May 24, 2012

Bahrain Grand Prix Cancelled – revealed on Twitter

2011 Bahrain Grand Prix Cancelled

The 2011 Bahrain Grand Prix has been cancelled as a result of the unrest in the country. Efforts will be made to reschedule the race for later in the F1 season Bernie Ecclestone said the cancellation or not of this season’s F1 opener in Bahrain would be down to Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al [...]

A Very Merry Red Bull Christmas

Red Bull's 2010 Christmas Card

Cars UK wishes all our readers a very Merry Christmas. And even though we can’t send you all a Christmas card, share Red Bull’s amusing festive offering with us. Over the last couple of years we’ve featured Bernie Ecclestone’s Christmas Cards as our Christmas Day greeting to readers, as they’ve been by far the most [...]

Hublot Watches: Ecclestone’s mugging turns a profit

Bernie Ecclestone Mugging Hublot

Bernie Ecclestone – F1 Boss – has turned a photo of his beaten-up face in to an advert for Hublot watches. We’re sensitive souls here at Cars UK. So when F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone got mugged and beaten in London recently we didn’t make a song and dance of it. And nor did Bernie, despite [...]

F1 Korean Grand Prix: Red Bull CGI Video

The F1 Korea CGI

Red Bull has created a CGI video of the new F1 tack in Yeongam, South Korea, home of the first F1 Korean Grand Prix on 24th October. The F1 Circus gets bigger and bigger every year as Bernie Ecclestone continues his aim to host a Grand Prix in every country that can scrape together a [...]

F1: Back in the U.S.A. 2012

The F1 back in the USA

Bernie Ecclestone has announced the return of the US F1 Grand Prix – at a purpose-built track in Austin, Texas. The Americans have never really fallen in love with Formula One in the way the rest of the world – and particularly the Europeans – have. They have plenty of race series of their own, [...]

Silverstone unveils new F1 Circuit

The Silverstone New F1 Circuit

Silverestone and the BRDC officially launched the new Silverstone F1 Grand Prix Circuit this week ahead of the British Grand Prix in July Bernie will be pleased It’s been a bit of a saga for Silverstone and the BRDC of late, with a backwards and forwards ‘will-they, won’t-they’ get to host the British Grand Prix [...]

Saab Saga – Bernie Ecclestone and Genii withdraw

Genii Capital – together with Bernie Ecclestone – have withdrawn from the battle to buy Saab. Another day, another Saab Saga story. Yesterday was all about the ‘Have they – Haven’t they’ reached a deal between GM and Spyker. Bloomberg had reported earlier in the day that a deal was done and even came up [...]

Bernie Ecclestone wants Saab – Spyker make new bid

Bernie Ecclestone Saab Bid

Spyker has revised their offer for Saab after Genii Capital – backed by F1′s Bernie Ecclestone – submitted a last minute bid for the Swedish car maker. I think if we tried really hard we could be doing at least one story a day on the saga that is the sale of Saab by GM. [...]

Merry Christmas Car(d)s!

Bernie Eccleston's 2009 Christmas Card

This year for Christmas we feature Bernie Ecclestone’s personal Christmas card and a selection we’ve received from other car makers. Just like last year, we’ve chosen to use Bernie Ecclestone‘s personal Christmas card to headline our Yuletide good wishes to you, dear reader. Bernie likes to make an amusing point or two when he commissions [...]

Silverstone gets British Grand Prix

Silverstone has won a 17 year deal to host the British Grand Prix

It has been announced that Silverstone has signed a 17 year deal to host the F1 British Grand Prix. Now the farce that was the Donnington bid has been expunged, we’ve been waiting for confirmation that Bernie Ecclestone will take in to account more than just money and confirm that the British Grand Prix will survive. It seemed certain [...]

Renault gets suspended ban

Renault has received a 2 year suspended ban from F1 over race fixing in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Briatore banned from F1 and Symonds for 5 years. It looks like they got off lightly. The FIA, meeting in Paris today, has handed out a suspended ban from F1 for Renault over the race-fixing debacle and the [...]

Renault F1 – Briatore & Symonds resign

The Piquet accident at Singapore - which wasn't an accident at all

Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds have resigned over the Piquet accident fixing allegation. Oh, dear. The accident fixing allegations surrounding the Renault F1 team and their former driver – Nelson Piquet Jnr – have rumbled on over the past days, with Briatore declaring he was suing Piquet – and his [...]

F1 Budget Cap row over

MAx Mosley announces the budget cap row is over between the FIA and FOTA - and he's resigning.

We haven’t really bothered covering the row going on between FOTA (the F1 drivers ‘Union’) and the FIA (the governing body of the sport) because it all seemed to us to be a storm in a teacup, with both sides posturing and pouting, but neither likely to push things to the point where the money [...]

F1 Budget Cap – No two-tier system says Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone says there will be no two-tier system in the F1 budget cap row

[ad#ad-1] All eyes have gone off the stunning start to this year’s F1 circus with the news that Ferrari, Renault, Red Bull and several other teams have threatened to quit F1 next year in protest at the budget cap proposal and the two-tier system that appears to create. In a nutshell, the FIA – lead [...]

A Very Merry F1 Christmas!

Bernie Ecclestones personal Christmas Card (click image for a full size version)

2008 has been a pretty eventful year in Formula 1. Lots of highs and lows; arguments over penalties for some drivers and not for others; new venues with stunning facilities and some pretty impressive racing to boot. Which should give F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone some great options for his annual Christmas card to close friends. [...]