Formula One News — September 2005

The Jordan team has decided that it is better to be discreet and keep a low profile and has dropped the Sobranie logos which were seen on the car yesterday.

Once upon a time there was a man in Formula 1 called Tom Walkinshaw, who came up with the idea of turning his struggling Arrows F1 team into a star-spangled banner for Red Bull.

Italian GP - Practice Session 3 Results

The Formula 1 teams know that the first three races next year will be in Bahrain (March 12), Malaysia (March 19) and Australia (April 2) but after that there is something of a mystery as to where the World Championship will go.

Antonio Pizzonia has stepped in to replace Nick Heidfeld in the Williams-BMW team this weekend. Heidfeld was suffering from a headache following a testing crash at Monza last week.

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest, the club that runs the Le Mans 24 Hours, is to invest in a refurbishment of the paddock and racing village area, increasing the paddock to 60,000sq.ft and building additional pit garages to enable the club to have 55 starters in the 2006 24 Hours.

Ricardo Zonta gave Toyota the fastest time of the day at Monza on Friday with a best lap in the afternoon session of 1m20.531s, slower than the morning session when McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa recorded a lap of 1m20.201s.

FIA President Max Mosley was in Monza to announce an agreement between the FIA and AMD.

Italian GP - Friday Photos

Italian GP - Friday Press Conference

The fourth annual Winning Attitudes Award ceremony took place at Monza on Thursday evening.

Italian GP - Friday Team Quotes

There are rumours that Hilton Hotels may be on the verge of becoming a Formula 1 sponsor.

Italian GP - Practice Session 2 Results

There are reports that Red Bull is looking at buying the Minardi team in order to transform it into a Red Bull USA team and thus find room for the many drivers it is currently promoting.

Pedro de la Rosa set the fastest time on Friday morning at the Autodromo Nazionale in Monza, lapping the track 1.6secs faster than the nearest challenger, on this occasion Mark Webber in the Williams-BMW.

Italian GP - Practice Session 1 Results

The word from Brazil is that Rio de Janeiro is getting serious about a bid for the Brazilian Grand Prix with F1 track designer Hermann Tilke having completed a design for a circuit to run around the sporting installations which are being built on the site of the old Jacarepagua circuit.

The Jordan team is running Sobranie branding on its cars at Monza, despite the European legislation which banned tobacco advertising in the European Union from August 1.

Red Bull Rcaing has now confirmed that Scott Speed will be its test and reserve driver next year with options to stay with the team next year.

The word on the street in F1 circles is that one of the driver negotiating for an F1 drive for next year is GP2 driver Nico Rosberg.

Sakon Yamamoto will drive the third Jordan-Toyota at the Japanese Grand Prix, standing in for Nicolas Kiesa.

Italian GP - Preview

Red Bull Racing is due to announce that Scott Speed is to join the team as test and reserve driver next year.

Ken Clarke, a Formula 1 fan and director of British American Tobacco, the part-owner of BAR, is bidding to become the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain and then hopes to lead the party to beat Labour at the next election, which must take place before May 2010.