Spaniard Carlos Sainz will make a dream move to Ferrari next year, with Australian Daniel Ricciardo replacing him at McLaren, as Formula One's driver carousel took another big twirl on Thursday with the 2020 season yet to start. Ferrari said 25-year-old Sainz, who replaces four times World champion Sebastian Vettel alongside young Monegasque Charles Leclerc at the sport's most glamorous team, had signed for 2021 and 2022.
Renualt's Fernando Alonso alleged the FIA was helping Michael Schumacher win his eighth world championship.
Sebastian Vettel handed Ferrari their first Canadian Grand Prix pole position since Michael Schumacher in 2001 on Saturday while Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton qualified fourth for Mercedes. Vettel, 14 points behind the Briton, will start from the front for the fourth time at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after setting a track record of one minute 10.764 seconds on a sunny afternoon.
Mercedes brought intrigue to Formula One testing on Thursday with television images showing Lewis Hamilton moving his car's steering wheel forwards and backwards as he drove. The mechanism appeared to alter the alignment of the front wheels, with the six-times world champion pulling the wheel towards him on the straights and pushing it back as he approached corners.
Lewis Hamilton did 94 laps of Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on the soft C2 compound in a sunny afternoon session
Driver line-ups and race numbers for the 2006 season after the governing International\nAutomobile Federation issued the official entry list.
'I don't think the departure of Schumacher or (technical director Ross) Brawn will change much,' said the Toyota driver.
The 'Dream Team' so closely associated with Michael Schumacher's success is no more.
Tiger Woods next year will begin producing weekly golf instructional videos and give fans a glimpse into his life on the PGA Tour as part of a new partnership with Discovery's GOLFTV, the network said on Tuesday.
Fernando Alonso can take one of Michael Schumacher's many records on Sunday by becoming Formula One's youngest double world champion.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen, last year's winner at his team's home circuit, qualified third.
The Nuerburgring circuit will not host the German Formula One Grand Prix this year, an official for the company said on Thursday after Hockenheim also ruled out the possibility.
Schumacher was the quickest, 0.172 seconds ahead of champion Alonso, on a damp track after morning drizzle at an overcast circuit.
Renault's world champion Fernando Alonso has been elected as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association in place of retiring Ferrari rival Michael Schumacher.
Toyota's Ralf Schumacher considers himself one of the top three drivers in Formula One.
Michael Schumacher was left with a mountain to climb in the last race of his Formula One career after qualifying 10th for the title-deciding Brazilian Grand Prix.
Ferrari unveiled their new Formula One car on Sunday with former champion Michael Schumacher unable to keep away and taking a sneak preview in the workshop.
The Finn pipped the seven times champion by just 0.002 seconds.
Fernando Alonso all but wrapped up his second Formula One title with a win at Japanese Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver is his own man, no longer the 'Baby Schumi' of old even if the smiling 26-year-old displayed some distinctly Michael Schumacher-like traits on his way to becoming the sport's youngest quadruple champion.
Spain's first race winner and first F1 world champion shrugged off suggestion that he is the face of a new era.\n
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton took pole for Mercedes at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
But the Spaniard also believes that he will be able to fight back strongly in the last three and retain his title.
Paddock sentiment has started swinging towards the expectation that the German will continue for another year or two.
A lucky race fan will wave the chequered flag at the end of Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix in a departure from Formula One convention.
They call him the 'fastest Indian on wheels'. At 250 kmph he certainly is.
Team by team analysis of Sunday's San Marino Formula One Grand Prix (listed in championship order).\n
Michael Schumacher was the slowest driver to complete a lap, behind even the two Minardis and 27.4 seconds slower than Fisichella.
Lewis Hamilton pulverised the track record to claim pole position on Saturday ahead of a US Grand Prix that could secure the Mercedes driver's fourth Formula One world championship.
Lewis Hamilton won the French Grand Prix on Sunday as Formula One champions Mercedes put on another show of dominance with their 10th victory in a row and 50th one-two finish.
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