F1’s troubles in Brazil continued with the announcement that the new deal to host the Brazilian race at the Interlagos circuit had been according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo suspended by a judge. The deal in question was not Liberty Media’s contract with the new promoter MC Brazil Motorsport but the contract between the city.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Lewis Hamilton is "at a crossroads" in his Formula 1 career, according to a well known F1 commentator. Alexey Popov, the voice of Russian broadcaster Match TV's coverage, said the seven time world champion is now the focus of media attention as his long-delayed contract negotiations with Mercedes reportedly stall. "The British press.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Sebastian Vettel visited the headquarters of his new Formula 1 team for the first time this week, according to multiple media sources. The sources report that the former Ferrari driver was at Aston Martin's Silverstone factory where he had a seat fitting and spent several hours in the simulator. He then returned to.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Kevin Magnussen can now "move on" after winning a court battle against his former manager, the Danish ex-Haas driver's father says. On Thursday, in a Copenhagen court, a judge ruled in favour of Magnussen after his ex-manager Dorte Riis Madsen alleged the 28-year-old owed her 20 percent of his career earnings. Madsen was.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Romain Grosjean says his Formula 1 career is "over". "From a driving point of view, I think it's over," revealed the Frenchman, who has now shed the bandages that hid the burns on his hands from his horror Bahrain crash late last year. At the time of the crash, Grosjean, 34, already knew.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Esteban Ocon has smiled at claims he will give F1 legend Fernando Alonso a run for his money at Alpine this year. Team test driver Sergey Sirotkin this week predicted that incumbent Ocon, 24, "will better understand the team and the car" once Alonso ends his two-year Formula 1 sabbatical in March. "We.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Red Bull has reached an agreement with Honda that will allow the two energy drink-owned teams to continue to use the departing Japanese manufacturer's F1 engines after 2021. The only thing missing now, according to Dr Helmut Marko, is for the other teams and the FIA to agree to freezing engine development. As.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Saudi Arabia's new Formula 1 race will only temporarily take place on a Jeddah street circuit. The controversial Arab kingdom is joining the F1 calendar this December, with Prince Khalid telling the Telegram page Cross Country Rally that Saudi Arabia is "working with (Hermann Tilke) and Formula 1 to design the fastest city.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - The fate of Monaco's fabled grand prix this year is about more than just a press release. That is the news from Red Bull's highly-influential Dr Helmut Marko, who was speaking with the German media after the Automobile Club de Monaco earlier this week scotched rumours the street race may once again be.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Esteban Ocon says it is "sad" to see his French countryman Cyril Abiteboul lose his top job as Renault rebrands as Alpine for 2021. Under new Renault CEO Luca de Meo, Abiteboul has been ousted while Marcin Budkowski is promoted - while Davide Brivio has been head-hunted from MotoGP. Frenchman Ocon says he.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Frederik Vesti actually worked with Mercedes for over a year prior to his signing as the German marque's newest F1 driver program member. We reported last week that the 19-year-old Dane, who races in the FIA Formula 3 championship, was on the cusp of becoming the latest Mercedes junior. Mercedes has now confirmed.....check out full post »

Jan.22 - Max Verstappen is already better than seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton. That is the sensational claim of Christian Horner, the Red Bull team boss who thinks the image of Hamilton's dominance took a major hit late in 2020. "I think he is the best, yes," Horner told the Dutch publication RacingNews365 when.....check out full post »

Jan.21 - Taking a big step forward in 2021 "will not be easy" for Ferrari, according to the Maranello team's former boss Stefano Domenicali. Domenicali has now taken over from Chase Carey as Formula 1's CEO, but he was asked by Italy's Sky Sport 24 to comment on his former employer's notably poor performance in.....check out full post »

Jan.21 - Alfa Romeo looks set to stick with Ferrari power for 2022. That is despite the fact that, in the pages of Corriere della Sera, correspondent Daniele Sparisci claims the Swiss team was approached by Renault. Ferrari's engines struggled markedly in 2020, and team boss Frederic Vasseur recently sounded puzzled as to why the.....check out full post »

Jan.21 - Stefano Domenicali says he has "cautious optimism" that Formula 1 will get through a full and unprecedentedly-long 23-race calendar in 2021. That is despite the fact that Shanghai has already been replaced by Imola, the season opener in Melbourne has been postponed, and the continuing corona crisis also hangs over several other scheduled.....check out full post »

Jan.21 - Lance Stroll says he is happy to keep responding to his critics by impressing them on the track. The Canadian's countryman Jacques Villeneuve has been a fierce and vocal critic of Stroll, whose father is the Aston Martin team owner and billionaire Lawrence Stroll. But in Istanbul last year, 22-year-old Stroll secured his.....check out full post »

Jan.21 - It is not clear if Lewis Hamilton will be on the Formula 1 grid in 2021. That is the sensational claim of Stefano Domenicali, who recently took over from Chase Carey to serve as the sport's new CEO. Amid raging speculation about Hamilton's long-delayed contract negotiations with Ferrari, Domenicali said he spoke to.....check out full post »

Jan.20 - Daniel Ricciardo is watching current events in Melbourne with great interest. At present, the world of international tennis is holed up in the city ahead of the Australian Open, observing a strict 14-day hotel quarantine. It was Australia's quarantine rules that forced the postponement of Formula 1's 2021 season opener in Melbourne. "I'm.....check out full post »

Jan.20 - Sauber Motorsport, which operates and manages Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN’s entry in the Formula One world championship, will unveil the team’s C41 car in Warsaw on Monday, 22nd February 2021. The team will travel to Poland’s capital, where some key operations of title partner ORLEN are located, to reveal its contender for the.....check out full post »

Jan.20 - Antonio Giovinazzi has admitted he didn't take news of Carlos Sainz's Ferrari seat for 2021 "all that well". The 27-year-old has been retained by Alfa Romeo and remains a part of Ferrari's driver academy, but he admits the Maranello team opting to replace Sebastian Vettel with former McLaren driver Sainz was disappointing. "Of.....check out full post »

Jan.20 - Esteban Ocon will give new teammate Fernando Alonso a run for his money early in 2021, according to team reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin. As Renault becomes Alpine for the new season, F1 legend Alonso is returning to the Enstone based team and Formula 1 to replace Daniel Ricciardo. Sirotkin told Russia's Championat that.....check out full post »

Jan.20 - Hockenheim has joined the list of circuits that could step in if Formula 1 is forced to make more changes to its 2021 schedule. A spokesman for the other former German Grand Prix venue at the Nurburgring confirmed this week that it is open to discussions with Liberty Media as uncertainty continues to.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Lewis Hamilton's plan to boost his financial and influential power at Mercedes has been "shattered". That is the view of former F1 driver Christijan Albers, as seven time world champion Hamilton finally breaks his 2021 silence on his long-delayed new contract for this year. Albers told De Telegraaf that he thinks the biggest.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Ferrari president John Elkann "doesn't like racing". That is the claim of highly-respected Italian F1 insider Leo Turrini, who mused on his Quotidiano blog about Ferrari's performance crash of 2020. "The current situation is a consequence of the mistakes that Ferrari has made over the past ten years," he insisted. "And Binotto certainly.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Those who think 2021 will be a carbon copy of last year may be mistaken, according to dominant Formula 1 team Mercedes' boss Toto Wolff. Although the sweeping new rules have been delayed until 2022 because of covid, Wolff said mandatory aerodynamic changes for this year could shake up the pecking order. Not.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Luca Badoer says he "won't say a word" about the current medical condition of his friend Michael Schumacher. As Schumacher's son Mick prepares to make his Formula 1 debut in 2021, Badoer told Corriere dello Sport that his relationship with the seven time world champion has always been close. "We used to go.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - The Nurburgring is open to once again serving as a substitute venue on the Formula 1 calendar. Last year, the former German GP venue stepped in as scheduled races fell victim to coronavirus restrictions. When asked if the Nurburgring might again be in the running for a replacement race slot, a spokesman said:.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Red Bull doesn't need the financial backing that can be brought from Mexico by Sergio Perez. That is the insistence of team boss Christian Horner, who says Red Bull only decided to sign Racing Point refugee Perez for 2021 because he thinks "he can push Max more than Albon was able to last.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Bernie Ecclestone says his friend Sebastian Vettel needs to "answer" his critics in 2021. Vettel, a quadruple world champion from his Red Bull days, has been ousted by Ferrari - with Eddie Jordan describing his final two years at Ferrari as "pathetic". "Until recently, Sebastian was first in every session, and now no.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Pierre Gasly says he is sure Honda won't "give up" in 2021, despite it being the Japanese manufacturer's last official season in Formula 1 for now. Indeed, Honda is preparing a new engine for 2021, with technical boss Toyoharu Tanabe saying the goal is the world championship. "We will withdraw from Formula 1.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - It is "good" that Mick Schumacher's Formula 1 debut will take place at the rear of the field in 2021. That is the view of German racing legend Hans-Joachim Stuck, who says he relates to the 21-year-old as he also had a famous father in motor sport - Hans Stuck. "My parents raised.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Renault CEO Luca de Meo has defended his decision to appoint a MotoGP boss to a high-ranking managerial position at the newly-rebranded Alpine team. Brivio, who famously worked with Valentino Rossi, arrives at Alpine as the F1 team's 'racing director', just as Marcin Budkowski is promoted and Cyril Abiteboul ousted altogether. "He comes.....check out full post »

Jan.19 - Monaco has moved quickly to scotch rumours its fabled grand prix will once again disappear from the Formula 1 calendar for a second consecutive year. There are reports that street circuits like the ones in Monte Carlo, Baku and Montreal will again fall victim to the coronavirus restrictions. But race promoter Automobile Club.....check out full post »

Jan.18 - The drama surrounding Lewis Hamilton's 2021 contract is "all just for show". That is the view of former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who questions the reasons behind rumours of difficult negotiations between Hamilton and Mercedes. "Apparently they disagree on the terms," former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan told Auto Bild, revealing that one.....check out full post »

Jan.18 - George Russell says it felt "strange" when he was unable to keep racing for Mercedes in Lewis Hamilton's place after his near-win in Bahrain. The 22-year-old Mercedes junior was called up at short notice when Hamilton tested positive for covid-19 - but had to return to his back-of-the-grid Williams cockpit a week later......check out full post »

Jan.18 - Nikita Mazepin thinks he is receiving more "hate" than any other Russian driver who came before him in Formula 1. However, he thinks fans and the media also treated Vitaly Petrov, Daniil Kvyat and Sergey Sirotkin unfairly. "They are all top racers, professionals, and some things that were said about them were undeserved......check out full post »

Jan.18 - Valtteri Bottas says he will continue to "drive fairly" rather than emulate Nico Rosberg's tactics in trying to beat Lewis Hamilton. 1996 world champion Damon Hill is quoted as saying: "The only way to beat Lewis is to do what Nico did and make him feel uncomfortable." But Finn Bottas, who has now.....check out full post »

Jan.18 - Sebastian Vettel may have had a shot at replacing Alex Albon for 2021 if he had not signed up with Aston Martin. That is the claim of Dr Helmut Marko, who advised the quadruple world champion to take 2021 off rather than quickly sign for another team in the wake of his Ferrari.....check out full post »

Jan.18 - The ongoing covid crisis may provide Valtteri Bottas with the chance to contest Finland's forthcoming round of the World Rally championship. The Mercedes driver has just finished sixth in the Arctic Lapland Rally, and thinks covid restrictions may now open up a window for him to stay in the country for the WRC.....check out full post »

Jan.18 - Portugal's motor racing chief is "optimistic" that Portimao could return to a second consecutive covid-affected Formula 1 calendar this year. The sport has already made amendments to its earlier-planned schedule, shifting Melbourne to November and removing Shanghai for now. Imola, also a substitute circuit in 2020, was appointed as a replacement, and now.....check out full post »

Jan.15 - Max Verstappen says it's "basically impossible" to overtake in modern Formula 1 - and the situation got even worse in 2020. German publications Auto Motor und Sport and Auto Bild have found that while there were 32.6 and 38.9 overtakes per race on average in 2018 and 2019 respectively, that number dropped to.....check out full post »