Formula One driver Fernando Alonso has had his thumbs insured for almost $14 million, The Sun reported Tuesday. The bizarre cover is part of a life and accident package arranged by one of Ferrari’s sponsors, banking and insurance giant Santander. A spokesperson for the company managed to keep a straight face while explaining: “Alonso’s thumbs [...]
Even a reduced Michael Schumacher looks capable of being fast in this city of scooters and traffic jams, and it was here that the seven-times Formula One world champion emerged today to remind his multiplying doubters that he is still in the title race. After three rounds the man with a record 91 victories has [...]
It is too soon to write off Formula One legend Michael Schumacher this season, Mercedes team Chief Ross Brawn warned paparazzi on Friday. Brawn was talking as his team prepares to come back to the scene of the seven-time world champion’s last win at the Chinese Grand Prix back in 2006. After seeing the 41-year-old [...]
Former world champion Michael Schumacher has finally announced here that he will return to Formula One circuit after three years in retirement. The seven-time Formula One world champion said that he is fully fit and hopes to perform well in the season. The German F1 legend, who will join Mercedes GP for the 2010 season, [...]
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen has been named Formula One’s biggest earner, pocketing nearly three times as much as the next best-paid driver. The Finn’s 2009 salary is £27.35 million, according to a list published by Arabian Business magazine, dwarfing the £10.9m paid to outgoing world champion Lewis Hamilton. Another former world champion, Renault’s Fernando Alonso took [...]
The prospect of the first consecutive British world champions in Formula One since 1969 is getting ever closer as Jenson Button keeps doing just enough to stay in front of the pack and follow Lewis Hamilton to the top of the motor sport world. While Button drove gamely to fifth place in the Singapore Grand [...]
The Singapore race-fixing scandal, which has plunged the world’s most glamourous sport into a bitter spiral of recriminations and resignations, will push Formula One’s credibility to the brink on Monday. It will also go a long way in helping disgraced paddock superpower Renault decide whether or not it really wants to continue in a sport [...]
For the last month, Formula One auto racing has been shaken by allegations from a back-of-the-field driver that a crash arranged by his Renault racing team in last September’s Singapore Grand Prix enabled Renault’s lead driver to leap from a midfield position to an upset victory. Many in the sport fear that if the allegation [...]
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen claimed his first victory in 25 races on Sunday when he held off a challenge from Force India’s Giancarlo Fisichella to triumph in the Belgian Grand Prix. Raikkonen’s win was Ferrari’s first this year, his first since the 2008 Spanish Grand Prix, and the 18th of his career. It came on a [...]
If there is a race track that every driver simply adores, it’s Spa-Francorchamps. And there isn’t one of the 20 who are headed there for this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix who doesn’t rate it as one of their favourites. The picturesque Hautes Fagnes region of the Ardennes, with its thick forests and unpredictable micro-climate, enjoyed [...]