Formula One News — July 2008

German GP - Saturday Team Quotes

German GP - Qualifying Results

Heikki Kovalainen set the fastest time of the Saturday morning session in sunny but windy conditions at Hockenheim.

German GP - Practice 3 Results

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the second practice session for the German GP, lapping the Hockenheim track in 1m15.025s, a time that was seven-tenths clear of the best recorded in the session by Felipe Massa

German GP - Friday Photos

Yesterday Windshear Inc. held "a grand opening" for the world's first commercially available full-scale, single-belt, rolling road wind tunnel. This is located in Concord, North Carolina, in the heart of NASCAR country.

BMW Sauber conducted its first track tests of its Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) at the company's Miramas test track in France last week. The work was done with a F1.07 with Marko Asmer doing the driving.

There has been much doubt expressed about the FIA's plans to reintroduce Formula 2 racing. The criticism has centred on the fact that there will be no promotion, no television and the price is so low that teams believe that the chassis will not be very sophistocated.

German GP - Friday Press Conference

German GP - Friday Team Quotes

German GP - Practice 2 Results

Honda's Ross Brawn says that he is not looking to change the driver line-up next year. Brawn says that Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello will stay on with the team in 2009 and that the team's priority is to build a better car to help the drivers produce results.

Peugeot Sport's director of communication Jean-Claude Lefebvre appeared in the paddock at Hockenheim, saying that he was "on holiday". This was much the same answer he gave 15 years ago when he appeared in the paddock prior to Peugeot's entry into F1 as an engine supplier in 1994.

Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen set the pace in Hockenheim for the McLaren-Mercedes team, on a damp circuit.

German GP - Practice 1 Results

German GP - Thursday Press Conference

Red Bull has announced that Sebastian Vettel will move from Toro Rosso to drive for the Red Bull team starting in 2009, to replace David Coulthard, who will retire at the end of this season.

Jenson Button has signed up to compete in the Race of Champions event at Wembley stadium on December 14.

The demise of the Super Aguri F1 team has resulted in a number of engineers coming on to the market and the Dave Price Racing organisation has moved quickly to snap up Gerry Hughes, the former chief race engineer of the team. Price says that he now intends to develop an aerodynamic research consultancy, with the focus being on simulation technology and 7-post rig testing.

The Belgian brewery firm InBev has acquired the US beer firm Anheuser-Busch for $52bn. The purchase creates the world's largest beer company. The new company, which will be the number one beer company in the world, will be called Anheuser-Busch-InBev and will control brands such as Stella Artois, Bass, Beck's, Boddingtons, Brahma, Labatt, Lowenbrau, Budweiser, Busch, Michelob and Rolling Rock.

Hundreds of thousands of Russians turned out on Sunday to see a street demonstration put on by Holland's Rotterdam Racing and featuring Formula 1 cars from Williams and Red Bull Racing.

Hans-Joachim Stuck, the man who is in charge of all Volkswagen group motorsport activities, has told the Austrian newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten that the Wolfsburg conglomerate will not be entering Formula 1 in the next three years.

With all the hullabaloo surrounding the British Grand Prix last week one event was rather overlooked, although it is worth a mention for its is very good news for the F1 world.

Ferrari and McLaren have announced that they are bringing to an end the various legal disputes between them. McLaren has agreed to pay Ferrari's legal costs arising from the actions, which relate to the spying scandals of 2007.