It’s always good seeing a new winner in F1. So well done to Pastor Maldonado for his victory in Barcelona. Williams, too, is certainly not unfamiliar with seeing its drivers stand atop the F1 podium, but it has been a long eight years between victory celebrations (Juan Pablo Montoya, 2004 Brazilian GP). After a terrible [...]

Ferrari’s post-race blog published after the Spanish Grand Prix has urged Felipe Massa to never give up. But not before it placed his output from the 2012 season to date firmly in the spotlight. Interestingly, it starts with Team Principal Stefano Domenicali drawing inspiration from Manchester City’s dramatic last gasp victory to claim the English [...]

If you could have asked Sir Frank Williams how he would like to celebrate his 70th birthday you’d reckon a race win would have been at the top of his wish list. Of course, that wish did come true thanks to Pastor Maldonado, who added the distinction of being the first Venezuelan to win an [...]

A serious fire in the Williams garage has forced the pitlane at the Circuit de Catalunya to be evacuated. The fire started well after the race had finished, which was won by Williams driver Pastor Maldonado. It’s understood a loud explosion was heard immediately before the fire broke out. Sir Frank Williams was giving a [...]

Pastor Maldonado was a surprise but popular winner at tonight’s Spanish Grand Prix. It’s the first win for Williams since the 2004 Brazilian GP and the return of Renault power to Williams has taken just five races to bear fruit. Maldonado is now the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix. Following the [...]

Lewis Hamilton posted the quickest time in a dramatic qualifying session at the Spanish Grand Prix overnight. But more drama was to follow, with Hamilton now stripped of his pole position and forced to start from the back of the grid. At the end of the session Hamilton’s McLaren ran out of fuel and the [...]

This futuristic and rather cool looking concept rendering shows what Formula One cars could look like in the future. The image has been sourced from iacoski.com, the creator says he began work on the closed-cockpit concept after Felipe Massa’s freak accident at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Turns out it was a prophetic move, too. [...]

Incoming Volkswagen Motorsport boss Jost Capito has quickly earned his stripes by becoming the latest VW executive to declare the company has no interest in Formula One. Instead, the German giant will focus its attention on its Polo R WRC program, due to start competing in 2013. Even a radical change to F1′s regulations in [...]

In addition to the still pictures Ferrari gave to mark their tribute to Gilles Villeneuve here’s a selection of videos to go with. We start with Jacques Villeneuve’s drive of the Ferrari 312 T4 at Fiorano. We also recommend you check out this old TV interview with Gilles (embedding of clip has been disabled).

Like, really! Those are the words of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher who is telling the world he thinks the 2012 spec Pirelli tyres are cabbage. Speaking about the tyres to CNN the 43-year-old said: “I just think that they’re playing a much too big effect because they are so peaky and so special that [...]

Yesterday, 8 May, marked the thirtieth anniversary of Gilles Villeneueve’s death. He was killed in an accident during qualifying at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Ferrari honoured the memory of the flamboyant legend by inviting his son, Jacques, to Fiorano to drive the same 312 T4 that his father drove to three Grand Prix wins [...]

Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro is in discussions to play Ayrton Senna in a Hollywood biopic. Santoro revealed the news in an interview with Collider. At this stage the movie has not been signed off by the Senna family and until that happens Santoro says he won’t agree to be involved. However, you get the feeling [...]

It’s of no surprise that focus on the future of Mark Webber has remained strong since new Ferrari rumours re-emerged last week. At first Mark seemed coy on the rumour, but did later deny the speculation outright, telling ESPN, “I haven’t signed anything.” That prompted Christian Horner, Red Bull Team Principal, to pour cold water [...]

After we got that amazing photo of Jackie Stewart at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix our research led us to this fascinating highlights package of the race. It has a bit of everything, typical F1 politics messing around with qualifying, a fiery accident, close racing and a runaway winner thanks to a high rate of [...]

Thanks to AUSmotive reader Aaron for sending in this amazing photo of Jackie Stewart at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix. At the time Stewart was the defending World Champion after safely tucking away the first of his three championships in the previous year. In the photo above the aftermath of a collision between BRM driver [...]