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May 19th, 2013
Formula 3 European Championship leader Raffaele Marciello has been excluded from his victory in Sunday morning’s race at Brands Hatch. Scrutineers found that the width of his first-gear ratio was below the minimum allowed measurement of 12.75mm. The foundations of the Italian’s victory were laid when he beat poleman Alex Lynn away from the start
May 12th, 2013
Paul Hembery: “Strategy was again at the forefront of the Spanish Grand Prix, which as usual was very demanding on the tyres because of the unique characteristics of this circuit. This is why we saw high levels of degradation, which should not be seen again to this extent for the rest of the year
May 11th, 2013
Lewis Hamilton admitted he was “a bit lost” with his Mercedes set-up heading into Spanish Grand Prix qualifying , despite ending up on the front row. The 2008 world champion appeared to be in danger of Q2 elimination until he surged from 13th to first in the segment with his last lap. Hamilton went on to qualify second, 0.254 seconds down on pole-winning team-mate Nico Rosberg
May 9th, 2013
Formula 1 teams will be handed an extra set of tyres for the first 30 minutes of practice from the start of next year – but plans to limit them only to rookie drivers have been dropped completely. A proposal initiated by Force India for teams to be given extra sets of tyres for the first part of FP1 from this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix if they ran rookies was abandoned after failing to get the necessary support
May 2nd, 2013
Sebastien Loeb says he is under no pressure to perform in Rally Argentina. Competing on gravel for the first time this year, the seven-time winner of this event admitted it took him some time to find the right feeling again on Wednesday’s shakedown and qualifying stages. “I haven’t competed on gravel since Catalunya,” he said, “and I did only one day of testing, so for sure I didn’t do as much as I might have done.
April 20th, 2013
Valtteri Bottas – 15th: “I had a bit of traffic in Q1 so I was quite lucky to get through given that one or two tenths can be the difference between progressing to Q2 or not. I put a good lap together in Q2, the best lap I’ve driven here this weekend, so I’m pleased about that
April 14th, 2013
Charles Pic – 16th: “For me that was a good race, almost as good as we could have hoped for with our current performance levels and run to a good race strategy. The car felt good right from the start – the setup we went for worked well and I had a decent start on the soft tyres and came in just as they were starting to degrade heavily, came out ahead of Bianchi and for two thirds of the race I was pretty comfortably holding 15th place. Unfortunately on my third stop I came out in 16th and didn’t quite have enough pace to fight so I finished in 16th, but the fact we were able to keep pace with the Marussia for the whole race and at some points be just out of reach of a Williams is very encouraging for the future.
April 3rd, 2013
Marc Marquez says it is dangerous to expect too much from his MotoGP debut in Qatar, even if he believes victory is not impossible. The 2012 Moto2 champion said maintaining a modest approach would be crucial to his debut race weekend, even though his scintillating pre-season form has garnered praise throughout the MotoGP paddock. “Sure, it will be difficult [to win],” he told reporters at the Losail track
March 22nd, 2013
Adrian Sutil – 6th/10th: “The morning went OK and the balance was quite good. We made a change during the lunch hour to cure some oversteer and my general feeling with the car is good. I missed out on some running this afternoon, but I think the rain interrupted things for everybody so I didn’t miss too much dry track time.
March 9th, 2013
Tom Dillmann has secured a return to GP2 with new team Russian Time. The Frenchman had topped the first winter test with Hilmer, another new entrant, before getting the chance to run with the Russian squad at Barcelona this week
March 4th, 2013
RML will remain on this year’s World Touring Car Championship grid after confirming it will run three-time champion Yvan Muller and new signing Tom Chilton in a pair of Chevrolet Cruzes.
February 26th, 2013
Renault has promised its customer teams that it will not ease off in its efforts with the V8 engines this year, despite the huge work being put in to the new 2014 Formula 1 power units . As work ramps up on the 1.6-litre turbo V6 engines that will be introduced from the start of next year, Renault says there is no excuse to neglect the V8s. Renault F1′s technical director Rob White told selected media including AUTOSPORT: “For 2013 it has to be business as usual.
February 5th, 2013
Marc Marquez has played down the significance of his strong showing in MotoGP testing at Sepang, despite finishing the day delighted with his progress. The Moto2 champion, making his MotoGP debut this year with the Honda team, finished the first day of testing in Malaysia third quickest, less than half a tenth of a second behind team-mate and pacesetter Dani Pedrosa. Marquez, who had not ridden the bike since the end of last year, insisted he still has a long way to go despite his promising pace.
January 17th, 2013
Felipe Massa believes restoring his self-belief can make him a Formula 1 championship contender in 2013. Ferrari seemed set to drop Massa as he struggled through the 2012 season, the third year in a row that he had been overshadowed by team-mate Fernando Alonso. But the Brazilian held on to his drive and became increasingly strong in the final races, amid a change in mental approach that Massa feels will continue this year
January 13th, 2013
Gary Paffett says his 2012 DTM title defeat was painfully frustrating given that he felt it was his best ever season-long performance. The HWA Mercedes driver narrowly missed out on claiming a second title when BMW’s Bruno Spengler pulled back a 40-point mid-season deficit to win the Hockenheim finale and the championship
January 9th, 2013
Drayson Racing has become the first team to commit to the FIA’s new all-electric Formula E series. Formula E will make its debut next season with a calendar based on city street circuits
December 20th, 2012
MotoGP is to introduce a penalty points system for riding transgressions from the start of the 2013 season. The move follows calls for greater consistency from the officials during 2012, particularly in Moto2 and Moto3, where riders felt several incidents were treated either too leniently or with excessive harshness.
December 11th, 2012
Andy Cowell will replace Thomas Fuhr as head of Mercedes’ Formula 1 engine arm from the start of 2013. Fuhr, who has been managing director of Mercedes High Performance Powertrains since 2009, is leaving for a new job outside motorsport. Cowell is currently the group’s engineering director, resposible for Mercedes’ current and 2014 F1 engines plus its KERS
November 15th, 2012
Jenson Button suspects that qualifying second for the United States Grand Prix might be better than starting on pole position. The McLaren driver believes that the run out of the second slot on the grid is a little flatter than it is for first, meaning that whoever qualifies there could have an edge on the charge to the first corner
November 14th, 2012
Formula 1 is to have a new medical delegate next year, after the FIA decided not to renew the contract of the long-serving Gary Hartstein beyond the end of this season. Hartstein replaced the late Sid Watkins as F1′s chief doctor from the start of the 2005 season and has worked at every race since. As well as his efforts at the tracks, the American also played a key role in developing new medical safety policies for the governing body through his work as chair of the FIA Institute’s Medical Training Working Group