Formula One News — July 2010

JULY 9, 2010

Practice 2 Results

British GP - Practice 2 Results

HRT drops Senna for Yamamoto

HRT has replaced Bruno Senna with test and third driver Sakon Yamamoto at Silverstone.

Practice 1 Results

British GP - Practice 1 Results

JULY 8, 2010

Thursday Press Conference

British GP - Thursday Press Conference

Webber: I'm good to go

Mark Webber says he is fully fit and ready to go after his horrific airborne exit from the European Grand Prix in Valencia.

Williams hands chairmanship to Parr

Sir Frank Williams has handed over the chairmanship of Williams Grand Prix Engineering to current chief executive officer, Adam Parr.

Tractors banned at Silverstone!

Silverstone is fast gathering a reputation for being the centre of political intrigue. In 2007 Spygate had just kicked off, in 2008 Donington was announced as the new British GP venue on the occasion of Silverstone's 60th birthday, last year was the FOTA breakaway and, now, the F1 teams have been told to remove their motorhome tractor units from the paddock.

JULY 7, 2010

13th slot in F1 is up for grabs

ART Grand Prix has announced that it has decided to withdraw their application to the FIA to be considered to take part in the 2011 Formula One World Championship.

Robert Kubica to remain with Renault

The Renault F1 team announced that it has signed a contract extension with Robert Kubica through the 2012 season.

Can Williams take the heat?

Williams technical director Sam Michael says that the team will evaluate Friday practice data from its exhaust blown diffuser before taking a decision on whether to qualify and race with the device.

JULY 6, 2010

Silverstone will answer key championship questions

This weekend's British Grand Prix should answer important questions as to how the rest of the 2010 world championship will develop.

Four more practice opportunities for Fauzy

Malaysian driver Fairuz Fauzy will have four more outings for Lotus Racing in the first session of free practice at Silverstone, Budapest, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

JULY 5, 2010

Testing - why F1 needs some

It was Flavio Briatore who used to put his finger to his temple and pull a funny face when he was trying to understand the amount of testing that F1 did. You could see his point.

JULY 4, 2010

Newey gift is symbolic

Red Bull Racing left no doubt of the high regard in which they hold technical chief Adrian Newey when they presented the design ace with a 2009 RB5 chassis, which he is driving at the Goodwood festival in England this weekend.

JULY 2, 2010

Button targets first Silverstone win

After a disappointing race at Silverstone last year, which came just as Brawn Grand Prix started to hot tyre warm-up problems, world champion Jenson Button is targeting his first win on home soil.

Webber approaches the governing body

As if somersaulting at 190mph was not enough stress for one week, Mark Webber proved that he has fully recovered by getting up early for a 6am pit stop outside the Houses of Parliament in London.