Formula One teams are keeping a wary eye on the situation in Bahrain with the Gulf kingdom due to host a Grand Prix next April after this year's was cancelled due to civil unrest.
International Automobile Federation (FIA) President Max Mosley is cool on the idea of staging a Formula One Grand Prix in Rome.
Formula One's governing body would carry out a full safety assessment before agreeing to any night-time race.
Having an Indian driver in Force India just for the sake of it would have been counter-productive for the Silverstone-based outfit, said Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
Formula One continues to break new ground away from its traditional European base and as Asia expands its interest with the addition of the Korean Grand Prix this season, India is next in line to join the fray from 2011.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said the 'circus' track of the Singapore race and the use of the safety car had been humiliating for Formula One.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone gave a one-word reply when asked how the new season would be for the three teams that made their debuts last year: "Difficult".
Silverstone's owners secured the future of the British Formula One Grand Prix on Monday after agreeing a 17-year deal with the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
Suzuka will host the Japanese Grand Prix next year as well as in 2011, the operators of the Honda-owned circuit said on Sunday after meeting Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Next year's race had been due to be hosted by Toyota's Fuji facility under an agreement to alternate but was thrown into doubt last month when that circuit gave up the hosting rights due to the global economic downturn.
Formula One management had approved two sites on the outskirts of New Delhi to build a circuit, IOA president Suresh Kalmadi said.
Formula One will return to the United States in 2012 with a 10-year deal for a race in the Texas state capital Austin, commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone announced on Tuesday.
Britain has hosted a Grand Prix every year since the first Formula One championship race at Silverstone, a former World War Two airfield, in 1950.
An agreement for Australia to continue to host a Formula One race until 2015 is expected to be signed within days, local media reported on Sunday. The future of the Australian Grand Prix was placed in jeopardy in March with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone saying that it might be dumped after 2010 unless it switched to a night race to accommodate European television audiences.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone described abuse of Lewis Hamilton in Spain as an "isolated incident".
Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher's return to Ferrari will be an education for some Formula One rivals, Bernie Ecclestone said Tuesday.
Michael Schumacher, who has not been seen in public since he suffered serious head injuries in a ski accident in 2013, beat former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone with 61 per cent of the vote in a head-to-head final.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has voiced his unhappiness at the way the organisers promoted the race.
India has been made a conditional offer to stage a Formula One Grand Pix in 2009, Indian Olympic Association said.
India's date with Formula One racing is delayed by another year, to 2011, Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi said on Thursday but refused to give any reason for it. 'Formula One will be held in India in 2011. Bernie (Ecclestone, Formula One supremo) and GP Group are working on this plan,' he told reporters on the sidelines of a function.
Formula One's governing body has dismissed a move by commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone to change qualifying for Sunday's British Grand Prix.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said earlier in the year that the circuit near Bologna, which is looking for government funding to upgrade the facilities, would be making its final appearance on the calendar this season.
Track promoters and regional authorities said their contract with Formula One had been extended by five years.
Organisers promised Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone a US$22.3 million package to compensate teams hit by a law banning tobacco advertising.
F1 bosses have struck a mega-deal with an Indian company to construct the race track in Greater Noida.
Ray Bellm, who played a key role in securing a five-year deal for the Silverstone Grand Prix, was voted out of office at a BRDC board meeting.
The leading businessman said after signing a sponsorship agreement between his Kingfisher Airlines and the Toyota team that he was confident the sport would come to the sub-continent.
Italy's Imola circuit will host grands prix for at least another five years, local officials said on Monday after meeting Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
"If we do away with races like France and Britain, we start to lose an essential element of the sport," the FIA president said.
FIA president Max Mosley said he believed a new pit and paddock complex would be built.
'Eighteen, 19, 17 -- who knows,' F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said, when asked how many races there would be next season.
The two teams said they had been reassured by Formula One's approach under chairman Chase Carey and his new management team, who had "brought a new culture of transparency to the sport".
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