Flavio Briatore thinks Fernando Alonso was being “optimistic” when he declared a 30 per cent probability of emerging with a third drivers’ title in 2008.

The Renault boss, despite earlier expecting that the new R28 single seater was the French team’s ticket back to the front, was even more downbeat about Alonso’s chances for the upcoming [...]

German duo Adrian Sutil and Timo Glock are facing make-or-break seasons in formula one this year, 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg has said.

The former Finnish driver, who in 2008 will attend all the races for German television, observes that the presence of veteran Giancarlo Fisichella in the sister Force India car will be a true [...]

Nick Heidfeld is facing a big challenge to emerge as a grand prix winner in 2008, according to former world champion Keke Rosberg.

The 1982 title winner says that while BMW Sauber’s goals are ambitious for 2008, many obstacles are still facing the 30-year-old German as he prepares to start his ninth full season in F1.
Bookmark [...]

Toyota will work hard to restore its honour later this year after the shambles of the inaugural Japanese grand prix at Fuji.
The circuit, which is nearly 100 per cent owned by the Japanese car manufacturer and F1 competitor, recently announced that it would better organise the race this October after traffic problems and substandard facilities [...]

Keke Rosberg has joined a growing chorus who predict that Lewis Hamilton’s second season in formula one in 2008 could be much more difficult than the first.
Hamilton, now 23, earned widespread acclaim as he won four races for McLaren in 2007 and only narrowly missed making history as the sport’s first rookie world champion.
Bookmark to:          

Italian police have contradicted reports that no useful evidence was collected in the raids on the British homes and office of senior McLaren chiefs earlier this week.
A statement issued by the authorities said the searches, believed to have involved the cooperation of up to fifty Surrey police officers, resulted in evidence from which “clearly emerges [...]

Ron Dennis and his deputy Martin Whitmarsh have denied reports that the McLaren team boss is being forced out — but speculation persists that Dennis’ nearly three-decade reign at the helm of the Woking based outfit is close to an end.
Dennis, who will turn 61 later this year, gave several private briefings to allies in [...]

The co-owner of Super Aguri insists the struggling team will be on the Melbourne grid next month, but also confirmed that talks to sell ‘100 per cent’ of the outfit are going on.
Team chief Aguri Suzuki was in Tokyo recently for crisis talks regarding the Honda-powered squad’s financial problems, after the team missed nearly the [...]

Formula one teams will once again trial slick tyres when testing resumes at the Barcelona circuit in mid April.
Following the first slick tests at Jerez in December, the sport’s sole tyre supplier Bridgestone on Thursday revealed that teams will once again be provided with “experimental” slicks in anticipation of a rule change for 2009.
Bookmark to:          

Despite describing his relationship with Lewis Hamilton as “non-existent”, Fernando Alonso has flagged the possibility that the 23-year-old could be crowned world champion in 2008.
While playing down his own hopes of winning a third drivers’ title with Renault this year, Alonso told BBC radio’s Five Live programme that his former McLaren teammate might win the [...]