| By Glenn Freeman | Sunday, December 30th 2012, 12:00 GMT |
Arden sporting manager Julian Rouse has applauded Antonio Felix da Costa's attitude to racing for and against his team in Formula Renault 3.5 and GP3 this year.
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| Sunday, December 30th 2012, 12:15 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen's Formula 1 comeback was one of the biggest stories of the 2012 season. While the Finn is famous for being monosyllabic, he still came out with plenty of memorable comments over the course of the season.
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| Sunday, December 30th 2012, 14:46 GMT |
Only a handful of Formula 1 world champions have been as closely identified with a single team as Lewis Hamilton was with McLaren, yet this year the Briton announced that he was bidding farewell to the squad that had nurtured him since childhood to take on a new challenge at so-far-unsucessful Mercedes.
Suddenly what had been a frozen driver market was unlocked. McLaren instantly picked Sergio Perez as Hamilton's successor - then saw the Mexican's season nosedive. Hamilton's arrival at Mercedes backed Michael Schumacher into a corner where retirement was the only palatable option. And somehow, amid it all, Felipe Massa kept a Ferrari seat he had seemed certain to lose...
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| By David Evans | Saturday, December 29th 2012, 14:46 GMT |
Dani Sordo says his time away from a full-time drive in the World Rally Championship has made
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Saturday, December 29th 2012, 12:55 GMT |
Romain Grosjean sees no reason why his Lotus team cannot enjoy a much stronger season next year after a promising showing during 2012.
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| Saturday, December 29th 2012, 15:55 GMT |
Michael Schumacher's 2012 Formula 1 season in quotes
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| Friday, December 28th 2012, 13:25 GMT |
Despite finishing only fourth in the Formula 1 drivers' championship, Lewis Hamilton was one of the biggest stories of the 2012 season. Here, in his own words, are his reflections on the campaign.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, December 28th 2012, 14:17 GMT |
Alex Zanardi has now officially ruled out a move to the DTM, despite testing a BMW last month.
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| Friday, December 28th 2012, 14:34 GMT |
Formula 1's most serious crash of 2012 was so nearly the championship's first fatality in 18 years. In the apparently innocuous situation of a straightline aero test for Marussia at Duxford airfield, reserve driver Maria de Villota made contact with the lowered rear of a truck, sustaining life-threatening injuries and ultimately losing her right eye
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| By Matt Beer | Thursday, December 27th 2012, 13:13 GMT |
Rubens Barrichello has announced that he will leave IndyCar to race in Brazil's Stock Car V8 series in 2013
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| Thursday, December 27th 2012, 13:39 GMT |
2012's big stories: Robert Kubica returns to action
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| Thursday, December 27th 2012, 15:23 GMT |
Fernando Alonso's 2012 Formula 1 season in quotes
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| By Peter Mills | Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 17:39 GMT |
World Touring Car champion Rob Huff has revealed he is open to a British Touring Car return for 2013 if he cannot defend his world title
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| By Michele Lostia and Sam Tremayne | Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 18:15 GMT |
Michele Pirro insists joining Ducati as a test rider does not represent a backward step even though it will leave him without a full-time race programme for the first time in more than a decade
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| Wednesday, December 26th 2012, 20:09 GMT |
Jenson Button's 2012 Formula 1 season started and finished with victories in Australia and Brazil respectively, but in between things didn't go quite as he had hoped
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, December 24th 2012, 08:37 GMT |
Former McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award winner Alexander Sims will team up fellow factory McLaren driver Alvaro Parente for an assault on next year's Blancpain Endurance Series
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, December 24th 2012, 14:52 GMT |
Lotus boss Eric Boullier believes his team will deliver a much stronger Formula 1 campaign in 2013, even if it starts the season with a car that is only as quick as last year's
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| By Matt Beer | Tuesday, December 25th 2012, 10:10 GMT |
Jenson Button is sure that McLaren's early-summer slump was more damaging to its 2012 Formula 1 title bid than reliability or pitstop problems
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| Sunday, December 23rd 2012, 13:29 GMT |
Over Christmas and New Year, AUTOSPORT is revisiting some of 2012's biggest stories and our coverage of them. Number two in the series reflects on the row over the Bahrain Grand Prix...
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, December 24th 2012, 08:37 GMT |
Former McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award winner Alexander Sims will team up fellow factory McLaren driver Alvaro Parente for an assault on next year's Blancpain Endurance Series
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, December 24th 2012, 14:52 GMT |
Lotus boss Eric Boullier believes his team will deliver a much stronger Formula 1 campaign in 2013, even if it starts the season with a car that is only as quick as last year's
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| By Michele Lostia and Sam Tremayne | Sunday, December 23rd 2012, 11:15 GMT |
Motorcycle racing legend Giacomo Agostini believes it is inevitable that Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi will renew hostilities over the course of the 2013 MotoGP season.
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Sunday, December 23rd 2012, 12:43 GMT |
Andy Priaulx is certain that the lessons learnt in his maiden DTM campaign this year can make him a much stronger competitor next year.
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| Sunday, December 23rd 2012, 13:29 GMT |
Over Christmas and New Year, AUTOSPORT is revisiting some of 2012's biggest stories and our coverage of them. Number two in the series reflects on the row over the Bahrain Grand Prix...
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| Saturday, December 22nd 2012, 15:03 GMT |
Over Christmas and New Year AUTOSPORT will be revisiting some of the biggest stories of the 2012 motorsport season and our coverage of them, starting with Ferrari's miracle title bid...
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| By Michele Lostia and Sam Tremayne | Saturday, December 22nd 2012, 16:44 GMT |
Loris Capirossi believes the tyre changes he recommended and Bridgestone implemented over 2012 have helped make MotoGP safer
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| By Dieter Rencken and Sam Tremayne | Saturday, December 22nd 2012, 17:31 GMT |
Nico Rosberg is adamant that Mercedes made 'massive' progress across the 2012 Formula 1 season and insists his confidence has not been shaken by its lacklustre finish to its campaign
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| By Matt Beer | Friday, December 21st 2012, 15:14 GMT |
Fortec has signed Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup champion Stoffel Vandoorne to take title-winner Robin Frijns' place in its Formula Renault 3.5 line-up.
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| By Matt Beer | Friday, December 21st 2012, 15:57 GMT |
2011 Monte Carlo Rally winner Bryan Bouffier will make his first World Rally Championship start in a top-class car in next month's Monaco event.
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| By Matt Beer | Friday, December 21st 2012, 17:33 GMT |
Firestone has extended its deal as the IndyCar Series' tyre supplier through to the end of 2018.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, December 20th 2012, 14:35 GMT |
McLaren is to unveil its 2013 car on January 31, the team announced on Thursday.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, December 20th 2012, 16:35 GMT |
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has no doubts that his team did the right thing in handing Felipe Massa a fresh contract for 2013.
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| By Matt Beer | Thursday, December 20th 2012, 21:52 GMT |
Ferrari has appointed separate design co-ordinators for its 2013 and '14 Formula 1 cars as part of a reorganisation of its technical efforts
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, December 19th 2012, 15:49 GMT |
Caterham's sporting director Steve Nielsen has resigned from the team, AUTOSPORT has learned.
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Wednesday, December 19th 2012, 17:55 GMT |
Charles Pic does not believe his Caterham team is under pressure to score its first point in the 2013 season as long as it improves over last season's performance.
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Wednesday, December 19th 2012, 22:00 GMT |
Miguel Molina's DTM future is in doubt after the identity of seven of Audi's eight drivers for 2013 were revealed on Wednesday night.
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| By Matt Beer | Tuesday, December 18th 2012, 16:45 GMT |
Rio Haryanto will join Addax for the 2013 GP2 Series season
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| By Sam Tremayne and Matt Beer | Tuesday, December 18th 2012, 17:03 GMT |
Mark Webber believes Fernando Alonso produced a flawless season in 2012 as he tried to fend off the Australian's Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel for the Formula 1 world championship
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, December 18th 2012, 17:41 GMT |
Romain Grosjean has issued a personal message of thanks to his Lotus team for having faith in him, as he predicts a regular challenge at the front of the grid for 2013
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Monday, December 17th 2012, 18:07 GMT |
Romain Grosjean will stay on at Lotus for the 2013 Formula 1 season after being confirmed by the team on Monday
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| By Matt Beer | Monday, December 17th 2012, 18:35 GMT |
Mark Gillan, one of the architects of Williams's 2012 revival, has left the team.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, December 17th 2012, 20:46 GMT |
Kamui Kobayashi has conceded his chances of landing a seat in Formula 1 for next season are over.
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| Sunday, December 16th 2012, 13:14 GMT |
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo believes Felipe Massa's resurgence in the second half of 2012 could have a significant impact on the team's 2013 ambitions
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| By Dieter Rencken and Sam Tremayne | Sunday, December 16th 2012, 14:36 GMT |
The failure of Formula 1's 'new' teams to break into the top 10 over the past three seasons reflects well on the sport according to Marussia boss Graeme Lowdon
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| By Sam Tremayne | Sunday, December 16th 2012, 16:06 GMT |
Romain Grosjean won the 2012 Race of Champions with a comprehensive 2-0 victory over Tom Kristensen in the final in Bangkok's Rajamangala Stadium
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| By Edd Straw | Saturday, December 15th 2012, 14:52 GMT |
Peter Sauber believes that the biggest challenge facing contemporary Formula 1 is the need to cut costs
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| By Edd Straw | Saturday, December 15th 2012, 15:55 GMT |
Team Germany won the Race of Champions Nations' Cup for a sixth straight year with a commanding performance in Bangkok
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| By Sam Tremayne | Saturday, December 15th 2012, 17:03 GMT |
Evgeny Novikov and Thierry Neuville will contest all 13 rounds of next year's World Rally Championship with M-Sport
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Friday, December 14th 2012, 17:08 GMT |
Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok combined to earn Team India a place in the Race of Champions Nations' Cup on Friday.
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| By Kevin Turner | Friday, December 14th 2012, 17:24 GMT |
British Touring Car squad WSR is building NGTC BMW 1 Series contenders for next season
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| By Michele Lostia and Sam Tremayne | Friday, December 14th 2012, 17:25 GMT |
Valentino Rossi's return to Yamaha as team-mate to Jorge Lorenzo will lead to a tumultuous year for the Japanese outfit's crew and management, reckons a key figure in Rossi's first Yamaha stint.
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Thursday, December 13th 2012, 14:48 GMT |
Jenson Button believes Sergio Perez is ready to cope with the extra pressure he will be under when he starts driving for McLaren next year
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| By David Evans and Glenn Freeman | Thursday, December 13th 2012, 16:35 GMT |
Sebastien Loeb believes it will be impossible to be competitive in the World Touring Car Championship straight away if Citroen decides to enter the series in the near future.
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Thursday, December 13th 2012, 17:52 GMT |
Marussia boss Graeme Lowdon expects his team to eliminate the gap to Formula 1's midfield next season
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 15:13 GMT |
Bernie Ecclestone says Formula 1 is likely to have only 19 grands prix next year, but admits he is still waiting on a possible return to Turkey
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 16:08 GMT |
Sergio Perez says he is aiming to win the world championship next year when he switches to the McLaren team
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| By Sam Tremayne | Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 17:14 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel admits his string of three consecutive Formula 1 world championships brings its own set of pressures and distractions which could damage his 2013 prospects.
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| By Sam Tremayne | Tuesday, December 11th 2012, 16:03 GMT |
MotoGP has extended its deal to race at Spain's Jerez circuit until at least 2015.
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| By Sam Tremayne | Tuesday, December 11th 2012, 16:07 GMT |
MotoGP has moved the 2013 German Grand Prix back one week to its original date of 14 July
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Tuesday, December 11th 2012, 16:43 GMT |
Formula 1 teams now have enough tyre expertise to avoid a repeat of 2012's early 'random' results next season, reckons Mercedes boss Ross Brawn
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| By Glenn Freeman | Monday, December 10th 2012, 16:42 GMT |
Will Stevens will switch to P1 Motorsport for his second season in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2013
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Monday, December 10th 2012, 16:54 GMT |
Nico Hulkenberg feels ready to be the leading driver at the Sauber team next year, in what will be his third full season of racing in F1
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Monday, December 10th 2012, 17:16 GMT |
Jolyon Palmer will race with the Carlin team in the 2013 GP2 series, the British squad said on Monday
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| Sunday, December 9th 2012, 11:11 GMT |
Nick Tandy has become only the third British winner of the prestigious Porsche Cup
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, December 9th 2012, 10:30 GMT |
Porsche will revive its in-house factory team for its return to the prototype ranks in 2014
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| By David Evans | Sunday, December 9th 2012, 11:02 GMT |
Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz has spoken out about the future of the World Rally Championship, saying the time has come to tap into the potential of the series.
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| By Gerhard Kuntschik and Jonathan Noble | Sunday, December 9th 2012, 00:31 GMT |
Red Bull is open to the idea of Austria hosting a Formula 1 race next year at its revamped A1 Ring track
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| By David Evans | Saturday, December 8th 2012, 22:08 GMT |
Volkswagen has officially confirmed that Andreas Mikkelsen will drive a third Polo World Rally Car from round four of the 2013 WRC in Portugal
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, December 9th 2012, 00:48 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team collected their FIA world championship trophies in Turkey on Friday night - with boss Christian Horner adamant his outfit was better this year than it has ever been
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| By Michele Lostia and Sam Tremayne | Friday, December 7th 2012, 16:41 GMT |
Andrea Iannone believes he is already making good progress at Ducati but insists he will maintain his patient, methodical approach.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Friday, December 7th 2012, 17:06 GMT |
McLaren's sporting director Sam Michael believes the pecking order will not change in the 2013 season, with his team, Red Bull and Ferrari fighting for the titles
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| By Sam Tremayne | Friday, December 7th 2012, 17:34 GMT |
Star Mazda champion Jack Hawksworth will contest the 2013 Indy Lights championship with Sam Schmidt Motorsports
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| By David Evans | Thursday, December 6th 2012, 13:15 GMT |
Sebastien Loeb has confirmed he will contest next year's GT Sprint Series in a McLaren GT MP4-12C GT3.
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Thursday, December 6th 2012, 16:04 GMT |
Jerome d'Ambrosio says he is still working on securing a Formula 1 race seat in F1 for next year, but the Belgian admits the situation is not easy
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Thursday, December 6th 2012, 19:25 GMT |
MotorSport Vision, promoters of the Formula 2 championship, have announced the series will not run in 2013 after just four years of existence.
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| By Sam Tremayne | Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 14:47 GMT |
The 2013 German Grand Prix has been moved forward one week and will now run on the 7th July, the FIA World Motor Sport Council confirmed today.
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| By Sam Tremayne | Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 15:14 GMT |
The FIA has opened up World Touring Car Championship regulations to provide for more powerful cars and greater aerodynamic packages from 2014.
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| Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 15:22 GMT |
Grid positions in next year's FIA World Endurance Championship will be determined by an aggregate time of two drivers in each car.
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| By Michele Lostia and Sam Tremayne | Tuesday, December 4th 2012, 14:52 GMT |
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone insists he has no plans to slow down and has 'a thousand more ideas' to pursue at the sport's helm
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| Tuesday, December 4th 2012, 14:06 GMT |
Silverstone has announced several improvements to its traffic management and infrastructure in a bid to avoid a repeat of the traffic chaos of this year's British Grand Prix
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Tuesday, December 4th 2012, 16:54 GMT |
New team Swan Racing will enter the NASCAR Sprint Cup next year with a single-car entry for David Stremme
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Monday, December 3rd 2012, 16:48 GMT |
Bruno Senna remains hopeful he will be on the Formula 1 grid next season despite having lost his seat at Williams
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| By Sam Tremayne | Monday, December 3rd 2012, 18:07 GMT |
2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski predicts 'great things' will come of Penske's impending switch to Ford.
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Monday, December 3rd 2012, 18:07 GMT |
Maria de Villota has been released from hospital following her latest operation at the end of last month
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Sunday, December 2nd 2012, 23:51 GMT |
The Red Bull RB8 has been named as Racing Car of the Year at the 2012 AUTOSPORT Awards in London.
The machine, in which Sebastian Vettel became Formula 1's youngest triple world champion, overcame competition from McLaren and Ferrari to take the prize.
It is the third straight year in which a Red Bull has won the award, the RB6 having taken it in 2010 and the RB7 last year.
The RB8 also beat off competition from the Le Mans-winning Audi R18 e-tron Quattro, the DeltaWing DW LM12 and the Lotus E20 to win the award, which was presented by 'Rush' director Ron Howard.
Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey collected the award Peter Prodromu, Rob Marshall, Mark Ellis and Paul Monaghan, his key allies in the squad's design team.
"It took us a long time to get any consistency in to the car," Newey said. "In fact despite some good early races like Bahrain and Monaco, it was Singapore before we had that consistency.
"And then we had the finale in Brazil and when you saw Bruno Senna's car up in the air, having hit Seb, you thought it was all over. But we managed to come through. It was pretty tense."
The successor to Red Bull's all-conquering RB7, the RB8 finished second on its grand prix debut in Australia in Vettel's hands and then scored its first pole and victory in Bahrain, again via the German.
It was in the latter stages of the season however that the car came into its own, helping Vettel to an unmatched chain of four straight victories between Singapore and India. It was that chain that swung the championship momentum towards Vettel.
Click here for AUTOSPORT's video analysis of how Red Bull turned its season around
The RB8 was the first car to win multiple races in 2012, with Mark Webber following up Vettel's Bahrain win by triumphing in Monaco.
The Australian was also victorious in Britain, taking the RB8's win count to seven in total for the season. It also claimed eight pole positions and set seven fastest laps as Red Bull racked up its third consecutive double of drivers' and constructors' championships.
| By Sam Tremayne | Monday, December 3rd 2012, 00:10 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel has been named International Racing Driver of the Year for the third straight year at the AUTOSPORT Awards in London.
Vettel became the youngest triple champion in Formula 1 history this season, but only after finally prevailing in an intensely close title fight with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, which culminated in a wild Brazilian Grand Prix finale.
Vettel collected his award from nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb.
Asked whether 2012 was his toughest season, Vettel said: "I think yes; it was a long, long year of ups and downs. Maybe in the beginning I didn't have the car I liked - maybe it was competitive in the race but in qualifying it was difficult for me to find that extra step.
"At the end of the season though we got more comfortable, it felt better. Obviously we had some tough luck early in the season but in the end we scored some big points and were in the lead.
"Waking up on Sunday morning in Brazil I didn't expect so many things would happen, I think the season was summed up in that race. I didn't go as planned...
"Obviously it was a horrible feeling to see cars coming one way and me going the wrong way. I got the hit from behind and got turned around, so I quickly tried to pull the clutch and roll down the hill to not break the car.
"It was very difficult to work out how much damage I had but I realised quickly I had survived. And then after that potentially everything that could have happened, happened.
"Time goes by quickly if you look back now. I remember my first Friday with BMW Sauber and now it is five years ago. For me it sounds like a big number but it doesn't feel like it.
"You do grow up, there are certain things you realise in the car, you get a bit more experience, a bit more relaxed.
"I had a very good night Sunday after the [Interlagos] race, it was fun... but then I felt so bad the next morning I thought I had to go to the gym to get rid of [the feeling] and it all starts all over again."
The 25-year-old German supplemented victory in Bahrain with a string of four straight wins between Singapore and India, taking him to an unmatched total of five grand prix triumphs during the season. He also claimed six poles and 10 podiums.
Perhaps more remarkable than such statistics were his comeback drives. Demoted to the back of the grid for the Abu Dhabi GP he had qualified third but was unable to provide a big enough fuel sample - he charged back to salvage third at the flag.
That helped lend him a crucial buffer heading into the Interlagos denouement, but once again he did it the hard way as a poor getaway and early contact threatened to derail his title bid. Vettel dragged his battered car to sixth, sealing his third crown by just three points from Alonso.
| By Jamie O'Leary | Monday, December 3rd 2012, 00:15 GMT |
Formula Renault NEC champion Jake Dennis has won a Formula 1 test with McLaren after being named the 24th winner of the McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award.
Dennis, who also gets £100,000, full membership of the British Racing Drivers' Club, a TW Steel watch, and Puma racewear for a year, was revealed as the winner at the AUTOSPORT Awards in London on Sunday night.
The 17-year-old Briton was presented with the Award by McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale, AUTOSPORT publishing director Rob Aherne and BRDC president Derek Warwick.
Dennis said: "It's very hard to put your emotions across in a situation like this. It's such a relief to win this.
"For me it's incredible but also for Oliver Rowland to have won it last year means it's two straight wins for drivers supported by the Racing Steps Foundation and I want to thank them for their support."
Dennis beat Star Mazda champion Jack Hawksworth, Formula Renault NEC race-winners Josh Hill and Jordan King - who finished runner-up to Dennis - Formula Renault Eurocup and ALPS frontrunner Melville McKee and Formula Renault BARC runner-up Josh Webster to the prize after a number of tests, including driving a Formula 2 machine, a DTM Mercedes and a McLaren MP4-12C GT3 at Silverstone last month.
Former recipients of the award include 2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button, former grand prix winner David Coulthard and IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti.
Racing Steps Foundation-backed teenager Dennis, the Intersteps champion of 2011, stormed to the NEC title with Fortec Motorsport.
On his debut season in Formula Renault he won three races and took a further eight podium finishes to lead a British 1-2-3 in the final points, beating fellow award finalists King and Hill.
He also made selected appearances in the Formula Renault Eurocup and finished a strong second at Spa-Francorchamps.
| Saturday, December 1st 2012, 18:38 GMT |
Porsche will run a factory GTE team at Le Mans next season, in its first such programme since it won outright in 1998.
Two of the new generation 'Type 991' 911s will be fielded by Porsche AG Team Manthey in both the World Endurance Championship and at Le Mans.
Olaf Manthey's squad has mostly recently run Porsches in International GT Open and has won the Nurburgring 24 Hours with Porsche five times.
Porsche motorsport chief Hartmut Kristen said: "The new 911 RSR is currently being developed by our engineers and tested by our works drivers.
"What better time could there be to introduce the new car than in the 50th anniversary year of the Porsche 911?"
The manufacturer recently announced that it was ending development on the previous generation 911, which had been campaigned by Flying Lizard in the American Le Mans Series and Felbermayr-Proton in the WEC.
| Saturday, December 1st 2012, 18:48 GMT |
The FIA has announced the full 2013 Formula 1 World Championship entry list, reduced to 22 cars following the demise of HRT.
Although several driver names are still 'tba' on the list - believed to be because teams have yet to allocate numbers to each driver - the only remaining vacancies are at Lotus, which is yet to confirm that Romain Grosjean will stay, Force India, Caterham and Marussia.
Paul di Resta is expected to keep one Force India drive, while Marussia will retain Timo Glock and is expected to add Max Chilton.
Sauber has signed Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez. Caterham has one vacancy but has confirmed Charles Pic. Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne stay on at Toro Rosso.
Of the drivers moving teams, McLaren signing Sergio Perez takes #6 behind Jenson Button, and Lewis Hamilton gets #10 at Mercedes.
No. Driver Full team name Chassis/Engine 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing Red Bull-Renault 2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing Red Bull-Renault 3 Fernando Alonso Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 4 Felipe Massa Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 5 Jenson Button Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren-Mercedes 6 Sergio Perez Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren-Mercedes 7 Kimi Raikkonen Lotus F1 Team Lotus-Renault 8 tba Lotus F1 Team Lotus-Renault 9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team Mercedes 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team Mercedes 11 tba Sauber F1 Team Sauber-Ferrari 12 tba Sauber F1 Team Sauber-Ferrari 14 tba Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India-Mercedes 15 tba Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India-Mercedes 16 Pastor Maldonado Williams F1 Team Williams-Renault 17 Valtteri Bottas Williams F1 Team Williams-Renault 18 tba Scuderia Toro Rosso Toro Rosso-Ferrari 19 tba Scuderia Toro Rosso Toro Rosso-Ferrari 20 tba Caterham F1 Team Caterham-Renault 21 tba Caterham F1 Team Caterham-Renault 22 tba Marussia F1 Team Marussia-Cosworth 23 tba Marussia F1 Team Marussia-Cosworth
| Sunday, December 2nd 2012, 00:04 GMT |
Garth Tander gave Holden Racing Team its first V8 Supercars pole position since Barbagallo in May as he topped qualifying for the season finale in Sydney.
In what was by far HRT's strongest qualifying performance of 2012, Tander beat Ford Performance Racing's Will Davison to pole, while the resurgent James Courtney put the second factory Holden third.
Champion Jamie Whincup will start back in 24th, having lost his best qualifying time when he caused one of the session's three red flags by spinning into Turn 7 and knocking the tyre stack into the road. Mechnical problems for Russell Ingall and Karl Reindler prompted the other stoppages.
Jonathon Webb qualified fourth in the Tekno Holden, ahead of Saturday race-winner Craig Lowndes and his rival for the championship runner-up spot Mark Winterbottom.
Race one polesitter Tim Slade was eighth this time.
| By Sam Tremayne | Friday, November 30th 2012, 17:54 GMT |
Adrian Valles' new AV entry has been confirmed as one of 12 teams on the initial shortlist to compete in Formula Renault 3.5 next year.
As revealed by AUTOSPORT in October, the team took over RFR's entry for the post-season tests, but with a view to competing in the series in 2013.
It has now been named on the shortlist for 2013, the only new team to make the initial cut.
Arden, Carlin, Comtec, DAMS, Fortec, Draco, ISR, Lotus, P1 Motorsport, Pons and Tech 1 were also confirmed.
Two teams have been named on the standby list - Zeta Management, formerly BVM, and Russian squad MT Motorsport.
The final 13-strong entry list for next season will be confirmed on 25 February next year.
| By Sam Tremayne | Friday, November 30th 2012, 18:17 GMT |
Ducati insists there were still positives to gleam from its final test of 2012 despite the return of bad weather and a 'freak' injury for Andrea Dovizioso.
The Italian managed just three laps on the opening day before his running was curtailed by a neck injury.
While he had hoped to return, he was unable to do so over the second or third days.
Nicky Hayden therefore had sole responsibility for testing new parts and gathering data for the Italian team ahead of the obligatory two-month winter break.
The American completed a full programme on the first day, but a small crash denied him the chance to go out in optimum conditions on Thursday. The final day was then disrupted by rain and wind.
Team manager Vittoriano Guareschi admitted the setbacks had been far from ideal, but said the test had still been of value.
"Obviously, we would have preferred that things played out differently, but in such cases, you have to just make the best of the situation and gather as much good data as circumstances allow," he explained.
"We continued the testing program that we started at Valencia, looking for confirmation on the frame and swingarm that we tried in the latter part of the season.
"Unfortunately, Andrea's fluke problem with his neck was a setback, but Nicky turned some good lap times despite the tyres being at their limit in the cool conditions.
"Now we need to work at the factory over the winter in order to give our riders a competitive package at the first Sepang test in February."
Hayden echoed the view, adding: "Things didn't go as smoothly as we had hoped, but the test has been useful despite everything.
"We were able to evaluate the new frame and swingarm, as well as a few new settings, and have a lot of information to work with."
Dovizioso meanwhile expressed concern about his neck, saying further tests will be needed.
"It seems that the problem is probably bigger than we had previously thought, and I'll have to undergo some further medical tests," he said.
"It's something I had experienced at the GP in Malaysia, where I crashed twice, and in Australia, where I crashed once, and both times I had physiotherapy treatments and anti-inflammatory medicine.
"It re-emerged last week two days after a crash on my motocross bike, but the same treatment worked and I felt fine when I came to Jerez for the test.
"Unfortunately, it happened again after just a few laps, and this time we weren't able to resolve it with physio and anti-inflammatories."
| Saturday, December 1st 2012, 02:43 GMT |
Tim Slade claimed his maiden V8 Supercars pole position in qualifying for race one of the 2012 season finale on Sydney's Homebush street circuit.
Rain showers in the provisional qualifying session meant a host of big names missed out on the top-10 shoot-out in the scramble for laptimes when the circuit was at its best.
Champion Jamie Whincup will start only 14th, two places ahead of his Triple 8 Holden team-mate Craig Lowndes, while erstwhile title contender Mark Winterbottom is back in 25th for Ford Performance Racing.
Winterbottom's team-mate Will Davison grabbed the fastest time in that session, but an error in the pole decider left him only second as Slade secured his first pole in the Rosenberg/Stone Brothers Ford.
The rest of the top 10 has a very unfamiliar look. Steven Johnson, Alexandre Premat and Michael Caruso complete the top five.
Shane van Gisbergen qualified eighth for his final race in the series. Van Gisbergen recently shocked the sport by announcing that he was not only leaving Stone Brothers at the end of the season, but walking away from V8s completely.
A loss of oil pressure meant Rick Kelly could not complete a shoot-out lap so he starts 10th.
