| By Ben Anderson | Monday, December 29th 2014, 10:51 GMT |
Daniil Kvyat says he is not scared of going up against Daniel Ricciardo at Red Bull next season, despite the Australian's superb 2014 Formula 1 campaign.
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Sunday, December 28th 2014, 16:07 GMT |
Lotus driver Romain Grosjean says top Formula 1 teams should not forget what he is capable of despite a dismal 2014 season.
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| By Ben Anderson and Pablo Elizalde | Monday, December 29th 2014, 16:09 GMT |
Max Verstappen is convinced he has enough experience to make the jump to Formula 1 with the Toro Rosso team next season.
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| By Ben Anderson and Alex Kalinauckas | Saturday, December 27th 2014, 16:40 GMT |
Williams Formula 1 team chief technical officer Pat Symonds admits Felipe Massa's speed in 2014 exceeded expectations
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, December 28th 2014, 10:36 GMT |
Ferrari stands to benefit from a ruthless streak that Sebastian Vettel has in pushing for what he wants, reckons his former Formula 1 team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Sunday, December 28th 2014, 16:07 GMT |
Lotus driver Romain Grosjean says top Formula 1 teams should not forget what he is capable of despite a dismal 2014 season.
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Thursday, December 25th 2014, 11:45 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team still needs to sharpen its organisation because it has implemented so many changes it feels "like a new team" compared to Ferrari, reckons Felipe Massa
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Wednesday, December 24th 2014, 14:48 GMT |
Romain Grosjean reckons engine supplier Renault "messed up" during the 2014 Formula 1 season, but he expects the French company to improve next year
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, December 25th 2014, 17:43 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff insists that he never felt comfortable about the advantage his team had over its Formula 1 rivals until the closing stages of 2014
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| By Anthony Rowlinson | Monday, December 22nd 2014, 15:17 GMT |
Ferrari's new bosses say there will be no quick fixes for the Formula 1 team, as it bids to recover from a dire 2014 season
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| By Anthony Rowlinson and Ben Anderson | Monday, December 22nd 2014, 12:20 GMT |
The Ferrari Formula 1 team has confirmed the signing of Lewis Hamilton's performance engineer Jock Clear as a replacement for ousted engineering director Pat Fry
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| By Anthony Rowlinson | Monday, December 22nd 2014, 14:19 GMT |
New Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne has admitted the Formula 1 team made "too many mistakes" in recent seasons and called upon the Scuderia to fulfil its potential
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| Friday, December 19th 2014, 16:47 GMT |
Jean-Eric Vergne will join Ferrari's Formula 1 test roster for 2015, with the ex-Toro Rosso racer focusing on simulator work for the Italian team
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, December 20th 2014, 11:35 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo says he is ready to lead the Red Bull Formula 1 team next year following Sebastian Vettel's departure to Ferrari.
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| By Ben Anderson and Alex Kalinauckas | Saturday, December 20th 2014, 15:57 GMT |
Sergio Perez believes new Toro Rosso Formula 1 recruit Max Verstappen must trust his talent and not worry about media perceptions of his youth.
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Friday, December 19th 2014, 11:26 GMT |
Ron Dennis says he will not be content with the revived McLaren-Honda partnership simply winning grands prix and instead wants to dominate Formula 1 as the team did in 1988
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, December 19th 2014, 14:51 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff believes the day of Formula 1 teams having a single boss are now over
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| Friday, December 19th 2014, 16:47 GMT |
Jean-Eric Vergne will join Ferrari's Formula 1 test roster for 2015, with the ex-Toro Rosso racer focusing on simulator work for the Italian team
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, December 18th 2014, 16:21 GMT |
Red Bull boss Christian Horner reckons his team's achievements in finishing a distant runner-up to Mercedes in 2014 arguably eclipse its run of four consecutive Formula 1 world titles
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| By Ben Anderson and Edd Straw | Thursday, December 18th 2014, 13:06 GMT |
Force India technical director Andrew Green reckons his Formula 1 team should be able to fight with Williams in 2015, thanks to planned improvements to its engine and aerodynamic testing
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, December 18th 2014, 16:45 GMT |
Bernie Ecclestone has regained his position on the board of Formula 1's management group, while ex-Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has also been handed a renewed position
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 17th 2014, 13:26 GMT |
The Mercedes Formula 1 team will not be able to maintain its present level of dominance of the sport for a prolonged period, argues Williams performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 17th 2014, 16:06 GMT |
Former Bridgestone Formula 1 tyre chief Hirohide Hamashima will leave Ferrari at the end of 2014, as the Scuderia continues a major restructure in the wake of a disappointing season
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| By Edd Straw and Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 17th 2014, 16:39 GMT |
Romain Grosjean says Lotus has learned from the mistakes it made during a terrible 2014 Formula 1 season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, December 15th 2014, 11:35 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were banned from speaking to their Mercedes Formula 1 team in the immediate fall out of their Belgian Grand Prix crash, this week's AUTOSPORT reports
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| Monday, December 15th 2014, 09:11 GMT |
The Williams team has appointed Formula 1 stalwart Steve Nielsen as its sporting manager
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, December 15th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Esteban Gutierrez will become test and reserve driver for the Ferrari Formula 1 team next season, after losing his seat at Sauber
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, December 14th 2014, 11:11 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says he expected to endure a difficult 2014 Formula 1 season after rejoining Ferrari from Lotus
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| Sunday, December 14th 2014, 13:58 GMT |
Recent Formula 1 debutant Will Stevens has joined the list of star guests for AUTOSPORT International 2015.
A year after appearing at Europe's biggest motorsport show to talk about his Formula Renault 3.5 title aspirations, Stevens will return to Birmingham's NEC for the public days on January 10-11 fresh from racing for the Caterham F1 team in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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"It's been an amazing month, getting the opportunity to make my Formula 1 debut with the Caterham F1 team and following that with two days testing the car," said 23-year-old Briton Stevens.
"I learnt a lot, which I'll hopefully be able to use in the future.
"Throughout, I received fantastic support from passionate British fans, many of whom backed the team's crowd-funding efforts to race, so I'm excited about seeing everyone at AUTOSPORT International in January."
Stevens joins an AUTOSPORT International guest list that already includes grand prix winner turned commentator David Coulthard, Le Mans legend and ex-F1 racer Allan McNish, World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg and British Touring Car champions Colin Turkington, Andrew Jordan, Gordon Shedden Jason Plato and Matt Neal.
| Sunday, December 14th 2014, 22:35 GMT |
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton added another accolade to his 2014 season by winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award on Sunday
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, December 13th 2014, 13:37 GMT |
Mercedes says turmoil at its rivals has left it less worried about being able to defend its Formula 1 world championship success in the 2015 season
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| Friday, December 12th 2014, 20:58 GMT |
McLaren has become the first Formula 1 team to announce that its 2015 car has passed all the FIA's mandatory crash tests
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| Saturday, December 13th 2014, 18:33 GMT |
Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne urged his Formula 1 personnel not to "fear change" as he emphasised his faith in new team boss Maurizio Arrivabene at the squad's Christmas event
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, December 12th 2014, 16:44 GMT |
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier reckons his Formula 1 team will face a challenge in managing new signing Fernando Alonso's expectations
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| Friday, December 12th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says his Formula 1 team has implemented a recovery plan to fix the issues it suffered with its new Honda engine in post-season testing
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| Friday, December 12th 2014, 20:58 GMT |
McLaren has become the first Formula 1 team to announce that its 2015 car has passed all the FIA's mandatory crash tests
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Thursday, December 11th 2014, 14:42 GMT |
McLaren boss Ron Dennis says he feels no need to apologise for the delay in deciding between Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen as Fernando Alonso's 2015 Formula 1 team-mate
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, December 11th 2014, 14:37 GMT |
Jenson Button says it was worth the wait to re-sign for McLaren for the 2015 Formula 1 season
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| By Ben Anderson and Glenn Freeman | Thursday, December 11th 2014, 15:12 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says that he has returned to McLaren to finish the job he started in 2007, having described that year as the lowest point of his Formula 1 career
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, December 10th 2014, 09:47 GMT |
Nico Hulkenberg is adamant that he has not missed the boat in landing a drive with a top Formula 1 team
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 10th 2014, 12:05 GMT |
Newly promoted Red Bull Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat says he does not really care about the low number of points he scored during his rookie season with Toro Rosso
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 10th 2014, 16:30 GMT |
Fernando Alonso believes that his five years with Ferrari were the best of his Formula 1 career, despite failing to add to his collection of two world titles
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, December 9th 2014, 11:53 GMT |
Double Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says August's controversial Belgian Grand Prix was the key turning point in his title-winning season
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| Tuesday, December 9th 2014, 12:47 GMT |
Jenson Button appeared on stage to make a presentation at the AUTOSPORT Awards, but beforehand he was asked about the latest on his Formula 1 future.
After sharing some light-hearted conversation with presenter Steve Rider, Button admitted that it was a "strange situation" to be waiting for a verdict on McLaren's driver line-up for 2015.
As the video above shows, he also sparked a raucous reaction from the audience when asking if anyone in the room wanted to see him in Formula 1 next year.
| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, December 9th 2014, 16:20 GMT |
Red Bull fears that it will not be able to close the gap to Mercedes in 2015 - and is worried its Formula 1 rival could be even further ahead
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, December 8th 2014, 13:33 GMT |
The Lotus Formula 1 team is targeting fighting with Williams when it makes its own switch from Renault to Mercedes engines next season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, December 8th 2014, 10:27 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says the next target in his Formula 1 career is to emulate the achievements of his hero Ayrton Senna
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, December 8th 2014, 14:13 GMT |
Jenson Button says the McLaren Formula 1 team's ongoing indecision over its 2015 driver line-up is "strange"
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| Saturday, December 6th 2014, 11:57 GMT |
Over 60 trophies were stolen from the Red Bull Formula 1 team's factory on Friday night, Thames Valley police has confirmed
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, December 6th 2014, 12:43 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says the decision to split with Ferrari and join Formula 1 rival McLaren next season was "very difficult"
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| Sunday, December 7th 2014, 10:21 GMT |
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will find out on Sunday night if he has capped his year with more success at the AUTOSPORT Awards
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| Saturday, December 6th 2014, 11:57 GMT |
Over 60 trophies were stolen from the Red Bull Formula 1 team's factory on Friday night, Thames Valley police has confirmed
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, December 5th 2014, 15:42 GMT |
Williams chiefs insist that the team must keep its focus on doing better in Formula 1 next year, despite successfully beating Ferrari to third place in the constructors' championship
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, December 6th 2014, 12:43 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says the decision to split with Ferrari and join Formula 1 rival McLaren next season was "very difficult"
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, December 5th 2014, 11:10 GMT |
Jean-Eric Vergne says he is "not bitter" about Red Bull's decision to drop him from the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team in favour of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, December 5th 2014, 10:27 GMT |
Formula 1 teams are unlikely to get a fifth engine in 2015 unless the Korean Grand Prix stays on the calendar for the start of the season, the FIA suggests
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, December 5th 2014, 15:42 GMT |
Williams chiefs insist that the team must keep its focus on doing better in Formula 1 next year, despite successfully beating Ferrari to third place in the constructors' championship
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, December 4th 2014, 10:31 GMT |
Jenson Button's Formula 1 future will be decided later on Thursday, with a McLaren board meeting set to rubberstamp the team's 2015 driver line-up
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, December 4th 2014, 14:15 GMT |
Ex-Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne says he cannot understand why Red Bull has decided not to keep him racing in Formula 1 next season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, December 4th 2014, 17:02 GMT |
Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen face an even longer wait for McLaren to make its 2015 Formula 1 line-up decision after a team board meeting failed to resolve the issue
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 17:08 GMT |
The accident panel charged with investigating Jules Bianchi's Japanese Grand Prix Formula 1 crash has recommended yellow flag speed limits be rolled out across all forms of international circuit racing
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 17:08 GMT |
The accident panel charged with investigating Jules Bianchi's Japanese Grand Prix Formula 1 crash has recommended yellow flag speed limits be rolled out across all forms of international circuit racing
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| By Glenn Freeman | Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 17:09 GMT |
The FIA has announced that the Korean Grand Prix is set to return to the Formula 1 calendar for 2015, pushing the number of races up to 21
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 17:36 GMT |
The FIA has suggested the brake-by-wire system on Jules Bianchi's Marussia Formula 1 car may have hastened his Japanese Grand Prix crash by preventing him from cutting the engine
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| By Glenn Freeman | Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 17:09 GMT |
The FIA has announced that the Korean Grand Prix is set to return to the Formula 1 calendar for 2015, pushing the number of races up to 21
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 17:36 GMT |
The FIA has suggested the brake-by-wire system on Jules Bianchi's Marussia Formula 1 car may have hastened his Japanese Grand Prix crash by preventing him from cutting the engine
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, November 30th 2014, 14:18 GMT |
Felipe Massa's performances at the end of the 2014 Formula 1 season show he is back to his very best, according to Williams performance chief Rob Smedley.
Massa endured a difficult end to his stint at Ferrari in 2013, finishing on the podium just once during his final season at Maranello.
After moving to Williams this year, Massa improved that tally to three, and second place in the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix represented his best result in F1 since the 2012 Japanese GP.
Smedley, who worked closely with Massa at Ferrari before also joining Williams for this season, said his driver's performance at Yas Marina - where he came within three seconds of denying Lewis Hamilton victory - was "flawless".
"When I first turned up [at Williams] and saw how relaxed he was in this environment, I knew that we could start to get the results that he should be getting," Smedley explained.
"And I think that has just been compounded as the year has gone on, and as he has enjoyed the environment more he has got better and better.
"I think in Abu Dhabi you saw the very best Felipe. He was absolutely flawless; he didn't put a foot wrong, there was lots of information coming back, he was involved in the strategy.
"I asked his race engineer to get him involved in that final tyre call [where Massa switched to super-soft tyres], he gave him all the information and he said 'let's go for it'.
"That's what a top driver does. A top driver gets involved and he leads from the front.
"And not only that, he was absolutely flawless: the in- and out-laps, everything, and that's the best Felipe."
Although Massa is now 33 and 2014 was his 12th season on the F1 grid, Smedley believes there is "no limit" to what he can still achieve in the rest of his career if he can maintain his current form.
"The Felipe I know can drive like that, and we have to get him and his team-mate to a level where they are doing that every weekend," said Smedley.
"If we do that, and deliver the car, then there are no limits [to what they can achieve]."
| By Pablo Elizalde and Matt Beer | Saturday, November 29th 2014, 16:27 GMT |
Carlos Sainz Jr says the fact that he was initially overlooked by Toro Rosso in favour of Max Verstappen means nothing now that they are 2015 Formula 1 team-mates.
Red Bull thrust Verstappen straight from European Formula 3 to a Toro Rosso position just days after recruiting him to its junior programme, elevating him ahead of its long-time young drivers - including eventual Formula Renault 3.5 champion Sainz.
OPINION: Toro Rosso was right to choose Sainz
Sebastian Vettel's departure for Ferrari and Daniil Kvyat's promotion to Red Bull Racing to replace him ultimately opened up a second Toro Rosso F1 slot after all, with the team announcing Sainz for the drive on Friday.
The 20-year-old Spaniard said he and Verstappen would now start on an equal footing in their bid to be next to earn a Red Bull Racing graduation.
"Red Bull has the same pressure for both of us to do a good job," said Sainz.
"Just because he was announced first, it means nothing.
"In March we are both starting from scratch and that's why I'll have to do better than him from the first race, and to try to surprise the bosses more than he does. That's the target."
But while admitting that it would be important for his career to beat Verstappen, Sainz said their relationship was good so far.
"I met him on Sunday in Abu Dhabi and we talked for an hour and it went really well - better than you could imagine because there was no tension whatsoever," he said.
"Both of us have a lot to learn to develop the car during the year, and also to try to beat each other, which will be the fun part."
Sainz said Red Bull junior programme chief Dr Helmut Marko had given him a lot of support in the build-up to his F1 announcement, and he intends to repay his backer's faith.
"I've told him that I'm very grateful and that he can be calm because he made the right decision and I'm not going to let him down," said Sainz.
| Sunday, November 30th 2014, 16:34 GMT |
DTM champion Marco Wittmann's BMW-arranged Formula 1 test will take place in a 2012 Toro Rosso at former San Marino Grand Prix venue Imola on Thursday.
BMW offered the test to Wittmann as a reward for his dominant performance in this year's DTM.
The 25-year-old German was a single-seater racer until the end of 2011, when he switched to what began as a test role with BMW after finishing second to Roberto Merhi in European Formula 3.
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BMW announced at the DTM finale last month that it had arranged the run for Wittmann via its sponsor Red Bull, and has now firmed up the date and location, as well as the use of a 2012 car - the most modern permitted under F1's testing restrictions.
The Toro Rosso run will follow a variety of other post-title celebrations for Wittmann, including various awards in Germany and a recent outing in several 1980s BMW DTM cars.
"It has obviously been an extremely busy time for me since the end of the DTM season," he said.
"I have hardly spent a single day at home. However, I am still really enjoying myself.
"After all, the reason for me having all these appointments is the fact that I was crowned the DTM champion."
| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, November 8th 2014, 21:10 GMT |
Formula 1 teams have failed to reach an agreement on a lifting of the engine freeze after talks collapsed in a meeting at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, November 8th 2014, 21:28 GMT |
Bernie Ecclestone has promised Formula 1's smaller teams that he will speak to the sport's owner CVC about their financial problems
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, November 8th 2014, 21:51 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team says a fuel pressure problem compromised Felipe Massa's final run in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix
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| By Matt Beer | Friday, November 7th 2014, 19:44 GMT |
Jenson Button says McLaren is "nowhere" after Brazilian Grand Prix practice, though he believes it can be competitive if it goes back on changes made on Friday
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| Friday, November 7th 2014, 20:04 GMT |
Fernando Alonso said Ferrari had half-expected the fiery engine failure that ended his Friday practice running at the Brazilian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, November 7th 2014, 20:49 GMT |
Sergio Perez is staying at the Force India Formula 1 team next year, his team boss Vijay Mallya said on Friday
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, November 6th 2014, 18:58 GMT |
The FIA is continuing to monitor developments at Caterham and Marussia to ensure they will be capable of a Formula 1 return, as both appeared on the 2015 entry list
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, November 6th 2014, 19:33 GMT |
Romain Grosjean hopes to announce his 2015 Formula 1 plans during the Brazilian Grand Prix, saying he is "close" to confirming a deal
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, November 6th 2014, 19:54 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says he holds 'no fears' about the prospect of losing the 2014 Formula 1 world championship through double points
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Felipe Massa says defeat to Red Bull at the US Grand Prix shows Williams needs to strive for perfection in order to consistently challenge the top teams in Formula 1
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 16:35 GMT |
Sauber has hit back at claims from Ferrari boss Marco Mattiacci that Formula 1 does not need struggling smaller teams
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| Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 23:50 GMT |
The Sauber Formula 1 team has signed Williams test driver Felipe Nasr to a race deal for the 2015 season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 12:23 GMT |
Lotus owner Gerard Lopez is confident Formula 1's cost crisis can be sorted out without a need for the small teams to do anything 'drastic'
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 12:59 GMT |
Audi has no plans to enter Formula 1 in the short-term
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 17:18 GMT |
Fernando Alonso reckons the Ferrari Formula 1 team must raise its game over the final two races of the season to avoid getting dragged into a fight with McLaren
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 13:07 GMT |
Formula 1's big teams have made it clear that they are not willing to accept sacrificing their own commercial rights income to help the smaller outfits
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 15:00 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff is worried that his team's Formula 1 success could be overshadowed by double points in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix season finale
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 17:10 GMT |
Ferrari Formula 1 boss Marco Mattiacci says Kimi Raikkonen is under "positive pressure" to raise his game, after another disappointing race in the US Grand Prix
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| Monday, November 3rd 2014, 01:07 GMT |
US GP: Post-race press conference with Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Daniel Ricciardo
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 01:00 GMT |
Nico Rosberg has revealed that an ERS error was key to allowing Formula 1 title rival Lewis Hamilton to overtake him for victory at the United States Grand Prix
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| By Ben Anderson and Edd Straw | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 01:03 GMT |
Jean-Eric Vergne has lost his ninth-placed finish in the US Grand Prix after being penalised for colliding with Formula 1 rival Romain Grosjean
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DRIVERS
1 - Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes)
2 - Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes)
3 - Valtteri BOTTAS (Williams)
TV UNILATERAL
Nico, a very strong pole position, a big margin for you. How do you feel about that? And hings are really hotting up, I guess now, with just three races to go?
Nico ROSBERG: Yeah, great day, very happy. It worked out really well, you know. Together with my engineers I really arrived at a car in the end in qualifying that I was happy with, the balance was good. Because it was quite a challenge, because the wind was changing and then this morning the conditions were quite different, a lot colder, so the track was changing all the time and it wasn't that easy to get everything right but in the end we got to a great set-up, a great car, so I'm pleased with that. So first place of course today is awesome but you know the race is what counts, so I still need to focus fully on tomorrow and to to bring it home.
Well done. Coming to you Lewis, fastest in practice, fastest in Q1, but from Q2 onwards it seemed to be a bit of a troubled session for you, particularly with braking, in Q2 and again in Q3 I think?
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, Nico did a great job today. I really struggled with braking, yeah. When you look at the brake temperatures, the left brake was always around 100 degrees less than the right front brake. It just kept catching. No matter what I did, even if I braked earlier and tried to save it, it would still lock. So that was perhaps where I was losing a lot of the time. But even if that wasn't the case I think Nico was perhaps too quick today.
Is that an issue for you for the race, with that set of tyres?
LH: Potentially, yeah, so I need to try to see... maybe they can scrub them down or something and try to fix it overnight.
OK, thank you for that. Coming to you Valtteri: your sixth time in the last eight grands prix that you've qualified in the top three. That's some run of form.
Valtteri BOTTAS: yeah, a pretty god qualifying again. I'm really pleased with the couple of good laps I got in Q3 today actually. It's been a difficult weekend from my side for some reason, to get to a good rhythm and then finally during the qualifying I could really trust the car, like you should do. Really happy for us as a team, again, we locked the second row. It's a good starting position for tomorrow's race because we have still important three races to try to keep a good position in the constructors' championship.
Very well done. Coming back to you again Nico, this track, particularly from the start, one of the characteristics here at the Circuit of the Americas has been the difference between the clean side and the dirty side off the grid. You must be pleased you're on the right side of that tomorrow?
NR: I haven't thought that far yet, but if you say it then yes, that's great, another extra advantage for the clean side of the grid, you know, starting first. Of course the start is going to be important, need to make the most of that and stay ahead.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Q: So Nico, that, I think, is the sixth Mercedes front row lock-out in a row, which is certainly a statement about the dominance you've got in the car and the way you continue to stay ahead of everybody. Margin of nine-tenths to Valtteri today, it was four-tenths in Sochi - but you too haven't been immune from brake problems this weekend, have you? Is this something worrying you at all going into the race?
NR: We've had a few issues in general on the car this weekend, on both cars and so yeah, we need to try to get it all right for tomorrow - but personally I'm not worried about that at all because if I would start worrying about that, it's not going to be good for performance. So I'm very confident the team's going to get the job done and just concentrate on what I can influence on my driving. I'm not worried.
Q: Lewis, I don't know if you know but tomorrow is six years to the day since you won your world championship: November 2nd 2008. So I'm sure you'll be hoping to channel the Interlagos spirit into tomorrow's grand prix - but how much is that vibration on those tyres going to cause you a problem? Can you drill down a little bit more into that for us?
LH: Well the vibration isn't that bad. It's a minor flat spot. They'll rebalance it and hopefully won't feel too much with it. The issue is just locking. If I can't fix that left brake, then that will be a continuing issue throughout the race. And obviously flat spots lead to blistering so I've got try and make sure we can fix that this evening.
Q: Coming to you Valtteri, you got your first points in Formula One here 12 months ago. Tell us about the race in prospect for you and also why you were behind Felipe pretty much the whole of today and how you managed to nail him when it got to the business end of qualifying.
VB: Yeah, it should be an interesting race. I think especially the guys behind us are going to be really quick and we're now in a good position in the team's championship and it's going to be an important race for us to get good points with both cars. It's not going to be easy. So we will really need to try to get everything right tomorrow. Really look forward to the race here, it's always good fun. In qualifying and in general from the practice, I managed to improve myself a lot during every session and really got the car to a good setup only just before the qualifying and for the qualifying - so I could really trust the car a bit better in the qualifying and get those lines right and get every corner right. I knew that Q3 is the one which is going to matter, and I needed to get everything right and be on the limit and then that's when I tried to squeeze everything that there was - and I feel I managed to do so.
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
Q: (Paolo Ianieri - La Gazzetta dello Sport) Nico, where did you also find those tenths that you found in your Q3? Quite impressive pace after always being behind Lewis during the practice.
NR: What was the reason? I finally got there on setup, together with my team. We just continued to improve the car all the time and just got it right and I felt comfortable in the end. I was able to push and it felt good balance. Nailed the lap, got the lap really well, so it all worked out.
Q: (Dan Knutson - Auto Action / National Speedsport News) To the two Mercedes guys, when you have troubles like you did today, little troubles, does it frustrate you or does it motivate you in a way, to say 'I'm going to beat this and get on top of it and go even faster'.?
NR: Neither of the two really. It's always a bit frustrating to have something like that in the moment but then, I've learned to move on to just accept and concentrate on the things that I can influence and just keep on it. That's what I tried to do today and it worked out well.
Lewis?
LH: The same.
Q: (Ian Parkes - Press Association) To all three of you, you may or may not be aware that there is a very real threat tomorrow - It's not speculation, it's not hearsay - of three teams, Force India, Sauber and Lotus, opting to boycott this race. What impact do you feel that would have on Formula One?
Nico?
NR: No comment. Because I have not heard anything about this and it would not be the right thing for me to even comment on something like that.
Lewis?
LH: Same.
Valtteri?
VB: Same. No comment really. I don't know anything about this situation so I can't really say much.
| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, November 1st 2014, 22:49 GMT |
Formula 1 championship leader Lewis Hamilton will change managers next year, after deciding not to renew his deal with Simon Fuller's XIX Management company.
Hamilton confirmed on Saturday that discussions with Mercedes over a fresh deal beyond 2015 would likely be handled by somebody else.
When asked about the situation, Hamilton said: "There is not really much to say. The contract expired and I am going to be doing something different.
"I don't know what yet, but I will decide at the end of the year."
Hamilton signed up with XIX management at the start of 2011, having previously had his career looked after by his father Anthony.
XIX played a key part in helping secure Hamilton's move to Mercedes at the start of 2013. His current deal with the team runs until the end of next year.
| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, November 1st 2014, 22:38 GMT |
Bernie Ecclestone says top Formula 1 teams are going to have to make sacrifices to solve the cost crisis, and admitted financial structures he had put in place were wrong.
In a surprise confession that commercial arrangements agreed with teams had contributed to F1's current woes, he said that only assistance from the big outfits could now help him sort matters out.
"The problem is there is too much money probably being distributed badly - probably my fault," said Ecclestone in a lengthy media briefing at Austin on Saturday.
"But like lots of agreements people make, they seemed a good idea at the time."
When asked if he regretted the deals in question, he replied: "If the company belonged to me I would have done things in a different way because it would have been my money I was dealing with.
"But I work for people who are in the business to make money."
REDISTRIBUTION OF MONEY
One idea Ecclestone mooted is for the big teams to contribute a share of their prize money towards a fund for the smaller outfits.
"We have to open the eyes of those people in a position to turn the lights on and off to what they need to do," he said.
"I wouldn't want to be in a position where I was too strong, F1 disappears and someone says it is because of you it disappeared.
"I said to people getting a chunk of money that I would like to take a percentage of their performance-related payment.
"I would put that money together to divide among the three or four we know are in trouble but are not going to run away with the money, and then I will put in the same amount of money."
However, Ecclestone admits that getting such a fund together would not be easy because F1 rules allow teams to block such changes.
"We have to decide the best way to sort this whole thing out. Frankly, I know what's wrong but don't know how to fix it.
"No one is prepared to do anything about it because they can't. The regulations have tied us up.
"We can't all sit back nicely relaxed and think the problem will go away. It's not like having the flu and taking a few tablets and it will disappear.
"I think the situation is such that if enough people want it resolved, we can resolve it. It's a case of the people that are involved in the sport will have to want to look after the sport and be prepared to make some sacrifices.
"I would tear all the contracts up. Take all the money, pay all the teams' debts that should be paid so people haven't suffered because of Formula 1."
NO BOYCOTT THREAT
Ecclestone denied there was a threat of a boycott this season, even though Force India's Bob Fernley repeatedly suggested it was an option.
"Forget all that crap," Ecclestone said. "I promise they will be racing. They will be racing, I give you a guarantee - but I worry if they will be racing next year."
He also played down the possibility of three-car teams.
"Forget third cars," he said. "Nobody can afford two cars."
| By Ben Anderson | Friday, October 31st 2014, 23:08 GMT |
Romain Grosjean says the experimental nose run on his Lotus Formula 1 car produced "positive" results, even though he was slowest in first free practice for the US Grand Prix.
Lotus tried running with a 2015-specification short nose on Grosjean's E22 at Austin, in place of the usual twin-tusk design, as the Enstone team ramps up an early development programme for next year's car.
Can Lotus 'do a Williams'?
The Franco-Swiss driver said his two runs with the new nose in FP1 produced encouraging results, despite the fact he lapped 3.288 seconds off the pace and nine tenths adrift of the conventional E22 of team-mate Pastor Maldonado.
"It was quite interesting: more consistent in a few corners, a bit more tricky in others," said Grosjean, when asked by AUTOSPORT about his experience of the new nose.
"We were supposed to do one run with it, I did two because I thought it was interesting to give it a go on the second run and see where it was going.
"We knew it was down in performance on the [conventional] E22, but what we really wanted to see was if it reacted as we thought, and the vortex and everything on the technical side was in the right place.
"I think the CFD, windtunnel and my comments all goes in the same direction, which is quite positive.
"We didn't keep going because it's not done for that car, but the problems we had with this nose on this car is what we expected."
NO FONDNESS FOR TWIN TUSKS
Grosjean revealed during September's Italian GP that Lotus had abandoned development of the E22 to focus on next year.
He said the team would still be at a disadvantage with its new nose design compared to the top outfits that have already been working with this type of design during 2014.
"I think it's working up nicely, but we're starting a long way down," Grosjean added.
"If you look at Mercedes and Ferrari they already have the low nose.
"It's certainly going to be better next year.
"The [Mercedes] engine will help and I'm sure there are a few [other] areas where we can improve."
Grosjean said he wouldn't be sad to see the back of this year's twin-tusk design, which is being effectively outlawed for next year by a change in regulations.
Grosjean said: "No I'm not sad. Three more races with this car and then send it to the bin!
"I'm sorry, but it's certainly not a car I will keep in my living room."
| By Jonathan Noble and Ben Anderson | Friday, October 31st 2014, 23:46 GMT |
Formula 1 drivers have given a preliminary thumbs up to the new 'virtual safety car' system that is being used to improve safety under yellow flag conditions.
The FIA ran two tests of the new concept at the end of each of the two Friday free practice sessions at the United States Grand Prix.
It has come as a response to the lessons learned from Jules Bianchi's horrific crash at the Japanese GP, when he ran off the circuit under double yellow flag conditions and struck a recovery vehicle.
At Austin, a sector of the track was deemed to be yellow and drivers had to drive to a specific delta time through it.
The aim of the concept is to slow drivers down without recourse to a safety car.
Although all drivers and the FIA agree that tweaks will be needed before the system can be introduced fully, they were happy with how the first tests had gone.
Sebastian Vettel said: "I think I had a short glimpse at the end there. It does what it is supposed to do. It needs some finetuning, but it works."
Romain Grosjean said that one of the issues that needed perfecting was making it obvious to drivers how slow they needed to be.
The Frenchman said he found it difficult to keep to the delta time during the afternoon test.
"It was very, very difficult," he said. "The delta time goes plus nine tenths, minus six tenths, plus three, then minus two.
"I found it very difficult to follow how you have to open a bigger gap, like two or three seconds, but when it goes green it's lost.
"I only did it in FP2, so I didn't have much training in it, but I found it quite hard."
But Pastor Maldonado said the use of audio tones to inform drivers if they were going too fast meant it was no problem for him to judge his speed.
"You get a dashboard display that you need to follow if you are plus and you are on the target, or you have a tone in the earpieces if you need to drop a little bit.
"It's very easy. If you are plus it's OK and if you are up you just slow down so it is very easy to manage."
The FIA will assess the feedback from Austin and will likely continue testing the system over the final races of this year.
| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, November 1st 2014, 00:56 GMT |
Formula 1's bigger teams admit that there is no easy way to cure the sport's financial woes, as smaller outfits spoke out on Friday about the need for action.
The collapse of the Caterham and Marussia teams has highlighted how big F1's cost problems are, and has prompted fresh calls for action to be taken before other outfits fall off the grid.
But despite an acceptance that the costs issue needs addressing, it became clear during a lengthy press conference on Friday that teams remain at odds over what needs to happen.
Smaller teams are pushing for a fairer distribution of revenues, cost cuts and a budget cap, while their larger rivals believe that such changes will not solve the problems, and could actually cause further trouble like mass redundancies.
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff said: "The teams in F1 today should stay in F1 and they should all look at the situation and come up with a short-term plan, how to have a healthy grid, and a long-term plan.
"We are talking about money distribution which is an issue for the commercial rights holder, and I don't have a solution.
"I can come up with many ideas which can be short term solutions but it comes back to the principle that whatever you give to the teams they are going to spend."
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier added: "There is a wake-up call maybe for everybody to make sure we can act altogether and we will try."
SYSTEM NEEDS CHANGING
Lotus owner Gerard Lopez believes that there were aspects of F1 that he found unacceptable, as he singled out the bonuses that Ferrari gets for competing.
"Now is the time to say things as they are," said Lopez. "Number one: the distribution model of revenues is completely wrong.
"When you've got teams showing up to the championship that get more money just for showing up than teams spending a whole season then something is entirely wrong with the whole system, and so that cannot be allowed to happen."
Lopez also singled out the dramatic jump in engine costs this year - which had forced budgets higher - as a key factor in hurting smaller teams.
FINDING A SOLUTION
The anger of the smaller teams at the situation is clear, especially with Force India's deputy team principal Bob Fernley hinting at hidden agendas from the big teams.
And although suggestions of a potential United States Grand Prix boycott by Sauber, Lotus and Force India have been played down, those three teams are likely to do all they can to try to force change.
Speaking about if there was a serious threat to not race, Lopez said: "I've just found out about the story now, so my answer is no.
"I've had a meeting with them about the cash distribution and so on, and that's it.
"I'm not aware of this. I don't even know where this comes from, and that's the whole point."
But he did admit that things had to change quickly, and action had to be forthcoming.
"I don't think there is an agenda - I sure hope there is none - but things have to drastically change in the next couple of weeks," he said.
"Not because teams are going to be driven away, but because if you don't take a situation like this one seriously, to change something, then you are never going to do it."
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone spoke briefly on Friday about the costs crisis, but reckoned a bigger issue for him was not the potential demise of other teams but changing the engine rules.
"We need to get rid of these engine regulations because they don't anything for anybody - they are not F1," he told Sky, while not ruling out the grid shrinking to 14 cars. "We are going to try for sure."
| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 30th 2014, 21:20 GMT |
Caterham and Marussia have been deemed to be in breach of Formula 1 regulations by not participating in the United States Grand Prix, but will escape penalties for now
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 30th 2014, 21:31 GMT |
Formula 1's qualifying format has been altered for the United States Grand Prix because of the absence of Caterham and Marussia
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 30th 2014, 22:49 GMT |
Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn has demanded the FIA do whatever it takes to address Formula 1's cost crisis, or risk the sport destroying itself
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| By Jonathan Noble and Craig Scarborough | Wednesday, October 29th 2014, 09:14 GMT |
Closed cockpits returned to the Formula 1 agenda after Jules Bianchi's Japanese Grand Prix accident, but the sport's chiefs admit it is a route fraught with great difficulty
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| By Ben Anderson and Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, October 29th 2014, 13:36 GMT |
Renault has backed Ferrari in suggesting that lifting Formula 1's engine freeze will not lead to a dramatic hiking in costs
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, October 29th 2014, 17:38 GMT |
Formula 1 is still paying the price for the negativity fuelled earlier this year by senior figures within the sport, reckons four-time champion Alain Prost
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| Tuesday, October 28th 2014, 11:00 GMT |
AUTOSPORT's team of Formula 1 journalists on what Caterham and Marussia's troubles mean for F1, the implications of third cars and what can be done
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, October 28th 2014, 09:59 GMT |
As Caterham and Marussia's absence from Austin reopens debate over Formula 1's sustainability, AUTOSPORT reveals the small teams' own breakdown of the cost of grand prix racing
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, October 28th 2014, 15:16 GMT |
Lotus owner Gerard Lopez says his squad had to switch from Renault to Mercedes engines in order to return to the front of Formula 1 in 2015
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, October 27th 2014, 10:14 GMT |
Former Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost believes the crash between Mercedes team-mates at the Belgian Grand Prix was a game-changer in shifting the title dynamics towards Lewis Hamilton
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, October 27th 2014, 10:33 GMT |
Marussia will definitely not compete in this weekend's United States Grand Prix, administrators appointed to oversee the Formula 1 team have confirmed
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| By Scott Mitchell | Monday, October 27th 2014, 20:31 GMT |
McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award winner Matt Parry described his prize McLaren Formula 1 test as a "phenomenal" experience after completing his running at Silverstone on Monday
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 24th 2014, 16:26 GMT |
Caterham is now almost certain to miss the United States and Brazilian Grands Prix as its administrators focus on finding a new buyer for the Formula 1 team
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| Saturday, October 25th 2014, 09:22 GMT |
Marussia looks set to join Caterham in missing the United States Grand Prix after Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Saturday neither team would travel to Austin
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, October 26th 2014, 12:24 GMT |
Felipe Massa reckons Kimi Raikkonen's struggles compared to Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso this season are more psychological than anything to do with the set-up of the Finn's Formula 1 car
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, October 24th 2014, 14:33 GMT |
Daniil Kvyat says he will not alter his approach to Formula 1 when he graduates from Toro Rosso to Red Bull next season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 24th 2014, 16:26 GMT |
Caterham is now almost certain to miss the United States and Brazilian Grands Prix as its administrators focus on finding a new buyer for the Formula 1 team
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| Saturday, October 25th 2014, 09:22 GMT |
Marussia looks set to join Caterham in missing the United States Grand Prix after Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Saturday neither team would travel to Austin
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, October 24th 2014, 14:33 GMT |
Daniil Kvyat says he will not alter his approach to Formula 1 when he graduates from Toro Rosso to Red Bull next season
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, October 24th 2014, 11:23 GMT |
Jenson Button says he would not be scared of being Fernando Alonso's team-mate in Formula 1, should they end up paired at McLaren next year
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 24th 2014, 16:26 GMT |
Caterham is now almost certain to miss the United States and Brazilian Grands Prix as its administrators focus on finding a new buyer for the Formula 1 team
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 23rd 2014, 14:13 GMT |
Tony Fernandes claims that the Caterham Formula 1 team's new owner is entirely responsible for its current problems
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 23rd 2014, 16:09 GMT |
Adderly Fong and Roy Nissany both successfully completed their first Formula 1 tests with Sauber at Valencia this week
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| Thursday, October 23rd 2014, 17:17 GMT |
Lotus said European Formula 3 champion Esteban Ocon performed "exceptionally" as he made his Formula 1 test debut in a 2012 car at Valencia
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, October 22nd 2014, 09:31 GMT |
The Lotus Formula 1 team expects Romain Grosjean will stay with the squad in 2015, although a new deal has not yet been finalised
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Wednesday, October 22nd 2014, 11:24 GMT |
McLaren sporting director Sam Michael is to leave the team at the end of the 2014 Formula 1 season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, October 22nd 2014, 18:04 GMT |
Caterham's new chiefs have warned they could be forced to turn their back on the Formula 1 team amid mounting frustrations over the actions of former boss Tony Fernandes
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, October 20th 2014, 11:27 GMT |
The Lotus Formula 1 team will experiment running without the unique twin-tusk nose on the E22 during free practice for the United States Grand Prix
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, October 20th 2014, 14:57 GMT |
The Ferrari Formula 1 team insists Kimi Raikkonen's form is improving, despite continuing a run of disappointing results at the Russian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, October 20th 2014, 15:56 GMT |
Former Formula 1 team bosses Ross Brawn and Stefano Domenicali, plus GPDA president Alex Wurz, have joined the FIA Accident Panel that will investigate Jules Bianchi's Japanese Grand Prix crash
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| Sunday, October 19th 2014, 19:41 GMT |
DTM champion Marco Wittmann will test a Toro Rosso Formula 1 car as a reward from BMW for winning the touring car series this year
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, October 17th 2014, 11:12 GMT |
Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli will bring softer tyres to November's Brazilian Grand Prix, following criticism from drivers
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, October 19th 2014, 13:21 GMT |
Formula 1 track designer Hermann Tilke insists the layout of the Sochi circuit was not to blame for the lack of thrills in the Russian Grand Prix
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