With Kubica, Raikkonen, Vettel & Yamamoto
Ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, Fernando Alonso, Robert Kubica, Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettel and Sakon Yamamoto sat down for the traditional FIA press conference.

Q: Sebastian, when did you know you were actually driving for Scuderia Toro Rosso?

Sebastian VETTEL: Well, at the beginning of ... [ more ]

Finland - Ford World Rally Team - SS 1
The Ford Focus RS World Rally Car powered into the record books as the ninth round of the FIA World Rally Championship hit top gear in Finland tonight.

Eleven Focus RS WRCs started the classic Rally Finland, the largest number of World Rally Cars from a single manufacturer ever seen on a championship round.

All ... [ more ]

Finland - Subaru World Rally Team - Shakedown
Today in Finland Spaniard Xavier Pons successfully completed the pre-rally shakedown of his WRC2007 car, marking the first time he has driven his new machine during a rally event, having joined the Subaru World Rally Team during the season break after the Acropolis Rally.

Alongside co-driver and fellow Spaniard ... [ more ]

Finland - Citroen Sport - Shakedown
The 2007 World Rally Championship resumes after an eight-week break this weekend with the ninth round of the season, Rally Finland. Action kicks off with this evening's super-special before crews contest the first real stages tomorrow.

This morning's shakedown session gave drivers a chance to get some driving under their ... [ more ]

Finland: - OMV Kronos Citroen WRT - Shakedown
The OMV Kronos Citroen World Rally Team was already able to turn the regained motivation into a good result at the shakedown to Rally Finland.

On their fastest turn upon the 3.76-kilometre long course, the OMV duo of Manfred Stohl and Ilka Minor marked the eighth-best time with a run of 2'07"0, only 2.4 seconds ... [ more ]

Vincent Laverne takes stock ahead of the 51st edition
The French Rally-Tour of Corsica's layout has undergone a major change with 57% new roads that have not been used since 2003. Vincent Laverne, the Clerk of the Course of the 51st event explained:

What are the main sporting innovations of the 2007 Tour of Corsica?
“57% of the special stages are new ... [ more ]

A change in policy for the Italian team
The announcement that Marco Melandri would be joining Ducati for the 2008 signals the completion of a change in policy for the Italian team, understandable after the success of Casey Stoner in his maiden year decked out in red.

With Loris Capirossi unlikely to be part of Ducati's plans next season, despite the factory ... [ more ]

His opinions are his own
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen is refusing to be distracted by the Formula One espionage drama ahead of this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.

There is a possibility that McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, first and second in the driver's championship, will be docked points later this month if the FIA Court of Appeal ... [ more ]

Alonso and Hamilton out of the limelight
McLaren erected a wall of silence here Thursday after finally going on the offensive in the Formula One espionage drama.

Fernando Alonso was withdrawn from the official FIA press conference and the team also cancelled Lewis Hamilton's scheduled media appearances in Hungary.

McLaren explained that the decision ... [ more ]

A legal car or disqualification...
Kimi Raikkonen on Thursday hit back at his former boss Ron Dennis' claim that he won the Australian Grand Prix at the wheel of an illegal Ferrari.

Amid the espionage war of words with his counterparts at Ferrari, Dennis wrote in an open letter on Wednesday that the underbody of Raikkonen's winning F2007 in Melbourne was ... [ more ]

Reaction to published FIA correspondence
The following in a transcript of the letter written by Ron Dennis to Italian motorsport President Luigi Macaluso, published Wednesday on the official McLaren website.

1 August 2007

Dear Mr Macaluso,

ARTICLE 151C OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTING CODE

I refer to your letter dated 30 July 2007 ... [ more ]

Hungarian GP - Ferrari - Preview
Following the disappointment at Nurburgring Kimi Raikkonen has recharged his batteries and is ready for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

"It is always a great pleasure to come to Hungary," Raikkonen began. "Maybe the track is not one of the most fascinating ones, but it is really challenging. And then it's good to know that after ... [ more ]

Letter to Italian motorsport President Macaluso
Media reportage of the espionage scandal entered a third consecutive month on Wednesday.

McLaren made public a lengthy letter from team boss Ron Dennis to Italian motorsport President Luigi Macaluso, whose own letter to Max Mosley this week resulted in the re-opening of the FIA investigation into the spying ... [ more ]