Formula One News — May 2003

Monaco GP - Saturday Qualifying Report

BAR has confirmed that France Corbeil, of Partnership Production Group International (PPGI), has obtained a court order in Monaco to seize three of the team's Grand Prix cars.

Monaco GP - Saturday Photos

Monaco GP - Saturday Qualifying Results

Monaco GP - Saturday Warmup Results

Initial reports from medical personnel indicate that Jenson Button has suffered no serious injury as a result of his high-speed crash. The accident started at around 190mph when Button lost control and the BAR-Honda went into the barrier on the left hand side of the road.

Monaco GP - Saturday Practice Results

Jenson Button had a big accident on Saturday morning at Monaco, the car going sideways into the barriers at high speed at the chicane.

Toyota boss Ove Andersson says that Toyota will be willing to supply a customer team if called upon to do so but not until 2005.

America has yet another Formula 3000 driver with sometime Indy Racing League driver Will Langhorne having done a deal to join the BCN team at Monaco, replacing Australia's Rob Nguyen.

FIA President Max Mosley will jet into Monaco tonight and it is expected that there will be some fireworks in the days ahead as it is clear that the automobile manufacturers which are plotting to start a rival series to Formula 1 are not going to respect a deal that was hammered out with Mosley over traction-control.

Monaco GP - Thursday Qualifying Report

The word on the street in Monaco is that the recent purchase of the old Arrows factory in Leafield may be related to a second team for Renault in F1.

A few weeks ago Formula 1 engine manufacturers gave the impression that they would be willing to supply engines to customer teams for $10m a year. In exchange for this the FIA said that it would be willing to allow traction-control for the foreseeable future.

Monaco GP - Thursday Photos

Monaco GP - Thursday Qualifying Results

Monaco GP - Thursday Practice Results

Monaco GP - Thursday Testing Results

The Malaysian Ministry of Youth and Sport is to open a Petronas Motorsports Museum at the company's Research and Scientific Center in Bangi.

Norberto Fontana was in Formula 1 with Sauber back in 1997 but failed to make a good enough impression to stay in Grand Prix racing.

Monaco GP - Preview

We hear whispers from the F1 paddock that McLaren is about to announce a sponsorship deal with Russian gas company Gazprom.

Jean-Jacques His, the Renault engine designer, has gone back to Italy to work for Ferrari's sister company Maserati, working on road car engine design.

The skies above the Cote d'Azur are decidedly grey at the moment and the weather forecast for the days ahead is that the weather will remain unsettled at least until the weekend.

There is a bit of a kerfuffle going on in F1 circles following a story in the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport that a Ferrari engineer has been selling information to another team.