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He hopes to join Toro Rosso next season

Up and coming Portuguese racing driver Antonio Felix da Costa tested for a day-and-a-half with Red Bull at the Formula 1 young driver test at Silverstone last week. Da Costa believes that he is ready to make the move to Formula 1 next season, ...

The car is heavily damaged, but he is able to drive away

Ferrari test driver and former F1 driver Kamui Kobayashi had quite the accident over the weekend when he crashed a Ferrari F1 car during a demonstration in Moscow in wet weather. As you can see in the videos below, Kobayashi was doing a flying...

It is closely based on the Clio Renaultsport 200 Turbo EDC

Renault will be ready with the new Clio Cup for the 2014 racing season. The latest car is closely based on the Clio Renaultsport 200 Turbo EDC, but the racing version weighs less and is tuned specifically for track use. The latest Clio Cup tak...

Seven teams have entered Audis this year

Audi is hoping for its third consecutive win since 2011 in the Spa 24 Hours GT race and its third win in a 24-hour GT race this year after wins in the Nürburgring 24 Hours and 24 Hours of Daytona. There are seven Audi R8 LMS Ultras entered th...

Cosworth is not producing engines next year

Marussia has signed a contract with Ferrari to buy engines, KERS and transmissions for the 2014 F1 season. Cosworth will not make the move to 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 engines next season, which forced Marussia to find a new supplier. "Sc...

Ecclestone has until August to respond

German prosecutors have indicted Bernie Ecclestone on charges of alleged bribery related to the 2006 purchase of a 47% stake in Formula 1 from Bayern Landesbank.  The charges against Ecclestone allege that he paid banker Gerhard Grib...

Recent investment will be spent on Raikkonen and next year's car

Lotus owner Gerard Lopez says that the team has no intention to replace either of its drivers for the 2014 season. Red Bull is rumored to have been courting Kimi Raikkonen to fill the open seat left by Mark Webber, and Romain Grosjean’s ...

Mercedes has been banned from taking part in the test

The story of Mercedes’ Barcelona tire test has taken another weird turn. The team was banned from the young driver test at Silverstone as punishment for the test, but following the exploding tire fiasco at the British Grand Prix, the young d...

It is still 4.2 seconds off the overall record

The Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak has taken two hill climb titles in the last two weeks. First, it set a new record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with Sebastian Loeb at the wheel. At the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend, The 208 T...

The engine team is headquartered in Milton Keynes, England

Honda has opened its F1 engine development center in Milton Keynes, England, and plans to have its engine ready to start by this fall. Engine development work is also being done in Tochigi, Japan. Yasuhisa Arai has been appointed as leader of ...