Mercedes ran its engine in "idle mode" for most of the 2014 season to avoid a backlash and Formula 1 doing something to curb their advantage. read more »

Former Mercedes executive director Paddy Lowe has revealed the championship-winning team almost never ran its 2014 power unit to its maximum potential for fear of looking too good. read more »

Sergio Marchionne insists Ferrari's recent threat to quit F1 was not an idle one as there are "things we can't back down on." read more »

Liberty Media shouldn't take Ferrari's latest threat to quit Formula 1 as nothing more than bluster, so says former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. read more »

A recent report which was picked up by various Formula 1 websites, not this website we might add, was a rumour that Sebastian Vettel threw a "massive hissy fit" in... read more »

"Hear me ROAR...!" Learn details about how and why an engine fire-up is performed and listen to the sound of the engine being boosted from idle to some 10,000 rpm!... read more »

Still unsupervised in the Pitpass recording studio, Mat Coch and Glen Crompton, prove that the devil does indeed make work for idle hands as they produce the first in a series... read more »

McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh acknowledges that the team's rival won't have been idle during the break between Malaysia and China, but warns that McLaren, too, has... read more »

Sunshine and mild temperatures welcomed the teams and journalists in Jerez today, the day before the cars will roar on the track. But that does not necessarily mean that it was... read more »