Ralf: F1 return? That’s news to me!

Continued rumours that Ralf Schumacher might return to Formula One for the new not-quite-team Stefan GP are rather surprising. Not least to Ralf Schumacher, it seems! Perhaps we should start this story at the beginning. Bernie Ecclestone has appeared in an exclusive interview with the German sporting magazine – yep, you’ve guessed it – Sportbild. [...]

GP2 runner-up Petrov really wants a F1 contract

According to Bild, GP2 championship runner-up Vitaly Petrov of Russia is offering personal sponsorship in the neighborhood of 15 million euros ($21.2 million or £13.15 million) in order to receive a 2010 Formula1 racing contract.  While some of the content at Bild can come from much-maligned GMM (and the paper is of the tabloid variety), [...]

Vettel: No one really expected Schumacher comeback

F1B, bringing you Schumacher news on the hour, every hour. As it is seemingly the week to give extra credence to the oft-maligned Bild Zeitung, let’s share a little video response to the Schumacher comeback from his RoC teammate and German pretender, Sebastian Vettel. Now I apologise, for Vettel is obviously speaking German, but below [...]

Rosberg/Mercedes deal “close”, says Bild

One to take with a bucket of salt, folks. Germany’s Bild Zeitung makes plenty of mistakes, and is as much of a tabloid as anyone could picture, but they do have a habit of landing all the German sporting scoops. The paper claims that Rosberg is inches away from becoming Mercedes’ first German F1 driver [...]