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F1's technical merry-go round has continued with former Ferrari man Dirk de Beer appointed Williams' new head of aerodynamics. The post Dirk de Beer heads to Williams appeared first on PlanetF1.

F1 News FIA respond to 1% stake in F1 sale Mercedes announce James Allison as technical director Could EU investigate Liberty Media's $8 billion F1 acquisition? Teams can't agree on trick suspension systems for 2017 Form...

Titles for sporting events are usually prestigious affairs, often used for promotional purposes and political prowess. But occasionally, they are a misnomer. So Motorsport Week's Phillip Horton thought it was time to tak...

Retro cars, dreaded phone calls and a licence to entertain? The new Formula 1 season must be fast approaching. The BBC Radio 5 live F1 Show on Thursday welcomed Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, Williams deputy team principal Cl...

Claire Williams allowed Valtteri Bottas to leave Williams Martini Racing to join the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team in 2017 after revealing that she promised the Finn that they would not stand in the way of anoth...

Clint Bowyer hasn't won a race since 2012, hasn't made the playoffs in three years and is coming off an embarrassingly bad season. The worst of his career. It was …

Emanuele Pirro will join a number of other racing legends at the Historic Motorsport International show taking place next week, 23-26 February at ExCeL, London, and will be reunited with two iconic cars from his career. ...

New Silver Arrows signing Valtteri Bottas, dropped by to catch up with his new team-mates just in time to catch a and got a first look at pit stop practice with the new, wider, heavier tyres introduced for the 2017 Formu...

Sauber driver Pascal Wehrlein will miss the first part of Formula One pre-season testing as a precautionary measure after injuring his back last month. The German driver sustained the injury …

The Silverstone-based Sahara Force India F1 Team has named Foresight & Vision as a partner for the upcoming season. Drivers and team personnel will sport Eye Respect and LDNR sunglasses at events in a partnership that in...

NASCAR driver Kurt Busch is being sued for nearly $1.5 million by his former sports management company after he terminated their relationship last March. Sports Management Network is seeking $1.47 …

Forget the car launches - with the first controversy of 2017 is already simmering and could well boil over before the Formula 1 season is officially under way when the circus sets up tent in Barcelona for the first prese...

XPBImages Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff claims the reigning world champions are "fearing everybody" amid sweeping regulation changes for the upcoming Formula 1 campaign. The German manufacturer has been the dominan...

Liberty Media wants to steer Formula One towards a 'better place' but there are no quick fixes for the sport's evident problems, newly-appointed motorsport head Ross Brawn has said ahead of talks with teams. 'There are s...

Sauber driver Pascal Wehrlein will miss Formula One's opening pre-season test in Barcelona at the end of February due to a lingering back problem, the German said on Friday. 'I have to skip the first winter test due to m...

Lewis Hamilton says that Formula 1 should add more city circuits to its calendar as he believes they are the future of the sport and the best way to attract more fans to the series. The Mercedes driver reckonsthe problem...

McLaren-Honda has confirmed that its fuel and lubricants supplier this season will beBP and its oil brand Castrol, ending its long-standing relationship with ExxonMobil. McLaren had developed a partnership with ExxonMobi...

Mercedes has confirmed that James Allison will join the team as its new technical director at the start of March. Allison has spent over two decades working in senior roles in Formula 1, most prominently with Renault and...

Gene Haas reckons his eponymous outfit can move up the order in Formula 1 this season though is wary that its second campaign in the category could prove “just as challenging” as its first. Haas made its debut in For...

McLaren has confirmed that Jost Capito has left his role as CEO, just five months after he formally started working with the team. McLaren announced the recruitment of Capito in January 2016, though the German’s existi...

Members of theEuropean Parliament have backed a probeinto alleged 'anti-competitive practices' in Formula 1 following recent complaints to the European Commission. Both Force India and Sauber wrote to the competition com...