Teams Will Show True Worth on Saturday - Alonso
25 Mar 2011, 10:34 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Red Bull have topped the first practice session in Australian on Friday, McLaren have done the same in the second 90-minute running, while Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has provided the only unchan...
McLaren to Debut New Exhaust, Floor in Australia
21 Mar 2011, 12:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / McLaren Mercedes have decided to completely scrap their forward exhaust system for the season opening Australian Grand Prix, while also introducing a new floor for the aforementioned race. This deci...
Webber Targets Best Career Result in Australia
18 Mar 2011, 14:56 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Mark Webber started winning races in the Formula 1 championship back in 2009, when he took an impressive first place in the German Grand Prix, at the Nurburgring. Later, he went on to become a title...
Valsecchi to Drive Lotus T128 in Australia, Malaysia
16 Mar 2011, 10:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Davide Valsecchi will be the first lucky reserve driver in the Team Lotus lineup to take the new Lotus T128 to the track in the first practice session of the Australian Grand Prix. In early 2011,...
Ecclestone Compares Australia to Monaco GP
16 Mar 2011, 08:41 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Bernie Ecclestone seems to have had a change of heart regarding the importance of the Australian Grand Prix to Formula 1 racing. If a few weeks back, the F1 supremo had told the media that the sport...
Williams F1 Resolve KERS Issues, Ready for F1 Start
15 Mar 2011, 14:07 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Williams F1 Team are fully ready to tackle the 2011 campaign of Formula One, despite their recent electrical issues with the Kinetic Energy Recovery System. In recent days, it has been rumored th...
Webber Will Do Demo Run in Melbourne
10 Mar 2011, 10:25 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / From all the countries in the world where Formula 1 and some of its partners have performed demonstration events through the past few years, Australia might be bottom of the list when it comes to th...
Button Reckons Red Bull, Ferrari Out of Reach
9 Mar 2011, 06:49 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jenson Button told the media after the first day of testing in Barcelona this week that Red Bull Racing and Ferrari are currently out of reach for McLaren Mercedes. His assumptions were not only bas...
Australian Politician Demands End of Grand Prix Era in 2015
21 Feb 2011, 09:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The recent discussions about the possibility of dropping the Australian Grand Prix from the F1 calendar in the near future are apparently not all water under the bridge. Although at some point it wa...
MV Agusta Names Exclusive Australia Distributor
17 Feb 2011, 14:32 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Australians will soon get their own network of high-level MV Agusta dealers to buy from, as the Italian company has further expanded, by naming MV Agusta Imports Pty/ Ltd. the exclusive Down Under w...
Australian GP Boss Backfires at Melbourne Mayor
24 Jan 2011, 14:52 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / This past weekend has been quite hard on the organizers of the Australian F1 Grand Prix, as they had to face public criticism from the very lord mayor of Melbourne, Robert Doyle. Writing in the Hera...
Diavel, ZX-10R and K 1600 GTL Go Down Under
18 Nov 2010, 14:51 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Some of the hottest models released this year, the Kawasaki ZX-10R, Ducati Diavel and BMW K 1600 GTL, will all be making their debut Down Under, as they will be presented at the Australian Motorcycl...
Hamilton Apologizes to McLaren for Outburst in Australia
1 Apr 2010, 14:07 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Following a frustrating weekend in Australia, Lewis Hamilton admitted his confidence over the upcoming Malaysian Grand Prix, but not before apologizing to his entire team for his outburst at the end...
Hamilton Does Burnout, Gets Ticket from the Australian Police
26 Mar 2010, 14:09 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Lewis Hamilton issued a public apology for the “over-exuberant manner” in which he drove his personal car through the streets of Melbourne this week. After leaving the Albert Park circui...
Alonso Unhappy with Lack of Running on Friday
26 Mar 2010, 09:02 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Fernando Alonso did not hide his disappointment for failing to do the number of laps programed by the Scuderia for Friday, in Australia. The first practice session went down pretty well for Ferrari,...
Schumacher Insists He Is Not a Magician
25 Mar 2010, 10:46 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / While some might be surprised at Michael Schumacher for being quite satisfied with his 6th place finish in the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix, the 41-year old German insisted that there is nothin...
Di Montezemolo Calls for Humility ahead of Australian GP
24 Mar 2010, 11:26 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After Fernando Alonso, Ferrari's CEO Luca di Montezemolo also calls for “great humility” from his Scuderia ahead of the second round of the 2010 season, the Australian Grand Prix. A...
Rosberg Wins $700 at Poker in Melbourne Casino
23 Mar 2010, 14:09 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Nico Rosberg did not want to miss one minute of the Australian GP action this upcoming weekend, so he rushed to Melbourne from as early as today. However, when reaching his hotel room at Melbourne&#...
Alonso Against Rule Changes in F1
23 Mar 2010, 11:48 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Fernando Alonso insisted that the rules of Formula One cannot be changed after only one race, as recent F1 commentators have suggested following the boring Bahrain Grand Prix. While reckoning that t...
Kobayashi Learns Australian GP Layout through Toyota Simulator
22 Mar 2010, 10:00 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although not exactly a rookie in the world of Formula One – he did get to race for defunct team Toyota in the last two rounds of the 2009 season – Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi will ra...