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On home soil, Massa thrilled his army of fans by clinching pole for the third successive year, with Toyota’s Jarno Trulli and Massa’s Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen also ahead of Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton admits he will be inspired by the memory of Ayrton Senna when he bids for his first world title in Brazil this weekend. The legendary Senna is buried at Morumbi cemetery, 10 kilometres away from the Interlagos circuit where Hamilton hopes to be crowned on Sunday.

The Australian Formula One Grand Prix lost a record A$40 million ($26.7 million) in 2008, organizers said on Thursday.

Enzo Ferrari famously once said “Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines” must be spinning in his grave at the FIA’s attempt at “homogenizing” F1’s engine supply.

Government officials from Montreal are due to attend a meeting with Bernie Ecclestone this week in an attempt to save the Canadian Grand Prix.

Geneva, Switzerland has been the site of many “worldly” negotiations over the course of its history. Its been the preferred location many “waring sides” have chosen to come together to settle issues in dispute.
Geneva is also the capital of the Terran Federation, the fictional government of Earth and her Space Colonies.
Given that historical record, fictional [...]

Forgive the rather obtuse title, bare with me a moment and I’ll get to Max Mosley.
By far, Albert Einstein’s best-known equation is “E=mc2 - energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared.” According to this equation, any given amount of mass is equivalent to a certain amount of energy, and vice versa.
Now, for [...]

Lewis Hamilton has described his victory in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix as “another step towards my dream”.
The McLaren Mercedes driver led from start to finish at the Shanghai International Circuit, with Ferrari duo Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen finishing second and third.
Hamilton thus holds a seven-point lead over Massa in the Drivers’ Championship heading into [...]

“If we’re talking about identical engines, we’re very much opposed to that. The engine is very dear to the heart of Honda and other manufacturers. We’re the biggest manufacturer of internal combustion engines in the world and we want to design, develop and manufacture our own Formula One engine.” - Honda F1 Racing CEO Nick [...]

Autosport reports Formula One team principals aren’t going quietly into the night with news the Canadian GP was dropped from the 2009 Championship.
As a side note, the story mentions a data bit I hadn’t realized, since the world championship came into existence in 1950 2009 will be the first time North America isn’t represented on [...]

Thanks Bernie, but no thanks:
Formula One supremo Bernie “The Gnome” Ecclestone is pushing for the sport to introduce a standard engine as soon as 2010.
Amid a renewed drive to drastically reduce costs, with FIA president Max Mosley warning the sport must act now if it is to survive beyond next year (NEXT YEAR?! Talk about [...]

Well that does it then, Tony George’s dream of returning Formula One to Indianapolis Motor Speedway was, and will continue to be, a dream along the lines of Dorothy & Toto not being in Kansas any longer.
The World Motor Sport Council met in Paris today and decided to go ahead with a program that includes [...]

Former Formula 1 driver and commentator Jonathan Palmer’s MotorSport Vision [MSV] company has won the tender to supply and run the FIA’s proposed new Formula 2 series.
Formula 2 was originally replaced in the mid-eighties by Formula 3000, which would later be replaced by GP2, but the category looks set for a revival (Max “The Littlest [...]

Where to start?
I guess one of my favorite things about F1 are the images, funny to say about a race, to select images ahead of on-track action but it is what it is - a spectacle.
I’ve always loved the super slo-mo shots of cars catching air over the rumble strips at Bus Stop, or low [...]

Weather looks set to pose an additional challenge at Formula One’s first night race with forecasters predicting a good chance of rain ahead of this weekend’s inaugural Singapore Grand Prix.
Drivers and teams already have to contend with the difficulties of trying to acclimatise to the time difference, with many opting to remain on European time [...]

FIA president Max Mosley favours the introduction of a common engine across the board for Formula One race cars.

Follow the bouncing ball and count along with me:
1. Sébastien Vettel of STR and latest and youngest F1 Winner.
2. Sébastien Bourdais also of STR and three time Champ Car champion.
3. Sébastien Buemi finished second in GP2 for Arden International.
What, you say he’s on the sidelines of F1 (read companion events) currently competing in the GP2 [...]

With the very first night race due to take place in under three weeks time, there are lots of computer-generated laps of the new Singapore street circuit on the internet.
However no matter how long you look a better one may not be found than this one.
If you can find a better match than Red [...]

Those that follow Formula One with any regularity know without hesitation Bernie Ecclestone is a nitwit and isn’t afraid to parade that fact before the general public at the drop of a hat.
But even well known nitwits can outdo themselves, witness Bernie’s latest as he opines on London’s 2012 efforts to hold that years Summer [...]

F1’s driver safety union, the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, is concerned about Formula One’s forthcoming inaugural night race in Singapore.