F1 Race Event: Italian Grand Prix Race Track: Monza Circuit Weather: dry  28.3°C Tarmac: dry  43.9°C Humidity : 42% Wind : 1.5 m/s S Pressure: 1003.8 bar There were perfect weather conditions during this second practice for the Sunday's 2020 Italian Grand Prix. A lot of drivers exceeded the track limits of turn 11 and.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - All eyes are on the banning of 'party mode' engine settings at Monza this weekend. When asked if Mercedes can be stopped, Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko admitted: "Difficult. Monza is a power track." However, Red Bull-Honda pushed hard for the FIA to ban 'party mode' engine settings, with Mercedes clearly leading the.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - Williams' two drivers admitted they were surprised to hear that they will have a new team boss within days. Following the sale of the British team to Dorilton Capital, which has links to Prince William's brother-in-law James Matthews, it was announced on Thursday that Claire Williams and her father Sir Frank are stepping.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - Carlos Sainz insists he is not regretting his decision to join Ferrari for 2021. Only after the Spaniard signed to switch from McLaren at the end of the year did the full scale of Ferrari's massive performance slump in 2020 become clear. Sebastian Vettel, the man Sainz is replacing, even admits to feeling.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - Dr Helmut Marko admits he is "starting to worry" about Formula 1. Amid the corona crisis, the sport managed to get up and racing with a modified calendar and various health measures in place - including, for now, the absence of spectators. But then it became clear the extent to which Mercedes would.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - Alexander Albon says he "won't listen" to criticism either from Formula 1 fans on social media or even six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton suggested at Spa that Albon is not making life easy for Red Bull's title contender Max Verstappen, because "both drivers aren't there" in terms of pace. "Max is sort.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - Mercedes is working to fix a problem that leaves Valtteri Bottas with leg numbness while driving the otherwise-dominant 2020 car. The Finn admitted at Spa that there have been "a couple of races" this year when his left leg begins to lose feeling. "It's difficult to say how much I am affected, but.....check out full post »

Sep.4 - Former team driver Ralf Schumacher says he supports the departure of the Williams family from the eponymous British team. Schumacher raced for Williams between 1999 and 2004, winning all six of his race wins there. He says more recent seasons have shown that selling up, and now the departure of Claire and Sir.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Italian Grand Prix Race Track: Monza Circuit Weather: dry  23.5°C Tarmac: dry  31.9°C Humidity : 55.7% Wind : 1.4 m/s SE Pressure: 1006 bar Not much happened in the first 20 minutes on the Temple of Speed for the first practice for the upcoming 2020 Italian F1 GP. Only a few installation.....check out full post »

Sep. 3 - Today Williams Racing’s Deputy Team Principal, Claire Williams announced that she is to step down from her role with the team following the conclusion of the Italian Grand Prix this weekend. The daughter of team founder Sir Frank Williams officially started her job as Deputy Team Principal in March 2013. She had.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Dr Helmut Marko has admitted Red Bull applied "necessary pressure" to help get what he describes as Mercedes' "extreme" party mode engine settings banned. Although the ban will apply to every engine manufacturer from this weekend at Monza, Marko admitted that Red Bull's focus was F1's dominant team. "It was legal," he told.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - It is "too early to speculate" about Daniil Kvyat's future in Formula 1. That is the news from Dr Helmut Marko, Red Bull's notoriously tough driver manager. Recently, he warned that Russian Kvyat is not performing up to standard at AlphaTauri. When asked if the Russian should be worrying about 2021, Marko now.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Ferrari "paid a very high price" for Formula 1's move to hybrid engine technology in 2014. Although highly competitive with its 2019 power unit, the Italian team has slumped this year in the wake of the engine legality scandal and subsequent secret FIA agreement. Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said the team.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Red Bull has scrapped plans to copy Mercedes' 'DAS' steering system. Even though the innovative system has been banned for 2021, Red Bull considered designing its own version of the push-pull steering wheel. "DAS is finished for us," Dr Helmut Marko now tells motorsport-magazin.com. "On the one hand it is of course a.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Sebastian Vettel was never a troublemaker at Ferrari, the team's former president Luca di Montezemolo insists. Although he was ousted in 2014, 73-year-old Montezemolo's final major act was to sign Vettel for the following season. Five years on, the quadruple world champion has also been ousted for 2021 - and Montezemolo says the.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - There is a "political" factor behind Renault's surge towards the front of the grid. That is the claim of Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, after the French works team's sudden show of much stronger form at Spa. "If Renault continues like that, I will not be surprised to see them on the second.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Former F1 driver Vitaly Petrov has hit back at claims that Formula 1 is "boring" in 2020. Even title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen admitted after Spa that it had been a boring race, caused mainly by the one-stop strategy, the nature of the current cars and tyres, and Mercedes' dominance. Some.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Formula 1 is leaving Kevin Magnussen behind, according to former Le Mans winner John Nielsen. He thinks that while his fellow Dane is likely to stay at Haas for 2021, the undeveloped and underpowered car is leaving Magnussen in a "bad place" psychologically. "It's a bad situation for Kevin, because on the one.....check out full post »

Sep.3 - Gunther Steiner is ramping up the pressure on Haas' crisis-struck engine supplier Ferrari. The Haas boss was asked if it was satisfying to see the small American team's Romain Grosjean duelling with the struggling works Ferraris at Spa. "Well, at least Romain was able to fight, but let's be honest," Steiner responded. "We.....check out full post »

September 5th marks the 50th anniversary of Jochen Rindt’s death, during practice for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix. He’d go on to be crowned F1’s first – and thankfully only -  posthumous world champion – but his legacy is much more than that.On this very special episode, we look back on Rindt’s rebellious upbringing and.....check out full post »

Sep.2 - For Ferrari, the absence of the Tifosi at Monza this weekend may actually be a blessing. Amid Ferrari's deep competitive slump, Sebastian Vettel was asked if he thinks the wildly partisan Italian spectators might actually boo the fabled team. "I don't think we'd be booed," he answered. "The fans are probably suffering as.....check out full post »

Sep.2 - Mattia Binotto says there is "nothing" he wants to say in reply to his Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff. As Ferrari descended into one of its worst-ever slumps at Spa, Wolff said he blames "certain team members" rather than the fabled Maranello camp as a whole and feels sorry for the Tifosi. Many think.....check out full post »

Sep.2 - There will be just three days of winter testing before the 2021 season kicks off, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. The amount of winter testing has been reducing steadily over the past seasons, with two three-day tests taking place in Barcelona in late-February this year. But that number is reportedly going.....check out full post »

Sep.2 - A small town in South Australia has emerged as a potential Formula 1 venue for 2021. The country's usual grand prix host, Melbourne, is currently in full lockdown, with the local Victorian government just announcing the extension of state of emergency provisions for the next six months at least. Rival state South Australia.....check out full post »

Sep.2 - Yuki Tsunoda is shaping up as the most likely rookie on Formula 1's 2021 grid. The 20-year-old Japanese, who won the Formula 2 feature race at Spa Francorchamps, is strongly backed by Honda as well as Red Bull's famous driver program. "We are waiting for a Japanese driver in Formula 1, and we.....check out full post »

Sep.2 - Sebastian Vettel may now have decided to take a sabbatical in 2021, according to his countryman and former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher. Schumacher notes that after all the hype about a potential Aston Martin seat for the quadruple world champion, it has suddenly become "very, very quiet around him". Indeed, Sergio Perez has.....check out full post »

Thursday, 3 september, 14:00 hours local time Nicholas Latifi (Williams) George Russell (Williams) Romain Grosjean (Haas) Kevin Magnussen (Haas) Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) Kimi Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo) Lance Stroll (Racing Point) Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri) Esteban Ocon (Renault) Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) Lando Norris (McLaren) Carlos Sainz (McLaren) Alexander Albon (Red.....check out full post »

With the F1 season now in full swing, tyre supplier Pirelli is feeling the heat after tyre failures at the British Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton is on Pirelli’s case when pre-season he said, “Pirelli must produce better tyres for the 2021 season.” Interestingly he added, “We just need to make sure that we always want.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - Honda's technical boss admits the Japanese manufacturer needs to keep working to improve its power unit. Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko claims that - qualifying aside - Honda is now the best engine manufacturer in Formula 1 behind Mercedes. Honda technical boss Toyoharu Tanabe said: "I am satisfied with our sixth consecutive.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - The FIA is investigating the way in which George Russell's car struck a flying wheel at high speed during the Belgian GP. In a highlight of the race at Spa, Russell struck the bouncing wheel of Antonio Giovinazzi's Alfa Romeo after the Italian driver crashed. "It was bad luck that I hit it,.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - Mercedes' engine guru Andy Cowell could make the switch to Ferrari, according to a respected Italian journalist. Before getting his promotion at Mercedes in 2013, Cowell reportedly began flirting with a move to Maranello. "He changed his mind after the resignation of Stefano Domenicali," claims Corriere dello Sport's Daniele Sparisci. "Now he is.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - Lewis Hamilton admits he started to learn French - and then quickly gave it up. The six-time world champion told Belgium's RTBF broadcaster that he aimed to learn his second language during the long coronavirus shutdown. "Yes it's true, I tried, but it didn't last very long," Hamilton admitted. "I'm crazy - I.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - It is too soon to write off Daniil Kvyat's Formula 1 career. That is the view of Vitaly Petrov, who before Kvyat was the sport's first ever Russian driver. Following criticism from Red Bull's driver guru Dr Helmut Marko recently, many are now predicting that Kvyat will be ousted to make room for.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - Dr Helmut Marko says the top bosses at F1's owner Liberty Media are often "a bit naive". The Red Bull chief was asked by Der Spiegel to comment on the fact that, after three decades, Formula 1 is scrapping its deal with German free to air broadcaster RTL in favour of a more.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - Former Red Bull driver Robert Doornbos has a proposal to spice up what many observers are calling increasingly 'boring' races in Formula 1. Red Bull boss Christian Horner think the problem at Spa-Francorchamps was that drivers were able to get through the race with just a single pitstop. "Someone has to tell Pirelli.....check out full post »

Sep.1 - Carlos Sainz, who is moving to the Maranello team next year, says Ferrari needs to take a "very, very, very, very big step" with its engine for 2021. However, the Spaniard backs the fabled Italian team to get it done. "It took Renault three years, and it took Honda some time too," said.....check out full post »

Aug.31 - In an otherwise "boring" race, the highlight at Spa-Francorchamps was a frightening crash that reinforced the dangers of the legendary Belgian circuit. George Russell struck the loose wheel of Antonio Giovinazzi's crashed Alfa Romeo, leaving the Williams driver grateful for his Halo device. "I have to say I'm very grateful that we have.....check out full post »

Aug.31 - Gunther Steiner has admitted that Haas might sign up a Ferrari junior driver for 2021. In the past weeks, the small American team sidelined the driver issue while owner Gene Haas decided whether to sign the 2021-2025 Concorde Agreement. With that deal now done, the driver rumours have begun. Reports out of Spa.....check out full post »

Aug.31 - Carlos Sainz has broken ranks to reveal that it was a Renault engine failure that meant he could not start Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix. When it became clear the Spaniard would not be taking to the grid, McLaren - set to switch to Mercedes power for 2021 - announced that it was an.....check out full post »

Aug.31 - Red Bull is continuing to support Max Verstappen's struggling teammate Alexander Albon. At Spa, Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton said he would enjoy a closer race for the world championship - and pointed a finger at Albon. "People downplay it but Red Bull have got a very, very strong car. Unfortunately, both drivers aren't there.....check out full post »

Aug.31 - Belgian federal police used heat-tracing technology to clamp down on fans watching Sunday's action at Spa-Francorchamps from nearby wooded areas. The news comes just a day after police turned away from the track a full bus-load of Max Verstappen fans from Holland. The Dutch publication Formule 1 reports that Belgian police even released.....check out full post »

Aug.31 - Monza could be even "worse" for crisis-struck Ferrari, according to Charles Leclerc. Actually, team boss Mattia Binotto has hit back at the 'crisis' tag, even though most observers of the Belgian GP were left scrambling to recall a more worrying situation for the Maranello team. "I think it's wrong to talk about a.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Belgian Grand Prix Race Track: Spa-Francorchamps Circuit Weather: dry  19.3°C Tarmac: dry  31.9°C Humidity : 51.3% Wind : 2.0 m/s NNE Pressure: 962.4 bar Lewis Hamilton won the 2020 Belgian F1 GP today. He started from pole and won his 89th F1 race of his career at Spa-Francorchamps circuit. It was the.....check out full post »

Aug.30 - Toto Wolff has questioned whether Ferrari's "priorities" are right. The talk of the paddock at Spa is not focused on the front of the grid - instead, most the attention is on the depth of the Maranello team's slump. "What is happening with them is not good for Formula 1 and I very.....check out full post »

Aug.30 - Max Verstappen says Red Bull is "doing our best" even though Mercedes is clearly dominating in 2020. Red Bull officials insist they will not give up on charging for the title, even though the gap between Verstappen and Hamilton at Spa is half a second. When asked what Red Bull can do about.....check out full post »

Aug.30 - Gunther Steiner says Haas will continue to work with crisis-struck Ferrari. The talk of the paddock at Spa is the famous Italian team's spectacular 2020 slump towards the back of the grid. It is clear that Ferrari's power unit - which is also supplied to Haas and Alfa Romeo - is the biggest.....check out full post »

Aug.30 - Renault's 2020 engine is continuing to turn heads. While Dr Helmut Marko claims Red Bull's Honda power is better in the races, he admitted that the Renault unit has "a good qualifying mode". That was clear at Spa Francorchamps, where Daniel Ricciardo split the two Red Bulls in qualifying, followed closely by the.....check out full post »

Aug.30 - Mario Isola says he always listens to the F1 drivers' complaints about tyres. Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton said earlier at Spa that because there is no longer a tyre war, the "pressure" for better tyres now needs to come from the drivers. "We listen to the drivers," Pirelli's F1 boss Isola insisted......check out full post »

Aug.30 - Mick Schumacher is not getting carried away with reports that he is poised to kick off his Formula 1 race career in 2021. Some days ago, Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto hailed the progress of Michael Schumacher's son in Formula 2, suggesting he may be poised to enter F1 next year with a smaller.....check out full post »

DRIVERS 1 – Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 2 – Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) 3 – Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Paul di Resta)  Q: Lewis, I think anyone watching that session would just think you were on another level. Very dominant, how did it feel? Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, today a very, very clean session......check out full post »