Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has rubbished speculation that Kimi Raikkonen could retire from formula one with a second consecutive world title.

The 28-year-old Finn and current championship leader’s contract runs out at the end of 2009, and he is undecided about whether he will sign a new one.
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The German manufacturer BMW has no plans to drop ‘Sauber’ from the name of its Swiss based formula one team in the very near future.

As BMW-Sauber edges closer to the ultimate pace, it is rumoured that team owner BMW might want to be going it alone in the naming stakes by the time it is [...]

Fernando Alonso has rejected suggestions that his recent comments have revealed a tone of apathy towards Renault’s plight in 2008.

Although buoyed by the French team’s improvement at the Spanish grand prix, the 26-year-old former double world champion previously ruled out as “impossible” Renault’s plans to be back fighting among the front runners before too long.
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Renault engine boss Denis Chevrier has revealed that it should not be too difficult to address the engine failure that put Fernando Alonso out of the recent Spanish grand prix.
Although the expired V8 is still being analysed in detail at the team’s Viry-Chatillon engine headquarters, the Frenchman said his initial diagnosis is a failure near [...]

BMW-Sauber, and probably other formula one teams, will shortly experiment with the new ‘nose hole’ innovation that featured on the dominant Ferrari cars in last weekend’s Spanish grand prix.
Although Maranello based Ferrari insists that the shark mouth-style feature in front of the driver position may not be used at every race this season, BMW technical [...]

The German automotive engineering company Weigl Group has played down reports that it is behind an eleventh-hour rescue of the Super Aguri team.
Reports on Tuesday said the firm’s chief executive Franz Josef Weigl visited the Spanish grand prix last weekend where he discussed financing the struggling Japanese team for at least the remainder of 2008.
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A French judge on Tuesday ordered the recall of newspapers within the country that famously depict Max Mosley with prostitutes.
Judge Joel Boyer, however, ruled that he could not restrict French access to the British newspaper News of the World’s online video of the Mosley romp because it was not within his jurisdiction.
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F1’s governing body is investigating the incident whereby it took doctors several minutes to access the unconscious Heikki Kovalainen after he became trapped under tyre barriers during the Spanish grand prix.
Dr Stephen Olvey, a member of the FIA safety division and involved in America’s motor racing scene for decades, commented that the delay in getting [...]

The current safety car rules are “really unfair”, BMW-Sauber test driver Christian Klien insists.
The Austrian is among many voices in the formula one paddock to slam the regulation, that was brought in last year, whereby the pitlane is closed initially upon deployment of the safety car.
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Super Aguri’s dire current situation led to British driver Anthony Davidson, who has probably now raced in formula one for the last time, venting some of his frustration to reporters at Barcelona.
David Coulthard recently referred to Davidson and teammate Takuma Sato’s cars as the “stupid Aguris” for frequently getting in the way while they are [...]