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On the eve of the 2009 World Championship Season start in Melbourne, Australia what has been anticipated happened - Ferrari, BMW, Renault and Red Bull lodged protests.

Testing on the new 2009 F60 Ferrari continued on Wednesday at the famous Mugello track just outside Florence with Felipe Massa completing 104 laps.

You want videos of Ferrari’s F60 introduction? Well, here you have them. An entire cornucopia of them starting with a short interviews with Kimi and Felipe Massa ending and with team principal Stefano Domenicali.

Ferrari unveiled its 2009 Formula One race car today, The car - named the F60 for Ferrari’s 60th year in F1 - was tested by Massa on the Mugello track.

Former world champion Fernando Alonso is sure he will not retire until he adds a third title to the two won while competing for Mclaren.

Consider this Full Throttle’s ThanksGiving gift to all you motorheads. Feel free to add links to what you mistakenly think is a better TV spot in the comment section.

Off season Formula One testing commenced this week at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Among those testing are BMW, Red Bull, Ferrari and Mclaren, but it was the BMW that caught my eye.

Britain’s last world champion Damon Hill has paid tribute to Lewis Hamilton, who became the sport’s youngest ever title-holder in a dramatic season finale in Brazil.

A1GP will start season 4 at the A1GP Zandvoort, Netherlands event on 4/5 October with a smaller grid than anticipated. The series has made no secret of its car build delay, and this has impacted on the number that will be on the grid at the Dutch seaside resort track.
“The situation we find ourselves in [...]

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 [...]

Ferrari is in mourning following the death of Andrea Pininfarina, the chairman of the chassis company which designed some of the best-known cars branding The Scuderia’s name.

Remember when a Czech ally of Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley came out in full support of him and claimed it was all a grand conspiracy perpetrated by Mclaren’s Ron Dennis?
Well, I guess the black helicopters, Area 51 visitors and Ron Dennis theories are all in the same category, the machinations of a deluded mind.
Radovan [...]

A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has revealed the first image of its brand new ‘Powered by Ferrari’ car for use in season four (2008/09).
The CAD drawing was released ahead of the car’s inaugural shakedown test in Southern England.
A1GP’s own TV commentator and Formula One legend, John Watson, will have the honour of driving the car [...]

With all the rumors floated in the past two weeks over Fernando’s potential plans for the 2009 F1 championship I guess Ferrari’s president Luca di Montezemolo took all he could stand and had to have a few words.
Unlike most Italians who have a propensity to ramble on once started talking, he was short, not-so-sweet and [...]

Flash back with me to the 1995 F1 season, a year that followed a very controversial 1994 that saw many “scandals” and the lost of the great Aryton Senna.
The season opened at Brazil’s Interlagos and resulted in a first win of the season for Michael Schumacher/Benetton-Renault. Second place went to David Coulthard in the Williams-Renault [...]

Question: When does calling in a marker on favors owned also come with the kiss of death?
When the holder of the marker called is Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley.
The favor is demanded of Jean “The Toad Prince” Todt to issue forth a slobbering ass kissing proclamation of support until such time as said Perv desires [...]