Some news tidbits from the world of Formula One: 2012 Toro Rosso Car Ready For Jerez Opener: Toro Rosso has announced that its 2012 car will be ready to run on the opening day of official testing at Jerez next month. Red Bull’s Italian-based rookie team said the Ferrari-powered TR7 passed the last of the [...]
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Williams F1 Confirms Bruno Senna for 2012
Williams F1 today confirmed that Bruno Senna will contest the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship for the Williams F1 Team. The appointment finalises the team’s line up for this year following confirmation in December that Pastor Maldonado will enter his second season in Formula One as a Williams race driver. Bruno will make his [...]
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Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: Red Bull Still Planning Jerez Debut For 2012 Car: Red Bull plans to get its 2012 car up and running for the first test at Jerez next month. In an interview with Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport, the energy drink company’s motor racing consultant Dr. Helmut [...]
2012 WEC Schedule Released
November 12th, 2011 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in American LeMans Series - News/Rumors, Other Racing Series - News/Rumors, Race Calendar Below is the tentative 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship schedule*: *Scheduled race subject to confirmation, changes or cancellation March 17 – 60th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring (USA) May 5 – Six Hours of Spa (Belgium) June 3 – Le Mans Test Day (France) June 16-17 – 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) Aug. 25 [...]
Tech bosses agree to blown exhaust ban
Blown exhaust technology looks set to be banned completely for the 2012 season. Despite the FIA having already moved to outlaw the use of engine gas as an aerodynamic aid, there were rumors in the Abu Dhabi paddock that the ban might not actually go through. The problem was that Red Bull and McLaren are [...]
WTCC to visit America in 2012
The FIA World Touring Car Championship will bring its furious fender-banging style of competition to American soil for the first time in 2012 with a Sept. 23 event scheduled for Sonoma’s Infineon Raceway. The WTCC, one of the four World Championships ruled by the Fédèration International de l’Automobile, features the best in touring car racing [...]
FIA To Be Leaner Financially
Seven million euros will be missing from the budget of F1′s governing FIA in 2011. A report in the British Express newspaper claims the shortfall is due to the expiry of a 14-year run of annual fees paid by Formula One Management, headed by chief executive Bernie Ecclestone. The deal, in which the sport’s commercial [...]
FIA Penalizes, Bans US F1 From Competition In Future
The FIA has confirmed that it has penalized US F1 for failing to take part in this year’s World Championship – although the team does not exist anymore and its remnants were finally broken up in a recent liquidation auction, according to Adam Cooper of SPEED. If nothing else, the action serves as a [...]
