F1 Madness

Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn has come out guns blazing saying that F1’s bigger teams have an agenda to drive the smaller teams off the grid and ultimately alter the DNA of the Formula One championship. Marussia has already been forced to shut its doors and Caterham are fighting for their future, resorting to crowd […]

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Team representatives: Eric Boullier (McLaren) Monisha Kaltenborn (Sauber) Toto Wolff (Mercedes) Vijay Mallya (Force India) Gerard Lopez (Lotus) Q: Let me start with a general question to all of you if I may, about Formula One and the United States. Many of your teams have been involved in activities in the build up to this […]

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Lotus today released an image of their 2014 challenger – the E22 just as the launch of  McLaren’s MP4-29 got underway. While all eyes were on Woking, the Enstone based team decided to steal a little of the limelight in the wake of the announcement of team boss Eric Boullier’s departure. The team announced earlier […]

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Eric Boullier has quit the Lotus F1 Team and looks set to join McLaren. In a surprising development Frenchman Boullier has severed ties with the Enstone based team just months after announcing that its future looked steady and promising. Boullier becomes the latest in a long list of exits from the Lotus team. The team has lost several key members […]

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Kimi Raikkonen has confirmed that he had to be convinced to attend the final three races of the season including this weekend’s Abu Dhabi grand prix. The Finn was nowhere in sight of the Yas Marina paddock by Thursday raising speculation about the reason for the 2007 champion’s absence. Although many believed that Raikkonen’s non-appearance was a result […]

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Lotus chairman Gerard Lopez has scoffed at rumours that his Formula 1 team is in financial trouble. Lopez purchased the Renault team in 2009 and is adamant that the reported 120 million Euro debt is being misunderstood. “On the €120 million debt, anybody half-smart can find out that number by going to Companies House records […]

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