Alonso: Being without an F1 win since 2013 "doesn't sound right"

McLaren's partnership with engine-supplier Mercedes-Benz - believed to have been on rocky ground for some time - could culminate in divorce as soon as the end of the 2009 F1 World Championship campaign, it has been rumoured, with reports that BMW is set to fill the breach.

Formula 1's inaugural night race in 2008 was widely-regarded as one of the success stories of the season, and as the travelling circus returns there this weekend for the second edition of the Singapore Grand Prix in the Far Eastern city-state, hopes are high for a similar spectacle.

With the annual Formula 1 silly season getting increasingly into full swing, three names are being mooted as the most likely candidates for a drive at Manor Grand Prix in 2010 - out-of-work Super Aguri F1 refugee Anthony Davidson, current BMW-Sauber reserve driver Christian Klien and reigning A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Champion Adam Carroll.

The post-qualifying fuel weights ahead of the European Grand Prix this weekend suggest that Sebastian Vettel should be worried, that Rubens Barrichello is arguably in the box seat - and that Jenson Button could just be about to get his faltering championship challenge back on-track under the Spanish sun.

It's that time of year again. The F1 circus is off sunning itself on its mid-summer break, drivers and teams alike are taking a much-needed and well-deserved breather from the frenetic nature of one grand prix after another - and everybody seems to be talking about who will be driving where in 2010. Here at Crash.net there is no exception, so we have put together a list of likely options and moves between this season and next, who is in favour and who is likely heading out of the door. The drivers have been listed in order of present championship position.

Global music superstars Beyonce, The Black Eyed Peas, Simple Minds, ZZ Top and N.E.R.D have all been lined up by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to rock the weekend of the Singapore Grand Prix next month - though ticket sales for the island city-state's second race are still struggling to get off the starting grid.

BMW has dropped hints that it may be willing to follow fellow German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz in supplying 'customer' versions of its engines to other F1 teams - with suggestions the Bavarian marque has Red Bull Racing as its prime target.

Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally underlining that it will only be workable if it is embraced by all.

Fernando Alonso has spent much of the second act of his Formula 1 career pondering his luck and, amid the swings between the better years and more common leaner spells, he has concluded that over a decade without an F1 win "doesn't sound right". The two-time champion's last F1 victory remains his 2013 Spanish Grand Prix triumph, his 32nd in the championship, as opportunities to win a 33rd ...Keep reading

Jose Luis Martinez, Marc Marquez’s assistant and confidant, reveals the keys to one of the most epic comebacks in sports history – one that almost never happened. “When we came back from Lombok, he told me he was done, that he couldn’t go on,” Martinez recalls.Martinez is much more than an assistant to the newly crowned MotoGP world champion. Unlike most garages, where team staff ...Keep reading

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A former colleague of Christian Horner has cast doubt on the ex-Red Bull boss returning to F1 in 2026.

Former Haas boss Guenther Steiner suspects Ferrari regret their decision to let Carlos Sainz go.

On the same weekend that four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen claimed his first GT3 victory at the Nordschleife in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, his father, Jos Verstappen, won the 2025 Belgian Rally Championship during the penultimate round of the series.The 53-year-old Verstappen and his co-driver Renaud Jamoul secured a third-place finish in the East Belgian Rally in the Skoda ...Keep reading

Gigi Dall’Igna, Ducati’s general manager and one of the main advocates for signing Marc Marquez, has praised the Spaniard’s vision in plotting his return to the MotoGP crown, which he secured this Sunday.Any doubts surrounding Ducati’s choice of Marquez over Jorge Martin as Francesco Bagnaia’s team-mate for 2025 vanished at the season opener in Thailand.There, according to ...Keep reading

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Max Verstappen admits to having doubts that Red Bull could turn around their fortunes in 2025.

Marc Marquez bet on himself when he chose to carry on in MotoGP after years of pain, surgeries and lingering questions over whether his body could still endure the demands of elite competition.He had once promised his late grandfather that he would start again from scratch, and if he couldn’t win, he would retire from MotoGP. It was a bold vow, but it captured the intent of a man determined ...Keep reading