Nigel Mansell, former world champion, is predicting that Jenson Button, who has been struggling at the Honda F1 team, will "break his duck" this year and go on to be the next British champion.
After breaking Senna's record for pole positions, seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher drove his Ferrari at the factory's home race to victory, keeping defending champion Fernando Alonso at bay. He managed to end the longest streak of disappointments for the team in recent years.
Michael Schumacher grabbed his 66th career pole position at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola to break the late Ayrton Senna's all-time record. It was the only major record that he had not yet claimed.
For the first European race of the F1 championship season which will take place in Imola this weekend, David Coulthard and Christian Klien (Red Bull Racing), Tonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed (Scuderia Toro Rosso) were given four Maserati GranSports, which they will use to move around throughout 2006.
Pitpass.com is reporting that Formula One Management has agreed to debut High Definition TV for the Canadian and US GPs later this year, pending some technical issues. There's additional speculation that the equipment may be purchased from or supplied by Panasonic, which is a major sponsor of the Toyota Racing team.
It has been a busy couple days at the Red Bull Racing company with big boss Dietrich Mateschitz out to settle a few stories, so here is a round up of all the stories coming out of the Austrian owned company.
MF1 Racing announces the departure of Sporting Director Adrian Burgess, effective immediately, due to planned internal re-structuring of race and test team operations.
Mike Gascoyne, until recently Formula One's highest-paid technical director, has left Toyota a day after they announced his suspension. The Germany-based team said in a statement on Thursday that both parties had agreed "to terminate their working relationship with immediate effect."
McLaren Mercedes formula one driver Kimi R\344ikk\366nen took time out of his Australian Grand Prix pre-race preparations to get behind the wheel of a zero-emission fuel cell bus today.
The super lightweight BMW M6 Coup\351 hits the track running as the official Course Car for the supporting races at the 2006 FORMULA 1 Foster's Australian Grand Prix.
Fuji Speedway, owned by Toyota, will replace Suzuka, owned by rival Honda, starting in 2007 as host to the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Japan. The move follows the conclusion of several major renovations of the track and facilities, and the issuance of a Grade 1 license from the FIA.
Rerun of Lauda and Coulthard McLaren videos. This time Schumacher is drinking coffee and reading the paper. Guaranteed, if he gave a head-start to a mid-engine F40 or Enzo, he would have lost (in real life).
Private equity firm CVC has been given approval by the European Commission to acquire F1's commercial holding company SLEC on the condition that CVC sells its Spanish subsidiary Dorna, the promoter of the MotoGP series. The condition is due to a Commission Competition Directorate investigation, which concluded CVC would have too much market power if it kept control of both F1 and MotoGP.
Renault driver Giancarlo Fisichella had a perfect race day at Sepang in Kuala Lampur in the second round of the 2006 Formula 1 season, taking the win from pole position. Teammate Fernando Alonso finished in second place, besting Honda driver Jenson Button, who managed third place.
The F1 teams have been pushing hard for greater revenue sharing and directional management of the sport as a whole, to the point of threatening to start a rival series in 2008. The teams say that they are close to a final agreement, and all will be good again for the future of F1.
Despite the many rule changes and new engines, Fernando Alonso proved that he still has what it takes, and managed to fend off the all-Ferrari front row start.
There's plenty that's changing, and with the new rules changes, new teams, and, especially, the new cars, there's a lot that can happen. AutoWeek has a good rundown on what you could expect. Season opens this weekend in Bahrain!
With just days to the opening race of the 2006 F1 season, the teams are settling in what will definitely be an interesting first race. No one really knows what's going to happen with the new cars, engines, and rules. Read Renault's thoughts from Bahrain.
With Toyota's entry into F1 a few years ago and the amount of money they were putting into it, it was only a matter of time before it filtered down into their marketing. The Lexus LF-A concept, with a 5.0 liter V10 engine, will show up as a 2008 model and retail for about $170k.
The rumor is that Kimi signing over to Ferrari is a done deal. It's long been speculated, but this could really be it. And potentially Schumi's last year in F1.
A private mock race was performed today, as Bahrain sets up for the F1 race next race weekend. There are 800 track marshalls, including 40 Bahraini women.
The Honda V8-powered F1 car set to race in less than two weeks broke official lap record: faster than previous V10 cars, and faster than the other teams testing their V8s.
The CLK 63 AMG is the new official F1 safety car for 2006, and will be driven by former DTM driver Bernd Mayl\344nder. This car will replace the SLK 55 AMG that was the previous safety car.
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