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Three Russian Companies Investing in Sauber

Sauber has taken funding from three Russian companies and in return 17-year-old Russian driver Sergey Sirotkin will join Sauber as a development driver for the rest of this season and will be a race driver for the team next season.  ...

Television crews are now banned from the pitlane during races

After a cameraman was given a concussion and broken bones from a loose wheel from Mark Webber's Red Bull, the FIA and Red Bull are changing their procedures to prevents these types of accidents from happening again.   The FIA immediat...

It is the highest price ever paid for a car at auction

As predicted, Bonham's auction of a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R that Juan Manuel Fangio won in the '54 German and Swiss Grands Prix has set the new record for a car sold at auction with a final sale price of £19,601,500 ($29,650,09...

It is a very light weekend for auto racing

It is an astoundingly light weekend for motor racing this weekend. There are big races from the DTM and NASCAR and smaller races from the IndyCar Series and MotoGP; and that is all in terms of major racing series.  The IndyCar Series has ...

It will race in development races this year

  Bentley is revealing the first official specs for its new Continental GT3, and it will make its public on-track debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed running up the Goodwood Hill. The GT3-class racer is powered by a 4.0-liter twin...

His contract would need to be renewed to stay with the team

Felipe Massa’s position at Ferrari next season is far from certain after two retirements and just one podium so far this season. Massa’s contract with Ferrari expires at the end of the season. Massa has a tendency to go on long str...

He will be preparing the i20 WRC for 2014

Hyundai has hired Finnish driver Juho Hänninen as a test driver for its 2014 i20 WRC car. The team is headquartered in Alzenau, Germany, and has just begun test driving the car to refine it. “We’re very pleased to welcome Juho...

Car was converted to R specs, and Moss raced it

Last year, a Ferrari 250 GTO ordered by Stirling Moss but never driven by him sold for $35 million to become the most expensive car of all time. On August 17, a Shelby GT350 converted to R specification that was owned and raced by Moss will go on ...

Does he actually want to buy the track?

Bernie Ecclestone is known for his ability to play business interests off of one another to get what he wants for the price he wants, and he might have shown that this weekend at the German Grand Prix. On Saturday, July 6, Ecclestone gave an i...

Lotus grabs two podium positions

Sebastian Vettel won his first ever German Grand Prix and 30th grand prix in his career, but it was not as easy of a win as he has had in other races this season. Kimi Raikkonen was less than a second behind Vettel when they crossed the finish lin...