Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has issued another rallying cry to the Italian team, saying that the team's hopes of the title in 2012 were still in their hands, provided that they keep pushing on with development of the F2012.
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Mercedes "would look at" Paul di Resta as a replacement for Michael Schumacher when the German chooses to retire, the team's CEO Nick Fry has confirmed, though he insisted that Schumie was not considering any definite exit plan yet.
Read more...Sebastien Bourdais went quickest on a slightly meaningless Bump Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Dragon Racing team, as the race cobbled together its 33-car grid for the 96th running of the famous race next weekend.
Williams chief operations engineer Mark Gillan has hailed a "Herculean effort" by the team to get ready for the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, despite the team's lost equipment in the fire that ravaged their garage after the Spanish GP.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has admitted that there has been a lot of "head scratching" going on over the new 2012 Pirelli tyres, and believes that consistency will be key in the title race with the mixed-up results of early 2012 set to continue.
The Pirelli tyre company have excitingly revealed the tyres the company will use for the race weekends in Canada, Valencia and Silverstone, with the Italian company set to bring the same choices as 2011 to each of those races.
The HRT Formula One team have officially moved in to their brand new headquarters in Madrid, with the backmarking team hoping that the new facility helps them to improve their position on the Formula One grid in the long term.
Williams chief operations engineer Mark Gillan has hailed a "Herculean effort" by the team to get ready for the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, despite the team's lost equipment in the fire that ravaged their garage after the Spanish GP.
From Maldonado's breakout performance through to the general confusion of F1's usually-established pecking order, via Ferrari's apparent resurgence on one side of the garage, Patronise F1 summarises the main talking points from Spain.
The 2012 GP2 Series continued on its merry way in Spain, with two races at the Circuit de Catalunya that saw some fairly processional racing, and two of Davide Valsecchi's expected title rivals re-igniting their championship challenges.
Patronise F1 takes a long and unrelenting look back at the season that passed in 2011, in which Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull somewhat swept the field, but the racing kept everyone interested nevertheless.
Pastor Maldonado ensured that Williams returned to the winner's circle for the first time since 2004 with a measured drive from pole position in Barcelona, securing victory after withstanding pressure from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
Sebastien Bourdais went quickest on a slightly meaningless Bump Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Dragon Racing team, as the race cobbled together its 33-car grid for the 96th running of the famous race next weekend.
The Audi Sport team unsurprisingly dominated the Six Hours of Spa, though the result saw the #3 Audi R18 Ultra of Romain Dumas, Marc Gene and Loic Duval take the glory in the race, ahead of the more fancied new R18 hybrids.
After the carnage, chaos and confusion of F1's closest-ever championship race, Patronise F1's team of writers take a somewhat wry and massively confused look back at every silly moment of the 2010 Formula One season.