Reigning Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais has indicated that he is still on track for a seat in formula one in 2008.

Scott Speed secured this year’s ride for the Faenza based Toro Rosso squad in the eleventh hour, but team figures also expressed a keen interest in 27-year-old Bourdais, a Frenchman, after his impressive winter [...]

Q. How do you consider the team’s performance at the season opener in Melbourne?

Norbert Haug, vice-president, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport: We are happy with the performance of Fernando and Lewis. Finishing second and third they scored 14 out of 18 possible points. However, Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen were faster on this occasion and we therefore have to [...]

Q. Did the performance of the MP4-22 in Melbourne meet your expectations?

Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren F1 CEO: The Australian Grand Prix this year was a good experience as it generated a lot of positive feeling within the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. We had good reliability, no real problems over the course of the weekend and that [...]

Spyker has confirmed that it has changed its original plans to run test drivers in Friday free practice for next week’s Malaysian grand prix.
Because of the dispute with Super Aguri, Dutchman Giedo van der Garde has failed to secure an FIA Super License, and Malaysian local Fairuz Fauzy will now also not power onto the [...]

Q. The 2007 season is underway and the team appears to have made significant progress during the winter period, what was the team’s reaction to its performance in Melbourne?
Daniel Audetto: We were positively surprised! Our good, hard work completed during the winter testing, our better knowledge of the Bridgestone Potenza tires and the addition of [...]

After a torrid time in Melbourne and a tough week testing in Malaysia this week, Heikki Kovalainen capped off what has been a disappointing month with a morale boosting fastest time on the final day of testing at Sepang.
Sepang Testing - 03/30/2007:
1 . H. Kovalainen - Renault R27 - 1:35.757 (+ 0.000 ) - 55 [...]

The World Motorsport Council met yesterday and the FIA today announced the decisions that were made with regard to the sporting and technical regulations for next season.
The most significant change to the previously published set of rules is that traction control will no longer be permitted.
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Friday’s extended testing in Malaysia ended without a red car on top, but Nick Heidfeld thinks Ferrari is nonetheless still “way ahead” of its formula one rivals.
The BMW driver had an engine problem and was sixth quickest at humid Sepang, however he insisted that his Hinwil based squad it still among the cream of the [...]

Japanese squad Super Aguri expects Anthony Davidson to be fully fit for the Malaysian grand prix next week, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
The Leafield based team’s managing director Daniele Audetto, however, admitted that English rookie Davidson, 27, is “still suffering a little” from the muscular injury he sustained in a clash with Adrian Sutil at [...]

Singapore officials are now unlikely to announce on Friday that an agreement has been reached to stage a grand prix in the Asian island-state.
But the Trade and Industry minister, Mr S Iswaran, told the publication Channel NewsAsia on Friday that a final decision about the highly speculated night-time street race on a city circuit next [...]