Massa Fears Brawn GP the Most
24 Mar 2009, 11:01 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Felipe Massa spoke his mind when asked to name Ferrari's most fierce rivals this season. According to the F1 vice-champion, Brawn GP is the team everyone should watch for not only in Australia,...
Schumacher Joins the Ferrari Pits at Melbourne & Sepang
24 Mar 2009, 10:10 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will attend the first two races of the 2009 Formula 1 season this year. The news was reported by German tabloid Bild, who said that the former F1 ace wil...
Renault to Challenge for the F1 Title in 2009
23 Mar 2009, 13:19 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Renault don't make any secret from the fact that they are determined to fight for the championship this year. Following a title-dry period in the last 3 years – mainly due to the low-perf...
Brundle Thinks Alonso Is Favorite for F1 Title
23 Mar 2009, 11:07 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Former F1 driver and part of BBC's commentary crew for the 2009 F1 season Martin Brundle believes two-time world champion Fernando Alonso holds the highest chances of winning the title this yea...
Ferrari Confirm KERS in Australia
23 Mar 2009, 10:54 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ferrari are the second of the F1 teams to confirm the use of their Kinetic Energy Recovery System in Australia, as reported by British magazine Autosport. According to the aforementioned source, bot...
Renault to Debut KERS in Australia
18 Mar 2009, 10:53 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Media reports in Great Britain have unveiled that Renault F1 will begin the 2009 season with a functional R29-incorporated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). The piece of news came from British ...
Ferrari Admit Reliability Issues with F60
14 Mar 2009, 21:51 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After McLaren Mercedes, another F1 front-runner admitted the development of their 2009 challenger is not going as planned. Ferrari’s managing director Stefano Domenicali revealed that, while c...
2009 Results Decisive in Toyota's F1 Future
12 Mar 2009, 11:10 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Toyota have certainly got a great atmosphere within their technical department following the good results of their masterpiece TF109 in the off-season testing. At all times, both Timo Glock and Jarn...
Briatore: Several Teams Have Illegal Cars
11 Mar 2009, 16:07 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Renault are more than likely not going to copy Williams F1's rear diffuser design ahead of the Melbourne race, as announced by team principal Flavio Briatore. Well, maybe he didn't specifi...
Raikkonen Not Interested in Losing Weight
11 Mar 2009, 13:13 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although he reportedly took on a diet during the off-season in order to counteract the weight effects of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System this year, Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen revealed he was n...
KERS Failure Stops Ferrari's Test Session in Barcelona
11 Mar 2009, 11:57 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Kimi Raikkonen might have topped yesterday's testing session at Barcelona, but Ferrari were certainly not very content with the car's development on Tuesday. The Finnish driver focused muc...
KERS Not an Option for Brawn GP
10 Mar 2009, 16:02 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ross Brawn made it very clear that the newly-introduced Kinetic Energy Recovery System was the last thing on his and his team's mind when preparing the BGP 001 for the upcoming season. Therefor...
Heidfeld Ties Massa as Lightest Driver in F1
10 Mar 2009, 13:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although he was considered one of the lightest drivers in Formula 1 – until this off-season he was trailing Ferrari's Felipe Massa for the “light trophy” – BMW's Ni...
FOTA Push for Standard KERS in 2010
6 Mar 2009, 09:00 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The Kinetic Energy Recovery System might become subject to FIA's standardization process within Formula 1. As teams have pumped millions of euros into developing a functional unit by the 2009 A...
Ferrari Hybrid Powertrain Tested on the 599 Fiorano
5 Mar 2009, 15:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The new European Union CO2 emissions regulations set to be applied starting 2012, could limit every car manufacturer to build engines that put out less than 130g/km of CO2. The regulations, somewhat...
McLaren to Debut KERS in Australia
4 Mar 2009, 13:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / While most teams are keeping quiet on their plans to use the Kinetic Energy Recovery System next year – most of whom have already announced the delay in implementing the new system until after...
Bridgestone to Change 2010 Tires Due to Wear
4 Mar 2009, 09:28 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Using the Kinetic Energy Recovery System might not be the cleverest thing to do in 2009. Although they have invested a lot of money into developing a functional unit by the start of the upcoming sea...
Barrichello to Sign Honda Racing Extension
3 Mar 2009, 11:23 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Rubens Barrichello is to extend his streak of Formula 1 starts further on, as he is rumored to have already secured a deal with Honda's F1 outfit for the new season. The information was reveale...
Piquet: Renault Will Be Stronger in Melbourne
2 Mar 2009, 14:41 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although the Renault R29 didn't show many signs of improvement during the first day of testing at Jerez, Brazilian race driver Nelsinho Piquet believes his team will be a front-runner through t...
Fisichella: Force India to Debut KERS in Europe
2 Mar 2009, 08:15 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Formula 1 veteran Giancarlo Fisichella revealed that his team is not planning on using the Kinetic Energy Recovery System – provided by McLaren Mercedes – until the European rounds of th...