After announcing the departure of Colin Kolles yesterday, HRT have moved quickly to appoint a new technical director РSpanish former Formula 1 driver Luis P̩rez-Sala takes on the role from today.
Sebastian Vettel returns from the summer break to win three more races, and takes the title in Japan. In Part 4 of this five-part season review, we look back on the Belgian, Italian, Singapore and Japanese Grand Prix
HRT have today announced that they have parted company with team principal Colin Kolles. He will depart the Spanish team on tomorrow (15th December) after two full seasons in the job.
Toro Rosso have announced this afternoon that Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne will be their race drivers for 2012. Both Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, who began their F1 careers at the team in 2009, will be forced to look elsewhere if they are to remain on the grid.
Part 3 of this five-part 2011 season review looks back at the European Grand Prix (snore!), and the races in Britain, Germany, and Hungary. We look at the topic of off-throttle blown diffusers and re-visit a new broadcasting deal that people may be familiar with…
In Part 2 of this five-part season review, we re-live the Spanish Grand Prix, the Monaco Grand Prix and the fallout of Lewis Hamilton’s comments, and the best race of the season: the Canadian Grand Prix.
In a few years from now, the Formula 1 season of 2011 will probably just be remembered as the season dominated by Sebastian Vettel, in which the German became only the ninth driver in the history of the sport to claim back-to-back titles. But in this mammoth five-part review of the season, we will look back over another good year for the sport, relive some of the most important moments and, finally, look at how 2012 could be even better.
Approximately 60,000 spectators braved the cold in Milton Keynes today to see Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber drive their Red Bull F1 cars on the city’s streets to celebrate their 2011 world champion successes.
Lotus Renault GP have announced that Romain Grosjean has been selected to race alongside Kimi Räikkönen next season.
Sky Sports have today revealed the on-air team that will present their Formula 1 coverage next season. As was widely expected, 5Live commentator David Croft will join forces with Martin Brundle in the commentary box for qualifying session and the races, whilst Anthony Davidson also makes the transition from radio to television to join Croft for the practice sessions.
Mercedes have today announced that they will race under the name Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team from next season.
Williams have this evening confirmed that Pastor Maldonado will remain with the team for a second season. The 2010 GP2 champion, who scored just one point in his debut Formula 1 season, will race for the Grove-based team in 2012.
The FIA have today released the entry list for the 2012 Formula 1 season, showing the predicted changes in three team names, and nine empty spaces.
Renault have announced this morning that Kimi Räikkönen has signed a two-year deal with the team and will return to the sport in 2012 after a two-year break.
Force India equalled their best result of 2011 at the season finale in Brazil after Adrian Sutil finished sixth and Paul di Resta finished eighth.
Mercedes had a disappointing final race in Brazil as Nico Rosberg struggled with oversteer all day and came home in only seventh place, and Michael Schumacher had an early altercation with Bruno Senna and finished down in P15.
Mark Webber ended a trouble season in which he has been comprehensively out-driven by Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel by getting his first win of the year in Brazil.
