Aug.27 - Bernie Ecclestone is still welcome at the Russian GP, organisers of the Sochi race have announced. The former F1 supremo was recently scolded by the sport's new owners after controversially claiming that black people are often "more racist than white people". Liberty Media reacted by saying the 89-year-old is no longer F1's 'chairman.....check out full post »

Aug.27 - Organisers of the Russian GP have hit back at concerns raised about the return of spectators to the Formula 1 circuits. Sochi was the first to announce that fans will be welcome at its September race, but Portimao and Imola are also making plans to end the 'ghost race' trend. "According to our.....check out full post »

Aug.27 - Michael Schumacher's former manager is recovering from a stroke. Until the seven time world champion's less successful return to Formula 1 in 2010, Willi Weber guided Schumacher's motor racing career. Bild newspaper claims the now 70-year-old recently suffered a stroke, spending 9 days in a Stuttgart hospital and then weeks in rehabilitation. "I.....check out full post »

Aug.27 - McLaren is pulling out of the Tour de France. Last weekend, Fernando Alonso finished just 21st in the Indy 500, having failed even to qualify in a similarly McLaren-branded entry a year earlier. And now, McLaren is pulling out of the top level of cycling. The British outfit surprised motorsport fans late last.....check out full post »

Aug.27 - Dutch F1 GP organisers are not ruling out asking for a later race date on the 2021 calendar. Contractually, the race at Zandvoort - whose return to F1 was cancelled this year due to covid-19 - has another early May date pencilled in on the unpublished 2021 schedule. But after Dutch organisers opted.....check out full post »

The legendary Spa-Francorchamps will host the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix this weekend for a thrilling and emotional round of the Formula 1 World Championship, the seventh of the convulsed 2020 calendar, which is now confirmed to be 17-races long. With Mercedes’ Toto Wolff mentioning the German team have ‘unfinished business’ at Spa and Red Bull.....check out full post »

Aug.27 - Ferrari is expected to follow Renault's lead in withdrawing its appeal over the 'pink Mercedes' affair. Although it had prompted the saga by protesting the legality of Racing Point's Mercedes-like brake ducts, Renault announced that it ultimately decided to drop the appeal. "Intensive and constructive work between the FIA, Renault and all Formula.....check out full post »

Aug.27 - Lewis Hamilton's team and car are better than the ones raced to similar levels of success by seven time world champion Michael Schumacher. That is the claim of former Mercedes boss Norbert Haug, with Hamilton poised to soon race past Schumacher's all time record for the number of grand prix wins (91). Hamilton.....check out full post »

Aug.26 - Formula 1 still "works" for Haas team owner Gene Haas. That is the claim of Gunther Steiner, who runs the small American outfit that had been openly questioning its future on the grid beyond 2020. However, like all the other existing teams, Haas has now signed the new 2021-2025 Concorde Agreement. "I guess.....check out full post »

Aug.26 - Honda is admitting it would like to see Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda make his way into Formula 1 with AlphaTauri. It comes after Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko said Daniil Kvyat is "not performing as we would expect" in 2020. It would appear to be the perfect opening for the Honda-backed Formula 2.....check out full post »

Aug.26 - Kimi Raikkonen has played down the pressure that is mounting on the shoulders of his former Ferrari teammate. According to insiders, Sebastian Vettel has been marginalised not only by a now Charles Leclerc-focused Maranello, but by the notorious Italian press. But former Vettel teammate Raikkonen insists: "The pressure or the attention is no.....check out full post »

Aug.26 - It is "extremely important" that Red Bull continues to support struggling driver Alexander Albon. That is the view of Nick Heidfeld, as pressure continues to mount on the British-Thai driver as Albon struggles to match up to Max Verstappen. Notable, however, is that where Red Bull has often been highly critical of its.....check out full post »

Aug.26 - Stoffel Vandoorne says the culture inside the Mercedes team is what makes it so dominant. The former McLaren driver lost his F1 seat at the end of 2018, but was signed up for Mercedes' new Formula E team and finished runner-up. But the Belgian is also a Mercedes reserve driver, and after working.....check out full post »

Aug.26 - F1's grand 'motorhomes' are making their return to the paddock this week at Spa-Francorchamps. So far in the coronavirus-marred 2020 season, teams have been cutting costs by operating out of makeshift buildings and with outsourced catering. But at Spa - the seventh race out of the 17 that have now been scheduled in.....check out full post »

This week’s guest is one of the grid’s most influential people. In fact, he’s arguably one of the most influential people in F1 ever. Since the dawn of the turbo-hybrid era in 2014, Mercedes engines have won 80% of all Grands Prix, and the man overseeing that success is Andy Cowell, Engineering and Programme Director.....check out full post »

25 aug. - Today Formula 1 added four Grand Prix events to the current schedule and finalized the 2020 corona F1 calendar. The following four races are added to the current 2020 F1 Schedule: Turkish GP at Istanbul Park on November 15 Bahrain GP at Bahrain International Circuit on November 29 Sakhir GP at Bahrain.....check out full post »

Aug.25 - Racing Point must have received "data" and "drawings" from Mercedes in order to create a fully-competitive copy of the reigning champion team's 2019 car. That is the word from Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko, echoing former F1 team boss Colin Kolles' claims last week that Racing Point even received a 60 percent scale.....check out full post »

Aug.25 - Merely trying to beat Lewis Hamilton "on the track" will not be enough for Valtteri Bottas. That is the view of 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, whose title showdown with Michael Schumacher is now legendary. Now, he is giving advice to Bottas, who has fallen 43 points behind his Mercedes teammate so far.....check out full post »

Aug.25 - Honda is now the best engine manufacturer in Formula 1 behind Mercedes, according to Dr Helmut Marko. Red Bull's top Austrian official is looking forward to the banning of 'party mode' engine settings from Monza - even though Toto Wolff has warned that it could actually make Mercedes stronger in the races. "Mercedes.....check out full post »

Aug.25 - A third circuit on the 2020 calendar says it wants spectators to be able to attend this year. Earlier, we reported that some teams are nervous about Sochi and Portimao's plans to allow 30,000 and 50,000 spectators respectively to attend their races later this season. Imola has now joined them. "We expect the.....check out full post »

Aug.25 - Dr Helmut Marko says there may be "a way back" to Red Bull for Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian driver stunned the F1 world by leaving Red Bull for Renault at the end of 2018, but he has already decided to switch again to McLaren for 2021. "I said to Daniel 'I don't get.....check out full post »

F1 discovered William's fate when it was announced last Friday the team had been sold to the relatively small American private equity firm Dorilton Capital. The deal according to Williams valued the team at €152m which after repayment of debt and fees equates to €112m. For the Williams family, it was on the surface good.....check out full post »

Aug.24 - Buying the Williams team cost the British team's new owners EUR 152 million, according to Bloomberg. Having slumped to the very back of the field last year, the Grove based team announced last Friday that it has been acquired by private investment firm Dorilton Capital. "This may be the end of an era.....check out full post »

Aug.24 - Toto Wolff has rejected suggestions Mercedes' 2020 car is benefitting from having a flexible rear wing. Already under fire for allegedly pushing technical secrets to Racing Point, the latest accusation is that the rear wing of the German team's dominant 2020 car bends exceedingly at speed. "We don't have a flexible rear wing,".....check out full post »

Aug.24 - "Several teams" are worried about the looming return of spectators to Formula 1 races. Amid the global coronavirus crisis, the sport only got up and running again thanks to the 'ghost races' concept which excluded fans from attending. But organisers of the Russian Grand Prix are currently selling about 30,000 tickets for the.....check out full post »

Aug.24 - Mercedes and Honda pushed for the 'party mode' ban to be delayed until Monza, according to Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport. It had been expected that the ban, restricting cars to a single engine mode for both qualifying and the race, would come into force for this weekend's race at Spa. "The requests.....check out full post »

Aug.24 - Lewis Hamilton wants Pirelli to create better tyres for Formula 1. At Silverstone recently, the six-time world champion won the race with only three tyres intact, following a spate of wear issues among the field. And then in Barcelona, he won again but only after carefully managing tyre wear by reducing his pace......check out full post »

Aug.24 - In Sebastian Vettel's place, F1 legend Gerhard Berger says he would say "bye-bye" to Formula 1. In the past days, it has appeared more and more likely that Aston Martin - currently Racing Point - will stick with Sergio Perez and his powerful sponsors rather than sign the Ferrari refugee. Berger admitted to.....check out full post »

Aug.24 - Nico Hulkenberg would turn down an offer to become Mercedes' official F1 reserve driver. After the German's impressive performance when substituting at short notice for Sergio Perez at Silverstone, Toto Wolff hinted that a Mercedes role could be in the offing for the former Renault driver. But Hulkenberg told Sport1's AvD Motorsport Magazin:.....check out full post »

Aug.24 - Lewis Hamilton dominates Formula 1 because he has "a more powerful engine". That is the claim of Dr Helmut Marko, the top Austrian official at Red Bull-Honda. He is looking forward to the forthcoming ban on 'party mode' engine settings, which has been delayed for a week until Monza following a request not.....check out full post »

Working on the parts of the car you don't see! Troy explains his role as an electronics technician at Haas F1 Team.

Peter Windsor records the sale of the Williams F1 team to Dorilton Capital and offers a view as to whether or not this is a good thing for the company and for F1. He also highlights one of the high-profile players in the new deal and remembers - one week before the Belgian Grand Prix -.....check out full post »