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/ 11 September 2009
Fernando Alonso says allegations that his Renault team staged an accident to help him win last year’s Singapore GP surprised him as much as anyone.
Renault on Monday won their appeal against a ban on Fernando Alonso’s team competing in the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday.
Renault’s appeal against its suspension from the European Grand Prix began on Monday, with the team optimistic the decision will be overturned.
Formula One teams and world motorsport supremo Max Mosley will meet on Friday for crisis talks over a controversial budget cap.
Former champions Renault followed Ferrari’s lead on Wednesday and threatened to quit Formula One unless the governing body rewrites the 2010 rules.
Flavio Briatore has launched a withering attack of Formula One’s regulators, saying interest has been stripped from the 2009 season.
Fernando Alonso expects a tight battle at the opening race of the Formula One season in Melbourne this weekend.
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/ 13 February 2009
European new cars sales fell 27% in January to the lowest level for 20 years, trade data showed on Friday.
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/ 18 November 2008
It’s difficult not to fall in love with the Clio F1 R27’s eccentricities, writes Ray Leathern.
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/ 29 October 2008
The interior sports best-in-class visibility out of the cabin. But Renault also supply some of the most user-friendly switch gears in the business.
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/ 16 October 2008
The top 14 car-makers in the European market still had to cut emissions by 17% to reach the EU’s 2012 target of 130 grams a kilometre.
Fernando Alonso is realistic about his chances of another victory in Japan this week after his upset win in Singapore.
The Renault-Nissan alliance on Friday announced the launch of a new manufacturing project in South Africa.
British companies doing business in Zimbabwe must find the noise from their government and the international community disconcerting.
While more hybrid cars become available across the globe, there are no immediate plans to add to South Africa’s hybrid range, writes Dillon Davie
After four consecutive victories, the championship-leading Ferrari team and their defending world champion, Kimi Raikkonen, are expecting to be the dominant force again in Monaco on Sunday. The Finn, who leads this year’s title race ahead of Ferrari teammate Brazilian Felipe Massa, is convinced the Italian scuderia is in excellent shape.
Formula One title contenders McLaren left Turkey with their confidence up on Monday despite being beaten for the fourth race in a row by champions Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton finished second at Istanbul Park but the 23-year-old Briton described Sunday’s race as the best of his career after having to make an extra pit stop to ensure his tyres lasted safely.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa won the Turkish Grand Prix from pole position for the third year in a row on Sunday after tyre concerns slowed Lewis Hamilton’s challenge. The Brazilian took the chequered flag 3,7 seconds ahead of the 23-year-old McLaren driver, who ran most of the race on the harder tyres and had to make three pit stops compared with his rival’s two.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso was upbeat about his Renault team’s prospects after a strong performance in Friday’s practice for Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix. The Spanish former world champion was fourth in the morning and ninth in the afternoon, despite not being happy with his car’s balance.
Ferrari’s world champion Kimi Raikkonen stretched his Formula One lead to nine points with a dominant win from pole position in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. Brazilian Felipe Massa sealed Ferrari’s second successive one-two finish, and third win in a row, with McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton taking third place to revive his title challenge after a disappointing last race in Bahrain.
Brazilian Felipe Massa stormed to victory on Sunday for his second successive victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix and answered his mounting bank of critics as his Ferrari team celebrated a comfortable one-two with Kimi Raikkonen finishing second.
Defending drivers’ world champion Kimi Raikkonen bounced back to form and back into the scrap for this year’s title when he won the Malaysian Grand Prix for Ferrari on Sunday. But the Italian team’s hopes of a dream one-two finish were wrecked by Brazilian Felipe Massa spinning off while running second.
It has only taken two races of the new season for McLaren to get on the wrong side of Formula One officials — and Fernando Alonso — again. The team — kicked out of last year’s constructors’ championship — were back in trouble on Saturday, penalised for their drivers causing interference during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Brazilian Felipe Massa secured pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix on an all-Ferrari front row on Saturday. Driving in hot and humid conditions under heavy cloud cover, Massa was joined at the head of the field by Formula One world champion team mate Kimi Raikkonen, who lapped 0,482 seconds slower than the pole sitter’s time of 1,35.748.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton avoided the mayhem around him to open the Formula One season with a pole-to-flag victory in a crash-strewn Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. The 23-year-old Briton, last year’s rookie sensation, finished 5,4 seconds ahead of Germany’s Nick Heidfeld in a BMW Sauber.
Lewis Hamilton got an early psychological edge over Kimmi Raikkonen, winning pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix while the world champion will start near the back of the grid. McLaren’s Hamilton had the fastest times in the second and third runs of the three-phase qualifying session.
The Mail & Guardian takes a look at vehicles launched recently in South Africa: the Saab 9-3 (sensible and Swedish), the Peugeot 308 with its cool new features, the Renault Navigator (one of three new models newly introduced) and the Tata Xenon, which, as a double-cab lifestyle bakkie, is still quite a basic vehicle.
Ferrari are back on top, Lewis Hamilton is a title contender and two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso is back with Renault. Add night racing to all that and one of F1’s most exciting seasons in 2007 is set for a worthy follow-up in 2008.
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/ 22 February 2008
The A1 Grand Prix (A1GP) series makes its way to Durban this weekend for another round of racing. Being the only street circuit on the A1GP schedule, the Durban race is often called ”the Monaco of A1GP”. Local favourite Adrian Zaugg gives his views on the A1GP series and his Formula One aspirations.
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/ 18 February 2008
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday described abuse of Lewis Hamilton in Spain as an ”isolated incident” and said the sport did not need an anti-racism campaign. ”What it does, all of these things, it gives attention to the people that want attention,” the Briton added.
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/ 15 February 2008
Award-winning South African actress Ashley Callie (32) died on Friday. ”It is with sincere regret that the Callie Family confirms that earlier today Ashley passed away as a result of the head injuries she sustained in a car accident,” her family said in a statement. ”Ashley continues to live on in our hearts and minds.”
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/ 13 February 2008
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton, the victim of racial abuse from Spanish fans earlier this month, took top honours on Tuesday in Formula One pre-season testing in southern Spain. The McLaren driver was fastest among the 16 drivers on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit with a time of one minute 19,102 seconds, beating his previous best time on the same track.