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Team principals: Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), John Howett (Toyota), Christian Horner (Red Bull).
Q: A question to you all. Your feelings about your performances so far this year in the first two races…Stefano Domenicali: As always we need to be very cautious. We have seen the reaction of the team after the very difficult race we had […]

The FIA has confirmed the change it will make to the regulations for the final qualifying session in a bid to avoid a repeat of the problems that marred the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Calls to introduce a maximum laptime were made in the wake of Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton being penalized for getting in the […]

FIA President Max Mosley has requested a meeting of the FIA Senate to discuss the publicity surrounding what is described by Formula One racing’s ruling body as “an apparently illegal invasion” of Mosley’s privacy.
It comes after allegations relating to Mosley’s private life were published in a British newspaper last weekend and follows calls on Thursday […]

Embattled FIA President Max Mosley on Thursday called an `Extraordinary General Assembly` of the governing body`s senate. The development comes after four manufacturers involved in formula one denounced the widely reported sex scandal. Mosley, 67, had also intended to attend the Bahrain grand prix this weekend, but he was warned off by the kingdom`s royal […]

The FIA has issued a statement this afternoon calling an extraordinary meeting of the sport`s governing body in respect of the recent allegations in a British tabloid newspaper and the subsequent fall-out.
The statement read:
"The President of the FIA has requested the President of the FIA Senate to call an Extraordinary General Assembly in accordance […]

FIA president Max Mosley has called an Extraordinary General Assembly meeting of motor racing`s governing body to discuss the fallout of the tabloid revelations into his private life.
On the back of a raft of calls for the FIA to take action over the matter, Mosley has asked the president of the FIA Senate to arrange […]

Honda Racing have joined the chorus of criticisms of FIA president Max Mosley over his behaviour, and called for motor racing`s governing body to make a swift decision on whether he should carry on in his role.
With BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota all having issued statements on Thursday claiming that Mosley`s behaviour was unacceptable, Honda added […]

Championship leader Lewis Hamilton is among the drivers for the Thursday press call, while Friday sees the team principals step into the spotlight, including Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali. The line-up in full:
Thursday April 3, 1500 hours local time (1200 GMT):Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber), Nico Rosberg (Williams) and Jarno Trulli (Toyota).
Friday April 4, 1600 […]

Formula One`s governing body, the FIA, has kept its distance from sexual allegations in a British tabloid newspaper about its president Max Mosley.
The News of the World reported in a front page story that FIA president Mosley, 67, had taken part in a `sadomasochistic orgy` with five prostitutes that was alleged to involve Nazi role-playing. […]

Jean-Marie Balestre, former President of the FIA, has died, aged 86.
A controversial figure, Balestre, was President of the FIA from 1986 to 1993, and FISA from 1979 to 1981. Over the years he was involved in many legendary `incidents` in F1, not least the FISA-FOCA war, when he went head-to-head with the constructors, led by […]

Following the incident at Sepang, which saw McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen penalised for driving slowly on the racing line, having completed their own final flying lap, and thereby impeding (and endangering) Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso, the FIA is to revise the rules.
"Our clarification to the teams and drivers will be that […]

A tweak to the `knockout` format will be installed before cars face the qualifying session in Bahrain next weekend.As reported earlier, teams and F1`s governing body considered the change necessary after slow-moving cars that were saving fuel got in the way of runners on their final flying laps at the end of `Q3` in Malaysia.The […]

The FIA is to revise the rules for qualifying in time for the Bahrain Grand Prix in a bid to ensure there is no repeat of the controversy that marred the session in Malaysia, autosport.com has learned.
In Sepang, a quirk in the current regulations meant that several drivers were touring slowly back to the pits […]

The Sporting Working Group and the FIA have been asked to consider making changes to the timetable for this year`s Singapore Grand Prix because of new fears about the lack of running Formula One drivers will get before the race.
F1 is to hold its first night race around the streets of Singapore in September and […]

Mark Webber is confident that Red Bull is getting on top of the design problems that cast a shadow over the team`s 2008 season in Malaysia.Off the back of several incidents involving crumbling suspension pieces at both Sepang and Melbourne a week earlier, FIA stewards last weekend ordered the team to explain how its Adrian […]

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner says he has no qualms about the FIA`s investigation into his team`s suspension design in Malaysia.
The Milton Keynes-based outfit had to supply a report to the FIA on Friday night explaining why the stewards should not consider excluding the team on safety grounds following David Coulthard`s spectacular accident […]

1st Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), 1h31m18.555s; 2nd Robert Kubica (BMW Sauber), 1h31m38.125s; 3rd Heikki Kovlainen (McLaren), 1h31m57.005s.
Q: Kimi, that was a fantastic win and from the start it looked like a very close race between you and your team-mate Felipe Massa. Kimi Raikkonen: Yeah, I think so. We were pretty similar speed-wise. Once he went into […]

The FIA is being urged to make changes to the qualifying regulations in order to avoid a repeat of the controversy that marred events in Malaysia this weekend.
Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were each docked five grid positions for holding up other cars during the final seconds of qualifying, as they returned slowly to the […]

Team principals: Gerhard Berger (Toro Rosso), Mario Theissen (BMW Sauber), Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren Mercedes)
Q: Gerhard, last weekend you must have been very encouraged by that performance, Sebastian Vettel’s qualifying and Sebastien Bourdais’ performance during the race itself.Gerhard Berger: Everything was fine. It was a good performance by the team but unfortunately we still had […]