| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, November 30th 2014, 11:15 GMT |
New World Endurance champion Anthony Davidson is expecting the closest race of the season at Interlagos on Sunday
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, November 30th 2014, 14:18 GMT |
Felipe Massa's performances at the end of the 2014 Formula 1 season show he is back to his very best, according to Williams performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By Lito Cavalcanti | Sunday, November 30th 2014, 15:17 GMT |
Ex-Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello has won Brazil's V8 Stock Car Championship, his first title since taking the British Formula 3 crown in 1991
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| Saturday, November 8th 2014, 15:27 GMT |
MotoGP will return to Austria in 2016 for the first two in nearly two decades
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| Saturday, November 8th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
Valentino Rossi denied Andrea Iannone a maiden MotoGP pole position in Valencia qualifying, as a crash left Marc Marquez back in fifth
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| Saturday, November 8th 2014, 15:42 GMT |
Sometime Formula 1 racer Stephane Sarrazin claimed his first international rally victory by defeating Bryan Bouffier in the European Rally Championship finale in Corsica
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| By Marcus Simmons | Friday, November 7th 2014, 15:33 GMT |
Marussia Manor Racing will no longer compete in the GP3 Series
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| Friday, November 7th 2014, 14:55 GMT |
Stephane Sarrazin leads Bryan Bouffier by just 1.7 seconds after a gripping first day of the European Rally Championship finale in Corsica
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, November 7th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Caterham's administrators have launched a last-ditch bid to secure a return to the Formula 1 grid through a crowdfunding project
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| By Edd Straw | Thursday, November 6th 2014, 15:38 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo has admitted he and Red Bull have work to do to improve their Formula 1 starts
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, November 6th 2014, 14:25 GMT |
The G-Drive Racing squad could expand from one to two cars for next year's World Endurance Championship
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| Thursday, November 6th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Thursday press conference with Kevin Magnussen, Adrian Sutil, Pastor Maldonado, Jean-Eric Vergne, Felipe Massa and Nico Rosberg
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| By Scott Mitchell | Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 13:26 GMT |
Harrison Newey, the son of Red Bull Formula 1 technical guru Adrian, will make his UK single-seater race debut in the BRDC Formula 4 Winter Series
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 14:26 GMT |
The Ferrari Formula 1 team is wary of suggestions by rival Mercedes that it may soften its stance towards relaxing engine freeze regulations
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Felipe Massa says defeat to Red Bull at the US Grand Prix shows Williams needs to strive for perfection in order to consistently challenge the top teams in Formula 1
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| By Glenn Freeman | Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 14:33 GMT |
Formula Renault 3.5 race winner Oliver Rowland is interested in staying in the series for a title push in 2015
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 12:23 GMT |
Lotus owner Gerard Lopez is confident Formula 1's cost crisis can be sorted out without a need for the small teams to do anything 'drastic'
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 12:59 GMT |
Audi has no plans to enter Formula 1 in the short-term
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 15:00 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff is worried that his team's Formula 1 success could be overshadowed by double points in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix season finale
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| By David Evans | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 11:49 GMT |
Robert Kubica's future in the World Rally Championship has been cast into doubt after it emerged he is not currently negotiating with any of the series' teams for 2015
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, November 3rd 2014, 13:07 GMT |
Formula 1's big teams have made it clear that they are not willing to accept sacrificing their own commercial rights income to help the smaller outfits
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, November 2nd 2014, 09:27 GMT |
Toyota drivers Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson dominated the Shanghai World Endurance Championship round to extend their lead at the top of the points table.
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| By Stuart Codling | Sunday, November 2nd 2014, 12:25 GMT |
Qualifying race winners Laurens Vanthoor and Cesar Ramos completed a clean sweep in Baku, controlling the main race from pole position in their WRT Audi R8
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| By Stuart Codling | Sunday, November 2nd 2014, 14:27 GMT |
The Blancpain GT Series has confirmed its 2015 calendar and announced a bigger prize fund for the season, including incentives for teams to contest both the Sprint and Endurance races
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| By Stuart Codling | Saturday, November 1st 2014, 14:06 GMT |
WRT Audi driver Stephane Ortelli snatched pole position for the final round of the Blancpain Sprint Series by 0.038 seconds from team-mate and overall Blancpain GT title hopeful Laurens Vanthoor.
"I was a bit disappointed at being told I was P2," said Vanthoor, "but when I heard it was Stephane [ahead], my team-mate from last year, it wasn't so bad."
Jeroen Bleekemolen, who retains an outside chance of winning the BSS title, was third fastest in a Grasser Racing Lamborghini beset by ABS problems, while Sprint points leader Maximilian Gotz qualified his HTP Mercedes seventh.
"I had a big issue in Q2," said Bleekemolen, "the same as we had in Slovakia, where the front-left locked up.
"We really rely on the ABS here. Fortunately it started working again, but then I had a bit of traffic in Q3.
"It's a shame because I'd let the guy past on his fast lap and he didn't return the favour."
After extended rainfall earlier in the day the track slowly dried out during the session, which ended in twilight, 30 minutes behind schedule, after three enforced stoppages.
The first part of the session was red-flagged twice. With 7m44s left on the clock, Vincent Abril hit the wall at the exit of the final corner in the WRT Audi R8 he shares with fellow Silver Cup frontrunner Mateusz Lisowski, losing a wheel.
The second stoppage came with 38s remaining after many drivers went out for a last-ditch attempt to improve their times.
Thirteenth-placed Marc Basseng took too much kerb at the exit of the second chicane as he began his first flying lap after leaving the pits, removing the front-left corner of his Phoenix Audi.
Benjamin Hetherington also brought out the red flags, mid-way through the second segment of the qualifying session, when he strayed wide in the Fortec Mercedes at the final corner and twitched into the outside barrier.
LEADING QUALIFYING TIMES:
| Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S.Richelmi, S.Ortelli | Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | Audi | 1m30.033s | - |
| 2 | C.Ramos, L.Vanthoor | Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | Audi | 1m30.071s | 0.038s |
| 3 | H.Proczyk, J.Bleekemolen | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Lamborghini | 1m30.193s | 0.160s |
| 4 | C.van der Drift, F.Vervisch | Boutsen Ginion Racing | McLaren | 1m30.219s | 0.186s |
| 5 | J.Adam, A.Soucek | Beechdean AMR | Aston Martin | 1m30.295s | 0.262s |
| 6 | J.Klingmann, D.Baumann | BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert | BMW | 1m30.374s | 0.341s |
| 7 | M.Gotz, M.Buhk | HTP Motorsport | Mercedes | 1m30.554s | 0.521s |
| 8 | C.Mies, K.van der Linde | Prosperia ABT Racing | Audi | 1m30.802s | 0.769s |
| 9 | M.Holzer, M.Ragginger | Schutz Motorsport | Porsche | 1m30.816s | 0.783s |
| 10 | R.Sperafico, R.Sperafico | BMW Sports Trophy Team Brasil | BMW | 1m30.900s | 0.867s |
| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, November 1st 2014, 07:56 GMT |
Porsche and Toyota were tied at the top of the timesheets after qualifying for Sunday's Shanghai round of the World Endurance Championship.
The #14 Porsche 919 Hybrid qualified by Neel Jani and Romain Dumas and the #8 Toyota shared by Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi ended up with an identical four-lap average of 1m48.300s.
The Porsche will start from pole position, however, because it posted its average before the Toyota.
Jani, who set the fastest time of the session with a 1m47.036s, topped the timesheets after the first runs from Porsche team-mate Mark Webber.
Buemi jumped to second ahead of the #20 Porsche, which Brendon Hartley took over from Webber, after two slow laps between his first and second quick laps.
His average at that point was just one hundredth of a second down on the pole-winning Porsche despite a lock-up at the Turn 14 hairpin.
The Swiss then tried again after another slow lap and posted his fastest lap to lower his average and tie with the Porsche.
Jani said: "I thought that kind of thing would be impossible, but we are happy to hang onto the pole after they came from behind to beat the #20 car at Fuji last time out.
"I was watching the Toyota thinking, if only I'd been a bit quicker at this corner or that corner, and then we'd be safe."
Jani believed he could have gone quicker had he had a proper run on new tyres prior to qualifying.
Davidson and Buemi both admitted to mistakes during their qualifying runs.
"The first lap when the tyres were at their best didn't happen for me," explained Davidson.
"That lap was so scruffy, so I felt that I threw away the opportunity to extract the time on the brand new tyres."
Buemi reckoned that he would have done enough to claim the pole without the Turn 14 lock-up.
Webber and Hartley ended up with an average 0.024s behind the top two.
Alex Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima were a further two tenths back in fourth, while the two Audi R18 e-tron quattros again ended up fifth and sixth in the hands of Loic Duval and Lucas di Grassi and Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer.
LIGIER AND ASTON TOP CLASSES
The G-Drive Racing Ligier-Nissan JSP2 claimed LMP2 honours with Roman Rusinov and Olivier Pla driving.
Rusinov was just ahead of Alexandre Imperatori in the KCMG ORECA-Nissan 03R after the first runs, before Pla extend the advantage to nearly a full second when he went up against Richard Bradley.
Aston Martin Racing drivers Stefan Mucke and Darren Turner claimed their first pole of the year in GTE Pro.
Turner leapfrogged over the factory Porsche 911 RSR shared by Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki after setting his best time on his third flying lap aboard his Aston Martin Vantage GTE.
GTE Am honours went to the AMR Vantage driven by Pedro Lamy and Christoffer Nygaard.
| Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LMP1 | R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb | Porsche Team | Porsche |
| 2 | LMP1 | A.Davidson, S.Buemi | Toyota Racing | Toyota |
| 3 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley | Porsche Team | Porsche |
| 4 | LMP1 | A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, K.Nakajima | Toyota Racing | Toyota |
| 5 | LMP1 | L.di Grassi, L.Duval, T.Kristensen | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi |
| 6 | LMP1 | M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi |
| 7 | LMP1 | N.Prost, N.Heidfeld, M.Beche | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/Toyota |
| 8 | LMP1 | D.Kraihamer, A.Belicchi, F.Leimer | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/Toyota |
| 9 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, O.Pla, J.Canal | G-Drive Racing | Ligier/Nissan |
| 10 | LMP2 | M.Howson, R.Bradley, A.Imperatori | KCMG | Oreca/Nissan |
| 11 | LMP2 | K.Ladygin, V.Shaitar, A.Ladygin | SMP Racing | Oreca/Nissan |
| 12 | LMP2 | S.Zlobin, N.Minassian, M.Mediani | SMP Racing | Oreca/Nissan |
| 13 | LMP1 | P.Kaffer, L.Auer | Lotus/AER | |
| 14 | LMP2 | E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, D.Brabham | Extreme Speed Motorsports | HPD |
| 15 | LMP2 | S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, R.Gonzalez | Extreme Speed Motorsports | HPD |
| 16 | LMP2 | D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, M.Patterson | Oak Racing | Morgan/Judd |
| 17 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, S.Mucke | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin |
| 18 | GTE Pro | F.Makowiecki, P.Pilet | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche |
| 19 | GTE Pro | J.Bergmeister, R.Lietz | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche |
| 20 | GTE Pro | G.Bruni, T.Vilander | AF Corse | Ferrari |
| 21 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, J.Calado | AF Corse | Ferrari |
| 22 | GTE Pro | A.MacDowall, D.O'Young, F.Rees | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin |
| 23 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, C.Nygaard | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin |
| 24 | GTE Am | F.Perrodo, E.Collard, M.Vaxiviere | Prospeed Competition | Porsche |
| 25 | GTE Am | K.Poulsen, D.Hansson, R.Stanaway | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin |
| 26 | GTE Am | G.Roda, P.Ruberti, M.Cressoni | 8 Star Motorsports | Ferrari |
| 27 | GTE Am | C.Ried, W.Henzler, K.Al Qubaisi | Proton Competition | Porsche |
| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, November 1st 2014, 00:56 GMT |
Formula 1's bigger teams admit that there is no easy way to cure the sport's financial woes, as smaller outfits spoke out on Friday about the need for action.
The collapse of the Caterham and Marussia teams has highlighted how big F1's cost problems are, and has prompted fresh calls for action to be taken before other outfits fall off the grid.
But despite an acceptance that the costs issue needs addressing, it became clear during a lengthy press conference on Friday that teams remain at odds over what needs to happen.
Smaller teams are pushing for a fairer distribution of revenues, cost cuts and a budget cap, while their larger rivals believe that such changes will not solve the problems, and could actually cause further trouble like mass redundancies.
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff said: "The teams in F1 today should stay in F1 and they should all look at the situation and come up with a short-term plan, how to have a healthy grid, and a long-term plan.
"We are talking about money distribution which is an issue for the commercial rights holder, and I don't have a solution.
"I can come up with many ideas which can be short term solutions but it comes back to the principle that whatever you give to the teams they are going to spend."
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier added: "There is a wake-up call maybe for everybody to make sure we can act altogether and we will try."
SYSTEM NEEDS CHANGING
Lotus owner Gerard Lopez believes that there were aspects of F1 that he found unacceptable, as he singled out the bonuses that Ferrari gets for competing.
"Now is the time to say things as they are," said Lopez. "Number one: the distribution model of revenues is completely wrong.
"When you've got teams showing up to the championship that get more money just for showing up than teams spending a whole season then something is entirely wrong with the whole system, and so that cannot be allowed to happen."
Lopez also singled out the dramatic jump in engine costs this year - which had forced budgets higher - as a key factor in hurting smaller teams.
FINDING A SOLUTION
The anger of the smaller teams at the situation is clear, especially with Force India's deputy team principal Bob Fernley hinting at hidden agendas from the big teams.
And although suggestions of a potential United States Grand Prix boycott by Sauber, Lotus and Force India have been played down, those three teams are likely to do all they can to try to force change.
Speaking about if there was a serious threat to not race, Lopez said: "I've just found out about the story now, so my answer is no.
"I've had a meeting with them about the cash distribution and so on, and that's it.
"I'm not aware of this. I don't even know where this comes from, and that's the whole point."
But he did admit that things had to change quickly, and action had to be forthcoming.
"I don't think there is an agenda - I sure hope there is none - but things have to drastically change in the next couple of weeks," he said.
"Not because teams are going to be driven away, but because if you don't take a situation like this one seriously, to change something, then you are never going to do it."
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone spoke briefly on Friday about the costs crisis, but reckoned a bigger issue for him was not the potential demise of other teams but changing the engine rules.
"We need to get rid of these engine regulations because they don't anything for anybody - they are not F1," he told Sky, while not ruling out the grid shrinking to 14 cars. "We are going to try for sure."
