Five years ago, double world champion Mika Hakkinen turned his back on Formula One and returned to his native Finland to spend time with his young family, relax and enjoy life away from the pressure and pain of racing...
Archive - November 2006
Oliver WhiteMassa Tops Time Sheets Again
As winter testing continues at Circuit de Catalunya in Spain today, Felipe Massa again set the fastest time of 1m16.403s, shaving 0.7s from his yesterdays best. Main test driver for Ferrari – Luca Badoer managed...
Massa Continues Pace Into The Winter
As most teams begin the change to Bridgestone tyres today – testing at Spain’s Circuit de Catalunya – Felipe Massa continued his form from Brazil and posted the fastest lap of the day in his Ferrari...
Winter Testing Kicks Off
Barcelona hosted the first test session since the teams signed off in Brazil last month, with most teams expected to run cars over the next few days. With a lot of shuffling around, there were some new faces in new...
Lewis Hamilton to Partner Fernando Alonso in 2007
McLaren have annouced today that Lewis Hamilton will partner world champion Fernando Alonso next year. The announcement came after a lot of speculation that started before the season ended last October. With three...
Is Formula One Killing The Planet, Or Does It Show Human Spirit At Its Finest?
Keith at F1Fanatic has found an article written for the Observer Sport Monthly that criticises motorsport for failing the planet regarding climate change and global warming. Keith’s rebuttal on his site reflects...
Juan Pablo Montoya Crashes On Debut
Ex Williams and McLaren Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya has crashed out of his proper debut race in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup Series. After running for 252 laps at Miami-Homestead Oval in America, Montoya was...
Anthony Davidson Gets Super Aguri Drive
Aguri Suzuki today announced that British driver Anthony Davidson will partner Takuma Sato at Super Aguri. This news comes after Davidson’s six year stint as BAR’s/Honda’s test driver, and although it...
Goodwood Festival Of Speed
The Goodwood Festival Of Speed – a festival of all things that move relatively fast – have announced the dates for the 2007 show. The weekend of 22nd June will be when cars new and old are given the...
News Round-up
News has been pretty slow now the 2006 season has wrapped up. Things should hot up a little when Winter Testing kicks off in a fortnight, but for now there are a couple of stories that are worth mentioning: Red Bull...
