Formula One News — November 2013

The Lotus-Renault team has announced that it has signed Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado to partner with Romain Grosjean for the 2014 F1 season.

Sources close to Lotus report that the Enstone based team is ready to announce the Williams-departed Pastor Maldonado as Romain Grosjean's teammate for 2014.

Martin Whitmarsh has admitted he is not sure if Mercedes will supply a "competitive" engine in 2014.

F1 legend Michael Schumacher has admitted he is worried about the sport's financial health.

Nico Hulkenberg is expected to flee to Force India, and Sauber is now also losing its chief engineer to the Silverstone based team.

Tickets for next year's returning Austrian grand prix have sold out.

As predicted, Mercedes on Thursday confirmed reports team boss Ross Brawn is stepping down.

After Ferrari denied it is the biggest spender in formula one, McLaren says the most financially powerful team in pitlane is actually Red Bull.

F1 could be set to shed yet another team from the back of the grid ahead of the 2014 season.

A fire this week was not the first incident at Brixworth, as Mercedes develops its turbo V6 engine for 2014.

Mercedes will announce on Thursday that Ross Brawn is leaving the German team.

Comments in which Mark Webber was highly critical of his former Red Bull colleagues have been removed from the Australian's official website.

Norbert Haug, the former Mercedes competition boss, has bad news for the hopeful German marque.

Fernando Alonso has been banned from talking about Ferrari via his personal Twitter account.

As only a forced winter pause finally stops Sebastian Vettel's winning streak for now, the F1 grid is divided over whether the German is really the best.

F1's V8 engines have already roared for the last time, but Bernie Ecclestone still thinks moving to turbo V6s next year is a bad idea.

Ferrari has hit back at reports in a famous British magazine that its budget is the highest in formula one.

Luca di Montezemolo has dismissed as a "joke" Bernie Ecclestone's claim that Christian Horner is his ideal successor as F1 supremo.

Moves are afoot to organise a Pirelli tyre test in December, ahead of the start of official 2014 testing in January.

Ferrari has "almost certainly" abandoned its novel approach to front suspension layout ahead of the 2014 season.

The final pieces of the 2014 grid are now set to fall into place.

Sebastian Vettel says he is "sad" the 2013 season, characterised by his history-making dominance, is now over.

An announcement about Ross Brawn's departure from Mercedes is now imminent.

Jenson Button has played down fears McLaren could be set to enter a Williams-like slide into the bottom half of the formula one grid.

Signed up by team owners Red Bull to replace Daniel Ricciardo at Toro Rosso next year, the Russian teen got an early start with practice outings in Austin and Brazil.