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Red Bull chief Dietrich Mateschitz has reassumed total ownership of Toro Rosso after buying back a 50% share in the Formula One outfit from team boss Gerhard Berger.

Formula One driver Mark Webber was seriously hurt after being hit by a car during a charity multi-sport race in Hobart, Australia.

The BMW Sauber F1 Team carried out testing with two F1.08B interim cars featuring a modified 2008 chassis with some of the bodywork complying to the 2009 regulations, running with regular driver Robert Kubica and test driver Christian Klien.

The Senna name returns to Formula One this month when Bruno, nephew of the late three-time champion Ayrton, tests for the Honda Racing team.
The GP2 championship runner-up will join Honda for the team’s first test of the winter in Barcelona from 17 to 19 November.
The Brazilian, 25, will test this year’s RA108 as Honda evaluate [...]

Red Bull Racing has fired a supervisor and reprimanded several other employees for their involvement in the violation that resulted in major points penalties and suspensions for Brian Vickers’ team, general manager Jay Frye said on Friday.

The genesis of this post was the rumor that NASCAR was considering cutting the field sizes for its top three series’.
I was further spurred on by the Orlando Sentinel’s Tania Ganguli. She cited an SI story where Chip Ganassi thinks “by 2010 eight cars will leave NASCAR and not be replaced.” That story is dated [...]

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 [...]

Roush Racing’s Development drover Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is running out of races to catch Scott Speed at the top of the ARCA RE/MAX Series standings in a championship battle with NASCAR connections.
Stenhouse, the driver of the No. 99 Aflac Ford for NASCAR team owner Jack Roush, trails Speed, in the #2 Red Bull Toyota, by [...]

AJ Allmendinger lost his ride at Red Bull Racing.
AJ Allmendinger will leave the Red Bull Racing Team with immediate effect, the Sprint Cup team announced on Tuesday.
Allmendinger was completing his second year in the series and had put his #84 car back in the top 35 in the owner standings, but the apparent and imminent [...]

With all that’s going on within the F1 Circus over the last few weeks is this really how Reuters wants to headline a story?
“Fisichella penalised for red light infringement.”
It’s factual, that I’ll give them.
But you wonder if the Reuters staffer is completely oblivious to Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley’s sexual escapades or he/she might [...]

It’s taken a while, a day short of three weeks, but an F1 chauffeur has finally taken up the issue of the The Littlest Perv saga.
Red Bull’s Mark Webber, while not speaking directly of Mosley, had plenty say and mirrored what 99.999 percent of the motorsports world has said.
“The current scandal has brought the sport [...]