The operating company of Manor Racing was placed in administration – the USA equivalent of bankruptcy – on Friday. Manor finished in its familiar last place position in the 2016 Formula One constructors’ championship last season and has been seeking new investors. Manor – when it was known as Marussia – also went into administration […]
Manor driver Esteban Ocon will move over to the Force India team for the 2017 Formula One racing season. Ocon – who was a mid-season replacement for Rio Haryanto – has not scored a single point in the 2016 season and currently sits in a last-place tie in the driver standings.
Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi has turned down an offer from Manor to return to his former Formula One team at the 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix to finish out the second half of the season. Manor had used Rossi for a partial 2015 season and after Rossi got respectable results from his vastly underpowered car, […]
The end may be nigh for Manor Racing’s Rio Haryanto. The Indonesian Formula One driver who got his seat via sponsorship money from Indonesian state-run oil company Pertamina, is currently “paid up” through 11 races – but after that, he will either need more money or more wins to secure his seat for the second […]
American Alexander Rossi, who drove several impressive races in the decrepit Manor/Marussia car in last year’s Formula One season, was tossed a cookie today by the team after they earlier bypassed him and selected Indonesian pay driver Rio Haryanto [and his money] for a main driving seat on the Manor team in the 2016 season. […]
Last week, Manor Racing became the final Formula One team to select their number one driver for the upcoming 2016 racing season, but notably did not pick a number two driver for their team – which was rumored to be up for grabs between two of last year’s drivers – Will Stevens and Alexander Rossi […]
The young dreams of Pascal Wehrlein have just been answered – sorta – as the champion of the DTM [the German touring car racing series] has just been rewarded with the first seat on the Manor Racing team for the 2016 Formula One racing season. The 21-year-old German is the youngest ever champion in the […]
Why yes, yes it is – but in name only. The Team Formerly Known as Marussia will now be known exclusively as Manor Racing going into the 2016 Formula One racing season. After being known by both names last season, the UK-based team has officially dropped the Russian name going forward and will only be […]
American Alexander Rossi will make his Formula One driving debut for the Manor Marussia team at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix. The 23-year-old Rossi is set to replace Spaniard Roberto Merhi for five of the remaining eight races – in Singapore, Japan, USA, Mexico and Brazil – before Merhi returns for the Russian and Abu […]
Because they were going so slow, you may have noticed a distinct lack of sponsor decals on the pristine Manor-Marussia team cars in the first seven races of the 2015 Formula One season – that has all changed as seven-year-old accommodations rental agency, AirBnB, was somehow convinced that displaying their logo on the Manor-Marussia cars […]
After – temporarily, at least – reviving themselves long enough to theoretically exist as a racing team, The Team Formerly Known as Marussia and now called Manor, missed all of the pre-season practice sessions and, not surprisingly, was unable to get a car prepared for a single lap of practice in Melbourne and therefore will […]
In breaking news regarding the anticipated heated battle for last place in the 2015 Formula One season-opening race in Australia, Sauber has lost a court ruling in Melbourne, who sided with Dutch driver Giedo van der Garde when he said Sauber promised him a driver seat on the team until they actively pursued two other […]
The Team Formerly Known As Marussia – and now called Manor – announced that they would have at least one car on the grid for next week’s 2015 Formula One season-opening race in Australia. The team missed the final three races of the 2014 season, went into bankruptcy, missed all the testing sessions in Spain […]
The Team Formerly Known As Marussia, now called Manor, is still hoping to get an actual car and a driver on the race track in Australia next month and toward that end, have fulfilled the driver portion of that equation by naming 23-year-old British driver Will Stevens as their driver for a possible Australian Grand […]
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 […]
While Caterham’s Formula One aspirations are effectively toast after this week’s announcement that their equipment and other F1-related items would be going up for auction beginning next month, Manor [The-Team-Formerly-Known-As-Marussia] was still harboring their own slim-to-none hopes that would allow them to miraculously resurrect the failed Formula One team. Those hopes were dashed on the […]