F1 in the news 21

A sackful of stories in the F1 news this month.
Including interviews with Bernie Ecclestone, Damon Hill, Juan Pablo Montoya and Lewis Hamilton plus possible future Grands Prix in Abu Dhabi and Greece, Prodrive getting ready to make their F1 debut in 2008 and loads more.

Four Michael Schumacher cars for sale – just $6.5m!

Four Formula One cars raced by Michael Schumacher have gone up for sale.
All four cars are offered for purchase jointly and include the 1991 Jordan-Cosworth 191 in which he made his Grand Prix debut; The 1991 Benetton-Cosworth B191 in which he scored his first championship points at the Italian Grand Prix; The 1994 Benetton-Cosworth B194 [...]

Official 2007 Honda RA107 pictures

The wraps came off Honda’s new RA107 today – but the final look of the car still won’t be revealed until the livery is launched next month. This is Rubens Barrichello at the wheel in Barcelona.

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Ferrari’s subtle Marlboro branding (and F1 [...]

Banned! – Flexi-wings

Formula One is the pinnacle of motor racing, right? The fastest and most advanced racing cars in the world.
That may be true, but you wonder how much faster the cars would be if it weren’t for the rafts of innovations that have been banned over the years.
In in a new series we look at all [...]

Official 2007 Renault R27 pictures

The first photographs of Renault’s new Formula One racer broke cover two weeks ago – now the final car has been presented in its definitive livery.
With ING replacing Mild Seven as title sponsors for 2007 the car has a fresh new colour scheme, dropping the light blue it has used since 2002, and as Benetton [...]

The Ben Evans Colums: Ghosts of Gamston

The first ever World Championship Grand Prix was held at Silverstone in 1950. But a rival circuit at Gamston nearly stole the race from it – how different F1 history might be had that happened.
In my bid to fill my off-season weekends with motorsport related activity I found myself at the very Gamston airfield on [...]

Changes to Barcelona for 2007 revealed

This is the official diagram showing the changes made to the Barcelona circuit, home of the Spanish Grand Prix, for the 2007 race.
The penultimate bend, Europcar, has been tightened to allow for the insertion of a chicane on the approach to New Holland.
As mentioned earlier on F1Fanatic the changes have been made to improve safety [...]

GPWC goes the way of Premier 1 GP

In 2006 the grinding tedium of the merciless political row between the FIA and the Grand Prix Manufacturers’ Association (GPMA) finally ended in a ceasefire.
And not a moment too soon – the last thing we needed was another Indy ‘05 or, much worse, the GPMA’s stated threat of a ‘Grand Prix World Championship’ breakaway series [...]

How do you solve a problem like Toyota?

Are you a passionate, devoted fan of Panasonic Toyota Racing?
Did you heart beat with anticipation during the unveiling of the TF107 last week? Will you tune in to the Australian Grand Prix in eight weeks’ time, praying for an all red-and-white front row?
Probably not. According to last year’s FIA survey Toyota were the least popular [...]

“Chasing the Title” (Nigel Roebuck, 1999)

For many F1 fans, the week isn’t complete without grabbing five minutes to read Nigel Roebuck’s Fifth Column in Autosport.
A shame, then, that he rarely finds the time to create an extended volume of his work such as this. “Chasing the Title” broadly covers anything and everything Roebuck chose to turn his mind to from [...]