Formula One News — June 2012
JUNE 22, 2012
Friday Photos
European GP - Friday Photos
Friday Press Conference
European GP - Friday Press Conference
Friday Team Quotes
European GP - Friday Team Quotes
Practice 2 Results
European GP - Practice 2 Results
Practice 1 Report - Maldonado tops first Valencia session
European GP - Practice 1 Report
Practice 1 Results
European GP - Practice 1 Results
JUNE 21, 2012
Thursday Press Conference
European GP - Thursday Press Conference
Vettel admits Ferrari interest is flattering
Double world champion Sebastian faced questions on comments attributed to Ferrari team principal Srefano Domenicali on Ferrari's official website saying that the German and Fernando Alonso could co-exist quite happily at Maranello.
JUNE 20, 2012
Gribkowsky admits receiving F1 cash
German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky has admitted receiving multi million dollar payments to assist with the sale of the F1 business to CVC Capital Partners in 2006, while handling the matter for Bayern Landesbank
JUNE 18, 2012
Hamilton targets consistency
Despite scoring his first win of the 2012 season in Canada, Lewis Hamilton says that finishing is more important than winning at this weekend's European GP in Valencia.
JUNE 17, 2012
Davidson breaks back in Le Mans shunt
Former Super Aguri F1 driver and Sky Sports F1 pundit Anthony Davidson suffered a huge accident in the fifth hour of the Le Mans 24 Hours when his Toyota LMP1 tangled with a GT class Ferrari and somersaulted.
CVC sells more of F1 business
F1 commercial rights holder CVC Capital Partners has sold a further $500m stake in Formula One after unloading a 21% stake to three investors, Black Rock, Norges Bank and Waddell & Reed on May 22.
JUNE 15, 2012
FIA drives F1 cost control
At a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris today, the governing body reiterated its cost control intentions in Formula One.
JUNE 14, 2012
Championship "will be like this to the end"
That is the prediction of McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh, whose driver Lewis Hamilton moved back to the top of the world championship table with his victory in Montreal.
An F1 grid at Le Mans
This weekend's Le Mans 24 hours will feature twenty-two former F1 drivers among those entered for the classic French event.
JUNE 13, 2012
Video: Vettel drives GP of America course
Infiniti has released a video of Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel driving the Grand Prix of America track in Weehawken, NJ.
Whiting impressed by Austin
Charlie Whiting, the FIA's F1 race director, flew to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas after Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix to check on progress ahead of the inaugural Texan race in November.
Vettel activates Letterman's bleeper
Sebastian Vettel had to be 'bleeped out' a couple of times while explaining the finer nuances of F1 to an American audience on David Letterman's Late Show...
JUNE 12, 2012
Turbos can be affordable, says Haug
Mercedes Motorsport chief Norbert Haug says that spending on F1's new 'green' V6 turbos, scheduled for 2014, could be no greater than the current engines if averaged out over a five-year period.
Senna to receive Bandini award
Bruno Senna will travel to Brisighella in Italy to receive the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy, an award voted by the home town of the leading Italian driver who was killed in the 1967 Monaco GP.
Vettel gets first taste of GP of America
Sebastian Vettel became the first Formula One driver to get a taste of the circuit for the upcoming Grand Prix of America, at Port Imperial in Weehawken, NJ.
JUNE 11, 2012
Ferrari in title hunt, says Whitmarsh
Although Fernando Alonso's one-stop gamble did not reap reward in Montreal, Ferrari showed true qualifying pace for the first this year and the Spaniard left pleased with progress
Race Report - The magnificent seven
Canadian GP - Race Report
JUNE 10, 2012
Sunday Press Conference
Canadian GP - Sunday Press Conference
Sunday Photos
Canadian GP - Sunday Photos