Formula One News — September 2006

Ferrari's hopes of winning the Chinese Grand Prix took a serious hit on Saturday in Shanghai with a damp track giving Michelin a major performance advantage over rival Bridgestone.

Chinese GP - Saturday Photos

The Williams team is moving to improve its weakness this year with a major recruitment in the aerodynamics department, expanding Loic Bigois's team with the addition of Renault F1's Jon Tomlinson, who has been working in recent years with the aerodynamic team at Enstone.

Chinese GP - Saturday Press Conference

Chinese GP - Saturday Team Quotes

AMD is looking to expand its annual Formula 1 survey to help the fans get what they want from the sport. The computer chip company has been involved in two surveys to date but wants to widen the research in order to publicise things that need to be done

Chinese GP - Qualifying Results

The Spyker MF1 Team has signed an engine supply agreement with Ferrari. This means that unless Cosworth Racing can do a deal to supply engines to one of the two Red Bull teams, the Northampton company will be out of Formula 1.

Michael Schumacher set the fastest time of a damp morning session on Saturday in Shanghai. The track was drying as the session went on and in the scramble at the end of the session there was plenty of action, including an off for Michael himself.

Chinese GP - Practice 3 Results

Rubens Barrichello has won an interesting legal action in Brazil against the web community orkut.com, a by-invitation chat room offered by Google on which people publish their opinions on whatever subject they choose.

The weather in Shanghai has not been good today and during the second practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix there was rain at the Shanghai International Circuit, although not enough to disrupt the times to any great extent.

Chinese GP - Friday Photos

Super Aguri F1 has been negotiating for some months now in the hope that all of the Formula 1 teams would agree to change the Concorde Agreement to allow it to use cars built by the Honda F1 team in 2007.

Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn knows what he is doing next year - but he's not telling.

There were signs a few days ago that all was not well within the management of A1 Grand Prix when a calendar appeared with no mention of a race in Dubai - where the series was dreamed up by Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al-Maktoum.

Felipe Massa will drop 10 places on the grid in Shanghai as the result of an engine change on Friday. This will mean that Massa will probably not be in a strong position to help Michael Schumacher in his quest to win a final World Championship.

Chinese GP - Friday Press Conference

The Grand Prix Drivers Association Ltd has had a complete change of leadership with David Coulthard, Michael Schumacher and Jarno Trulli stepping down as directors to be replaced by Ralf Schumacher (who will be chairman), Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber.

Chinese GP - Friday Team Quotes

Chinese GP - Practice 2 Results

Antonio Pizzonia is to test for Fisichella Motor Sport in GP2. The 25-year-old Brazilian driver still wants to rebuild an F1 career although he will then be heading off to Australia where he is due to race for the Rocketsport Champ Car team at the race in Surfers' Paradise.

Formula 1 in China has an unusual problem, according to reports in the China Daily newspaper. People in China want to see the Formula 1 racing but the tickets are so expensive that they cannot afford to buy them.

There is no big surprise in the announcement that Christijan Albers has re-signed for the Spyker MF1 team for next year.

The calendars of Champ Car and the Indy Racing League have now been released and they create a number of strange date clashes with each other and with Formula 1.