Formula One Paddock Club™ tickets can be bought for Friday, Saturday and Sunday of a whole Grand Prix weekend, or for Saturday and Sunday of a Grand Prix weekend or just for the Sunday.

Every time the magic of Formula One descends on a circuit for a race around the world, the Formula One Paddock Club™ is not far behind. From Malaysia to Monaco, and from Shanghai to Sao Paulo, the same level of luxurious comfort, proximity to the action and sheer excitement is on offer.

Patrick McNally, President and CEO of organizers Allsport Management, describes it: “No matter where a Grand Prix takes place in the world, Formula One Paddock club clients can count on the same first class standards of professionalism. Our ambition is to create an atmosphere of relaxed sophistication, with the ambiance of a private members club.”

One maxim the F1 Paddock Club always follows is that location is everything. During a Grand Prix weekend, its guests are prestigeously located to watch the track action from on top of the pit lane. The Paddock Club can usually be found either above or alongside the Formula One Paddock, where the teams set up their garages, or overlooking the pit lane, with a view of the start/finish line. Guests also get the chance to visit the pit lane, an area normally only open to Formula One personnel. Since it was established in 1984 the Formula One Paddock Club has become the ultimate in corporate hospitality luxury and spectator enjoyment. Its exclusivity provides an environment in which those who make Formula One racing the most glamorous sport in the world can enjoy free flow of champagne, savour international first class cuisine and experience the thrill of the racing action. A grand setting for business and socialising.

Clients can enjoy either their own private hospitality area, customised to reflect their brand, or the Club Suite, which has been specially-designed to relax, excite and impress guests in equal measure. In each area, lunch is always served with a smile, champagne glasses are never empty and everybody enjoys uninterrupted views of the race action. While corporate functions make up the majority of its clients, the Paddock Club is also available to anyone who wants to enjoy an unforgettable experience of the fast lane.

During a single race weekend, the Paddock Club hosts guests for 27 hours and serves over 10,000 meals, while during an average Grand Prix 3,000 pieces of lobster and 3,000 bottles of champagne and fine wines are enjoyed. To achieve such a high standard of professionalism, the Formula One Paddock Club team at Allsport Management SA begins planning for a Formula One season before the last race of the previous season to ensure that every table is correctly allocated and every client’s requirements are met.

As a dedicated Formula One Paddock Club™ ticket agency closely working with Allsport Management for the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship™ season, we are pleased to offer you the ability to make individual or group bookings at selected Formula One™ Grand Prix events through the “Golden Card” division.

All Formula One Paddock Club™ tickets offered or sold by us through Golden Card are subject to availability and to the 2008 Formula One Paddock Club™ Standard Terms and Conditions which can be viewed on line at (Terms&Conditions 2008) or which can be posted to you upon request.

We look forward to taking care of you and your guests in the exclusive luxury of the Formula One Paddock Club™

Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that he has struck a deal to bring Formula 1 to India from 2010.

Indian company JP Associates has won a ten-year contract to host the race at a purpose-built facility near Greater Noida airport, 50km outside New Delhi, from 2010. F1’s popularity in India is rising fast.

Michael Taub, who has been the driving force behind the project to bring F1 to India for the past ten years, has finally succeeded, along with Mr Sunder Mulchandani, in bringing this major event to a country of over a billion people.

Mr Manoj Gaur, the Chairman and CEO of Jaiprakash Associates Limited, and his brother Mr Samir Gaur, Managing Director of JPSK Sports Ltd, are very excited with being involved with the major brand of F1 and see this as being a huge attraction in India.

Bernie Ecclestone said: “India has always been known for its love of cricket, but F1 has been growing hugely in popularity in recent years as the viewing figures would suggest. Now with Vijay Mallya’s team, Force India, and the news that Karun Chandhok could soon be driving in F1, the announcement of the future Grand Prix in India will spark an explosion of further interest to rival that of the traditional sport.”

LONDON, England (CNN) — 2007 was clearly one of the most exciting years in recent Formula 1 history. But will renewed public enthusiasm for the sport continue through 2008?

Lewis Hamilton gets close to Avril Lavigne at the MTV Europe Music Awards but will the public embrace?

Lewis Hamilton’s debut season saw him achieve the best performance ever seen from a rookie driver. Although he led the championship for the last months of the season, he should feel no shame in coming second. But who will partner him at McLaren in 2008, now that Alonso has — to the surprise of noone — left the team before his contract expires?

Heikki Kovalainen and Nico Rosberg have both been tipped to partner the 22-year-old Briton. Kovalainen, currently at Renault, has proven himself to be an extremely capable driver, and scored 30 world championship points) in a car that has not proved competitive (though he scored second place in the rain-sodden Japanese Grand Prix). Rosberg, currently at Williams, has also had an impressive season, recording his best ever finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix where he came in fourth place.

Hamilton-mania — which reached its height in the summer when he appeared at two events in his home country, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and Goodwood Festival of Speed — may be under threat by the young driver’s decision to leave Britain for Switzerland. Seen as a people’s champion in his home country, his decision to leave to avoid being pestered for autographs, will strike many as ungracious. The fall-out from McLaren’s involvement in the spying scandal, in which it was fined $100 million for making use of confidential Ferrari technical data, will continue to be felt in 2008. Later this year McLaren will learn whether it is eligible to compete in the constructors’ championship next season (the FIA will impose further sanctions on the team if it is thought that its 2008 car contains technology that could have been influenced by the leaked Ferrari data).

Ferrari believes the FIA was too lenient with McLaren, by allowing Hamilton and Alonso to keep their drivers’ championship points. Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo said: “I had already thought about taking part [in 2008] with an 8000cc engine. They’d disqualify the team, but the driver would win anyway.”

And it is not just McLaren that has been affected by “Spygate”. The proposed Prodrive F1 team, which was granted licence to enter F1 competition for 2008, looks unlikely to join the grid. Prodrive was expected to run customer versions of McLaren’s 2008 car. But a combination of McLaren’s woes, and a change of heart about customer cars from F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and FIA chief Max Mosley, has scuppered Prodrive’s plans. Ecclestone and Mosley both believe that F1 should be a showcase of automotive technology. So that the presence of customer teams who do not develop their own technology, and are contractually obliged to finish behind the teams whose technology they are licensing, is both at odds with the quest for technological excellence and the spirit of competition.

This U-turn could jeopardize the futures of Toro Rosso and Super Aguri who both race with the technology of parent teams (Red Bull and Honda, respectively).

With Alonso released from his contract to McLaren, the two-time world champion is now free to find a new team. But, having failed to secure a third world championship, will Alonso be able to find a team that will give him a fighting chance next year?

Judging by this year’s performance, there are only two teams with enough of an edge to deliver a world championship to one of their drivers: McLaren and Ferrari. But Ferrari is out of the question, as both Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa are under contract.

Current speculation is that Alonso may go back to Renault (for whom he won his world championships) or move on to Red Bull. Renault’s fall from grace in 2007 was spectacular. In 2006 it won the constuctors’ championship with 206 points. In 2007 it came third (fourth, had McLaren not been disqualified) with a paltry 51 points. Renault is confident of putting in a better performance for 2008. It had realized the faults of the R27, their 2007 car, early in the season. But rather than improving the car throughout the season in an effort to claw back points, the team thought it would be better use of their engineers’ time to concentrate on the R28 and have a determined contender for 2008.

Renault does not have contracted drivers for 2008. Of its current pair, Kovalainen is tipped for McLaren, and Giancarlo Fisichella may well have seen his last season in F1. There is space for Alonso, but would Renault want him back? Rumors suggest that Alonso will take a temporary home at Red Bull for 2008, before launching a serious bid for his third world championship at Ferrari in 2009. A current Red Bull driver, likely Mark Webber, will be transferred to Toro Rosso. Driver movements at other teams are likely to include a transfer to Super Aguri for Rubens Barrichello. The 35-year old Brazilian is contracted to Honda for 2008 but his flagging talent would suggest a kick downstairs to the B-team. If he completes the 2008 season he will become the most experienced driver in F1 history — in terms of races started. His team-mate Jenson Button is to stay at Honda.

Toyota has lost Ralf Schumacher who, despite years of underwhelming drives, is likely to secure a drive with a back-of-grid team (possibly the new Force India) thanks to his industry contacts. Two exciting additions to the F1 season are the new Grands Prix at Valencia and Singapore. The European Grand Prix at Valencia is to be held in August on a street circuit around the Spanish city, passing the other-worldly architecture of Santiago Calatrava’s City of Arts and Sciences.

The Singapore Grand Prix will also be on a street circuit, around the city-state’s Marine Bay. To maximize television exposure, the race is to be held at night, under floodlights — thus assuring that European viewers will be able to watch the race live. Some F1 drivers have expressed concern about the safety of racing at night — particularly the dangers of under- or over-illumination.

This year’s scandal, and its nail-biting finale, will likely keep F1 converts watching the opening races of 2008. But will they keep watching if popular heroes become petulant recluses or if there are many more grands prix that seem as stage-managed as Brazil’s season-closer?

Read this artical on Cnn.com here

Ferrari has announced that Stefano Domenicali will replace Jean Todt as head of its Formula 1 team next year, as part of a significant reshuffle of its senior management and technical staff. On January 1 Domenicali – currently the team’s sporting director – will be promoted to director of the Gestione Sportiva, the Italian marque’s motorsport division. Other changes include technical director Mario Almondo stepping up into the role of operations director while Aldo Costa will become the new technical director. Gilles Simon has been promoted to engine director. Meanwhile it remains to be seen what role Todt will take at the team and whether he will stay on as the head of the Ferrari automobile company.  The announcement follows Honda’s revelation this morning that it has signed renowned former Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn as its team principal.

Honda Racing has announced that it has signed former Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn as its team principal. Brawn has been on sabbatical this year after a 10-year tenure at the Maranello squad, where he masterminded an unprecedented six consecutive constructors’ world championships and five drivers’ titles with Michael Schumacher. He will join Honda as team principal, working alongside Nick Fry, who will stay on as chief executive. Brawn will be given full responsibility for design, manufacture, engineering and race operations, allowing Fry to focus on the business and marketing side and managing the relationship with Honda’s board in Japan.

Throughout the summer Brawn was strongly linked with a return to Ferrari, but when negotiations broke down Honda quickly swooped for the Briton and the deal was reportedly signed off last week at a meeting with the company’s bosses in Japan. It is also likely to boost the team’s chances of retaining Jenson Button’s services beyond 2008. Fry said Brawn’s appointment was proof of Honda’s determination to reverse its slide down the grid and build a title-challenging outfit. “One of my main tasks over the past six months has been to attract new talent to the Honda Racing F1 Team and we have made a number of key appointments in the areas of aerodynamics, design, engineering, marketing and on the racing team,” he said. “Today’s announcement that Ross Brawn is to join our team is a very satisfying conclusion to the process of refreshing and revitalising a strong and determined team. Honda Motor Company’s Hiroshi Oshima added: “I am pleased with the structure we have put in place for the future success of our Formula 1 team.

“We look forward to a successful season ahead.” Brawn will begin work with Honda on November 26.

Kazuki Nakajima will make his full-time Formula 1 race debut in 2008 after being handed the second seat at Williams for next season.
The 22-year-old Japanese driver has been promoted from his role as the Grove squad’s official test driver to a race seat he first filled impressively at the 2007 season-finale in Brazil following the retirement of Alex Wurz.

The 22-year-old will partner Nico Rosberg at the Grove-based squad in 2008 after being promoted from his test and reserve driver role at the team which he started in January. He has dovetailed his F1 testing duties this year with an impressive rookie year in the sport’s GP2 feeder series – winning the category’s rookie of the year title after scoring six podium finishes. However while most of the grid’s current GP2 graduates have entered F1 after winning or battling for the championship, Nakajima comes in after finishing fifth in the series at the first attempt.

“I am delighted to confirm that Nico will be racing for the team for his third consecutive year after demonstrating impressive and widely applauded form in 2007,” said team owner Sir Frank Williams.

Fernando Alonso has agreed to split with the McLaren-Mercedes team by mutual consent.  The 26-year-old Spaniard has agreed terms to terminate his agreement with the Woking team after just one season of his three-year contract.
“Today’s decision allows all of us to focus on 2008, and I wish the team, Vodafone, Banco Santander, Mutua Madrileña and all the other team partners who I have worked closely with during the year, the best for the future.” His relationship with team boss Ron Dennis is believed to have broken down after the Spaniard publicly criticised McLaren for not providing him with the support he felt he deserved as a double world champion. This was not helped by the unexpected pace of his rookie team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who settled into the team faster and more successfully than Alonso did. The situation became irretrievable when the Spaniard threatened to reveal evidence of the team’s involvement in the ‘Spygate’ scandal during a heated row in Hungary.  In its statement announcing Alonso’s departure, McLaren admitted the relationship had not evolved in the way it had hoped and that both parties had agreed it was better to part ways. “Everybody at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes want to wish Fernando all the best for the future,” read the statement. Alonso is free to join another team in 2008, and his agent said neither party would pay a financial penalty. Alonso’s destination remains undisclosed, though he has been linked with a move to Red Bull Racing, a return to Renault and has received big money offers from Toyota and Honda. Renault’s Heikki Kovalainen and Williams’ Nico Rosberg are both believed to be in the frame to replace Alonso alongside Hamilton.

The Formula One Grand Prix in Monte Carlo is the annual Topclass Sports Event.
F1 Corporate Hospitality is delivered at its best in the principality of glamour and fashion on the mediterranean coastline.
We are Monaco Grand Prix specialists. Our staff have been hosting hospitality programmes in Monaco for more than 5 consecutive years. Amongst the most experienced travel management professionals in the UK, F1Corproate Travel is able to deliver bespoke corporate events as well as accommodation and transfers services on the French Riviera during the Formula One Grand Prix Monte Carlo  2008 . Our packages vary from general ticket, flight and hotel packages to VIP terrace and yacht hospitality experiences.

VVIP Yacht Hospitality
Be guests on the F1Corporate Super Yacht in Monaco and experience something very special during the F1 Grand Prix weekend. Book your own cabin on the yacht for 5 nights or join us on Saturday and Sunday for parties, race viewing and celebrating the event with F1 drivers, celebrities and other VIPs. Off track celebrity parties in the famous Amber Lounge 2008.
Availability is limited, prices from EURO 8000.00 per person

VIP Race Viewing Terrace
Panoramic port and race track views are the selling point of these fantastic hospitality packages. Enjoy 2 days on one of our roof terraces with 5 star race viewing facilities and even better catering and drinks. Free flow of champagne included in most packages.
Situated directly above the start/finish grid, you get to see the champagne spilled at the end of the race! The apartments have comfortable interiors where you can enjoy breakfast and lunch and watch live TV broadcasting the race. Each has an outside terrace for race viewing and a clear view of the giant screen. Prices start from EURO 1500.00 per person.

Contact F1Corporate on 0208 144 2010 or email vip @ f1corporate.com