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French automotive group Renault has said it is considering its options in Formula One, which could include acquiring the motor racing series’ Toro Rosso team or quitting the sport altogether.

Germany looks set to be without a Formula One race this year for the first time since 1960 after Hockenheim managing director Georg Seiler said today (Tuesday) that the motor racing circuit has given up hope of staging the country's grand prix in the 2015 season.

Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Ron Walker has hit out at New South Wales Premier Mike Baird’s plan to lure the country’s Formula One race from Melbourne to Sydney as the opening weekend of the 2015 season of the motor-racing championship got underway today (Friday).

Northern Irish businessman Stephen Fitzpatrick has been confirmed as the principal investor, and effective owner, of the Manor Marussia Formula One outfit, as the revived team declared itself ready to race for the 2015 season of the motor racing championship.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has offered advance revenue payments to Sauber, Force India and Lotus to aid cash flow problems at the motor racing teams ahead of the start of the 2015 season next week.

The Manor Marussia team is set to return to the Formula One grid this season after motor racing’s global governing body, the FIA, today (Friday) approved its entry to the 2015 championship.

American healthcare entrepreneur Brad Hollinger has increased his interest in the Williams Formula One motor racing team to 10 per cent after exercising an option to buy more of the stake held by Toto Wolff, executive director of business at rival outfit Mercedes.

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Manor Grand Prix Racing’s hopes of returning to the Formula One grid have been boosted by the news that its creditors have approved taking the company out of administration and transferring it back to directors.

Plans for a major overhaul in Formula One’s regulations will be delayed until at least 2017 after teams today (Tuesday) voted against their introduction next year, according to the Autosport website.

Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) president Nasser bin Khalifa al-Attiyah has said the nation is close to agreeing a deal to host a Formula One race.

Marussia’s hopes of returning to the grid for the Formula One motor-racing championship in 2015 look doomed after rivals voted against the team’s plans to use last year’s car.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has stressed he will not seek to settle the lawsuit filed against him by financial services company Bayerische Landesbank.

The Marussia Formula One team, which folded towards the end of last season, is reportedly close to securing new investment that would allow it to return to the motor-racing championship for the 2015 campaign.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has said Hockenheim will host this season’s German Grand Prix with a new long-term contract in place that will end the current policy of rotating the race with the Nuerburgring.

Qatar’s plans to secure a Formula One race have been boosted with the approval of the development of a new street circuit in the city of Lusail, according to the Autosport website.