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  UK tax officials have ruled that McLaren broke no UK laws when it wrote the £32 million fine off of its taxes from illegally obtaining Ferrari blueprints. This is either an incredibly clever bending of the rules or a complete...

Sauber CEO Monisha Kaltenborn has taken over as team boss of the Sauber F1 team. Peter Sauber will remain with the team as an advisor but will no longer conduct day-to-day operations. Her promotion is effective immediately. She is the first ever F...

Lola Cars International was unable to find a buyer since going into administration and will shut down. Teams competing with the current B12/60 and B12/80 LMP1 and LMP2 cars respectively face an uncertain future. The cars will obviously no longer b...

Former Marussia test driver Maria de Villota has recovered enough from her accident on July 3 to begin giving interviews. She says that she remembers the entire accident.  De Villota was test driving the Marussia MR-01 at Duxford Aerodrom...

Honda's history in Formula 1 is filled with success with some very expensive failures along the way. It had impressive engineering but spotted success in the 60s but its engines dominated Formula 1 in the 80s. Now Honda's Head of Research ...

Lotus Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean is under pressure from his team and other drivers to improve his driving, especially after making contact with Mark Webber in the first lap of the Japanese Grand Prix. Grosjean has been in eight crashes this ...

Mercedes is celebrating 45 years of AMG tuning with five special edition SLS AMG GT3 racecars that will likely never see the track. Although, it will be quite capable with its 6.3-liter V8.  The five cars wear exclusive designo magno grap...

Sebastien Loeb won his ninth WRC title at the Rally France over the weekend with two rallies to go in the season. It will likely be Loeb's last rally championship because he will only be competing in select rounds of the WRC next season, and h...

Bernie Ecclestone is calling for the postponement or outright abandonment of changing Formula 1 engines to turbocharged V6s in 2014.  "I listened to the noise of the engines in Maranello the other day, the new engine and the old engi...

There was a rumor early in the summer that Bentley wanted to return to racing, but because of Audi and Porsche competing in the premiere LMP1 class, Bentley would likely attempt to race in GT3. The rumor has turned out to be quite true. Bentley is...