Formula One teams have emphatically rejected the idea of re-instituting in-race refueling for the 2017 season. The proposal forwarded last month by the Strategy Group of the FiA – the sport’s governing body – for a return to the practice last used in the 2009 season was soundly rejected by all the current Formula One […]
Subliminal messaging might work better when it is not five o’clock in the morning but, last year, Johnnie Walker was named as the official whisky of the Formula One racing series, and if you watched last weekend’s 2015 Monaco Grand Prix, chances are you couldn’t miss JW’s branding all over the famed Cote d’Azur track. […]
The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile [FIA] threw a bone toward the Team Formerly Known As Marussia by announcing that they would keep the entry list open for Manor [their new name] in the early races of the 2015 Formula One season in anticipation of Manor possibly getting a car ready to race this season. Manor […]
As expected, Honda has been given an exemption by the FIA – Formula One’s governing body – for engine development during the 2015 Formula One racing season. When new engine development rules were set out earlier this year, Honda was the only 2015 engine-producing team not to be allowed to take advantage of the engine […]
After Jules Bianchi’s crash at Suzuka in the Japanese Grand Prix last year, the Formula One governing body Federation Internationale de l’Automobile [FIA] decided to employ a virtual safety car concept during races to warn drivers of impending dangers on the track before an actual safety car could get out on the track to slow […]
For the Formula One portion of their annual “Action of the Year” contest, FIA selected Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo’s pass of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso in the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix [and resulting comment] as the F1 representative of a highly-contested field of 11 entries for best Action of the Year [see link below]. People may […]
The Federation Internationale de L’Automobile [FIA] – the organization responsible for sanctioning Formula One [and other] world automobile racing events – has entered into partnership with Polyphony Digital, the creators of the racing video game Gran Turismo 6, to officially certify four of the existing tracks depicted in the GT6 game, making GT6 the only […]
Peugeot has agreed to participate in the inaugural season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, joining Ford. Meanwhile, Toyota executives have said they are interested in returning to the World Rally Championship [WRC] series for the first time since 1999 – it just won’t be as soon as 2015, which was deemed too early. The […]