Filed under: Motorsports , Lotus Few drivers have caused the kind of speculation that Kimi Raikkonen has in the past few years alone. Will he take a Ferrari payoff and make way for Fernando Alonso ? Will he find another ride in Formula One ? Will he make it in the World Rally Championship ?
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Official: Kimi Raikkonen marks official return to F1 with Lotus test run [w/video]
Filed under: Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Technology , UK , MISC If you were impressed by the MP4-12C , well, you should be. It’s an otherworldly performance machine. But we ain’t seen nothing yet from McLaren Automotive , which is gearing up to launch an even more capable supercar.
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Report: McLaren F1 successor to pack KERS into clean-sheet design
Filed under: Motorsports , China , Europe , Government/Legal An impending court trial in Germany is shaping up to be the largest parade of Formula One drivers since the 2011 season wrapped up in Brazil this past November. The proceeding pits one Eric Lux (CEO of Genii Capital that owns part of Lotus Renault GP) against Adrian Sutil (a veteran grand prix driver who most recently drove for Force India ) over an alleged fight in a Shanghai night club. Now, most of us have been there and done that, but the details of this particular incident remain scarce. Apparently, during the altercation, Sutil cut Lux’s neck with a broken bottle
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Report: F1 driver Adrian Sutil to stand trial in Germany over Shanghai bar fight
Filed under: Motorsports , UK There aren’t a lot of television stations in the world dedicated entirely to cars. On this side of the Atlantic, we have Speed and Discovery’s new Velocity channel, and the latter isn’t even all cars all the time. But now, the UK is getting its own dedicated Formula One network.
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Confirmed: Sky Sports gears up for F1 with dedicated channel
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs Formula One is no stranger to motion. But as fast as these drivers in their cars move during the regular season, it’s in the off-season when things really get shaken up. Drivers change teams.
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Official: Bruno Senna signs with Williams F1
Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Etc. , Videos , Celebrities Good motorsports films don’t come up terribly often, but now and again, we get lucky. In 2011, we were graced with the very fine Senna documentary , and it appears there’s another period Formula One racing piece that could be worth watching on the silver screen soon: Rush . We’ve known for some time that this project, which chronicles the 1976 F1 season-long battle between Austria’s Niki Lauda and Britain’s James Hunt, was in the cards, and we also knew that Ron Howard had signed on as producer
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Report: Ron Howard’s Rush caught filming at ‘Ring