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FIA reaffirms its 'intention to assure a healthy, affordable and spectacular FIA Formula One World Championship for the long-term future'

Following a fax vote of members of its World Motor Sport Council (WMSC), the FIA has published the definitive F1 2012 World Championship calendar - with no room at the inn for Istanbul...

Red Bull Racing chief technical officer Adrian Newey has pointed the finger firmly at Audi for the whole debate about four-cylinder engines in F1 - claiming the German manufacturer showed interest, and then changed its mind...

FIA President Jean Todt has yielded to the pressure applied by Bernie Ecclestone and F1's manufacturers in agreeing to delay the introduction of the sport's new engine formula until 2014 - and to go with V6 power rather than just four cylinders

As F1 braces itself for the backlash from the FIA World Motor Sport Council's controversial decision to return to Bahrain this year, human rights groups suggest to do so will leave the sport with blood on its hands

Following the FIA's controversial decision to reinstate the 2011 Bahrain Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing star Mark Webber warns that 'F1 and sport in general isn't above having a social responsibility and conscience'

The 2012 FIA World Rally Championship calendar has been examined and will be officialised before the end of this month, the FIA has confirmed.

Characteristically pulling few punches, Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo has lambasted F1's new engine regulations from 2013 onwards as 'pathetic' - and commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone is concerned, too...

F1's governing body the FIA has unveiled a raft of regulation changes for the coming seasons, from the abolition of the team orders ban to the introduction of 'greener', 1.6-litre turbocharged engines

Renault F1 has agreed to pay 'substantial damages' to Nelsinho Piquet and his father for having defamed the pair in accusing them of making 'false allegations' about the infamous 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal

FIA President Jean Todt has hit out at those who suggest his regime as the head of F1's governing body is biased towards Ferrari much like his predecessor Max Mosley's was deemed to be - angrily branding any who claim as much, 'fools'

The WRC to introduce a bonus points scheme for 2011

In contrast to the overwhelming condemnation of Ferrari's tactics in last month's German Grand Prix, Gerhard Berger and Nelsinho Piquet contend that the Scuderia was entirely right to use team orders at Hockenheim

Having been contacted by his former arch-nemesis and ex-FIA President Max Mosley on the birth of his first child, Flavio Briatore insists he has 'no place' for the man who tried to get him permanently banned from F1 over the explosive 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal

New Ferrari recruit Fernando Alonso has defended his somewhat besmirched reputation in the wake of his implication in two damaging and high-profile F1 scandals over the last three years - insisting that in both instances, he was simply in the 'wrong place at the wrong time'

Double-diffusers - an innovation that threatened to turn the first half of the 2009 F1 World Championship campaign into a political battleground - are to be outlawed from 2011, the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) has agreed

Claims surface that suggest new-for-2010 scoring system was adopted against the conventions of Concorde Agreement

F1 has a lot of tidying up to do if it is to re-establish its reputation after degenerating to such an extent that it is now 'worse than Eastenders' with its succession of high-profile, tabloid-fodder scandals - that is the opinion of Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner.

The identity of the hitherto mysterious 'Witness X' has been revealed by a British newspaper, with the fourth member of Renault F1 privy to the 'Singapore-gate' conspiracy widely held to have provided the vital evidence that earned Flavio Briatore a lifetime ban from all FIA-sanctioned motorsport

The FIA has revealed that the calendar for the 2010 World Rally Championship season has now been finalised, with 13 events making up the schedule.

FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L' AUTOMOBILE World Motor Sport Council Decision Re: 2008 Singapore Grand Prix - ING Renault F1 21 September 2009 Purpose of meeting

Disgraced former Renault F1 executive director of engineering Pat Symonds has revealed his 'eternal regret and shame' at the 'misguided devotion to my team' that has earned him a five-year ban over the 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal - whilst continuing to insist that the idea was that of Ne

Flavio Briatore has 'effectively been deleted from the world of motorsport' in the wake of Renault's 'Singapore-gate' scandal, contends BBC F1 commentator Martin Brundle - and even though the Italian has 'done a lot of good things' for the sport, his former driver expects that he won't be

Eddie Irvine has waded into the Renault/'Singapore-gate' controversy in his typical irreverent, insouciant manner - suggesting that Formula 1 should be a war in which everyone does 'anything to win' with 'nothing beyond the realms of decency', and lamenting its modern-day transformation into a st