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FIA Entry List for 2012 Announced

The 2011 For­mula 1 sea­son has barely ended after last weekend’s Brazil­ian Grand Prix and the FIA has announced the list of offi­cial team and dri­ver entries for the 2012 sea­son. There were no real sur­prises, except for what was left off the list, as nei­ther Toro Rosso dri­ver and nei­ther Force India dri­ver and Pedro de la Rosa who is sup­posed to race with His­pania rac­ing, were all left off the list for the moment. The dri­ver mar­ket will fall into place over the win­ter with a chain reac­tion once one or two dri­vers’ con­tracts have been signed, no doubt. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Raikkonen to Return With Renault in 2012

After weeks of spec­u­la­tion Renault con­firmed on Tues­day that Kimi Raikko­nen will make a come­back to race for the team in 2012. Raikko­nen, who left the sport at the end of 2009 to pur­sue a ral­ly­ing career, has signed a two-year agree­ment with the team. “I’m delighted to be com­ing back to For­mula One after a two-year break, and I’m grate­ful to Lotus Renault GP for offer­ing me this oppor­tu­nity,” said the 32 year-old. “My time in the World Rally Cham­pi­onship has been a use­ful stage in my career as a dri­ver, but I can’t deny the fact that my hunger... 

Nine 2012 Driver Slots Open on FIA Entry List

For­mula One racing’s gov­ern­ing body, the FIA, has pub­lished the cur­rent 2012 cham­pi­onship entry list. As already con­firmed, three con­struc­tors change their names next sea­son — Renault become Lotus, Lotus become Cater­ham, and Vir­gin become Marussia. Five teams have yet to finalise their dri­ver line-ups, with Marussia’s Charles Pic the only rookie con­firmed so far. Despite hav­ing been announced by HRT, Span­ish vet­eran Pedro de la Rosa is absent from the list, and the team — who ran Cos­worth power this year and last — have no engine sup­plier listed. Red... 

Head to End Direct F1 Involvement at Williams

Williams co-founder and engi­neer­ing direc­tor Patrick Head will play no active role in the team next sea­son, he has con­firmed. Head will instead switch his atten­tions to the team’s suc­cess­ful hybrid tech­nolo­gies business. “I am not going to be directly part of the Williams For­mula One pro­gramme next year,” Head told news agency , after the team com­pleted their worst-ever sea­son in F1 at Sunday’s Brazil­ian Grand Prix. Head, 65, set up Williams Grand Prix Engi­neer­ing with team prin­ci­pal Frank Williams back in 1977, but has delib­er­ately reduced his... 

Vettel’s Sense of History

There was a won­der­ful moment in the Brazil­ian Grand Prix today when Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel again showed how spe­cial he is as a dri­ver. Sure, the race pro­vided a happy end­ing to the sea­son with the vic­tory scored by Mark Web­ber, Vettel’s team­mate at Red Bull. But as Vet­tel went around the track with a bro­ken gear­box, he said over his team radio that he felt like Ayr­ton Senna at this same track in 1991, when he had a prob­lem with his gear­box — but won the race. It is refresh­ing to see such a young dri­ver with a sense of his­tory of the sport. There are... 

FIA Post-Qualifying Press Conference — Brazil

Repro­duced with kind per­mis­sion of the FIA Dri­vers: 1 — Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel (Red Bull); 2 — Mark Web­ber (Red Bull); 3 — Jen­son But­ton (McLaren). Q: Sebas­t­ian, a record 15th pole of the sea­son. Describe your feel­ings at this his­toric moment?Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel: Yes, it is dif­fi­cult. I mean there has been quite some talk before the qual­i­fy­ing, before this week­end, about this par­tic­u­lar record and the best thing was just not to think about it at all. Yes­ter­day we did have sort of a rough start to the week­end where I wasn’t happy 100 per... 

Practice Two — Hamilton Pips Vettel at Interlagos

Lewis Hamilton’s reha­bil­i­ta­tion con­tin­ued in Brazil on Fri­day after­noon as he topped the sec­ond free prac­tice ses­sion, but it was a close-run thing as the top eight dri­vers — from McLaren, Red Bull, Fer­rari and Mer­cedes — were brack­eted by just 0.480s. Hamil­ton lapped his McLaren in 1m 13.392s, 0.167s ahead of Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel on 1m 13.559s and 0.195s up on the latter’s Red Bull team mate Mark Web­ber, who recorded 1m 13.587s. Fer­nando Alonso’s Fer­rari was reju­ve­nated by an engine change between ses­sions (since it was still within his allo­ca­tion... 

Kobayashi Sports Linkin Park Helmet Design

Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi is wear­ing a spe­cial hel­met liv­ery in Brazil this week­end, per­son­ally designed for him by Joe Hahn, pro­ducer and mem­ber of US rock group Linkin Park. The hel­met will be auc­tioned after Sunday’s race to raise money for Japan­ese earth­quake victims. It fol­lows a recent encounter in Sin­ga­pore between Kobayashi and the band, whose Music for Relief project has raised more than $ 5 mil­lion for dis­as­ter vic­tims and envi­ron­men­tal projects. Of this, $ 700,000 has already been donated to Japan fol­low­ing the dis­as­ters... 

FIA Thursday Press Conference — Brazil

Repro­duced with kind per­mis­sion of the FIA Dri­vers — Rubens Bar­richello (Williams), Jen­son But­ton (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Fer­rari), Daniel Ric­cia­rdo (HRT), Michael Schu­macher (Mer­cedes) and Bruno Senna (Renault). Q: Bruno, I think, first of all, you’ve had a pretty busy time since Abu Dhabi because you came straight here?Bruno Senna: Yeah, well, to be hon­est last week I took [off] to rest and to get accli­ma­tised as well. It was a bit cold in Brazil, so I didn’t get to enjoy the sun but this week has been very busy and I think it’s going to be a very busy... 

Pirelli to Race New Soft Compound at Interlagos

Dri­vers at this weekend’s For­mula 1 Grande Pre­mio Petro­bras do Brasil 2011 will have the choice of Pirelli’s soft and medium dry tyres. How­ever, the soft will be a pre­vi­ously unraced com­pound that was tested by the teams dur­ing last week’s Abu Dhabi young dri­ver test and dur­ing Fri­day prac­tice at the Nur­bur­gring in July. Dur­ing Fri­day prac­tice at Inter­la­gos, dri­vers will also have two extra sets of an exper­i­men­tal hard tyre which has already been tri­alled by Lucas di Grassi and Pirelli’s Toy­ota TF109 car in pri­vate tests at Jerez and...