No Sauber on entry list

The FIA has issued the 2010 Formula 1 entry list:
The entries are as follows:
1, Jenson Button – Vodafone McLaren Mercedes – McLaren-Mercedes;
2, Lewis Hamilton – Vodafone McLaren Mercedes – McLaren-Mercedes;
3, Nico Rosberg – Brawn GP Formula One Team – Brawn-Mercedes-Benz;
4, TBA – Brawn GP Formula One Team – Brawn-Mercedes-Benz;
5, Sebastian Vettel – Red Bull Racing [...]

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The Formula 1 new boy test

This week in Jerez in Spain, the Formula 1 circus will run a test which is designed only for drivers who have completed in fewer than three Grands Prix. None of the new teams will have any cars available for the test so there will be the nine existing operations (Toyota not being involved).
McLaren is [...]

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Stefan Grand Prix and Toyota

The situation regarding the Toyota F1 entry remains unclear at the moment. Toyota Motorsport GmbH is a signatory to the Concorde Agreement and so enjoys the rights and privileges enshrined in that document. The Toyota Motor Corporation may have declared that it is leaving F1, but legally speaking this depends on whether or not there [...]

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Back to Canada… Hooray!

Montreal has long been one of the favourite locations of the Formula 1 circus, although in recent years the city’s hoteliers began to get ideas well above their station and started charging New York rates for some pretty shoddy hotels. Hopefully they will be chastened by the experience of missing the race for a year. [...]

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VW and Formula 1

As we speculated back in September, now would be a good time for new manufacturers – notably Volkswagen – to get into Formula 1 as an engine supplier. It is no surprise therefore to see that VW’s motorsport chief Hans-Joachim Stuck is talking about such an involvement. He is also talking about NASCAR but, [...]

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Can Stefan GP take over from Toyota?

Toyota Motorsport GmbH is a signatory to the 2009 Concorde Agreement. This legal entity enjoys the rights and privileges of the Concorde Agreement unless its parent company chooses to sell the company to a new owner. Thus the new owner would need to be able to prove that it controls the company registered in Cologne [...]

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Typical…

So today I set off at the crack of dawn to drive home to France. I was working on the principle that a Friday in November would be a good day to be travelling and out of contact with the F1 world. I mean, who in their right minds announces anything on a Friday, unless [...]

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Peter Sauber buys back his team

Peter Sauber has bought his team from BMW after Qadbak failed to complete the deal. Sauber now hopes to get the 13th F1 entry.

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The birds of Cologne

The other day I was merrily telling someone that we have already reached the shortest day of the year – the winter solstice – but I have just realised that I was a month ahead of myself and that it is not until December 21 that this occurs. Great news, another month of days that [...]

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Doing the travelling, meeting and family thing

Formula 1 is an all-consuming business but every now and then one has to take a step back and find out what happened to one’s real life…
So I am on the road this week in England, seeing family and friends, having meetings for future work and so on. This means that the regular flow of [...]

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