Ahead of a critical weekend in the championship race, one in which Jenson Button’s Brawn GP team are desperate to hit back against Red Bull, it came as rather a surprise to find the major topic of conversation revolved around a Spanish teenager who nobody had ever heard of.
Jaime Alguersuari will on Sunday become Formula One’s youngest ever driver when he lines up in the Hungarian Grand Prix. The 19-year-old will also become the first F1 driver to have been born in the 1990s.
It is a remarkable achievement but one that has not met with universal approval here in Budapest.
Alguersuari has only ever driven an F1 car in straight-line tests and will complete his first lap in Toro Rosso’s STR4 machine in practice this morning. However, it is not on safety grounds that the drivers object – although … Details
Fernando Alonso has earned the pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The Renault set the fastest time in qualifying Saturday on the Hungaroring circuit and was confirmed as the pole sitter after a high-speed crash involving Ferrari’s Felipe Massa.
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will start … Details
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa slammed into a wall during qualifying for Formula One’s Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday and was airlifted to a hospital. His team said he was in stable condition.
The Brazilian driver was conscious and moving his arms before being evacuated from the Hungaroring’s medical center by helicopter.
A spring that had fallen off Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn GP car flew up and struck Massa in the helmet, apparently dazing him as the Ferrari continued straight through a curb, across the track and through the gravel area alongside the circuit before slamming into a row of protective tires that line the circuit wall … Details
Formula One’s strife could be nearing an end after FIA said Friday the document that governs the sport could be signed by next week.
F1’s governing body said its World Motor Sports Council had received the new Concorde Agreement, which would come into effect “on receipt of confirmation that a satisfactory cost-reduction agreement is in place.â€
All 13 teams registered for next season’s championship negotiated the document, FIA said in the statement.
“I think that we are very, very close to reaching a solution,†Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali said. “As always with such a complexity, the closer you get to the goal the more everyone is trying to squeeze or to find different things around it. But I am optimistic that … Details