Formula One News — July 2009

German GP - Sunday Photos

German GP - Sunday Team Quotes

German GP - Sunday Press Conference

German GP - Race Results

Qualifying for the German Grand Prix was decidedly odd, and in the end saw Mark Webber take his first career pole position.

German GP - Saturday Photos

German GP - Saturday Team Quotes

German GP - Saturday Press Conference

Ari Vatanen has confirmed that he will be putting name forward for the election to become FIA President in October.

Multiple World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb made some headlines when he expressed an interest in replacing fellow countryman Sebastien Bourdais in Formula 1.

German GP - Qualifying Results

German GP - Practice 3 Results

The German racing fan is a major market for the automobile manufacturers and so it was no real surprise to see Lewis Hamilton top the timesheets on Friday at the Nurburgring.

German GP - Friday Photos

German GP - Friday Press Conference

German GP - Friday Team Quotes

German GP - Practice 2 Results

German GP - Practice 1 Report

German GP - Practice 1 Results

This morning the Force India team was visited by a number of German policemen, who has appeared on the scene to seize the team's cars because of a dispute over payment for the team's hospitality unit.

The rumour in the paddock at the Nurburgring was that Sebastien Bourdais will soon depart Scuderia Toro Rosso, to be replaced by Spanish up-and-coming racer Jamie Alguersuari.

Geoff Willis, the technical director of Red Bull Racing, has left the team. According to team sources he was made redundant and his position has been eliminated.

German GP - Thursday Press Conference

Ron Walker, the boss of the Australian Grand Prix, says that Max Mosley should stand down as FIA President.

It would be nice to have a week when there was not one scandal or another related to Formula 1 but this seems impossible at the moment. This week's scandal is a financial one.