Ralf Schumacher says he would follow his older brother Michael’s return to Formula One racing if he had the right offer.
Michael Schumacher, a record seven-time Formula One champion, is coming out of three years of retirement to drive for Mercedes GP. sportsillustrated
Michael Schumacher says he intends to crown his Formula 1 comeback by challenging for the 2010 title. The seven-time champion announced his return for 2010 on Wednesday with Mercedes, the renamed Brawn GP team. Despite three years out of the sport, he insists he can threaten the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button - the 2008 and 2009 world champions. BBC Sports
Montreal’s mayor says a tentative deal has been reached to return Formula One racing to the city in 2010.
Mayor Gerald Tremblay says the race date and other details still have to be worked out. Tremblay spoke Thursday after F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone recently told a motor sport magazine that Montreal would be back on the racing calendar in 2010. Sportsillustrated
Seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher says he is slimming down for his comeback at European Grand Prix in Valencia on Aug. 23. The 40-year-old is returning to his Ferrari team while Felipe Massa recovers from a recent crash at Hungarian Grand Prix. Schumacher has a little neck pain from a motorcycle crash in February and sustained a neck injury.
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is on his way home to Brazil, nine days after a life-threatening crash during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Massa is expected to arrive in Sao Paulo on Monday evening, accompanied on a private jet by his wife, Raffaela, who six months pregnant with their first child, and family doctor Dino Altman.
“Many things have happened over the last days and I want to get back to a normal life,” Massa said in an interview on Ferrari’s Web site. “I want to get back into the best possible condition - doing things you do every day.” Sportsillustrated
Formula One bosses have tried a series of measures to liven-up the sport, but a web video featuring McLaren star Lewis Hamilton suggests that removing the drivers from the equation could be the next step.
The promo film for Vodafone shows an office worker racing a model F1 car around a home-made circuit, using a mobile phone to steer it.
Doctors treating Ferrari’s Felipe Massa say the injured Formula 1 driver may leave hospital within 10 days.
Massa, 28, is recovering after surgery on the fractured skull he suffered when a spring from another car hit him in qualifying in Hungary on Saturday.
“If his recovery continues at this pace, I wouldn’t rule out that he could leave within 10 days,” said AEK hospital medical director Peter Bazso. BBC Sports
Renault has been suspended from the upcoming European Grand Prix after allowing Fernando Alonso to leave pit lane with a loose tire in the Hungarian GP.
Governing body FIA said on Sunday that the French team “is suspended from the next event in the Formula One” championship. FIA made the decision after reviewing film and radio recordings from Sunday’s race.
Alonso’s right front tire popped off and bounced wildly down the track after as he rounded turn No. 9. sportsillustrated
Lewis Hamilton has hinted at a switch to Le Mans after life in Formula One. The reigning F1 world champion was quizzed on his future by Sun readers in an exclusive Q&A session. McLaren ace Hamilton, 24, said: “I’m into all kinds of sports, a bit like Michael Schumacher. “I’d love to try a MotoGP bike but not particularly race one. I would love to try one of Malcolm Wilson’s rally cars - and one day I might try a NASCAR. “But if Mercedes-Benz want to go to Le Mans one day and take me, I’ll do that.” Hamilton ruled out chasing glory at the gruelling Indy 500, though. He said: “To do the Indy 500 you have to be going at it. It would be unreasonable for me to expect to get in the car and go and win it. “You have to have a good season in that kind of thing so I don’t have any particular desire to do that.”" — The Sun (U.K.)
Formula 1 team Toro Rosso has fired French driver Sebastien Bourdais. Toro Rosso said a replacement driver would be named before the Hungarian Grand Prix. Bourdais, a four-time Champ Car series champion in the United States, had been unimpressive in the 2009 season.
