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Earlier this week former Sauber-Ferrari driver Norberto Fontana made bold claims that in the final round of the 1997 World Championship, he was ”ordered” by engine-supplier Ferrari to block Jacques Villeneuve as much as possible to give Michael Schumacher the chance to win the race and the Championship. Former Sauber team principal Peter Sauber has since denied these claims.

Sauber told Swiss newspaper Blick:

In the nine years that we cooperated, Ferrari never expressed the desire that we should obstruct an opponent of (Michael) Schumacher on the track.

I read a headline that said Juan Pablo Montoya Has Baby Girl today.. I guess that’s the real reason he left F1? Would be hard to drive with a baby bump..

Seriously though, we’ve changed the headline and are happy to inform those who don’t know that Connie Montoya, Juan Pablo’s wife gave birth on September 11 2006. They had a little girl and have named her Paulina Montoya. Paulina already has an older brother, Sebastian Montoya.

Congratulations to the Montoyas!

Ilmor Engineering, the company behind Mercedes Benz engines in F1, have been testing a MotoGP bike they have developed for the 2007 season. The bike appears to be very very quick. Will it end up with Mercedes branding?

In 2007, MotoGP bikes will be reduced to 800cc from the current 990cc formula. Ilmor has developed their bike with a 4-cylinder 800cc engine. The bike will make it’s debut this season at the Portugese Grand Prix.

The Ilmor bike has been the quickest 2007-spec bike in testing so far – even quicker than the 800cc Ducati GP7 bike. Despite having a capacity 190cc under existing bikes, they still might make quite an impression in Portugal and Valencia.

Very exciting, especially for Aussies as Gary McCoy has been doing the majority of testing so might get to return to the race seat in MotoGP..

We have just launched our new F1 Forums, so please feel free to drop by and start chatting. A lot of people view this site so it will be great to finally get to know a few of you and who you support in F1

This isn’t a new photo of Kimi, but amusing none-the-less