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On 08/01, 20:49
Super 2000 touring cars (S2000) are entering their seventh season since their introduction to global tracks in 2002. They have already participated in 128 FIA races counting towards the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) from 2002 to 2004, and more recently for the World Touring Car Championship – WTCC, since 2005. Andy Priaulx is undoubtedly […]
On 08/01, 17:51
Michael Schumacher said he expects the F2008, which has just been unveiled, to be fully competitive this year. Aged 38, he retired from his racing career at the end of 2006 and will continue to serve as an advisor for Ferrari for another year. The retired German and seven-time world champion was seen among those […]
On 08/01, 17:34
Heikki Kovalainen should surprise many people this year with his results, because many have underestimated his potential expressed during his first season in F1. This is, in any case, the viewpoint of Mercedes-Benz boss Norbert Haug, who believes that the relationship between the Finn and Lewis Hamilton will be excellent in 2008. « I think […]
On 08/01, 17:11
The Force India team seems to have confirmed Giancarlo Fisichella for the 2008 season in the second seat. An official announcement will put an end to any possible rumors on Thursday. The Italian would thus be named race driver alongside the German driver Adrian Sutil, who has already been confirmed by the team based in […]
On 08/01, 16:50
The Super Aguri team will launch its new car next month in Barcelona, on the team’s private track, it announced on Tuesday. The SA08 can be admired by the whole world on February 19th. Super-Aguri has not yet confirmed its drivers for 2008, but it has admitted that it wants to retain both Takuma Sato […]
On 08/01, 16:18
Markko Martin has just been hired by Subaru as a test driver to support Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson in the development of the new Impreza, which will appear during the season. The Estonian has not participated in a round of the World Championship since the death of his co-driver, Michael Park, during the 2005 […]
On 07/01, 22:31
The recent world champion of the last minute, as he is already nicknamed, Kimi Räikkönen, gave the new Scuderia Ferrari car its first full-scale test. The F2008, coded under the name Ferrari 659 during the off-season, has already proven to be very competitive according to the Finnish driver. On the Italian brand’s test track, 55 […]
On 07/01, 18:57
The McLaren team unveiled, as planned, its new car for the 2008 season in Stuttgart, Germany, earlier this afternoon. The Woking team, at the center of the 2007 controversies, presented the McLaren-Mercedes MP4/23 with much less fanfare than last year when the show in Valencia, Spain delighted thousands of fans. The car was officially announced […]
On 07/01, 17:53
McLaren has a clear advantage because this year, the team has manufactured the electronic system that all F1 teams must now use, said Ferrari’s CEO Jean Todt on Monday. The SECU (Standard Electronic Control Unit), produced by McLaren Electronic Systems, is a major development for the new season, which will begin on March 16 in […]
On 07/01, 17:38
Heikki Kovalainen has no doubt, he will be allowed to fight for the championship on the same terms and especially at the same level as his new McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton. « I would never have signed with a team if I didn’t think I had as much chance as my teammate to fight for […]
On 07/01, 17:17
The Spanish insurance company Mutua Madrileña remains for the moment one of McLaren’s sponsors, even though the company had announced at the end of last year that it did not wish to continue its collaboration with the British team in 2008. The Spanish group had announced in December, in a press release, that it was […]
On 07/01, 17:02
The McLaren-Mercedes test driver Pedro de la Rosa believes that the ban on traction control, which is now in effect, will not change much in F1. Traction control is therefore banned starting in 2008, and several F1 race drivers will, for the first time in their careers, drive without driving aids. However, De la Rosa […]
On 07/01, 16:47
The Williams team has announced that its collaboration with Oris, one of its official sponsors, will be extended through a new contract with the team for a period of three years. Swiss watch manufacturer Oris has been a partner of the Williams team since 2003. « I am always delighted when one of our long-standing […]
On 07/01, 11:12
Kimi Räikkönen was this morning at the Fiorano circuit in Italy to test the new F2008 unveiled yesterday in Maranello. It was under a hazy sky, this morning at 10:33, that the Finn took the wheel of the Ferrari F2008 for the first time. The World Champion completed a few laps in front of several […]
On 06/01, 15:11
The McLaren-Mercedes team has committed to keeping Lewis Hamilton with the team at least until 2012 through a future contract binding both parties and reaching the ‘pretty’ sum of 138 million dollars. The British tabloid News of the World claims that Hamilton, who has just turned 23, will receive an average of 27 million dollars […]
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