Formula One News — September 2009

Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, beating Adrian Sutil by two-tenths. Kimi Raikkonen was third for Ferrari but hoped to do better in the race as the Ferrari has long tended to be better in the races than in qualifying.

Italian GP - Saturday Photos

Italian GP - Saturday Press Conference

Italian GP - Saturday Team Quotes

Italian GP - Qualifying Results

Adrian Sutil set the pace again in Italy on Saturday morning ahead of Jenson Button's Brawn and Nick Heidfeld's BMW Sauber. Rubens Barrichello was fourth ahead of the McLarens or Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen.

Italian GP - Practice 3 Results

The old Force India team had an odd day at Monza with Adrian Sutil setting the fastest time of the Friday afternoon session by two-tenths of a second ahead of Romain Grosjean and Fernando Alonso.

Italian GP - Friday Photos

Italian GP - Friday Press Conference

Italian GP - Friday Team Quotes

Italian GP - Practice 2 Results

The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) has expressed concern at the leakage of information, which "may or may not be relevant to the FIA current enquiry into the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix".

Flavio Briatore and the ING Renault F1 team say that they have initiated legal action against Nelson Piquets Jr and Sr.

Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen set the pace at Monza on Friday morning with an appreciable advantage over the opposition. If that continues throughout the weekend the silver cars will be dominant.

Italian GP - Practice 1 Results

The legal statement made to the FIA by Nelson Piquet Jr has been leaked to the F1SA website. It is not clear how this has happened but we believe that the World Council dossier has been sent out and the leak must come from one of the members.

Italian GP - Thursday Press Conference

Stories are now emerging about the defence being planned by Renault F1 against the claims that the team conspired to fix the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. The information, clearly from a leak, suggest that the team will blame Nelson Piquet for coming up with the idea.

McLaren has launched its MP4-12C sports car and says that it is aiming to "re-write the rules of sports car design through Formula 1-inspired engineering, revolutionary chassis architecture, and absolute focus on efficiency".

The FOTA Executive Committee, chaired by Luca di Montezemolo, met today in Monza and an agreement has been reached to allow Williams F1 and Force India back into the fold.

CVC Capital Partners has filed the 2008 accounts for its Delta 3 (UK) Ltd subsidiary, the parent company of the Formula One group. These reveal that the revenues of the sport rose by $120m (13% ) to $1.06bn in the course of last year.

There have been stories today that Mercedes-Benz is talking about buying a stake in the Brawn GP team.

Cosworth has announced the appointment of Mark Gallagher as the leader of its Formula 1 Business Unit.

The Force India Formula One Team has announced that Vitantonio Liuzzi will assume driving duties of car number 21 from next weekend's Italian Grand Prix.