Nov.6 - The remaining four grands prix of 2020 look set to be held without spectators. The news comes as F1's owner Liberty Media reveals a new $100-plus million financial loss for the third quarter of the coronavirus-marred 2020 season. For the teams, the impact on them financially amounts to a whopping 50 percent hit.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Lewis Hamilton has been urged to "speak out" against Formula 1's newly-announced 2021 race in Saudi Arabia. The sport has now officially confirmed that it will attend a spectacular night race in the city of Jeddah next November. Saudi Arabia, however, is often widely condemned for its human rights record, even though a.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Carlos Sainz senior insists he is not worried that his son has made a major mistake by deciding to move to Ferrari in 2021. 26-year-old McLaren driver Carlos Sainz signed to join the Maranello team before the depth of Ferrari's performance slump this year became clear. But his father, rally legend Carlos Sainz,.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Sebastian Vettel could return to full power at Aston Martin next year, according to his former boss Dr Helmut Marko. German Vettel, now 33 and a four-time title winner, became the youngest ever world champion after Marko and Red Bull brought him in to Formula 1 over a decade ago. But ahead of.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Ralf Schumacher thinks it is possible that Lewis Hamilton really will retire from Formula 1 after wrapping up his seventh title. The 35-year-old Mercedes driver caused a stir after winning at Imola by insisting there is "no guarantee" he will agree a new contract for 2021 and beyond. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff played.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Dr Helmut Marko blocked Yuki Tsunoda from contesting a recent junior series race so that the Japanese can focus on Formula 1. It is another clear sign that the boss of Red Bull's driver program intends to oust Daniil Kvyat and run 20-year-old Honda-backed Tsunoda at AlphaTauri in 2021. This week at Imola,.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Sauber, the company that races in F1 as Alfa Romeo, will remain an independent team. That is the insistence of boss Frederic Vasseur, countering the widely held narrative that the Swiss based team has become a sort of Ferrari satellite team in recent years. But Vasseur told Auto Motor und Sport that Haas.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Kevin Magnussen thinks he is "unlucky" to be losing his place in Formula 1. The 28-year-old was brought into Formula 1 by McLaren in 2014, subsequently driving for Renault and spending the last four seasons at Haas. But for 2021, the small American team is opting for two new drivers, prompting his teammate.....check out full post »

Nov.6 - Gunther Steiner has revealed that he was recently in contact with Nico Hulkenberg. Steiner, the team boss, is yet to fill Haas' two newly-vacated seats for 2021, although he admits that young drivers are at the top of the shortlist. "Yes, we focus on young drivers for next year," he told Sport1. "We.....check out full post »

Nov.5 - Charles Leclerc says he has no interest in moving to Mercedes - or even enjoying the superior power of the reigning world champions' dominant F1 engine. Late last year, the impressive 23-year-old pushed his Ferrari contract out until 2024, only to find himself at the wheel of the Maranello team's 2020 slump. However,.....check out full post »

Nov.5 - Alex Wurz has hit out at Formula 1's plans to schedule longer and longer annual calendars by potentially shortening the race weekend format to just two days. After the sport trialled the two-day format at Imola, at the same time a draft calendar for 2021 was leaked that listed an unprecedented 23 grands.....check out full post »

Nov.5 - 2020 is a one-off season of struggle for Ferrari, team boss Mattia Binotto insists. He told Sky Italia that although the Maranello team's performance slumped badly this season, he is confident recent car upgrades have at least pointed Ferrari on the right track. "We have fought for victories and titles a few times.....check out full post »

Nov.5 - Max Verstappen is the only driver capable of mixing it with Mercedes' dominant cars in 2020. That is the claim not only of the Dutchman's own bosses at Red Bull, but also main rival Mercedes' team chief Toto Wolff. "Max is doing fantastically," the Austrian is quoted by the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf......check out full post »

Lawrence Stroll once again proves to be the consummate dealmaker with the announcement last week that Mercedes-AMG was involved in a new £1.3bn refinancing package for Aston Martin. Lawrence who had previously put together his Yew Tree consortium to purchase Aston Martin knew the company did not have enough cash to survive the next 12.....check out full post »

Nov.4 - Max Verstappen is not bothered that he will never be crowned the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history. After Imola, it has become mathematically impossible for the 23-year-old Dutchman to beat the Mercedes drivers to the 2020 title - and therefore Sebastian Vettel's record as youngest champion remains safe. "Records like that.....check out full post »

Nov.4 - Aldo Costa says he doubts Mercedes can be beaten by any rival Formula 1 team any time soon. The Italian designed Mercedes' dominant title-winning F1 cars until last year, when he decided to move to the Italian race car designer Dallara. Toto Wolff gave Costa a shout-out after Mercedes wrapped up its seventh.....check out full post »

Nov.4 - Fernando Alonso says he will be working on building up his neck muscles as he tests a two-year-old Renault this week in Bahrain. After a two-year sabbatical, the 39-year-old Spaniard is returning to Formula 1 next year to replace Daniel Ricciardo as Renault becomes Alpine. Some people have been surprised about Alonso's commitment.....check out full post »

Nov.4 - Mattia Binotto says installing more old-school gravel traps at Formula 1 circuits will help to "improve the show". Next year, teams will only be able to make limited modifications to their current cars after the all-new regulations were delayed until 2022 amid the corona crisis. Ferrari boss Binotto thinks the field will be.....check out full post »

Nov.4 - Mika Salo has admitted to surprise that Kimi Raikkonen will keep his longest-ever Formula 1 career alive into yet another season in 2021. Fellow Finn and former F1 driver Salo recently predicted that the now 41-year-old 2007 world champion's long career would finally conclude at the end of this season. "I was pretty.....check out full post »

Nov.4 - Ferrari is on the right track as the Maranello team moves to pull out of its competitive slump. That is the positive news from Charles Leclerc, even if his departing teammate Sebastian Vettel has been progressively struggling in the improving 2020 car. "I think Ferrari has gone in Leclerc's direction with all these.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Yuki Tsunoda is standing on the cusp of a busy period ahead of his almost certain 2021 debut for AlphaTauri. The Honda-linked 20-year-old is set to replace Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull's second team next year, and in preparation will test the 2020 AlphaTauri at Imola this week. "Imola will be his first.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Jos Verstappen says that if he was running Red Bull, Nico Hulkenberg would replace Alex Albon and become his son Max's teammate in 2021. Max Verstappen recently admitted - twice - that he would like to be paired at the team with Hulkenberg next year. "It can only be three drivers - Albon,.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Haas is a good first team for likely 2021 rookie Mick Schumacher. That is the view of Bernd Maylander, who is Formula 1's long-time safety car driver. Speaking to Sport1, he was commenting on what is now regarded as an open secret - that Ferrari will place Michael Schumacher's son at Ferrari-powered customer.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Mercedes will keep its all-black livery in 2021, boss Toto Wolff has revealed. Amid Lewis Hamilton's advocacy for the Black Lives Matter movement, the reigning world champion team agreed to switch from silver to black for 2020. "It seems that yes, we will also be in black in 2021," Wolff told the Austrian.....check out full post »

Formula 1 has been a massively popular sport for decades now. Loved around the globe, it still draws hundreds of thousands of fans every race, even though guessing a winner has become a bit easier, it is still as exciting as ever before. After many years in the world of Formula 1, Honda announced that.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Romain Grosjean has admitted that a move from Formula 1 to Indycar for 2021 cannot be ruled out. Earlier, the Frenchman said the American series' many oval circuits were a turn-off because of the heightened safety risk, but suddenly he admits that Indycar is "certainly an option". "I have some contacts in America,".....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Organisers of the Dutch F1 GP at Zandvoort are still not confirming the race date for its first grand prix since agreeing to return to Formula 1. Zandvoort was one of the victim's of this year's coronavirus crisis, with organisers deciding against going the 'ghost race' route. Now, it is emerging that the.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - A third team has revealed its opposition to Fernando Alonso's participation in the end-of-season 'young driver' test in Abu Dhabi. With rules restricting teams from fielding anyone other than highly inexperienced drivers, Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul said he asked his fellow team principals for dispensation to allow Alonso to re-acclimatise to F1. "One.....check out full post »

Nov.3 - Fellow drivers are jumping to George Russell's defence after the Williams driver made an embarrassing mistake during the race at Imola. In scenes similar to Romain Grosjean's incident of 2018 at Baku, the otherwise impressive Briton Russell crashed out behind the safety car last Sunday. "One minute he was there, the next minute.....check out full post »

Nov.2 - While one Red Bull-contracted driver's exit appears set in stone, another still has a few races to prove he still belongs in Formula 1. Although driving for the energy drink company's second team AlphaTauri, Daniil Kvyat thinks he easily outperformed the struggling Alex Albon at Imola. "From the very beginning of the race.....check out full post »

Nov.2 - Andreas Seidl has admitted his opposition to the trend for longer Formula 1 calendars made possible by the likely introduction of Imola-like two-day race weekends. Just as news of the unprecedentedly long 2021 calendar featuring 23 races broke, Formula 1 descended on the much-loved former San Marino GP venue Imola for a novel.....check out full post »

Nov.2 - Toto Wolff remains confident that Lewis Hamilton will eventually sign a new Mercedes contract for 2021 and beyond. After winning at Imola, and celebrating Mercedes' seventh consecutive world championship, Hamilton caused a stir by saying there is "no guarantee" he will stay in Formula 1 beyond next month's Abu Dhabi finale. The six-time.....check out full post »

Nov.2 - The rest of this year's makeshift Formula 1 calendar is in "the hands of the national authorities". That is the view of Toto Wolff, whose Mercedes team on Sunday wrapped up the constructors' championship at Imola - one of the stand-in events for the permanent races that had to be cancelled this year.....check out full post »

DRIVERS 1 – Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 2 – Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) 3 – Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Paul di Resta)  Q: Daniel, you’re getting pretty used to being up here. Another third place in three races. How did that pan out?Daniel Ricciardo: It was a bizarre one. I got into fourth off the.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Emilia Romagna GP Race Track: Imola Circuit Weather: dry  18°C Tarmac: dry  22.7°C Humidity : 71.5% Wind : 2.4 m/s E Pressure: 1017.6 bar Lewis Hamilton won his 93rd F1 race at the 2020 Emilia Romagna F1 GP today. He started from P2 and won the race on the Imola circuit for.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - Both Ferrari and Renault say they will not support Red Bull's push to see engine development frozen from 2022. With Honda departing at the end of next year, Red Bull has said it would like to take over the Japanese manufacturer's engines and operations - but only if engine development is halted. Mercedes'.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - It is now obvious that Mick Schumacher will step up to Formula 1 next year with Haas. Earlier, it appeared that the 20-year-old German and F2 points leader would indeed get his promotion for 2021, but it had not been decided whether it would be with Ferrari-powered Alfa Romeo or Haas. At Imola,.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - Daniil Kvyat has slammed the strict enforcement of 'track limits' this weekend as Imola makes an otherwise highly popular return to Formula 1. "Jesus Christ! We don't need white lines, we just need old-school gravel. Then we can get rid of this bulls**t," the Russian driver is quoted by Sport1. Many drivers have.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - Laurent Mekies will step up and serve as Ferrari's acting team boss at the next race in Istanbul. The rumour at Imola was confirmed by team boss Mattia Binotto, who said he will stay at Maranello instead of travelling to Turkey before missing "a few more" of the remaining four races after that......check out full post »

Nov.1 - Dr Helmut Marko has all but officially confirmed that Daniil Kvyat will not keep his seat at AlphaTauri beyond the end of 2020. It comes after Pierre Gasly said he was "surprised" that Red Bull only re-signed him for 2021 on the basis that he will lead the second team rather than be.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - Robert Kubica says he will "definitely" not be returning to Formula 1 as a race driver in 2021. The Pole is at Imola this weekend in his capacity as Alfa Romeo's reserve driver, after his sponsor Orlen switched from Williams to the Swiss-based team this year. Alfa Romeo is keeping Kimi Raikkonen and.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - FIA president Jean Todt says he still goes to visit Michael Schumacher "regularly". The pair remained close friends after their ultra-successful time together at Ferrari, but almost nothing is known about Schumacher's health in the wake of a late 2013 skiing fall that caused brain injuries. "His fight continues, along with his family.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - Cyril Abiteboul is hoping the FIA might step in to allow Fernando Alonso to take part in the end-of-season 'young driver test' in Abu Dhabi. As a 39-year-old two-time world champion, the Spaniard is definitely not a 'young driver', but Renault was hoping the other teams would regard his two-year sabbatical as a.....check out full post »

Nov.1 - Jean Todt admits he is "very concerned" about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although Formula 1 is up and racing again with its 'covid-safe' protocols including ghost races, social 'bubbles' and mandatory mask-wearing and testing, a new wave of the virus and lockdowns are currently sweeping through Europe and the world. "Everyone who contributed.....check out full post »

In Part 2 of our Imola Saturday playlist, Peter Windsor analyses the grid line-up and the driving styles behind some of those qualifying results. Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton have locked-out the front row for Mercedes, ahead of two Red Bull drivers - Red Bull-Honda's Max Verstappen and Alpha Tauri-Honda's Pierre Gasly.

F1 returns to Imola this weekend for the 2020 Emilia Romagna GP - and the drivers love it. Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton head the field going into Sunday's race, with Max Verstappen a customary third for Red Bull-Honda - but the question they're all asking is why this track was removed from the.....check out full post »

We’re returning to Imola for the first time in over 14 years 😮 Ferrari has sent Marc Gené for a lap in their championship-winning F2007 for you all to get a taster of this weekend’s venue 🏁

My next F1 Fridays episode! It’s the third Formula race in Italy this year – we can be very excited about this track! The 2020 Imola Grand Prix will surely be exciting as the Imola F1 Track is super special – the former home of the San Marino GP! This year it’s the 2020 Emilia.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Emilia Romagna GP Race Track: Imola Circuit Start time: 13:10 CET | 12:10 UK | 06:10 LA | 20:10 Tokio Valtteri Bottas will start from P1 from the start grid for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. With this pole Mercedes scored pole for all 14 races of this season until now. This.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Emilia Romagna GP Race Track: Imola Circuit Weather: dry  17°C Tarmac: dry  20.3°C Humidity : 70.7% Wind : 1.1 m/s E Pressure: 1020.1 bar Valtteri Bottas scored his 15th F1 pole position in the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix qualifying session today. It was already his 4th pole of the 2020 season......check out full post »