Formula One News — May 2004

Monaco GP - Saturday Photos

Monaco GP - Saturday Press Conference

Monaco GP - Qualifying Results

Monaco GP - Practice 4 Results

Monaco GP - Practice Session 3 Results

One rumour that will not go away is that Jacques Villeneuve will be seen testing a William-BMW in the course of the next few weeks.

FIA President Max Mosley hinted on Friday that a deal will soon be done for the British GP to go ahead in 2005 and 2006. Mosley dismissed suggestions that there might be a bid from London.

Sinopec, the sponsor of the Chinese Grand Prix, says that it wants to use the sport to increase the recognition of the company brand and to open up new markets, specifically in the Asia-Pacific region.

Our spies are telling us that next year we may be seeing a replacement for Red Bull as a major Sauber sponsor and we hear that the most likely course will be a Mexican beer company.

Max Mosley Press Briefing Transcript

Tim Bamford has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation. Bamford, 42, joined the AGPC in 1996 as its Engineering Manager, in 1998 he became Event Manager and in 2003 was named General Manager - Operations.

Central London will reverberate to the sound of Formula 1 cars on July 6 this year, the Tuesday before the British Grand Prix as the F1 teams put on a display for the British public in Regent Street.

Monaco GP - Practice Session 2 Report

Monaco GP - Thursday Photos

Monaco GP - Thursday Press Conference

Monaco GP - Practice Session 2 Results

Monaco GP - Practice Session 1 Results

Jaguar Racing may be taking much of the limelight with a host of Hollywood stars, but Eddie Jordan will have at least one important guest this weekend...

According to sources close to Giorgio Pantano, the Italian is now secure in his Jordan drive for the rest of the season.

Giorgio Pantano might have wished for an easier first season in Formula 1. Amid rumours that the Italian will be replaced because he has not been able to keep up to date with payments to Jordan Grand Prix,

Lord Hesketh, the former boss of the Hesketh F1 team who went on to become a government minister, the treasurer of the Conservative party and the president of the BRDC, is selling his family's ancestral home at Easton Neston, near Silverstone.

Monaco GP - Preview

Ralf Schumacher is not very comfortable at Williams this year - but this situation may not last much longer if the German continues to shoot from the hip with comments about the team.

One of the better known Formula 3 engineers Bruce Cary had died from cancer. Cary played an important role in developing many talents.

There may not be much motorsport in Pakistan but the sheer weight of numbers in the country is a major step forward for the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Pakistan boasts a population of 150m and that is a major boost to the WHO's campaign to stamp out tobacco advertising.