrandPrix.com – Formula 1’s viewing figures this year are looking good, despite the fact that two of the three races this year have been at times which are not good for Europe, F1’s major market. There was also a relatively poor showing in Bahrain because of the

Safety paramount for F1 night race
CNN – Mosley expressed satisfaction with how the first three races of the F1 season –the first since the retirement of Ferarri’s seven-times champion Schumacher –had gone with three separate winners and three joint championship leaders after Bahrain.

Montoya wins on a road course: No big surprise
FOXSports.com – Our races are like plays, like the ones you go to on Broadway in New York City or even the movies that you watch on TV. You I asked if it had anything to do with trading his F1 car for a Cup car a few years ago at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with

Massa gets win; Hamilton makes history at Bahrain GP
ESPN.com – The previous best start to an F1 career was Peter Arundell with two podiums in two starts in 1964. “I think it is a He was the third winner in three races this season. “The results of first two races was not what I expected,” Massa said

Shake up in the desert
GrandPrix.com – But don’t count on that being the same story when F1 reconvenes for Fernando’s home race in Spain in a month from now. Nick Heidfeld finished ahead of Alonso and once again he impressed a great deal. He has finished fourth in all three races and now

CIRCUITS: NURBURGRING
GrandPrix.com – At the end of that year the governing body of the sport – then called the CSI – withdrew the Nurburgring’s F1 license. Other The new track hosted a variety of events, from international level down to club races. Occasionally the local racers used the

Bumpy ride so far for Red Bull Racing
ESPN.com – A big round zero in the championship points’ tables after the first three races of the 2007 season isn’t much to brag about Ninth doesn’t sound too impressive until you put it into perspective with F1’s large and fiercely contested midpack this

Now is the time when the axe will swing
GrandPrix.com – now settling in back home in Europe, there is time to assess the first three races and it is a traditional time of year for the first changes to be seen in the structure of teams that are not doing very well. This year all eyes are on Honda Racing F1

BMW confident and motivated
Motorsport.com – In the first three races of this season most of the attention has been on the fight between Ferrari and McLaren, but while is not quite there yet, but Heidfeld’s overtaking manoeuvre on world champion Fernando Alonso at Sakhir showed that the F1

Motorsport: Lew aint seen nothing yet
Sunday Life – He’s had a dream start to his career, finishing third, second and second in his first three F1 races, but it has also been a dream in that McLaren have provided him with a perfect car and so far no-one has sought to “put manners” on the

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BMW Sauber fan awarded with an M6 after racing
Sportnetwork.net – for Speed”, which was specifically reprogrammed for the BMW Sauber F1 Team. Ten participants qualified for the grand season finale in Munich. However, the computer race drivers were obviously a great deal more nervous than in the qualification races

Kerr – I could make it in F1
f1press.net – I think I could make it in F1.” Kerr is a former karting rival of Hamilton; the impressive McLaren newcomer who has finished on the podium in each of his three opening formula one races. Kerr proved his worth at Brands Hatch by securing pole and

Shake up in the desert
GrandPrix.com – But don’t count on that being the same story when F1 reconvenes for Fernando’s home race in Spain in a month from now. Nick Heidfeld finished ahead of Alonso and once again he impressed a great deal. He has finished fourth in all three races and now

Montoya wins on a road course: No big surprise
FOXSports.com – Our races are like plays, like the ones you go to on Broadway in New York City or even the movies that you watch on TV. You I asked if it had anything to do with trading his F1 car for a Cup car a few years ago at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with

An interesting aside in the United States
GrandPrix.com – F1 races have to pay up to $20m in race fees and few pull in a race day crowd as big as Dover. Tickets have to be much higher in price to help pay for the Grand Prix and so profits are minimal. With those kind of numbers, F1 is going to struggle to

Alonso Gets Confidence Boost From Fellow Drivers.
Sportnetwork.net – Lewis is new (to F1) but he has been with McLaren for many, many years,” Wurz pointed out, “while Alonso has just joined very solid from the start and we ve proved people who thought that Ferrari were going to walk away with the first few races

This week in racing
CBS Sportsline – last 53 laps at Martinsville, Va., and held him off by a front bumper to win for the third time in six NASCAR Nextel Cup races Last race: World champion Fernando Alonso won the Malaysian Grand Prix to hand new team McLaren-Mercedes its first F1 win

Testing gets underway at Barcelona
Pitpass – As the interminable four-week break between the Bahrain and Spanish Grands Prix continues, F1 fans finally have some on them will be introducing new components ahead of the start of the European season, which sees the teams contesting six races

Could Hamilton be a rookie World Champion?
GrandPrix.com – Everyone, even Hamilton himself, has been surprised by the speed at which he has become a solid F1 frontrunner. For a new There is no doubt that Hamilton can win races. After three such assured performances: each one showing a different facet of

Bin Sulayem to join bike superstar Fogarty
Gulf News – Dubai: Mohammad Bin Sulayem will link up with four-times World Superbike Champion Carl Fogarty MBE in Dubai on Thursday evening at a special event to mark 100 years of the world famous Isle of Man TT Races. Fogarty, the three-times former World F1

ECCLESTONE HINTS AT GP2 TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH A1GP
sportbusiness.com – According to reports, Ecclestone is looking at potentially switching the popular GP2 series to the winter months with action taking place primarily in Asia. Such a move would inevitably cut across A1GP which races outside F1 s familiar calendar

Brands Hatch: Sunday Quotes
Pitpass – That was one of the most difficult races of my career! We drove side-by-side through the first two corners after the start. I A1 Team India took part in a spectacular season finale at the Brands Hatch circuit in the UK today, with former F1 racer

Heidfeld drives the Nordschleife (with pictures)
Pitpass – BMW Sauber F1 Team driver Nick Heidfeld was extremely enthusiastic after three laps in the F1.06: “This drive was simply rather like a second home, not simply because of numerous past successes including 18 overall victories at 24 hour races

Tiger Woods: The Lewis Hamilton Of Golf?
FastMachines – Young Lewis is just making his mark in F1, and in a big way. Three races into his career, three podiums, statistically tied for the driver s championship and a huge role in McLaren s early lead in the constructors title chase. And a whole lot of

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F1 viewing figures looking good
GrandPrix.com – Formula 1’s viewing figures this year are looking good, despite the fact that two of the three races this year have been at times which are not good for Europe, F1’s major market. There was also a relatively poor showing in Bahrain because of the

Massa takes pole position for Bahrain GP
ESPN.com – for the fourth time in the last five Formula One races. It was Ferrari driver’s second straight and fifth career pole. He ended Hamilton, a 22-year-old British rookie and F1’s first black driver, can make history this weekend. No driver has started his

Gommendy shows his pace
GrandPrix.com – Macau Grand Prix in 2002 but then did not have the backing to get beyond the Renault World Series until last year when he found the money to do a handful of GP2 races. At 28 he was then forced to recognise that probably he was going to miss out on F1

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Etihad celebrates awards at Arabian Travel Market
AME Info – Etihad’s ATM stand will be packed with innovations from the airline including the Etihad-sponsored Spyker Formula 1 car and live demonstrations of it’s innovative diamond zone (first class) and pearl zone (business class) seats. The impressive

Coke Plus–The Real Truth
Bismarck Tribune – Intended to be a breakthrough polymer, GLH Formula 1 turned out to be just a mixture of Sea Monkies and Jell-O. Formula 2: In search of a miracle, formula two was intended to remove wrinkles and rejuvenate skin elasticity. Instead it turned out to

Schumacher To Attend Spanish Grand Prix
Sportnetwork.net – Michael Schumacher will return to the world of Formula 1 for the first time since retirement at the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix. The 7-Time World Champion will attend the race in his capacity as advisor to the Scuderia. Michael Schumacher will return

Theissen vows to keep BMW small
Home of Sport – Team boss Mario Theissen says he has no desire to make BMW-Sauber the paddock’s biggest Formula One outfit. A report by the British newspaper The Times compared the steady and conservative development of the Hinwil based squad with that of Honda; who

Three blondes and an Alvis
GrandPrix.com – It is such a waste to have two such fine firms with nothing to do in F1.” “Send me to Detroit,” said a rather tipsy Penelope (Roedean). “I’ll teach those GM people about Formula 1.” April 30 2007 Click here to read previous Mole columns: The Mole Archive

Bernie goes to Brands Hatch
GrandPrix.com – The suggestion being put about is that A1 GP might be merged into a new Asian GP2 series for the winter months, thus creating a new feeder series for Formula 1. A1 GP knows that its chances of survival are slight if Ecclestone (or whoever) launches a

Ta Ra Rum Pum : Formula (No.) 1
newindpress – Looking past surfaces is something you ve got to be able to do in a Yash Raj production. In Ta Ra Rum Pum , for instance, you ve got to look past the fact that the story is one half sporting drama (specifically, Days of Thunder ), one half

80 Days: Dancing to bawdy Italian songs
MSNBC – Francesco will say openly and with steadfast seriousness that he drives as well as Michael Schumacher , the Formula 1 driver. He is alone in this belief. Others think his driving veers toward the insane, and this is really saying something coming from

Convicted Toyota Spies Insist On Their Innocence
Sportnetwork.net – He may be corrected in stating that it is natural for Formula 1 cars to look like the winning machine, though that does not excuse the fact that he stole the copyrighted material, with the intent to use it for work on another car. I do not really care

Expensive Lesson for Maine as Health Plan Stalls
New York Times – But a financing formula dependent on sizable payments from private insurers has angered businesses and is being challenged in 1 2 Next Page

Red Bull boss denies near Schu coup
Home of Sport – Schumacher’s is the biggest name in Formula One,” Mateschitz insisted. “If he comes back, surely it would be with Ferrari or one of the other top teams. “It would of course be fantastic for Formula One, but I think it is too premature a topic for the

Court Cases Threaten Weaker Patents
CNBC – ruling in the AT&T case throws out the use of worldwide product sales as a basis for calculating damages in patent infringement suits, a formula that has resulted in large judgments against the company in other cases. A jury hit Microsoft with $1.52

Ralf targets BMW or Renault seat
Planet F1 – Ralf Schumacher has opened the door to this year’s silly season, hinting that he is planning on leaving Toyota at the FORMULA 1 BABES GALLERY Here’s One For The Boys, Who Love The Girls, Who Love The Boys, Who Race In Formula One. Check Out Our Pit

Mazda brings Zoom zoom
Western Telegraph – At the pinnacle of sailing competition, the America’s Cup is the Formula 1 of yacht racing, with each multi-million dollar carbon-hulled challenger capable of speeds up to 20 knots (23 mph) – without an engine. Built in Valencia last year, the

Pedro Lamy joins SunTrust Racing llineup at Laguna Seca
ThatsRacin.com – Former Formula 1 driver and two-time Le Mans European Series (LMES) champion Pedro Lamy of Portugal is slated to co-drive with Angelelli at the remaining Rolex Series events on the 2007 schedule that Angelelli s regular co-driver this season, Jan

Matos May Be Next Brazilian Racing Star
Caspar Star-Tribune – HOUSTON – Raphael Matos was racing go-karts in Brazil on the day in 1994 when three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna crashed and died in San Marino. Matos was an impressionable 13-year-old at the time and cried when he heard the news about

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Shake up in the desert
GrandPrix.com – And then in Bahrain suddenly Felipe Massa was the man on the top step of the podium. But actually the star turn of the season is the man who has not yet won a race and yet is equal on points to the big guns in the World Championship: Carl Lewis

Felipe Massa on top at home
GrandPrix.com – Felipe Massa set the fastest time of the morning session on Saturday in Brazil, a tenth faster than his Ferrari team mate Michael Schumacher. The pair were seven-tenths clear of the best of the rest, Jenson Button in his Honda F1. The top men were

Piquet: Massa is not another Barrichello
English Eastday – Formula One champion Nelson Piquet said in an interview to a Brazilian magazine, released yesterday, that Ferrari team racer Felipe Massa is not another Rubens Barrichello. During the time he competed for Ferrari, Barrichello was severely criticized

Bahrain GP: Saturday press conference
Motorsport.com – Q: Felipe, you’ve been in the spotlight since Malaysia. I guess this must be a fantastic feeling for you to bounce back with your second consecutive pole? Felipe Massa : For sure. We showed good speed last weekend, but things didn’t go so well in the

Australian GP – Sunday – Race Report
GrandPrix.com – It was slightly worrying that the Ferrari of Felipe Massa had the same kind of advantage as Raikkonen and yet could not get through the midfield. If you need an advantage of more than a second a lap on the car ahead to pass, we are going to see a lot

Malaysian GP – Sunday – Press Conference
GrandPrix.com – Let’s talk about the first few laps, your defence with Felipe Massa behind you and indeed the first corner. Lewis HAMILTON: Yes, that was the most difficult race I’ve ever had. To see two Ferraris behind you, two red blobs in the mirrors, knowing that

Bahrain GP – Sunday – Press Conference
GrandPrix.com – Felipe MASSA: Yeah, definitely. For sure now we have a good break, so it will be a good time to think about things and enjoy this nice result. The results in the first two races were not like I expected. I think something was missing, especially in

Communion at St Ethelred’s
GrandPrix.com – The pile of hymnbooks fell over and at precisely the same moment Felipe Massa tried to pass Hamilton for the third time and poor O found himself looking in two directions at the same time. The bishops raised four eyebrows and O had what he later

Australian GP – Friday – Practice Session 2 Report
GrandPrix.com – Felipe Massa topped the timesheets at the end of the first day of testing in Melbourne, beating his Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen. He was a tenth clear of F1 debutant Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren. Giancarlo Fisichella was fourth quickest despite

Ferrari Fumble, McLaren Master Malaysian GP
FastMachines – Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari 56 36.705 6. Giancarlo Fisichella Italy Renault 56 1m05.638 7. Jarno Trulli Italy Toyota 56 1m10.132 8. Heikki Kovalainen Finland Renault 56 1m12.015 9. Alexander Wurz Austria Williams-Toyota 56 1m29.924 10. Mark Webber

Bahrain buys into GP2
GrandPrix.com – The remaining shares in the teams are shared equally between founder Frederic Vasseur and Nicolas Todt, the son of Ferrari team boss Jean Todt, who is also the manager of Felipe Massa. The plan now is develop “new projects” in order to develop racing

McLaren’s 1-2 knockout
GrandPrix.com – This meant that Raikkonen did not have the same straightline speed as Felipe Massa. And so the onus was on the Brazilian and in qualifying he delivered the goods. He was on the pole and the point man for the race. But then it all went horribly wrong.

Bahrain GP: Winners’ press conference
Motorsport.com – Felipe Massa : Yeah, definitely. For sure now we have a good break, so it will be a good time to think about things and enjoy this nice result. The results in the first two races were not like I expected. I think something was missing, especially in

Australian GP – Sunday – Race Notes
GrandPrix.com – Fourth place went to Nick Heidfeld in the BMW, followed by Giancarlo Fisichella in the Renault in fifth, Felipe Massa from the back of the field to finish sixth in the Ferrari, Nico Rosberg in the Williams-Toyota in seventh place, and the final point

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Formula One on the Internet
Sportnetwork.net – Drivers: Kimi R ikk nen: www.kimiraikkonen.com Juan Pablo Montoya: www.jpmontoya.com Fernando Alonso: www.fernandoalonso.com co.uk Nico Rosberg: www.nicorosberg.com Alex Wurz: www.alexwurz.com Narain Karthikeyan : www.narainracing.com Rubens Barrichello: www

BAHRAIN GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – There was then a four-tenths of a second gap back to Juan Pablo Montoya and a similar gap to Rubens Barrichello in the Honda. Behind him there was a half a second to Mark Webber with Christian Klien, Giancarlo Fisichella and Nick Heidfeld rounding

Round Fifteen – Italy
Sporting Life – Brazil’s Rubens Barrichello spearheaded a dream one-two for Ferrari in their home race as he powered to victory in the The Sao Paulo-born driver leads Colombia’s Juan Pablo Montoya by 17 points with just the United States and Japanese Grands

MALAYSIAN GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – Rosberg is then overtaken by Juan Pablo Montoya and Nick Heidfeld, another very fast starter. There is a mess in the midfield Rubens Barrichello is given a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane and so loses all the advantage he had hoped

BAHRAIN GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Further back were Christian Klien (Red Bull Racing), Rubens Barrichello (Honda), Nick Heidfeld (BMW), David Coulthard (Red Bull Racing), Juan Pablo Montoya (McLaren), Nico Rosberg (Williams), Christijan Albers and Tiago Monteiro (MF1), the obviously

SAN MARINO GP – FRIDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Juan Pablo Montoya (9th, 1:26.334): “So far so good, and we achieved everything we needed. I did two short runs just to check Rubens Barrichello (13th, 1:26.653): “There was traffic everywhere today which made clean runs very difficult, however I had a

Some very odd times
GrandPrix.com – Giancarlo Fisichella and Fernando Alonso were fifth and sixth ahead of Rubens Barrichello’s Honda, Jacques Villeneuve’s BMW Juan Pablo Montoya had an off during the session and ended up 15th ahead of Jarno Trulli (Toyota), the Williamses of Mark

Round 13 – Hungary
Sporting Life – Rubens Barrichello also destroyed his front wing and joined Alonso in pitting for a replacement. Schumacher led the early stages and saw off Raikkonen’s threat in the first round of pit stops. Juan Pablo Montoya, on a different strategy pitted much

SPANISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Juan Pablo Montoya started with a lot of fuel after his ghastly qualifying and was aiming to do a one-stop race but he spun at the finish was Jenson Button, who managed to avoid the humiliation of going a lap behind (which befell Rubens Barrichello

BRITISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – Behind them are Nick Heidfeld and Juan Pablo Montoya. At Becketts Ralf Schumacher is knocked into a half-spin by Behind the Safety Car Rubens Barrichello passes Montoya for seventh. * Lap 4: The race restarts. Barrichello allows Montoya ahead

EUROPEAN GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Kimi Raikkonen was 10th fastest ahead of Nico Rosberg, Scott Speed, Rubens Barrichello, Mark Webber, Nick Heidfeld, David Coulthard and Juan Pablo Montoya. Expect a very different line up after qualifying this afternoon. It will be interesting to see

SAN MARINO GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – The grid itself features Michael Schumacher ahead of Button and Rubens Barrichello, the second Honda driving finally Then came the two McLarens with Juan Pablo Montoya ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. And then came Jarno Trulli’s Toyota and the

A lesson from the Oxford Don
GrandPrix.com – Behind them came Felipe Massa, Juan Pablo Montoya and the BMWs of Nick Heidfeld and Jacques Villeneuve Honda, Williams and Rubens Barrichello ran around in the midfield. After Webber’s demise only Nico Rosberg remained for Williams and he finished a

Round 7 – Europe
Sporting Life – Nick Heidfeld kept up the strong form by equalling his career-best result to take second place while Rubens Barrichello gave three points for sixth despite starting from the pit lane after stalling his Renault on the grid while Juan Pablo Montoya

Prep baseball, softball, ECHL, prep track
Toledo Blade – 26,758. 28. (5) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 197, $26,265. 29. (34) Eric McClure, Chevrolet, 195, $26,488. 30. (14) Juan Pablo Montoya Rubens Barrichello, Brazil, Honda, 1:33.624. 16. Jenson Button, Britain, Honda, 1:33.731. Eliminated after first 15-minute

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Bahrain GP – Sunday – Press Conference
GrandPrix.com – Q: Kimi, stuck behind Fernando Alonso in the early stage of the race. How much did that define the day for you? Kimi RAIKKONEN: I think it did. After that it was too difficult to come back and challenge at the front. I got past him but we needed to go

UNITED STATES GP – FRIDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Fernando Alonso (9th, 1:13.474): “This was a normal Friday for me. The grip levels are quite low at the moment, but that was the only major problem and the balance of the car feels OK. Friday is all about understanding the tyre behaviour and what

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Formula One would consider possible night race
ESPN.com – which have been highlighted and some of which haven’t yet, and we want to look at that very carefully before we sanction it,” said Mosley, attending the launch in London of a U.N. global road safety week with former world champion Michael Schumacher .

Race car and child’s hope
Houston Chronicle – In 2002, Michael Schumacher spent a day with the two-seater,” said Stoddart, who also drives the two-seater. “Fernando Alonso was driving the single-seat car and he was lapping in an (average speed) of 102.1 in Italy. Michael, with a passenger, was

World Cup leaves sour taste
BBC Brasil – It was a deeply frustrating World Cup – the third in a row that has spectacularly failed to live up to its billing – and one that will be remembered more for events off the field than glorious deeds on it. The mysterious death of Bob Woolmer some

CIRCUITS: MAGNY-COURS
GrandPrix.com – The French GP arrived at Magny-Cours in 1991 and for the first three years at the track the Williams – Renault team was undefeated. Michael Schumacher then won for Benetton in 1994 and 1995 . Damon Hill won the 1996 event but then Schumacher added two more

‘Fun’ course suits ‘06 winner
AZCentral.com – Michael Lovato crossed that line before anybody last year. From the chilly murk of Tempe Town Lake through the desert Top contenders in the women’s field include Germany’s Katja Schumacher and Americans Heather Gollnick, Joanna Zeiger and

F1 and the United Nations
GrandPrix.com – United Nations General Assembly to approve the first ever UN Global Ministerial Summit on Road Safety and to agree an international strategy for road injury prevention. Formula 1 drivers have been recruited to help the cause with Michael Schumacher

Malaysian GP – Saturday – Team Quotes
GrandPrix.com – Ralf Schumacher (9th, 1:37.078): “In general that was a good qualifying session for us and it’s good to get both cars into the Sam Michael, Technical Director: “Well done to Nico who did a good job with the car to qualify on the third row, he’s

BAHRAIN GP – SUNDAY – RACE REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Fernando Alonso won the Bahrain Grand Prix, which was really not a big surprise. The thing that grabbed our attention, however, was how he did it and how tough it was to do. Right behind him at the finish was Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari and that was

Toro Rosso rumours
GrandPrix.com – There is little logic for a Prost deal (or Michael Schumacher for that matter) although the argument was that Alain Prost is looking for somewhere to park his son Nicolas when he moves up from Spanish Formula 3. The youngster needs to do a little

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Round 13 – Hungary
Sporting Life – Rubens Barrichello also destroyed his front wing and joined Alonso in pitting for a replacement. Schumacher led the early stages and saw off Raikkonen’s threat in the first round of pit stops. Juan Pablo Montoya, on a different strategy pitted much

SAN MARINO GP – FRIDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Juan Pablo Montoya (9th, 1:26.334): “So far so good, and we achieved everything we needed. I did two short runs just to check Rubens Barrichello (13th, 1:26.653): “There was traffic everywhere today which made clean runs very difficult, however I had a

UNITED STATES GP – SUNDAY – RACE REPORT
GrandPrix.com – And let us not forget that he had the race won in 2002 as well but handed victory to Rubens Barrichello to say “Thank you Juan Pablo Montoya ran into the back of his McLaren team mate Kimi Raikkonen. This probably did not much impress Dr Dieter

Round 8 – Canada
Sporting Life – McLaren should have made considerable ground in the constructors’ championship as well but Juan Pablo Montoya jumped a red runners and he took a hard-earned second for Ferrari, who were able to celebrate a double podium after Rubens Barrichello

Round 1 – Australia
Sporting Life – Ultimately, Rubens Barrichello took his Ferrari to second and Fernando Alonso gave Renault third to keep the Scotsman off the long run in third, although the home hero equalled his best-ever result by taking fifth ahead of McLaren’s Juan Pablo Montoya

EUROPEAN GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Kimi Raikkonen was 10th fastest ahead of Nico Rosberg, Scott Speed, Rubens Barrichello, Mark Webber, Nick Heidfeld, David Coulthard and Juan Pablo Montoya. Expect a very different line up after qualifying this afternoon. It will be interesting to see

Round 11 – Britain
Sporting Life – Brazil’s Rubens Barrichello triumphed in one of the most dramatic British Grands Prix of recent years after a demonstrator The Ferrari driver won by just over five seconds from the Williams of Juan Pablo Montoya after the leaderboard had been

MALAYSIAN GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – Rosberg is then overtaken by Juan Pablo Montoya and Nick Heidfeld, another very fast starter. There is a mess in the midfield Rubens Barrichello is given a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane and so loses all the advantage he had hoped

Round Fifteen – Italy
Sporting Life – Brazil’s Rubens Barrichello spearheaded a dream one-two for Ferrari in their home race as he powered to victory in the The Sao Paulo-born driver leads Colombia’s Juan Pablo Montoya by 17 points with just the United States and Japanese Grands

Round 15 – Italy
Sporting Life – Juan Pablo Montoya cruised to his second victory of the season at the Italian Grand Prix – but the championship is on the round of pit stops were a tactical battle, with the surprise the Ferraris of Schumacher and team-mate Rubens Barrichello were

Formula One on the Internet
Sportnetwork.net – Drivers: Kimi R ikk nen: www.kimiraikkonen.com Juan Pablo Montoya: www.jpmontoya.com Fernando Alonso: www.fernandoalonso.com co.uk Nico Rosberg: www.nicorosberg.com Alex Wurz: www.alexwurz.com Narain Karthikeyan : www.narainracing.com Rubens Barrichello: www

JJ, Gordon, Teammates and Seattle
Associated Press – wants his teammate to move over so he can win a race, he’ll have to change his name to Schumacher, hire Rubens Barrichello Of course, we’ve already seen that basic rule violated when Juan Pablo Montoya took out teammate Scott Pruett in the Busch

CANADIAN GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – That left Alonso, Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Fisichella, Trulli, Felipe Massa, Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button to fight it out for pole position. If the truth be told it never looked like that would go to anyone

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Bahrain GP – Saturday – Qualifying Session Report
GrandPrix.com – The Q2 session saw Massa ahead of Hamilton with Raikkonen third and even Nick Heidfeld was able to get ahead of Fernando Alonso, which in a session when the cars are normally light on fuel this may be very significant. Out at the end of that session

Australian GP – Sunday – Race Report
GrandPrix.com – Nick Heidfeld, the bearded schoolboy. Kimi probably had time enough to see that in third place was a man in a yellow helmet. Lewis Hamilton’s start was straight out of Hollywood. He edged away off the line and was aware that Robert Kubica, a career

Massa gets win; Hamilton makes history at Bahrain GP
ESPN.com – Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari was third, and Nick Heidfeld of BMW-Sauber was fourth. Hamilton, Formula One’s first black driver, finished third at the Australian GP and second at the Malaysian GP. The previous best start to an F1 career was Peter

Flawless Massa wins Bahrain GP, Hamilton makes history
Monsters and Critics – World champion Fernando Alonso had to settle for fifth in the other Ferrari behind BMW driver Nick Heidfeld. Hamilton became the first F1 rookie to get on the podium in each of his first three races, having finished third in Australia and second in

Alonso grabs F1 victory at Malaysian Grand Prix
ESPN.com – In the opener, Raikkonen, Alonso and Hamilton finished 1-2-3. Nick Heidfeld of BMW-Sauber was fourth Sunday for the second straight race. Massa lost the lead to Alonso and Hamilton in the run to the first turn. Massa went onto the grass on the sixth

BRAZILIAN GP – SUNDAY – RACE REPORT
GrandPrix.com – He was squeezed by Robert Kubica, who had Ralf Schumacher and Nick Heidfeld outside him. There was no room and Michael had to give but as they went thundering down the hill Michael was trying to pass the two BMWs. Ralf was already history. At the

The Importance of having Alonso.
Sportnetwork.net – In the Bahrain race Fernando missed out on fourth position after he lost time to Nick Heidfeld in the second stint in the race, where both McLaren drivers suffered with their optional softer tyres. There is no doubt that Fernando has made a very

Michael and Massa at the front
GrandPrix.com – continued with a decent crowd at the speedway and Ferrari coming to the fore with Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa dominating the times, a second clear of the rest who were headed on this occasion by Giancarlo Fisichella ahead of Nick Heidfeld’s

McLaren’s 1-2 knockout
GrandPrix.com – That dropped him out of contention, behind the BMW of Nick Heidfeld and that meant that Hamilton was left with only Kimi Raikkonen to worry about. Attack he did, but the Finn did not have the speed in the car to challenge as Massa had done. “Felipe

ITALIAN GP – SUNDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Nick Heidfeld (8th): “It is a fantastic result for our team. Yesterday I was third in qualifying and today Robert is third in the race. Over the last few GP we have made real improvements and I hope we can keep up this momentum for the overseas races

Bahrain GP: The Usual Suspects, With a Twist
FastMachines – Massa trails the trio at 17 with the surprising Nick Heidfeld on 15. Everyone after the race was hailing Hamilton on his unprecedented three consecutive podiums, but not much was said about his leading the driver s championship after only three

Shake up in the desert
GrandPrix.com – Nick Heidfeld finished ahead of Alonso and once again he impressed a great deal. He has finished fourth in all three races and now is just two points behind Massa, a quiet fifth man in the World Championship battle. It may be a little far-fetched to

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Speed Reading: Going home to Cali
FOXSports.com – Former Indy 500, Champ Car, and Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve is still working on sponsorship for his long-rumored 2008 NASCAR plans. The Canadian-born racer who is also getting into the record business now says he would like to follow an

Formula One racing’s greatest debut seasons
Formula 1 – Jacques Villeneuve Debut: 1996; Points: 78; Races won: 4; Championship standing: 2nd The toughest benchmark for Hamilton to beat will be Jacques Villeneuve s electrifying debut season for Williams in 1996. Despite already being an IndyCar champion in

UNITED STATES GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – The BMW Saubers were also both in the top 10 but in the final Q3 session Heidfeld pulled off and parked his car with some kind of mechanical trouble and Jacques Villeneuve was sixth, a good effort. There were problems for McLaren with Kimi Raikkonen

CANADIAN GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – The Q2 session got rid of Jacques Villeneuve, Christian Klien, Nick Heidfeld, Ralf Schumacher, Tonio Liuzzi and David Coulthard. That left Alonso, Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Fisichella, Trulli, Felipe Massa, Rubens

BRITISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – There is then a gap back to Barrichello, Nico Rosberg, Jacques Villeneuve and David Coulthard. Button is 12th. * Lap 9: Button blows up and spins off on his own oil. * Lap 17: Trulli is the first man to pit, dropping from 11th to 16th. * Lap 18: Michael

Hamilton Hype Becoming Too Much
Planet F1 – When Jacques Villeneuve won his championship everybody thought he was going to be the greatest thing ever, and we all know how the story turned out. But at least he had won something !! Hamilton has not even won a race and they are already claiming

UNITED STATES GP – SUNDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Jacques Villeneuve (DNF, Engine): “The car was feeling good and we had quite a lot of grip. We were running strong and were quite a bit faster than the three cars ahead of us, so I was just waiting for the pit stops to see what happened. The engine

EUROPEAN GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Underlining that the times cannot much be trusted Jacques Villeneuve was fourth quickest in the BMW Sauber with the two Renaults of Giancarlo Fisichella and Fernando Alonso fifth and sixth. Next up was Jenson Button’s Honda ahead of the Red Bull

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MALAYSIAN GP – SATURDAY – QUALIFYING SESSION 1 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Jacques Villeneuve moving up in his BMW from 14th to 10th. Team mate Nick Heidfeld will be 11th with the Toro Rossos of Scott Speed 12th. Michael Schumacher will be 13th with Tonio Liuzzi 14th. Behind him, if theory becomes reality, will be

MONACO GP – THURSDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Jacques Villeneuve (20th, 1:17.874): “The car is fairly competitive here, but due to the problem on Robert’s car we had to stop early so we don’t really know where we are yet. We have quite a lot of work to do.” Nick Heidfeld (22nd, 1:18.257): “I was

SAN MARINO GP – SUNDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Jacques Villeneuve (12th): “It was not that exciting because I had a problem in the first pit stop. We were not as competitive as we expected. However, the balance was good and with this we should have been able to do some quick laps. The start was

Yoong handed Bruce McLaren Trophy at Brands Hatch
Motorsport.com – Previous winners include Mark Webber (Australia), Jacques Villeneuve (Canada), Paul Tracy (Canada), Tomas Scheckter (South Africa) and Jonny Reid (New Zealand). Alex Yoong began his racing career in Formula Asia, over ten years ago. After two years

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Massa sees off Hamilton in Bahrain
CNN – Poland’s Robert Kubica scored his first points of the season, in sixth place for BMW Sauber, with Italian Jarno Trulli seventh for Toyota. Italian Giancarlo Fisichella handed champions Renault, winners for the past two years at Bahrain’s Sakhir

CHINESE GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Mark Webber was sixth ahead of Christijan Albers’s MF1, Giancarlo Fisichella’s Renault and Pedro de la Rosa’s McLaren with David Coulthard 10th in his Red Bull. In the course of those exciting last few laps Kimi Raikkonen had two spins, and there were

CHINESE GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – * Lap 1: At the start of the race the track is damp and the cars are all on intermediate tyres. Fernando Alonso takes the lead and is followed by Giancarlo Fisichella, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. At the first corner Robert Kubica goes wide

Australian GP – Friday – Team Quotes
GrandPrix.com – Giancarlo Fisichella (4th, 1:27.941): “It was a bit of a mixed day for us – the performance of the car looked quite encouraging, especially on the longer runs, but our problems meant we didn’t complete the programme. The set-up was not fantastic this

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Bahrain GP – Saturday – Qualifying Session Report
GrandPrix.com – The rest of qualifying merely served as a build up for the final shoot out but the Q1 session ended the ambitions of Takuma Sato, Tonio Liuzzi, Scott Speed, Adrian Suttil, David Coulthard and Christijan Albers. Of these the big surprise was Coulthard

Alonso-Hamilton 1-2 in Malaysian Grand Prix
GrandPrix.com – On lap 36 David Coulthard retired his car in the pits with a brake problem from 11th, while Liuzzi made his second stop, followed by Hamilton, Button, Rosberg and Trulli on lap 38, Kovalainen on lap 39, leader Alonso, Sato and Massa on lap 40

Australian GP – Sunday – Race Report
GrandPrix.com – The Renaults, Red Bulls, Toyotas and Hondas were all in a mish-mash in the midfield which should keep us amused, not least because we have people like David Coulthard doing daft things like trying to overtake Alexander Wurz using the aerial route. All

BRITISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – There is then a gap back to Barrichello, Nico Rosberg, Jacques Villeneuve and David Coulthard. Button is 12th. * Lap 9: Button blows up and spins off on his own oil. * Lap 17: Trulli is the first man to pit, dropping from 11th to 16th. * Lap 18: Michael

CHINESE GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Mark Webber was sixth ahead of Christijan Albers’s MF1, Giancarlo Fisichella’s Renault and Pedro de la Rosa’s McLaren with David Coulthard 10th in his Red Bull. In the course of those exciting last few laps Kimi Raikkonen had two spins, and there were

MALAYSIAN GP – SUNDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – David Coulthard (DNF, Hydraulics): “I lost hydraulic pressure in the car, which meant I had no power assistance going into the chicane. With that alone your afternoon’s going to be difficult, but as the gearbox is controlled by the hydraulics as well

BRAZILIAN GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – Fisichella, Michael Schumacher (who gains two of three places by passing both BMW Saubers in one move), Ralf Schumacher, Robert Kubica, Jenson Button, Pedro de la Rosa, Nick Heidfeld, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Scott Speed, Takuma Sato, David Coulthard

BAHRAIN GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – Further back Jacques Villeneuve passes David Coulthard for 10th place and Kimi Raikkonen continues to move through the field, passing Tonio Liuzzi for 12th. * Lap 4: Button passes Barrichello for fifth place and this time pulls away. Klien, who is

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Tiger Woods: The Lewis Hamilton Of Golf?
FastMachines – Especially in dealing with one Fernando Alonso, two-time and back to back defending world champion and teammate. So far he has not put a wrong foot, or tire, forward. With three weeks to the next race in Barcelona, there will be even more pressure for

BAHRAIN GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – Fernando Alonso makes a quick start and is challenging Felipe Massa for second place at the first corner, while Jenson Button is slow off the line and falls behind Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya and Rubens Barrichello. Massa holds off the Spaniard at the

Australian GP – Friday – Practice Session 2 Report
GrandPrix.com – This meant that Fernando Alonso was seventh ahead of Rosberg, Kubica and David Coulthard, 10th in his Red Bull. Local hero Mark Webber was back in 17th after technical problems with his car. There was some interest in the midfield with Anthony

Could Hamilton be a rookie World Champion?
GrandPrix.com – new driver to race with such consistency at the front in F1 and not make the kind of mistakes that new drivers usually make is a remarkable achievement and this consistency has led him to be equal on points with championship leader Fernando Alonso

Race car and child’s hope
Houston Chronicle – Fernando Alonso was driving the single-seat car and he was lapping in an (average speed) of 102.1 in Italy. Michael, with a passenger, was doing a 102.4. “It is an absolutely amazing thing. In effect, it’s the real thing. To go around corners at such

The Importance of having Alonso.
Sportnetwork.net – After getting bombarded with poor performance comments from the press after the Bahrain Grand Prix, Martin Whitmarsh has said how much of an impact Fernando Alonso has made to the McLaren teams return to form. In the Bahrain race Fernando missed out

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CHINESE GP – SATURDAY – PRACTICE SESSION 3 REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Mark Webber was sixth ahead of Christijan Albers’s MF1, Giancarlo Fisichella’s Renault and Pedro de la Rosa’s McLaren with David Coulthard 10th in his Red Bull. In the course of those exciting last few laps Kimi Raikkonen had two spins, and there were

Flawless Massa wins Bahrain GP, Hamilton makes history
Monsters and Critics – Also into the points drove Robert Kubica of Poland in the second BMW as well as Italians Jarno Trulli (Honda) and Giancarlo Fisichella (Renault). British veteran David Coulthard was the unluckiest man as he had to retire with gearbox problems after

TURKISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE REPORT
GrandPrix.com – Button admitted that the car is still not good enough to battle with the Ferraris and with Alonso (he did not add Giancarlo Fisichella) and trotted out the usual Honda line about knowing how to solve the problem and needing to work hard to do it. The

Bahrain GP: Saturday press conference
Motorsport.com – Q: Kimi, we’ll see tomorrow what fuel loads everybody is on, but it looked as though you had a bit of a moment with Giancarlo Fisichella early on in Q3. Kimi Raikkonen : Yeah, on my first try in third qualifying he was in front of me through Turn One

Australian GP – Friday – Practice Session 2 Report
GrandPrix.com – Felipe Massa topped the timesheets at the end of the first day of testing in Melbourne, beating his Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen. He was a tenth clear of F1 debutant Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren. Giancarlo Fisichella was fourth quickest despite

BRITISH GP – SUNDAY – RACE INCIDENTS
GrandPrix.com – * Lap 1: At the start of the race Fernando Alonso uses his pole position to good effect to take the lead from Kimi Raikkonen, Michael Schumacher, Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella. Behind them are Nick Heidfeld and Juan Pablo Montoya. At Becketts

ITALIAN GP – SUNDAY – TEAM QUOTES
GrandPrix.com – Giancarlo Fisichella (4th): “This wasn’t an easy race by any means, starting from ninth position and running with a heavy fuel load for long parts of the race. But the Michelin tyres were extremely consistent, the car balance was good and I managed

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Dexter’s takes notable dishes and adds some bustle
Orlando Sentinel – Refined it isn’t, and it never will be. It will have to suffice just being uniquely Dexter’s. Scott Joseph can be reached at sjoseph@OrlandoSentinel.com or 407-420-5514. Read his past reviews at OrlandoSentinel.com/dining First photo ran on page F1.

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Formula One would consider possible night race
ESPN.com – LONDON — Formula One’s governing body would need to carry out a full safety assessment before agreeing to any night races, FIA president Max Mosley said on Monday. “We wouldn’t sanction night racing for Formula One without a very careful

CIRCUITS: SILVERSTONE
GrandPrix.com – Inside F1, Inc. Both circuits continued to support a busy schedule of national races and almost all the Grand Prix drivers of the 1960s and

Alonso grabs F1 victory at Malaysian Grand Prix
ESPN.com – Rookie Lewis Hamilton , F1’s first black driver, added to the McLaren resurgence by finishing second ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Now Alonso was a winner with McLaren after just two races. “It’s absolutely fantastic,” he said. “It is wonderful what we

Australian GP – Sunday – Race Report
GrandPrix.com – You would think that by now F1 directors would know that following the same cars around for laps and laps on end was not a If you need an advantage of more than a second a lap on the car ahead to pass, we are going to see a lot of processional races

Massa gets win; Hamilton makes history at Bahrain GP
ESPN.com – The previous best start to an F1 career was Peter Arundell with two podiums in two starts in 1964. “I think it is a He was the third winner in three races this season. “The results of first two races was not what I expected,” Massa said

McLaren’s 1-2 knockout
GrandPrix.com – When all is said and done it was another truly astonishing performance for an F1 newcomer. Lewis set the fastest lap of the race. He has been on the podium in both races thus far. He has led both races. We knew he was good but it is doubtful that

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CIRCUITS: INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
GrandPrix.com – Ever since 1950 Indy had been a nominal round of the Formula 1 World Championship, and although this ended in 1960, the following The USA had not staged an F1 Grand Prix since Phoenix in 1991 . In 1998 George agreed a deal with Formula 1 boss Bernie

Fourth season of Renault roadshow
Motorsport.com – the ING Renault F1 Team will this year launch its fourth season of spectacular F1 shows, comprising a mixture of city-centre demonstration runs and hot laps at the World Series by Renault championship. The title of the programme? The ING Renault F1

Transcript of John Force Racing Teleconference
FastMachines – My life has changed to where it’s not just about winning the championship. My priorities are how to race and believe that what we We want to know about the foam, the different types of foam, what F1 uses, what NASCAR uses. Let me tell you, I was a

Formula One would consider possible night race
ESPN.com – Mosley expressed satisfaction with how the first three races of the Formula One season, the first since the retirement of Ferarri’s seven-time champion Schumacher, had gone with three separate winners and three joint championship leaders after Bahrain

AT&T-NASCAR trial features battle of heavyweights
ESPN.com – up a spot for team boss Ron Dennis to hire his prot g , 22-year-old Lewis Hamilton , as the first black driver in F1. Two-time champ Fernando Alonso may grumble about his young teammate having championship desires of his own this year. “I have the

BMW confident and motivated
Motorsport.com – not quite there yet, but Heidfeld’s overtaking manoeuvre on world champion Fernando Alonso at Sakhir showed that the F1 worked hard during the winter in Munich and in Hinwil and the reward is three fourth places and a total of 18 world championship

CIRCUITS: SILVERSTONE
GrandPrix.com – Inside F1, Inc. In 1950 Silverstone was chosen to host the very first round of the new Formula 1 World Championship . King George VI was there for

BMW Sauber interview with Theissen
Motorsport.com – The BMW Sauber F1 Team has made a successful start to the 2007 World Championship. Nick Heidfeld has recorded three fourth places and Robert Kubica a sixth-position finish to put the team on 18 points and leave them lying third in the constructors

Karthikeyan to race stock cars
GrandPrix.com – The winter series is perfect for me as I can concentrate on Formula 1, my main obligation,” says Narain. The series will begin in November and will feature former F1 drivers such as Johnny Herbert, Jean Alesi and Stefan Johansson. The championship will

St. Pete: Risi Competizione race report
Motorsport.com – Salo, who competed in 150 Grands Prix and has been a factory Ferrari F1 driver, is very cool on the track and has the it also closed out 2006 by winning the last two races (Mosport and Laguna Seca) en route to the 2006 ALMS GT2 Championship. Mika

Flav wants GP weekend overhaul
Planet F1 – Briatore has called for an overhaul of the F1 grand prix weekend format. According to Briatore, Formula One race weekends need to be spiced up a bit, which he feels could be done by adopting a format similar to what is used in the GP2 Championship.

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