Barcelona - Toro Rosso was the final Formula One team to unveil its car for the 2009 season Monday when it presented the new STR4 at the Circuit de Catalunya just outside Barcelona where the team is testing this week.
"Our target has to be that we leave the circuit on Sunday evening conscious that we have done the best possible job," said team boss Franz Tost.
Drivers Sebastien Bourdais and Sebastien Buemi have just under three weeks to get used to the car before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 29.
Wolfsburg, Germany - Dakar champion Volkswagen on Saturday said that they would be entering the 2010 Dakar rally.
The German car manufacturer finished one-two in this year's race, which was held in Argentina and Chile and will again be staged there next year.
There was some speculation that Volkswagen, for whom South African Giniel De Villiers won their first-ever Dakar rally this year at their sixth attempt, would follow Mitsubishi, who announced a month ago that they would pull out of the race next year.
Geneva - The former Honda Formula One team could make a return in the 2009 season in some guise, it emerged Thursday.
Chief Executive Nick Fry confirmed at the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) meeting in Geneva that an announcement either way would be made very soon.
Geneva - The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) revealed its plans Thursday to ensure all F1 teams make it through the global economic crisis safely and can participate in the sport until the end of the 2012 season.
Among the proposals presented at a press conference in Geneva is a new points-scoring system whereby the points for a race win would rise from 10 to 12, with nine points for second and seven for third.
Positions four to eight would continue to score in the current 5- 4-3-2-1 manner.
Woking, Britain - Martin Whitmarsh officially takes over the reins of the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team Sunday from Ron Dennis, who is stepping down from the post of team principal after nearly 30 years at the helm.
"Neither Ron nor myself expect there to be radical change within the group as a result of our changing roles," Whitmarsh said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Barcelona - Toro Rosso was the final Formula One team to unveil its car for the 2009 season Monday when it presented the new STR4 at the Circuit de Catalunya just outside Barcelona where the team is testing this week.
Wolfsburg, Germany - Dakar champion Volkswagen on Saturday said that they would be entering the 2010 Dakar rally.
Geneva - The former Honda Formula One team could make a return in the 2009 season in some guise, it emerged Thursday.
Geneva - The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) revealed its plans Thursday to ensure all F1 teams make it through the global economic crisis safely and can participate in the sport until the end of the 2012 season.
Barcelona - Toro Rosso will bec
Woking, Britain - Martin Whitmarsh officially takes over the reins of the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team Sunday from Ron Dennis, who is stepping down from the post of team principal after nearly 30 years at the helm. 
