A decision about whether F1's 2020 season can restart in Austria is now imminent. Formula 1, and race promoter Red Bull, have submitted a safety plan for the back-to-back 'ghost races' for July to the Austrian government. Health minister Rudolf Anschober now says that a decision should be made "immediately after Pentecost". Pentecost is a.....check out full post »

Renault is staying in Formula 1 for now. Amid serious financial problems for the French carmaker, interim CEO Clotilde Delbos on Friday announced that she will save EUR 2 billion by slashing 15,000 jobs. However, the Enstone and Viry-based works Formula 1 team will race on. "We have said publicly and confirm that we remain.....check out full post »

Mercedes parent Daimler has hit back at reports suggesting the works team could be pulled out of Formula 1. German publication Auto Bild also claims Toto Wolff is set to withdraw as boss, take up a Niki Lauda-style supervisory board position, and potentially even take over the team together with new Aston Martin partner Lance.....check out full post »

Carlos Sainz says he is happy rather than intimidated at the thought of being paired with a driver of Charles Leclerc's calibre at Ferrari next year. The Spaniard, who has been signed to replace Sebastian Vettel for 2021, says he has always dreamed of being paired with "the best" drivers. "It is a curiosity I.....check out full post »

Daniel Ricciardo says he isn't sure why Ferrari overlooked him for the seat set to be vacated by Sebastian Vettel at the end of 2020. Admitting that talks with the Maranello team took place, Australian Ricciardo is instead moving from Renault to McLaren for 2021. "There have been discussions (with Ferrari) already from a few.....check out full post »

A former F1 driver thinks Renault  is more likely to sign Fernando Alonso for 2021 and beyond than Valtteri Bottas. The French team is looking for a replacement for Daniel Ricciardo, with boss Cyril Abiteboul admitting losing the Australian to McLaren is "disappointing". Bottas is clearly an option, former F1 driver JJ Lehto admits, amid.....check out full post »

Gunther Steiner has counted Haas out of the running to capture the services of Sebastian Vettel or Valtteri Bottas for 2021. Vettel is leaving Ferrari at the end of the year, while Finn Bottas could be set to lose his seat at Mercedes to George Russell. Former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone thinks quadruple world champion.....check out full post »

Yesterday the 2020 Dutch F1 GP has been officially cancelled. The rejuvenated Zandvoort circuit was due to host its first grand prix for 35 years in May, but was postponed for the corona crisis. Talks took place about rescheduling it for a later date without spectators, but race boss Jan Lammers says that definitely will.....check out full post »

Pascal Wehrlein appears to have withdrawn his support for a potential new Formula 1 team. Even amid the corona crisis, a prospective new team called Panthera Team Asia that is set up near Silverstone insisted: "Our goal is Formula 1 in 2021." And late last year, another potential new project headed by Formula 2 team.....check out full post »

Backmarker Formula 1 team Williams has admitted it may be sold. On Friday, the former world champions admitted that after slumping to dead last in 2019, a $16 million profit has now become a similar sized loss. And that was before the corona crisis struck. In a statement of its disappointing annual results, Williams CEO.....check out full post »

Formula 1 is preparing to publish an eight-race calendar that it hopes will restart the 2020 season amid the corona crisis. It comes just as the FIA confirmed that a $145 million budget cap, and a range of other measures including "linear" aero development restrictions for the better performing teams, are definitely coming in for.....check out full post »

Valtteri Bottas is emerging as a leading figure in the next round of the 2021 'silly season'. Contrary to wishful speculation, it appears unlikely that Mercedes would pair Sebastian Vettel with Lewis Hamilton. A more likely scenario is that George Russell will line up with the six-time world champion next year. It has triggered rumours.....check out full post »

Dutch racing driver Arie Luyendyk has praised countryman Max Verstappen for remaining grounded amid skyrocketing fame, fortune and success. Verstappen's new Red Bull deal makes him one of the highest paid drivers in Formula 1 history, with boss Dr Helmut Marko smiling that the 22-year-old "will not be happy" once the sport includes driver salaries.....check out full post »

The World Motor Sport Council has approved by e-vote further changes to the Sporting, Technical and Financial Regulations governing the FIA Formula One World Championship primarily due to the ongoing need to reduce costs and safeguard the sport in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the initial agreement to postpone the 2021 Technical Regulations to.....check out full post »

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 When it comes to giant killing in F1, few have done it better than Racing Point in recent years – in fact in 2016 and ’17, with the smallest budget on the grid, the then Force India team outperformed many well-healed opponents to finish fourth in the constructors’ championship. One of the architects behind.....check out full post »

Ferrari is aiming to show up in Austria in July with an engine packing 20 more horsepower. When the Melbourne season opener was called off, most insiders were predicting at the time that the engine legality scandal of 2019 had hurt Ferrari in the power stakes. Ferrari's Maranello HQ has been shut down for the.....check out full post »

Charles Leclerc has admitted he desperately misses racing in Formula 1. Although the Ferrari driver has become a star of at-home simulator racing and the streaming service Twitch during the corona crisis, he says his real love is the real race track. "The only thing I have in mind now is to get back on.....check out full post »

Cyril Abiteboul admits he is "disappointed" to lose Daniel Ricciardo for 2021. Earlier in May, the Renault team boss took a parting shot at Australian Ricciardo, saying that amid the corona crisis "reciprocated confidence, unity and commitment are, more than ever, critical values for a works team". Ricciardo, widely regarded as having been unhappy at.....check out full post »

Former F1 driver Pastor Maldonado is expecting trouble at Ferrari in 2020. The Italian team and Sebastian Vettel have announced their split - but that will only take effect from the 2021 season. It means that the tension seen between teammates Vettel and Charles Leclerc could even intensify once the racing finally kicks off this.....check out full post »

Formula 1 is "more of a show" than a sport, according to a boss of the Russian program SMP Racing. SMP Racing, headed by SMP Bank chief and Russian oligarch Boris Rotenberg, is active in various motor racing categories and backs the former Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin. "I'm not a very big fan of Formula.....check out full post »

A potential buyer for embattled Renault's works Formula 1 team has emerged. On Tuesday, it emerged that about 75 members of the McLaren team are losing their jobs, with chairman Paul Walsh admitting it is a "challenging time for our company". At the same time, reports suggest that Renault's obvious financial problems could also be.....check out full post »

Formula 1 drivers are starting to look forward to the resumption of racing in July. It now appears likely that initial plans for 'ghost races' in Austria, Silverstone, Hockenheim and Hungary starting in July will get the green light. "I am still in the simulator a lot, but not as often as at the beginning.....check out full post »

Mattia Binotto will be tasked with a "difficult and unusual situation" once the racing kicks off in 2020. That is the view of Piero Ferrari, the son of founder Enzo Ferrari who is also the fabled Italian marque's vice president and co-owner. And he is not just referring to the corona crisis. "First of all,.....check out full post »

Renault will not rush to name Daniel Ricciardo's replacement for 2021. Amid rumours the parent carmaker is in serious financial trouble, Australian Ricciardo decided recently to switch next year to McLaren. Team boss Cyril Abiteboul told Dutch media including De Telegraaf and Ziggo Sport that there is no rush to name a successor. "We first.....check out full post »

Intrigue about the future of Mercedes' works team is only intensifying. In the past days, weeks and months, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has been clearly moving in the direction of fellow Aston Martin investor Lawrence Stroll. Wolff admits he is in talks with new Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius about his role as Mercedes team.....check out full post »

Mick Schumacher could make his Formula 1 race debut much earlier than expected. Officially, Michael Schumacher's son is taking his rise to the top steadily, as he plans to do another full year of Formula 2 in 2020. "The good thing about the Schumacher family is that they know exactly what to do so that.....check out full post »

The extent of Nico Rosberg's career achievements in Formula 1 is not fully appreciated. That is the view of Heikki Kovalainen, a former F1 driver who - like Rosberg - was once paired inside a team with Lewis Hamilton. "Formula 1 is mentally and physically gruelling enough without having such a virtuoso as your teammate,".....check out full post »

F1's governing FIA is preparing to scrap the 'MGU-H' element of the current engine formula for 2025. The news was broken by Spanish correspondent Albert Fabrega, who says the 'motor generator unit - heat' is ground-breaking technology that has obvious weaknesses in F1. For instance, he says the technology is expensive, complex, exacerbates the gaps.....check out full post »

Austrian officials look set to show a green light to Formula 1's plans to re-start the 2020 season in July. Health and sports ministers Rudolf Anschober and Werner Kogler have given the strongest indication yet that the plan for back-to-back 'ghost races' will be approved. "There are entry and exit regulations, provisions for accommodation and.....check out full post »

Hockenheim is ready to step in if Formula 1 needs to abandon plans to race at Silverstone. The sport wants to return to racing with spectator-less 'ghost races' in Austria in July, before moving on to the home of the British F1 GP. But 14-day quarantine rules for international visitors to Britain means that, at.....check out full post »

Felipe Massa says he is not going to divulge the "information" he knows about the health of his former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher. Ever since his late 2013 skiing crash, Schumacher's family has managed to keep the extent of the seven time world champion's brain injuries almost completely secret. One of the few who has.....check out full post »

Sebastian Vettel will join "a winning team" for 2021 or quit the sport, according to his former boss Dr Helmut Marko. Speculation about the quadruple world champion's future is rife after Ferrari announced that he will be replaced by Carlos Sainz next year. "I have spoken to Sebastian and of course we went through the.....check out full post »

Charles Leclerc has denied that he will be the undisputed 'number 1' at Ferrari from 2021. Ferrari's move to oust Sebastian Vettel and replace him with Carlos Sainz has been interpreted as a clear hierarchical shift for the Maranello team. But after driving a Ferrari sports car around the Monaco circuit on Sunday, Leclerc told.....check out full post »

Stefano Domenicali has tipped former Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso to help his countryman Carlos Sainz "a lot" with his adjustment to life with the Italian team. "It will be important for Carlos to prepare well this year to be able to withstand the pressure he will experience at Ferrari," said Domenicali, who was Alonso's former.....check out full post »

France's finance minister has admitted Renault may "disappear" as a result of the corona crisis. It was reported last week that the government, which owns a 15 percent stake in the French carmaker, will step in with a EUR 5 billion loan to rescue the embattled marque. But minister Bruno Le Maire has told Europe.....check out full post »