British race car manufacturer Lola will remain in state of readiness to re-enter Formula 1 when a spot comes available on the grid. Lola’s boss Martin Birrane has said the team has a Formula 1 model ready to start the company’s F1 project.
When asked about the current state of Lola’s F1 project Birrane told Racecar Engineering: “We remain in a state of readiness to re-enter Formula One. During 2010 it can be re-activated very quickly indeed. We have the model and base data, production and project plans, a completed chassis …

It has been a very special weekend for Ferrari driver Felipe Massa who returned to the race track for the first time after a very long absence due to injuries sustained in his incredible accident at the Hungaroring in Budapest on the 25th of July. The Brazilian was the highlight at the “International Champion Challenge”, a competition that has been organised by Massa himself in Florianopolis, Brazil, for several years.
Felipe, third in the first race after a beautiful performance from eleventh on the grid, won the second race, held on …

The Renault F1 Team is gearing up for the young driver test which will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of December in Jerez, Spain, adding Ho-Pin Tung to their already confirmed line up of Bertrand Baguette and Lucas Di Grassi, the three men to share driving duties across the three days.
The provisional schedule will see 23-year-old Belgian driver, Bertrand Baguette, get behind the wheel of the R29 on Tuesday 1st of December as his prize for winning the World Series by Renault 3.5 category. This will be …

Another two names have been added to next week’s young driver test at the Jerez circuit in Southern Spain with the new Mercedes grand Prix team, formerly known as brawn GP, confirmed that IRL’s British racer, Mike Conway and Marcus Ericsson, who contested the opening round of the GP2 Asia series with ART Grand Prix earlier this month after securing the Japanese F3 crown, will represent them at the session.
All teams, apart from McLaren, have revealed which young drivers will be present at Jerez who have contested under three grand …

According to reports in Autosport, the Formula One teams association, FOTA, has approved a further two new teams into their fold, that being Manor and Lotus, who will now join the other new entrants, USF1 and Campos Meta, meaning that all teams are now a part of the organization, that will lose one of its head men, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, at the end of the year.
Montezemolo’s role of Chairman of the organization will be filled after a vote of their chief executive committee in December while the second …

Red Bull Racing’s up and coming young star, Sebastian Vettel, who finished his debut season with the Milton Keynes based squad in a very impressive second place in the overall classification, has received yet another award, this time from the ADAC.
The ADAC is Europe’s largest Auto Club and they have honoured the young German by voting him the Motorsports man of the year in an award ceremony in Muncih, the twenty two year also becoming the youngest ever recipient of the award to date in the process.

New Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso has just completed two very intense days during his second semi-official visit to his new team’s Maranello based factory when, after arriving on Wednesday morning, the Spanish driver proceeded, together with the technicians, to get to know the team and next year’s program.
With a little spare time on his hands on both Wednesday and Thursday, Fernando had the opportunity to visit the works, where the cars from the Prancing Horse, for both the road and Formula 1, are made as well as the Ferrari Classiche …

Following the recent announcement of part funding by the Government-backed Technology Strategy Board, the partners in the KinerStor project have announced further details of their collaborative programme to demonstrate the viability of low-cost flywheel hybrid systems. The KinerStor project will be led by Ricardo and will comprise a consortium of industrial partners including CTG, JCB, Land Rover, SKF, Torotrak and Williams Hybrid Power.
The project aims to demonstrate the potential of flywheel-based hybrid systems with the potential for 30 per cent fuel savings (and equivalent reductions in CO2 emissions) at an …

The latest twist in the rumours linking Michael Schumacher to Mercedes for 2010 is that the German may already be contractually free to sign.
The seven time world champion’s new three-year consultancy agreement with Ferrari was announced in September.
Reports that Ferrari had not received any requests from either the 40-year-old German’s camp or Mercedes were therefore seen as evidence that the rumours lacked substance. But it emerged this week that Schumacher’s new contract with Ferrari may not have actually been signed.

Jacques Villeneuve on Thursday visited Lotus and was given a tour of Colin Chapman’s first workshops as speculation continues regarding a race return for the famous Canadian racer.
The 1997 world champion, who is openly hoping to re-enter the sport in 2010 after a three-year absence and has been training intensively in Austria, said earlier this month that he was in preliminary talks with the outfit.

Stefan Grand Prix, the Serbian team that is seeking a move into Formula 1, says it is still looking at opportunities to make it onto the grid next year – despite dismissing talk that it is about to buy Toyota’s F1 entry.
The fate of Toyota’s slot on the grid remains uncertain, with the FIA having sought clarification from the Japanese manufacturer about its legal position in relation to the entry it committed itself to until 2012.

Mark Webber says his motivation remain as high as ever as he targets an even stronger championship challenge in the 2010 season.
The Australian scored his first Formula 1 victory this year and went on to finish in fourth place in the standings.
Webber won two races in 2009, in Germany and Brazil.
The Red Bull driver, who has been racing in Formula 1 for eight years, is fired up to have another strong season in 2010.

The Renault team will test Bertrand Baguette, Lucas di Grassi and Ho-Pin Tung in the upcoming testing session at the Jerez circuit in Spain.
Baguette, the current Formula Renault 3.5 champion, will be joined by Renault’s reserve di Grassi and Chinese prospect Tung, who had already driven F1 machinery during a test with Williams.
Belgian Baguette will be on track on Tuesday, December 1 as his prize for winning the World Series title this year.

The Force India team has confirmed it will retain both Adrian Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi as its racing drivers for the 2010 season.
It will be the fourth consecutive season that German Sutil drives for the Silverstone-based squad, while Liuzzi secures a full-time drive for the first time since 2007.
“We are very pleased to retain the services of both Adrian and Tonio for another season,” said team boss Vijay Mallya.