Team Lotus Adopts Caterham Livery
From this coming weekend’s 2011 British Grand Prix onwards, the Team Lotus F1 race cars will be wearing new Caterham livery in response to the team’s acquisition of the sports car brand back in April. Read More …
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F1A&G posts tagged commercialism
Who Wudda Thunk It?
The city council of Austin, Texas has agreed — after race promoters consented to cover the city’s $4 million per year financial exposure — to endorse the U.S. Grand Prix scheduled for renewal in June 2012. The 5 to 2 vote in favor of the event came after weeks of lobbying by representatives of the Circuit of The Americas to craft an environmental agreement. Read More …
Who Makes How Much in F1?
On the eve of the European GP in Valencia, the Aussie paper, Daily Telegraph, has revealed the staggering earnings of the world’s leading F1 stars. No surprise is that Fernando Alonso heads the list, Lewis Hamilton coming in second. Read More …
USGP Now In Litigation
We knew this was coming. If Bernie Ecclestone thinks US taxpayers will finance Grand Prix events like the governments of Malaysia, China and Abu Dhabi, he’s sadly mistaken. Read More …
“Rush” F1 Movie In Development
Ron Howard’s new project currently making the rounds of Hollywood, “Rush” tells of the 1970s F1 rivalry between the late playboy British driver James Hunt and his nemesis, Austrian champion Niki Lauda. Read More …
NASCAR vs F1
Lewis Hamilton and NASCAR’s Tony Stewart will switch cars today in a promotional event at Watkins Glen. Who’ll win? Read More …
Team Protests Doom Bahrain Grand Prix
The Bahrain Grand Prix now looks dead for the 2011 season after Bernie Ecclestone conceded the race cannot be rescheduled without the consent of the F1 teams. Ecclestone had supported moving the race to 30 October after the season opener had originally been postponed because of political unrest in the country. Read More …
Max Mosley’s Morality And the Bahrain GP
Max stands on the right side of history, saying that reinstatement of the Bahrain Grand Prix is inappropriate because F1 “is being used by the regime in order to further its aims, so it almost becomes an instrument of the regime oppressing the people.” Read More …
Bernie and Luca At It Again
Bernie Ecclestone shrugs off Ferrari chief Luca di Montezemolo’s recent suggestion that the major F1 teams could set up a rival Grand Prix racing series. So what else is new? Read More …
Texas Lawmakers Say State Cannot Afford F1
The group behind bringing Formula One racing back to America next year — which has audaciously named its very much under-construction track the “Circuit of the Americas” — is facing fresh criticism from skeptics who say the cash-strapped state of Texas cannot afford the ambitious scheme. Read More …