When the Italian recently broke his leg in a MotoGP practice crash, the rumour mill suggested the timing might be right for Rossi to turn his attention to four wheels.
But with the 31-year-old now back to racing fitness and tipped to sign a deal with Ducati, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has indicated that Rossi is still focused on bikes.
“It (Rossi switching to F1) would be great, but he has many more years on two wheels,” the Italian said in an interview with La Stampa.
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Police detonate suspected bomb in F1 paddock(0)Monaco’s party atmosphere late on Thursday was broken by the sound of an explosion. Bomb police cordoned off an area of the formula one paddock near the media centre after someone noticed a suspicious plastic package. Experts detonated it with a controlled explosion just before 10pm, the Press Associated reported. It also emerges that some |
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Schumacher must convince Mercedes to ‘want him’(0)If Michael Schumacher wants to keep racing beyond 2012, he will need to convince Mercedes. That is the claim of former German F1 driver Christian Danner, referring to rumours the seven time world champion’s future beyond this year is uncertain. Schumacher, 43, has said he is yet to sit down for talks with Mercedes, who |
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Button says Lotus car to beat in Monaco(0)McLaren’s Jenson Button has named Lotus as the team to beat in Monaco. After Romain Grosjean was second fastest in both practice sessions on Thursday, Button’s teammate Lewis Hamilton concurred that the “Lotus looks pretty good”. “Normally, there are seven tenths between the two tyre compounds,” said the 2008 world champion. “Jenson was only four |
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McLaren set to offer Hamilton $150m(0)McLaren is offering Lewis Hamilton a lucrative new contract for 2013 and beyond, British newspapers are reporting from Monaco. The stories – in all the major dailies including the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Express, the Star, the Sun, the Mirror and the Times – consistently contradicted an earlier rumour that Hamilton might need |
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Lotus says no to Raikkonen’s rally request(0)Lotus has refused Kimi Raikkonen permission to contest this year’s Rally Finland. The Finn, who returned to formula one in 2012 after two years in world rallying, admitted this week he wanted to do the Finnish rally in August but “you’ll have to ask the team if it fits in my contract”. “Contractually he cannot |
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