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 […]
Marussia’s failure as a Formula One racing team has cost its racing partners, Ferrari and McLaren, a combined total of nearly $37 million with its folding as a team this year. Ferrari, who supplied engines to the team, was on the hook for nearly $26 million while McLaren, who had a technical partnership arrangement, was […]
The Haas Formula One racing team, which will be making its debut in 2016, has purchased the former F1 headquarters of the now-defunct Marussia team. Although the team has a design facility in North Carolina, the headquarters, located in Banbury, England, is expected to be the Haas team headquarters when they make their entry into […]
Haven’t figured out what to get yet for that hard-to-buy-for person on your holiday gift list? Why not check out the Marussia public auction in a couple weeks [see link below]? That’s what Santa is doing. Available at the auction will be all sorts of bits and pieces of the former Formula One team including […]
Former Marussia Formula One race car driver Jules Bianchi has been moved back to his native France. Bianchi had been in an induced coma at a Japanese hospital since crashing into a recovery tractor at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka last month. However, Bianchi’s condition had improved slightly, enough to allow him to […]
The inevitable finally happened as financially-troubled Formula One racing team Marussia finally threw in the towel, sacked its staff and quit the Formula One circuit after a financial arrangement allowing it to compete in 2015 did not magically appear on the horizon. Marussia first suffered a crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka […]
Russian-financed Formula One racing team Marussia had already joined Caterham and been pulled out of the United States Grand Prix as well as the Brazilian Grand Prix but unlike Caterham – whose recent financial struggles have been well documented – there was no official reasoning provided for Marussia’s absence…until today, when it was reported that […]
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 […]
In what initially appeared to be a slight chance for having the first American to participate in a Formula One Grand Prix race in seven years, Marussia decided that instead of substitute American Alexander Rossi for injured Jules Bianchi at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix in Sochi, they will only submit one car [driven by […]
American race driver Alexander Rossi might be selected to replace injured Jules Bianchi as part of the Marussia Formula One team’s entrants in this weekend’s inaugural Russian Grand Prix. Either Rossi or Italian Raffaele Marciello will replace Bianchi, who was injured in a crash after sliding into a recovery tractor at the Japanese Grand Prix […]
When Marussia’s Jules Bianchi hydroplaned, slid off the track at Suzuka and careened into a tractor during the rain-soaked 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the only existing video was of the previously-crashed Adrian Sutil [who the tractor had been dispatched to move his car off the track]. But now from French media outfit TenSport has posted […]
As far as the end results were concerned, it was the same old, same old in Formula One racing this weekend as Mercedes won yet another race – the only difference this time was the weather conditions and the crash of Marussia’s Jules Bianchi that was attributed to said weather conditions. Prior to the race, […]