General Automotive News

Nico Hulkenberg's morning efforts were enough to ensure Force India topped the second day of pre-season testing.

Formula 1 must do much more to bring down costs in the future, says Force India's deputy team principal Robert Fernley, if the sport is to remain sustainable.

Campos Racing has signed Max Snegirev and Giuseppe Cipriani to race in the 2012 Auto GP World Series.

Nico Hulkenberg put Force India on top of the second morning of pre-season testing at Barcelona, setting the fastest time thus far at the Catalan circuit.

British Touring Car race winner Mat Jackson believes he can fight for the 2012 title after being confirmed at Motorbase Performance for a third season

LONDON (Reuters) - British chipmaker CSR Plc underscored its financial strength on Monday with a share buyback of up to $50 million, helping send its shares up more than 20 percent to their highest in six months.

Daniel Ricciardo is confident Scuderia Toro Rosso has produced a car that will enable it to move up the order in 2012

Honda's new Civic British Touring Car hit the track for the first time at Brands Hatch on Tuesday

Ross Brawn believes the decision by four of his rivals to quit the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) was short-sighted, and fears all the sport's competitors may live to regret it

British Touring Car squad Motorbase Performance has signed Aron Smith to complete its three-car line-up for this season

Business leaders have failed the national interest by not adequately contributing to the economic policy debate, Industry Minister Greg Combet says.

Nico Muller topped the timesheets for Trident Racing on the opening day of GP3 testing at Estoril on Tuesday

Sebastian Vettel has singled out McLaren as the rival team that he thinks is in the best shape at the start of the second pre-season test at Barcelona in Spain.

AUTOSPORT's technical correspondent Gary Anderson believes that the high lateral loads experienced at Barcelona played a key part in revealing the chassis fault that forced Lotus to abandon this week's test.

Bruno Senna believes Williams has to improve its consistency on slow corners following his first day of testing at Barcelona.

Red Bull will still be the team to beat in 2012 - that is the view of Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn, whose team publicly unveiled its new W03 challenger to the world at the beginning of the first day's testing at Barcelona

Lotus has pulled out of the Barcelona test with immediate effect as a result of the problems it encountered with its chassis this morning.

Michael Schumacher is positive about the potential of the new Mercedes W03 after his first day of public running on Tuesday.

Nico Hulkenberg has been pleasantly surprised how well-balanced his new Force India has felt around the Barcelona circuit, after an encouraging first day's running this week.

Monster World Rally Team has released pictures of two of the three cars which will be used in Ken Block's motorsport programme this season.