Formula One News — April 2006

Michael Schumacher took pole position for the San Marino Grand Prix - and perhaps that was the key moment of the Imola weekend. No-one knew why the car was suddenly so much quicker than it had been in Australia and Malaysia but obviously there was a little black magic from Bridgestone.

Nelson Piquet Jr now leads the GP2 series championship lead after finishing finished fifth and second in the two races over the weekend at Imola. Piquet is followed in the championship by ex-F1 driver Gimmi Bruni, who win at the weekend for the new Trident Racing organisation.

San Marino GP - Sunday Photos

San Marino GP - Race Notes

San Marino GP - Sunday Press Conference

San Marino GP - Sunday Team Quotes

San Marino GP - Race Incidents

San Marino GP - Race Results

The Greek Tourism Development Ministry has finalised the conditions required for locations which are bidding to be the venue of a Formula 1 track in Greece.

A year ago at Imola, Michael Schumacher's Ferrari, which had done nothing in the early races, suddenly found a huge amount of speed in the San Marino Grand Prix. Michael was second right behind Fernando Alonso's Renault. And yet as the season went on that speed seemed to disappear again.

San Marino GP - Saturday Photos

San Marino GP - Saturday Press Conference

San Marino GP - Saturday Team Quotes

San Marino GP - Qualifying Results

After a day doing homework on Friday the F1 teams started to get serious on Saturday morning with tyre choices made and set-ups decided upon.

San Marino GP - Practice 3 Results

Hope springs eternal in Italy when Ferraris are running around race tracks but even the team's famous magic at Imola was unable to stop Fernando Alonso setting the fastest time on Friday with a blistering lap of 1m25.043s in the final seconds of the second practice session.

Alex Shnaider has been rather excited in recent days about rumours suggesting that he is selling his MF1 Racing Formula 1 team. Indeed he has even become rather impolite on the subject.

San Marino GP - Friday Photos

San Marino GP - Friday Press Conference

San Marino GP - Friday Team Quotes

San Marino GP - Practice 2 Results

Ferrari always seems to have a little magic available when it comes to its home circuit at Imola and we saw it once again on Friday morning when Michael Schumacher emerged from the pitlane after 55 minutes of the one hour session and promptly set the fastest time of the session on only his second flying lap.

San Marino GP - Practice 1 Results

The German government is reported to be planning to take legal action to stop the European Union imposing a ban on tobacco advertising. The move comes in response to the EU health commissioner Markos Kyprianou's plan to take Germany to the European court.