Formula One News — September 2006

Michael Schumacher has announced his retirement.

Italian GP - Race Notes

Dan Wheldon won the final Indy Racing League race of the season for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, beating his team mate Scott Dixon at Chicagoland ahead of Penske rivals Sam Hornish Jr and Helio Castroneves.

As darkness was falling at Monza on Sunday evening the word in the pitlane was that we will not be seeing Christian Klien again in a Red Bull-Ferrari. We hear that the Austrian youngster told his mechanics that he would not be back in China and that opens up some interesting possibilities for the team.

Italian GP - Sunday Photos

Italian GP - Sunday Press Conference

Italian GP - Sunday Team Quotes

Italian GP - Race Incidents

Italian GP - Race Results

Fernando Alonso and Flavio Briatore have spoken out about the penalty that pushed Fernando down to 10th on the grid.

GP2 driver Adrian Valles will test for Spyker MF1 Racing at Silverstone on September 19 and 20.

The Formula 1 world believes that Michael Schumacher will announce his retirement from Formula 1 on Sunday and by doing so will make way for Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari.

Spyker Cars has finally confirmed the acquisition of Midland F1 Racing. The new team will be called Spyker MF1 Racing and will be a 100% subsidiary of Spyker.

Seen visiting the Toro Rosso offices in Monza on Saturday night were two Renault engine men - and indication that we may be seeing the French V8 engines in the back of the Italian cars next year, leaving Red Bull Racing to spend another year with Ferraris.

The FIA stewards have been very busy this evening at Monza with the question of whether to punish Fernando Alonso for his incident with Felipe Massa in the dying seconds of the F1 qualifying session on Saturday.

The FIA Stewards have ruled that Fernando Alonso impeded Felipe Massa in the qualifying session at Monza. As a result of this the Spaniard's best three qualifying laps have been removed and that means that he drops to 10th on the grid.

Italian GP - Saturday Photos

The Spyker MF1 team will be announced at 7pm European time when the Dutch consortium will give details of the sale of the team by Alex Shnaider. The name Spyker MF1 has been chosen because of the stipulations in the Concorde Agreement

The takeover of Minardi by Red Bull was always going to lead to staff changes at the Italian team as the plan from the start was for Scuderia Toro Rosso to have its chassis designed by Red Bull Racing in England (when that becomes legal in 2008).

Giorgio Pantano might have won the GP2 race on Saturday at Monza but all eyes were on the fight behind him as Nelson Piquet Jr and Lewis Hamilton circulated in close company, Hamilton pressuring Piquet in the hope that the Brazilian would make a mistake.

Italian GP - Saturday Press Conference

Italian GP - Saturday Team Quotes

Italian GP - Qualifying Results

Felipe Massa set the fastest time of the morning session on Saturday, setting a lap that was nearly four-tenths of a second ahead of Nick Heidfeld's BMW Sauber.