Former Formula One driver Marcus Ericsson won his first IndyCar race, taking Race One of the 2021 Detroit Grand Prix. The 30-year-old Swedish driver took advantage of Will Power’s misfortune when Power was the leader entering a late-race restart but Power’s car suffered a mechanical failure and could not re-start the race. That allowed Ericsson […]
“The Grand Tour”‘s long-awaited Madagascar Special [titled “A Massive Hunt”] was finally released on Amazon Prime and we wade through the offering today. The special begins with an introduction of where they are – the French territory of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean – while James and Richard are engaged in a game of […]
Pssst…hey buddy…wanna buy a used Formula One car cheap? You are in luck – it turns out that there is one available on Craigslist [see link below] – a 2011 Lotus F1 car used in three races during the 2011 season. Technically, the car was on the Lotus team but the team was in the […]
The Team Formerly Known as Caterham had their facility in Leafield, England, placed on the auction block this week. The Formula One racing team which failed to score a single point in five seasons of racing and struggled through the 2014 season [requiring a crowdfunding scheme to even race in the 2014 finale at Abu […]
Although Caterham still harbored slim-to-none hopes that some sort of miracle would occur in the first few weeks of the new year to resurrect the failed Formula One team, that miracle never materialized and now the team’s demise is official as auction dates are being set to sell off most of Caterham’s equipment and items […]
2014 has not been a good year for former Caterham team owner, Tony Fernandes. First, his Formula One team faltered, then was sold off and now his airline – AirAsia – has suffered a disaster after bodies, debris and wreckage were officially found from the previously missing AirAsia Flight 8501 that presumably crashed last week […]
Currently defunct Formula One racing team Caterham, controversially launched a last-ditch crowdfunding campaign – that yielded $3.75 million and would allow the team to race the 2014 season finale at Abu Dhabi – by selling various team bits and small sponsorship deals to rabid F1 fans. The company has revealed that the crowdfunding effort brought […]
With Caterham running its last race – possibly of its Formula One team racing career – Kamui Kobayashi has been announced as the replacement for Marcus Ericsson, who has left the team for Sauber, at the final race on the 2014 calendar in Abu Dhabi this weekend. Financially-troubled Caterham had previously resorted to a crowdfunding […]
After failing to meet their approximate $3.7 million goal in a desperation attempt to crowdfund their final race in the Formula One racing season at Abu Dhabi next weekend, the financially-troubled Formula One racing team, Caterham, laid off most of their staff and announced they will participate in the final race of the season anyway. […]
While its financially-troubled Formula One racing team brethren, Marussia, has decided to quit the game, Caterham is making one last desperation stab at staying alive for the Formula One season race finale at Abu Dhabi by creating a crowdfunding account [see link below] for fans and “backers” to donate toward a goal of approximately $3.7 […]
Facing the financial abyss that has already claimed two teams in 2014 – Caterham and Marussia – Sauber made a desperate move to stay alive for the 2015 season by ditching Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez for two pay drivers, Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr, a winner on the BMW racing series circuit. Ericsson comes […]
Marussia will join Caterham in missing both the United States Grand Prix as well as the Brazilian Grand Prix in November. Caterham has had well-documented financial issues preventing it from safely fielding a team for both the USA and Brazilian Grand Prix races but Marussia has a different problem. Their top driver, Jules Bianchi, is […]
The Caterham Formula One team is expected to be absent from the United States Grand Prix as they continue to struggle with finances – even so far as having creditors attempting to auction off bits and pieces of the team’s inventory – and Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has granted the stricken team a two-race […]
As if it wasn’t bad enough for Caterham to be continually finishing in last or near-last place in virtually all the Formula One races so far this season or to have its company headquarters raided by police last month prior to the Japanese Grand Prix, it just got even worse for the struggling F1 team […]
With Nico Rosberg “proving a point” to Lewis Hamilton on the second lap of the race, Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo took advantage of the feuding Mercedes teammates to win the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix. Rosberg collided with Hamilton on Lap Two of the race in his effort to “prove a point” after Hamilton would not […]
Caterham is on the verge of not being a team after being sold by former owner Tony Fernandes, so the next desperation move to get Formula One points in 2014 has come in the guise of replacing current driver Kamui Kobayashi with three-time LeMans winner Andre Lotterer of Germany for this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. […]
Caterham will be making two more models available to the USA market, but there is a catch – you have to supply your own engine and drivetrain. The frame for the Caterham 360 and 480 will both have the option of being outfitted with the Ford 2.0-liter Duratec engine that will give the 360 a […]
In what seemed like the inevitable move, Caterham team owner, Tony Fernandes, has sold the Formula One racing team to a consortium of Swiss and Middle Eastern investors who will have former Dutch F1 driver Christijan Albers running the team while former F1 team owner Collin Kalles will act in an advisory role. Drivers Marcus […]
It is only a matter of time now. Caterham team owner, Tony Fernandes, has opted to close his Twitter account with a final message seemingly indicating that Caterham’s days as a Formula One racing team are numbered. Fernandes gave his final tweet of “F1 hasn’t worked. Love Caterham cars.” before signing off for good. Fernandes […]
Caterham is struggling to survive the current 2014 Formula One racing season but their #2 driver, Kamui Kobayashi is keeping himself busy by helping to design some Caterham Sevens while not scoring any F1 points for the team. Kobayashi helped design 10 Caterhams Sevens which are for sale in Japan at $58,866 apiece assuming they […]