Jun.26 - Ferrari says reports of a major car upgrade ahead of the resumption of racing in Austria next weekend were exaggerated. Italian media in particular claimed that, compared to the Melbourne-spec car, the Red Bull Ring-specification 2020 Ferrari will have a slimmer nose, stiffer gearbox, new rear suspension and an engine with 30hp more......check out full post »

Jun.26 - Valtteri Bottas insists he has "nothing to worry about" despite heading into the delayed 2020 season without a contract in place for next year. Mika Hakkinen, part of the Finn's management team, insists that the Mercedes driver has "prepared himself to a very high physical and psychological level" to take on Lewis Hamilton.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Alfa Romeo has no plans to make an early decision about its driver lineup for 2021. Other teams, including Ferrari and McLaren, got in early by locking out their new lineups without a single race having taken place in 2020 so far. Alfa Romeo will not follow suit. "We are in a different.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Mercedes' departing engine guru Andy Cowell could be moving to Aston Martin, according to Germany's Auto Bild. Last week, Mercedes' works team announced that after 16 years, Cowell is leaving his post in July but he will "consult to Mercedes-Benz AG on a major future project" until 2021. "Now is the right time.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Carlos Sainz will not be frozen out by McLaren in 2020. That is the word from the British team's supremo Zak Brown, even though Spaniard Sainz is switching to Ferrari at the end of the season. Normally, a move like that would result in the team shutting its departing driver out of knowing.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Williams will on Friday reveal a "sharp" and "smart" revised livery for its 2020 car. It comes after the struggling British backmarker, which is for sale, suddenly lost the backing of its title sponsor Rokit. The phone company is being linked with a move to world champions Mercedes. Ahead of the reveal of.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Spa-Francorchamps will not alter its plans to host the Belgian GP this year without spectators. Dutch regional newspaper 'Het Belang van Limburg" reports that although mass events were forbidden in Belgium at the time promoter Spa Grand Prix did the 'ghost race' deal with Liberty Media, things have now changed. The suggestion now.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen could put up a real challenge to reigning six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in 2020. That is the view of former double world champion Mika Hakkinen, who is part of the management team looking after Hamilton's Mercedes teammate Bottas. "Valtteri is in super shape and has prepared himself.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - Daniel Ricciardo says "time will tell" if he has made the right decision to switch to McLaren for 2021. On the face of it, it is a sideways move for the Australian, who will continue to race for the works Renault team this year. Ricciardo told the Australian grand prix Corporation podcast In.....check out full post »

Jun.26 - China has "fixed" itself a place on the 2020 corona crisis race calendar, according to Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko. Marko, a top Red Bull official who is close to Dietrich Mateschitz, was instrumental in getting the 2020 season up and running next week in Austria. Now, F1 is planning the second part.....check out full post »

First, a warning. After a seven month black hole of real Formula 1 racing (note: Lando Norris in his undies at home doesn't count), you're probably a lot more than ready to start reading about soft compounds, two-stop strategies and 'party-modes'. Well, even though we're firing those engines next weekend, there's something else we need.....check out full post »

Charles Leclerc was allowed by the Maranello City Council to drive the SF1000 from the Ferrari factory to the Fiorano test circuit on public road. This the onboard video.

So to Race One in Jonny Williams' list of all-time favourite WilliamsF1 GPs. It's the 1997 European GP at Jerez, Spain, where Jacques Villeneuve became the most recent Williams driver to win the World Championship. It was a day of non-stop drama and tension - and JW recalls the atmosphere with eloquent word-pictures and perspectives......check out full post »

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Jun.25 - Formula 1 looks set to soon announce the second part of its 2020 'corona calendar'. Amid reports of an October race in Montreal, Canadian GP chief Francois Dumontier thinks various non-European races will be added to that schedule. "I think the idea is to be able to announce the second part of the.....check out full post »

Jun.25 - A doctor treating Alex Zanardi has admitted the former F1 driver's vision could be affected by his hand-cycling crash. Italian Zanardi, who lost his legs in a 2001 Champ Car crash, is still in a coma with serious facial and head injuries in the Santa Maria alle Scotte di Siena in Italy. We.....check out full post »

Jun.25 - Organisers of the Canadian GP are not ready to confirm that a race in Montreal will definitely take place in 2020. There have been reports that an October date, pairing Canada with Austin, has been set for the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve's 2020 race. "We can't confirm that," a race spokesman told us. "We.....check out full post »

Jun.25 - Cyril Abitebul thinks Formula 1 should prepare for a whole season of 'ghost races' in 2020. However, the Renault team boss is hoping for the best. "We are preparing for a closed season, obviously with several economic scenarios for the circumstances, but we hope to be able to welcome a very small number.....check out full post »

This week we welcome blonde-haired 80s Super Swede Stefan Johansson onto the show. Stefan was a 12-time podium finisher, and he would have been a race winner too were it not for team orders or Lady Luck intervening. A terrific raconteur, Stefan regales Tom with some incredible stories from his career, including fascinating insight into.....check out full post »

In this video you can see footage of the SF71H being tested at Mugello in preparation for the upcoming Austrian GP and the start of the 2020 F1 season. It's not your ears or device that's broken. The video has no sound (yet).

Jun.24 - McLaren is worried it may soon run out of money. Although the famous British team has signed up Daniel Ricciardo for 2021, McLaren has now said in a filing at London's High Court that it needs a ruling "to ensure that the Group can continue as a going concern into 2021". The company.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - Alex Zanardi s eyesight is at risk as a result of the hand cycling crash that has left him in a coma with serious facial and head injuries. Giuseppe Olivieri, the neurosurgeon who operated on the former F1 driver turned paralympian, announced on Tuesday that the 53-year-old Italian will remain in a coma.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - Haas will not follow in the wheel-tracks of other Formula 1 teams by organising a pre-Austria test. Mercedes, Renault and Racing Point have already hit the track in preparation for the first 'ghost races', AlphaTauri is currently in the garage at Imola and Red Bull intends to run at Silverstone on Thursday. Ferrari,.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - There was a fire just outside the Dutch F1 GP venue at Zandvoort on Tuesday. De Limburger newspaper said flames and "thick, black smoke" hung above the circuit after piles of what appeared to be tyre barriers were set alight. A circuit spokesman said: "A number of young people burned a number of.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - Formula 1's looming back-to-back 'ghost race' experiments could be eye-opening, according to Haas driver Kevin Magnussen. He is referring to the fact that, amid the pandemic, the sport is getting back up and racing without spectators and by holding consecutive races at the same tracks like Austria and Silverstone. "It's hard to say.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - Honda's goal for 2020 is to power Red Bull to the world championship. That is the news from Yasuaki Asaki, who heads up Formula 1 operations at Honda's Sakura factory in Japan. He revealed that "spec 1.1" of Honda's 2020 engine will make its debut in Austria next weekend. "My goal is to.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - More than 10,000 coronavirus tests are being stockpiled at the scene of next weekend's return to Formula 1 action in Austria. They are being supplied by Eurofins Genomics, a DNA sequencing company that has been charged with keeping the global pandemic out of the Red Bull Ring paddock. "Everyone who works at the.....check out full post »

Jun.24 - Ralf Schumacher is worried about the future of Germany's national representation in Formula 1. Former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone thinks the looming demise of Sebastian Vettel's career is connected with the end of Formula 1 on free-to-air television in Germany after 2020. Quadruple world champion Vettel is the last German driver on the.....check out full post »

Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc were back in action for Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow during a test day using the 2018 car at the Mugello circuit. Its purpose was for the drivers to get back in the swing of driving again and for the whole team to work on the new anti Covid-19 protocols. Morning. Sebastian.....check out full post »

So as Covid-19 leaves a trail of human misery and economic ruin in its path an awful lot of people are getting upset that Lewis Hamilton is telling the world his opinion on everything from the environment, racism, and the price of baked beans. Some argue Lewis should only comment on issues relating to motor.....check out full post »

Jun.23 - Alex Zanardi's brain injuries do not compare with those suffered by fellow former F1 driver Michael Schumacher. That is the claim of Giuseppe Olivieri, the doctor who operated on Zanardi following his head-on crash with a truck during a hand cycling race in Italy last weekend. Former Williams driver Zanardi, who lost his.....check out full post »

Jun.23 - Bernie Ecclestone thinks the looming end of free-to-air television coverage of Formula 1 in Germany is due to the demise of Sebastian Vettel's career. Hot on the heels of Ferrari's news last month that it will split with the quadruple world champion after 2020, the German broadcaster RTL has now announced that will.....check out full post »

Jun.23 - Mark Webber thinks Ferrari has made a good choice by signing up Carlos Sainz for 2021. The signing means the Maranello team is ousting Sebastian Vettel, who won all four of his world championships as Webber's team mate at Red Bull last decade. It is suggested that if Vettel cannot secure the Mercedes.....check out full post »

Jun.23 - Bernie Ecclestone hopes Ferrari "play fair" in 2020. The former F1 supremo is a key ally and friend of quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel, who will be ousted by the Maranello team after this season. "Sebastian's only goal now is to be faster than Charles (Leclerc)," Ecclestone told the Swiss newspaper Blick. "In.....check out full post »

Jun.23 - Robert Kubica does not think his new role as a reserve driver will bounce him back onto the Formula 1 grid sooner rather than later. The Pole had intended to combine his new Alfa Romeo role with a full-time race seat in the German touring car championship DTM this year. Now, the very.....check out full post »

Jun.23 - There may initially be no one in the grandstands, but fans at home will at least be seeing a low of rainbows in Formula 1 this year. The sport has announced that it wants to "tackle the major issues" facing society in 2020, including coronavirus, sustainability, and now racism and diversity. So in.....check out full post »

Last week we got the boys back into the studio for some signing, photo shoots, GIFs and Zoom calls! Take a look... 👇 pic.twitter.com/rCJ1FkGbRO — Mercedes-AMG F1 (@MercedesAMGF1) June 22, 2020 Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas are back at work and had to do some photoshoots, signing and interviews for the upcoming start.....check out full post »

P2 in Jonny Williams' list of all-time favourite WilliamsF1 GPs is the 2003 Monaco Grand Prix. Ralf Schumacher took the pole and led from the start; but it was his Williams team-mate, Juan Pablo Montoya - a driver who made it to F1 thanks in large part to Jonny - who nursed his BMW engine.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - Even if they're banned from entering the circuit, plenty of fans are expected to descend on the region around Austria's Red Bull Ring next weekend. Austrian reports quote the chief of Spielberg's tourism body Tourismus am Spielberg, Manuela Machner, as confirming that hotel occupancies will be at an impressive 70-80 percent. "We don't.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - Only 60 percent of the current drivers in Formula 1 would be able to win the world championship in a dominant Mercedes car, according to Max Verstappen. Many are predicting that Red Bull driver Verstappen, 22, will be able to take on six time world champion Lewis Hamilton in 2020. The Dutchman admits.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - F1's 2020 world championship will be a two-man fight, according to former driver Mark Webber. "In reality, it will be between (Max) Verstappen and Lewis (Hamilton)," the Australian told Ziggo Sport. The sport's 'corona calendar', set to kick off after a long shutdown, will begin next weekend with back-to-back races in Austria. "I.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - This week, Ferrari and Red Bull will prepare on track for next weekend's return to Formula 1 action after the long 'corona crisis' shutdown. Italian reports say Ferrari will run a two-year-old car on June 23 at Mugello, the circuit it owns and is slated to host a race one week after Monza......check out full post »

Jun.22 - The cars of 2021 are likely to be slower than this year's 2020 field, according to Racing Point technical boss Andy Green. That is despite the fact that large parts of the 2020 cars are being 'frozen' to keep costs down amid the corona crisis. A complex 'token' system is being set up.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - After 30 years in Formula 1, Germany's free-to-air television broadcaster RTL is pulling out of the sport at the end of this year. Bild newspaper believes the pay-TV broadcaster Sky will take over with a lucrative exclusive deal. "If there are competitors in the game who are willing to offer double, you have.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - Former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone once tried to convince Juan Pablo Montoya to return to the sport. Out of favour at McLaren, the Colombian scrapped his six-year-old Formula 1 career in mid-2006 in favour of a long-term Nascar deal. Montoya, now 44, says he never regretted the move. "When I left, the matter.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - Russia's grand prix boss has played down reports that Portugal could be set to take the place of Sochi on the 2020 'corona calendar'. It has been reported that the Algarve circuit in Portimao, Portugal, is poised to take Russia's currently-scheduled September 27 race date. "We are continuing to prepare for our race,.....check out full post »

The following is a summary of the decisions taken during the meeting of June 18: Coronavirus COVID-19 The global situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, and over the past weeks the Council noted the publication of extensive ‘Return to Motor Sport’ guidelines prepared by the FIA under the direction of FIA Medical Commission.....check out full post »

Jun.22 - Alex Zanardi is at risk of brain damage as a result of a head-on crash with a truck during a hand cycling race in Italy. The former F1 driver, who famously lost his legs in a horror American open-wheeler crash in 2001, crossed into the oncoming lane on a downhill bend and sustained.....check out full post »

The FIA Formula E championship has been a part of the motorsport world since 2014 and if it has delivered anything to the old-school fans of racing action, it has been variability. In terms of betting, there isn’t anything greater than that from a sport, we see it from football and basketball, wherein any given.....check out full post »

The year after Ferrari's debut in the F1 World Championship. Scuderia Ferrari scored their first pole position and grand prix victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix. After 2 hours and 42 minutes of racing, it was Argentine José Froilán González who wrote history and clinched the first ever victory for Enzo Ferrari at Silverstone......check out full post »