Mar.19 - Williams' new CEO Jost Capito hopes Formula 1 steers away from "artificial restrictions on competition". He was speaking as most analysts agree that Mercedes, having dominated every championship of the hybrid era since 2014, is suddenly suffering with the mandatory aerodynamic rule tweaks ahead of the 2021 season. "If we talk about the.....check out full post »

Mar.19 - McLaren is hoping to kick off the 2021 season with a podium. Many analysts believe that the famous British team could have its nose slightly in front of an extremely tight midfield this season. The 2021 McLaren's clever exploitation of a loophole in the new diffuser rules have also received praise. "It will.....check out full post »

Mar.19 - Yuki Tsunoda's boss has admitted the Japanese rookie was activating DRS too early en route to his impressive laptimes in the official Bahrain test. "Yuki is still a beginner," AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost told Sky Deutschland. "DRS is usually automatic and he activated it too early during the tests. He won't do.....check out full post »

Mar.19 - Nikita Mazepin admits he and fellow rookie Mick Schumacher may struggle to shine at the wheel of their Haas cars in 2021. It has been a rocky prelude to the season for the American team and its new Russian driver, amid controversy over the 'Russian flag' livery and Mazepin's off-track incident and reputation......check out full post »

Mar.19 - Nico Rosberg thinks Mick Schumacher's Formula 1 debut will be "ten times more difficult" than his own was back in 2006. "It's not easy to be the 'son of'," the now retired 2016 world champion, whose father Keke Rosberg won the world championship in 1982, told Sport1. "And it will be ten times.....check out full post »

Mar.19 - Dr Helmut Marko has once again played down Red Bull's chances of enticing Andy Cowell back to Formula 1 to lead the new engine operations at Milton Keynes. The Austrian told motorsport-magazin.com that Red Bull is already busily preparing the in-house engine facilities ahead of Honda's official departure at the end of the.....check out full post »

Mar.19 - Fernando Alonso has admitted his Alpine car for 2021 is "a little slow". That is the claim of Antonio Lobato, a well-known and respected Spanish F1 broadcaster. He told Marca sports newspaper: "Regardless of his recent accident, his age and whatever else is being said, Alonso looks like a bull. The Alpine machine.....check out full post »

With the updated launch of F1 TV in 85 counties for the 2021 season recently announced the bidding war for F1’s content begins to take shape. Liberty Media’s long-term strategy is F1 TV which it hopes will provide a cash cow and justify its investment in F1. Liberty became involved in F1 not because it.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - McLaren boss Andreas Seidl has played down the need to feel "sorry" for Sebastian Vettel. After losing his Ferrari seat and moving to Aston Martin, the quadruple world champion notably struggled for pace and reliability in the Bahrain test. Ralf Schumacher said afterwards that he feels "a little sorry" for the German. "Poor.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - Lando Norris could be a "surprise" of the 2021 season. That is the prediction of his friend and countryman George Russell, who races for Williams but is obviously eyeing Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes seat for 2022. "I think Lewis will stay, but the question is whether he wants to," Russell said. So for the.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - Ferrari has only caught up "a bit" since 2020, so fans should not "expect miracles" this season. That is the news from Charles Leclerc, amid reports that the Maranello team may have recovered up to 40-50 horsepower with its new engine for 2021. "No, I don't think we have made up all the.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - Formula 1 teams have already recovered more than half the downforce loss caused by the tweaked aerodynamic regulations for 2021. Some believe the sport made the rule change to chip away at Mercedes' dominance, but it was also supported by Pirelli to relieve the ever-increasing strain on the tyres. "The original plan saw.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - Rebranding as Alpine justified the Renault group remaining in Formula 1, according to the Enstone based team's new CEO Laurent Rossi. "The thinking behind Renault and F1 was constantly questioned within the company, for various reasons," Rossi, who will report directly to Renault CEO Luca de Meo, told Auto Hebdo. "Whenever we encountered.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - Mercedes' 2021 car has an "aerodynamic problem" that could be difficult to solve, according to former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher. Most analysts agree that Red Bull is now clearly the favourite to become the first team since the hybrid era began to beat Mercedes to a title. "Mercedes is definitely struggling with an.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - Nico Hulkenberg says becoming reserve driver at Red Bull this season was "never an option". Actually, the German is expected to sign up as Mercedes' works reserve driver, to potentially also be on standby for Aston Martin and McLaren. The 33-year-old admits he was really chasing the Red Bull race seat, which ultimately.....check out full post »

Flying the FIA Women in Motorsport flag, Schmitz made history at WTCC Race of Germany in May 2015 when she became the first female driver to score a point in the modern era of the FIA World Touring Car Championship. The German, who was making her WTCC debut in a Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 run.....check out full post »

Mar.18 - McLaren looks set to enter the 2021 season as the third force behind Red Bull and Mercedes. "I have the impression that Red Bull will be a very good competitor for Mercedes this year," Ferrari's Charles Leclerc told Codesport Monaco. "The McLaren was also pretty impressive." McLaren's 2021 car has also impressed whilst.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Dr Helmut Marko has brushed off suggestions that Red Bull is clearly the favourite heading into the 2021 season. That is despite the fact that every analyst agrees that Mercedes struggled throughout the single Bahrain test, while Red Bull's new car was clearly improved compared to the one that dominated in Abu Dhabi.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Ferrari has not made a "big step" with its 2021 engine, according to customer team Haas' boss Gunther Steiner. Some analysts are saying Ferrari's new engine is 40 horsepower better than the under-performing power unit of 2020. Haas boss Steiner told the German broadcaster RTL: "I cannot say that it is a big.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Dr Helmut Marko does not think Red Bull newcomer Sergio Perez will need five races to start driving and racing his 2021 car at full speed. 31-year-old Mexican Perez, with almost 200 grands prix and a maiden win in 2020 under his belt, has joined Max Verstappen at the team following the ousting.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Sebastian Vettel has denied having an eye on Lewis Hamilton's works Mercedes seat for 2022. The quadruple world champion has moved from Ferrari to Aston Martin for the new season, with Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko calling the latter's 2021 car "the second Mercedes". "The second Mercedes, the Aston Martin, had similar problems.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Nikita Mazepin will not get preferential treatment at Haas this season, team boss Gunther Steiner insists. Mick Schumacher may be the more famous and popular Haas rookie for 2021, but the company headed by Mazepin's billionaire father Dmitry is the team's new title sponsor. "Both drivers are equal in the team," Steiner insisted.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Organisers of the grand prix at Sochi are pressing ahead with preparations for the race in September, despite Russia's anti-doping ban from international sport. There is already controversy over Haas' new 'Russian flag'-style 2021 livery, while Nikita Mazepin is unable to display the Russian flag on his overalls or car. Sochi GP promoter.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Williams' new CEO Jost Capito has admitted the British team could lose George Russell to Mercedes for 2022. "If Mercedes were to make him an offer now, there would be few alternatives for him to think about," Capito, who was signed up by Williams' new owners last December, told formel1.de. Russell is a.....check out full post »

Mar.17 - Alfa Romeo has made "the biggest jump of any team" ahead of the 2021 season. That is the view of Williams driver George Russell, who thinks Haas will instead be his British employer's main rival this year. Alfa Romeo, he says, impressed him in Bahrain testing. "Kimi (Raikkonen) looked very, very fast," said.....check out full post »

One of the last interviews Murray Walker did only 5 years ago at the age of 92 with Jenson Button. From Channel 4 F1 coverage.

In the first of our three-part F1 Bahrain test de-briefs, Craig Scarborough and Peter Windsor look at the latest updates on the 2021 Mercedes (and at the problems encountered by the World Champions) - and at the new McLaren-Mercedes. Coming up shortly in Part 2: do the new aero regulations favour high-rake or low-rake cars?.....check out full post »

40 years ago Ferrari’s first turbocharged Formula 1 car made its competitive debut, starting a revolution that would transform the Prancing Horse’s racing and road cars. Read the full story on The Official Ferrari Magazine: https://magazine.ferrari.com/en/races/2021/02/25/news/40-years-of-ferrari-turbocharging-126-ck-95559/

Parts of this year’s car may look familiar… but for Mercedes, the W12 very much feels like a new friend 🥰 James Allison talks through what’s changed and what's carried over on the W12 for the 2021 F1 season! 👀

Scuderia Ferrari does a nicely done recap of the F1 test they did last weekend. Hopefully their season will also get along nicely...

Mick Schumacher, Nikita Mazepin and Guenther Steiner all take a look back at the weekend's pre-season testing from Bahrain.

FIA promotion video for sustainability.

McLaren is "surprised" to be the only team exploiting an early loophole in the tweaked aerodynamic rules for 2021. Spain's Marca sports newspaper says the British team has found a way to minimise the performance loss of the tweaked diffuser rules by maintaining the length of some of the 'vertical blades'. "I think we're a.....check out full post »

Sharp-eyed observers have questioned rookie Yuki Tsunoda's pace in the pre-season Bahrain test. AlphaTauri's young Japanese ended with the second fastest time behind sister team Red Bull's Max Verstappen. "He delivered a sensational performance," said Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko. "I expect a heated fight in the midfield." However, tongue-in-cheek McLaren driver Lando Norris wrote.....check out full post »

Sebastian Vettel says there is no "panic" despite his difficult start to on-track life with Aston Martin. "Ten years ago there would have been panic," the quadruple world champion and former Ferrari driver said after the one and only pre-season test. The German suffered from technical problems in Bahrain. "I'm definitely missing about 100 laps,".....check out full post »

Team boss Gunther Steiner admits it is "possible" Haas will finish dead last in the 2021 world championship. Most observers agree after the Bahrain test that Williams may have jumped ahead of the American team since the end of last season. Indeed, while Haas is focusing exclusively on the 2022 regulations, Williams got new owners.....check out full post »

Former F1 driver Christijan Albers has dismissed claims that Mercedes may be sandbagging ahead of the 2021 season. "Mercedes wouldn't achieve such a bad outcome deliberately," the Dutchman told De Telegraaf in light of the team's issues in Bahrain. "And a top team like that can turn a lot around in two weeks." Mercedes' early.....check out full post »

Lance Stroll could be "a benchmark" for quadruple world champion and teammate Sebastian Vettel in 2021. That is the view of former driver and pundit Marc Surer, who played down Vettel's problems as the German's on-track career began at the weekend in Bahrain. "We don't know exactly where the problem is coming from," Vettel is.....check out full post »

Long-time F1 safety car driver Bernd Maylander admits to feeling "nervous" about the 2021 season. "I haven't been so nervous about a new season before," the German admitted to the Dutch publication Formule 1. He is nervous because, for the first time, Formula 1 has two official safety cars - the usual Mercedes-AMG, and now.....check out full post »

Mar.16 - In 2016, the highly-talented Nico Rosberg won his maiden Drivers’ World Championship. However, after racing in Formula One for ten years, the German decided to walk away upon reaching the sport’s pinnacle. While, of course, the 35-year-old did what was best for him, racing fans still wonder if the former Mercedes driver made.....check out full post »

Max Verstappen was "much faster" than Mercedes' drivers at the Bahrain test. That is the claim not only of authoritative sources like Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport, but even Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff himself. "The blue car from Milton Keynes will start the season as favourite," the Italian newspaper declared. "The setup problems caused.....check out full post »

Mar.15 - Mercedes has made "a horrible start" to the 2021 season, according to team boss Toto Wolff. The team, having won every single title throughout the rest of the 'hybrid' era, suffered reliability and handling issues during the mere three days of pre-season testing in Bahrain. So with some pundits describing Lewis Hamilton as.....check out full post »

Mar.15 - Alpine's executive director Marcin Budkowski has defended the emergence of a notably 'plump' area of the 2021 car's engine cover just behind the airbox. Some said it even reminded them of Ligier's infamous 1976 'teapot' car design, with Budkowski explaining that the new solution is simply better for the team. "We found that.....check out full post »

Mar.15 - The winner of the trial 'sprint qualifying' races in 2021 will receive 3 points as well as pole position for the main event. It now appears set in stone that at three race weekends this year - expected to be Silverstone, Monza and Brazil - a 30-minute Saturday sprint race after qualifying on.....check out full post »

Mar.15 - Formula 1 is hoping to race through the covid crisis by attending all 23 scheduled grands prix on the 2021 calendar. Melbourne, China and Vietnam are not happening for now, while Imola and Portimao have stepped in at late notice. But F1's sporting boss Ross Brawn is hoping the full current calendar can.....check out full post »

Mar.15 - Ferrari has succeeded in producing a more powerful engine for 2021. "As far as we can tell so far, our top speed looks reasonable," team boss Mattia Binotto said at the Bahrain test. Last year, Ferrari slumped into the midfield in the wake of the engine legality scandal of 2019. The Maranello marque.....check out full post »

Event: Wintertesting Track: Bahrain International Circuit Weather: dry  19.8-28.2°C Tarmac: dry  25.0-45.0°C Humidity :32.4% Wind : 3.4 m/s NW Pressure: 1015.4 bar Mar.14 - Yesterday Mercedes seemed to get up to speed with Valtteri Bottas topping the timesheet. Lap times do not really matter during testing, because the fuel levels and engine modes of the.....check out full post »

Here you can see the photos that are shot on the third day of testing for the 2021 F1 season in Bahrain. Here you can read the report on the final day of testing in Bahrain.

Carlos Sainz who moved from McLaren to Ferrari this year tells you his experience after driving the new SF21.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen dominated day one of the 2021 pre-season F1 testing in Bahrain. He was fastest on both long runs and new-tyre runs - and he covered the most distance with the new RB16B-Honda. So what of Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and the rest? Peter Windsor assesses the first day of 2021.....check out full post »