Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced that it will be the title sponsor for the first Formula One sporting event in India on October 30. It also unveiled the official logo for the Airtel Grand Prix of India. \”Right through its growth path, Airtel has been associated with speed, performance, calculated risks and excitement, the very [...]

It\’s official. India will host its first Formula 1 Grand Prix on October 30, 2011. The announcement came following an extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday. The addition of an Indian GP to the F1 calendar will make 2011 a 20-race season, the longest in the history of the [...]

Force India were reprimanded by stewards at the German Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after mixing up their drivers\’ tyres. International Automobile Federation (FIA) technical delegate Jo Bauer reported after the race that the team had put one of Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi\’s rear super-soft tyres on Adrian Sutil\’s car along with three of the [...]

Force India CEO Dr Vijay Mallya is the team principal of one of the grid’s most exciting prospects, while Formula One Group CEO Bernie Ecclestone is responsible for guiding the sport’s future, but both are like-minded entrepreneurs, fond of risk taking and sharing the odd anecdote. We listen in as Ecclestone and Mallya discuss the [...]

The FIA is to clarify regulations relating to safety-car procedures on the final lap of a race. It follows Michael Schumacher’s penalty for passing Fernando Alonso in the dying seconds of Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. With the track declared clear and the safety car coming in, Schumacher’s Mercedes GP team believed their drivers were free [...]

Tony George is trying to bring Formula One racing back to the United States, but not necessarily to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, according to a report in the Indianapolis Business Journal. George was head of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy Racing League (IRL) until 2009 when he was removed, and his own IRL [...]

CEO wants fuel efficiency technology to be adopted should turbos return..Ferrari are keen to see Formula One introduce Gasoline Direct Injection technology should the sport opt to use smaller turbocharged engines in 2013. F1 is currently seeking to set regulations for the 2013 season and one idea which seems likely to be adopted is a [...]