We’re getting nostalgic and taking it back to the '80s, with a 2020 twist.

Jacques Villeneuve is not surprised that Canada's Montreal race has been postponed. "We have not yet reached the peak of the pandemic," said the 1997 world champion and French Canadian, who is stuck at home on the outskirts of Milan. "We are allowed to go out for basic needs, but the restricted measures were tightened.....check out full post »

Haas' two race drivers are in talks about reducing their pay during the coronavirus pandemic. The small American team is one of those taking advantage of government staff furloughing programs. "We cannot develop for three months while we have no income," boss Gunther Steiner told motorsport-magazin.com. "Some teams can do that, but all the smaller.....check out full post »

Pierre Gasly says Red Bull is now a "tailor-made" team for Max Verstappen. Last year, Frenchman Gasly struggled to match Verstappen when he stepped up from the junior team. By year end, he had been replaced by Alexander Albon. Gasly has argued that he didn't get long to prove himself at the top team. "It.....check out full post »

Jean Todt admits that the legality of Ferrari's 2019 engine will "absolutely" remain questioned by some. The FIA president has been blasted for agreeing a 'secret' settlement with the Maranello team he once led. But Todt has now defended the federation's actions in conversation with France's L'Equipe. "The FIA has a few engineers and we.....check out full post »

Alfa Romeo has joined four other F1 teams in furloughing staff amid the coronavirus crisis. Already, McLaren, Williams, Haas and Racing Point have taken advantage of a scheme in which the UK government pays most of staff salaries during the global shutdown period. And now Blick newspaper claims Hinwil-based Alfa Romeo is accessing a similar.....check out full post »

Robert Kubica says he has regained "a lot of desire for Formula 1" after a tough season with Williams last year. The Pole lost that race seat and instead signed up with Alfa Romeo to be reserve driver this year, combining it with a racing role in the DTM series. But then the coronavirus struck......check out full post »

One way through the coronavirus situation for Formula 1 may be midweek races. That is the view of Jan Lammers, chief spokesman of the postponed Dutch F1 GP at Zandvoort. With nine grands prix postponed or cancelled so far, F1 is scrambling to put together an alternative schedule for the second half of the year......check out full post »

"Nothing will be the same" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, former F1 team boss Flavio Briatore has warned. Apart from the health risks and deaths, the Italian says the global crisis is "a catastrophe for the entire economy". "In a few months, the Chinese will buy up all the best Italian companies. The.....check out full post »

Two Portuguese circuits have suddenly emerged as potential stand-in venues amid F1's coronavirus crisis. We reported this week that the Algarve circuit, located in Portimao, has received FIA certification to host grands prix. And now, the Portuguese source sportmotores.com claims that the former Portuguese F1 GP venue at Estoril has also received Grade 1 FIA.....check out full post »

Austrian commentator Ernst Hausleitner thinks people will begin to switch off to the coronavirus hype. Like most people all around the world, the commentator - who works for the broadcaster ORF - says his life has "completely changed". "I miss Formula 1 tremendously," he told Speed Week. "That's the most difficult part for me -.....check out full post »

For the sake of "morale" and the "economy", former Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali hopes Formula 1 racing will return to the world soon. "Sundays without F1 are really strange," the current Lamborghini CEO told L'Equipe. So far in 2020, nine of the planned 22 grands prix have been either postponed or cancelled over the coronavirus.....check out full post »

Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Technical Director, James Allison, describes the F1 car design process. Articulate and descriptive, James talks about the creation of the 2019 Mercedes W10, the emotions surrounding the first factory "fire-up" and his feelings as a new car turns a wheel for the first time. With thanks to AMG Mercedes F1.

Quiz idea time… 🤨 Take all 22 tracks from the original 2020 F1 Calendar. Pick two at random. Work out which one is longer (or shorter) than the other. And don’t forget to keep count.

Like Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Nico Rosberg, David Brabham knows only too well what it’s like to forge a path to F1 under the shadow of a famous father, in his case triple world champion Jack Brabham – the only driver to win the title in a self-made car. On this week’s show, Brabs.....check out full post »

Also the 9th race of the original 2020 F1 calendar, the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix will be postponed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organisers decided that it's not possible to host the race around the Gilles Villeneuve circuit during the ongoing global coronavirus outbreak. The news follows the announcement that F1 are working.....check out full post »

Well-known Dutch commentator Olav Mol says he has emailed Formula One Management with a proposal about how an alternative 2020 calendar should look. Officially, F1 CEO Chase Carey is still pushing for a new schedule of between 15-18 races - even though the ninth cancellation or postponement has just been added to the list. Mol.....check out full post »

Race promoter Francois Dumontier said he had no choice other than to postpone June's Canadian GP. As F1 decides to extend the current three-week factory shutdown for a further fortnight, the Montreal organisers announced officially that they are "saddened" to call off the popular race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for now. "Closing Canada's borders.....check out full post »

MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta admits that top motorsport categories may not be able to race at all in 2020. Like F1, MotoGP's race postponements because of the coronavirus crisis are now pushing into June. But unlike F1, MotoGP chief Ezpeleta is not necessarily holding out hope that a healthy number of races will ultimately be.....check out full post »

The situation in Formula 1 will become "very critical" if the current shutdown period continues beyond July. That is the view of Franz Tost, boss of one of the smallest teams on the grid - Red Bull-owned AlphaTauri. "If we start competing in July, we will come out with a black eye," he told the.....check out full post »

Red Bull's new reserve driver is more than happy with his current role in Formula 1 - even if the coronavirus crisis means he is stuck for now in Japan. Although his new role has so far been limited to travelling to Australia for the cancelled season opener, Sergio Sette Camara is hopeful his F1.....check out full post »

Nico Rosberg has urged Formula 1 to get "creative" amid the coronavirus crisis. So far in this unprecedented situation, the messages are mixed. MotoGP admits the entire championship may be cancelled, Chase Carey wants to organise as many as 18 grands prix, and UFC boss Dana White claims to have secured a private island on.....check out full post »

Gerhard Berger has ruled out hosting DTM races without spectators. It has been suggested that top motorsport categories might be able to get racing again in the coming months if 'ghost races' without an audience are held. "Racing could be one of the first sports (to reopen) because we can do ghost races without spectators,".....check out full post »

A former F1 sponsor says there is "a real risk" that teams will go bust amid the coronavirus crisis. For years, Finnish billionaire Antti Aarnio-Wihuri supported Valtteri Bottas in Formula 1. He admitted to Iltalehti newspaper that he is worried about the way the sport - like many other sports and business entities around the.....check out full post »

Austria's Red Bull Ring could join Silverstone in hosting more than one race in 2020 once the coronavirus crisis has eased. Eight races have been cancelled or postponed so far this year, and it is expected that Montreal's June race might join them as soon as Tuesday. But Red Bull, owner and promoter of the.....check out full post »

Two more teams have joined McLaren in furloughing employees amid the coronavirus pandemic. "The furlough period will last until the end of May whilst senior management, and our drivers, have taken a pay cut of 20 percent effective from 1 April," backmarker Williams announced. It is part of a British government scheme that pays employees.....check out full post »

Tatiana Calderon says it was "very strange" to travel to Japan amid the coronavirus crisis to test her new Super Formula car for 2020. All around the world, the pandemic has brought sport and most other normal activities to a standstill. But the Super Formula series pushed ahead with a pre-season test. "It was completely.....check out full post »

The Algarve circuit in Portugal has received approval to host Formula 1 races. The Lusa news agency said the circuit in Portimao, in the country's south, applied for the highest FIA certification level last year. "We have been trying for this since last year when we received an inspection carried out by the late Charlie.....check out full post »

Former F1 driver Christian Klien says the "uncertainty" of the coronavirus crisis is the most difficult part. The Austrian, now 37, is today a pundit as well as a GT driver. When asked by Speed Week, the former Red Bull driver said: "I would say the uncertainty is the most difficult part. "I know the.....check out full post »

It would have been "fun" to pair Robert Kubica with Fernando Alonso at Ferrari. That is the claim of Stefano Domenicali, as the open secret about Polish driver Kubica's interrupted deal to join the Maranello team for 2012 continues to stay alive. "Before the accident, Robert was a very high level racing driver," former Ferrari.....check out full post »

Pierre Gasly is hopeful the Formula 1 season can kick off again by the end of June - in his native France. Officially, with the first eight races already postponed or cancelled, Canada is currently scheduled to be the new 2020 season opener. But rumours from Montreal indicate that postponement of the 14 June race.....check out full post »

Having already put his smartphone away, Nico Rosberg is now coping with the coronavirus crisis by reverting to meditation. The former F1 driver says he managed to beat his then teammate Lewis Hamilton to the 2016 title by also focusing on the psychological side of racing. Rosberg told Der Standard that meditation practice played "a.....check out full post »

Jacques Villeneuve says it would be a mistake for Formula 1 to rush together an alternate 2020 calendar. As the coronavirus crisis continues, Liberty Media has flagged its ambition for a 15-18 race schedule to kick off in the second half of the year. But 1997 world champion Villeneuve said: "The first races should be.....check out full post »

A further factory shutdown period because of the coronavirus crisis is likely in Formula 1, according to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff. To help cope with the crisis, the teams agreed to bring forward the usual August shutdown to now, and extend it to three weeks instead of two. "It's fixed for three weeks, and then.....check out full post »

Hockenheim is lucky to have been left off F1's original 2020 F1 calendar, its boss has suggested. The former German GP venue's boss Jorn Teske said that, unlike the contracted 2020 venues, Hockenheim at least does not have to worry about refunding tickets. "Imagine having to return the money for 30 or 40 thousand tickets.....check out full post »

Dutch F1 GP boss Jan Lammers has called for speculation about re-starting Formula 1 to stop for now. "We actually want to stop reporting until there is more clarity," the former F1 driver, who is the lead spokesman for the Zandvoort event, told the Dutch publication Formule 1. "Every answer raises new questions, and everything.....check out full post »

Toto Wolff says he is staying in charge of Mercedes' works F1 team for "the short term". The Austrian has been linked strongly with Lawrence Stroll's Aston Martin project, amid rumours Wolff has fallen out with new Daimler boss Ola Kallenius. But he told Osterreich newspaper: "In most of the stories I read about it,.....check out full post »

Cyril Abiteboul is openly questioning Racing Point's approach to the design of its 2020 car. Although the sport is generally pulling together amid the coronavirus crisis, that is not stopping the Renault boss from wondering about what was dubbed in the paddock as the 'pink Mercedes'. Despite its relationship with Mercedes, and team owner Lawrence.....check out full post »

Robert Kubica has urged racing drivers to adjust to the world amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Pole compares the situation - with F1 factories closed and racing drivers unable to race - with his recovery from a near-fatal rallying crash in 2011 that left him with a permanent arm injury. "After the accident in 2011,.....check out full post »

Sochi is pressing ahead with its plans to host the Russian F1 GP in late September. That is despite the fact that the opening eight races of the season have been cancelled or postponed, and big question marks hang above the other venues amid the pandemic. But Tass news agency in Russia reports that Sochi.....check out full post »