Nov.20 - Dr Helmut Marko has reacted with a smile to a comment made earlier this week by 2021 Red Bull candidate Nico Hulkenberg. Hulkenberg, who is in the running to replace struggling Alex Albon next year, joked on Red Bull-owned Servus TV this week that he has now "signed a new contract". "A home.....check out full post »

Nov.20 - There is still room on future Formula 1 calendars for more than the unprecedented 23 races that have been scheduled for 2021. That is the news from Chase Carey, who said in an investors teleconference that he feels "very good" about his relationship with current and future race promoters. "Many places where we.....check out full post »

Nov.20 - Felipe Massa hopes it is true that his former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher is able to follow the likely F1 debut of his son Mick next year. Their former team boss Jean Todt said this week that he sees Schumacher up to twice per month, amid public rumours that the seven time world.....check out full post »

Nov.20 - Italian motor racing chief Angelo Sticchi Damiani says he wants Italy to have not one but two grands prix in 2021. It is a clear sign that Imola is in the running to replace the cancelled Vietnam GP, with the April 25 race date currently listed as 'to be confirmed'. "We would like.....check out full post »

Nov.20 - Former Ferrari driver Felipe Massa has backed Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari split. The Maranello team decided to replace the German with Carlos Sainz for 2021 and beyond, with Vettel heading instead to Aston Martin. Massa told Spain's AS newspaper that the uncompetitive 2020 Ferrari is not Vettel's fault. "The car is the most important,".....check out full post »

Nov.20 - Lewis Hamilton should be careful with his political activism to avoid accusations of hypocrisy, according to former F1 driver Christijan Albers. New seven time world champion Hamilton has been fiercely outspoken in 2020 on issues including Black Lives Matter. "When you are an athlete, expressing your opinion about certain things is quite dangerous.....check out full post »

Nov.20 - Flavio Briatore has lamented the way Formula 1 drivers have changed since his days in Formula 1. The former Renault boss said he helped Fernando Alonso arrange his 2021 return to the sport. "I am very pleased with Fernando's return," he told Spanish broadcaster Antena 3. "We worked together, yes, we worked together.....check out full post »

Nov.20 - Mattia Binotto has played down hopes that Ferrari's new engine for 2021 will be enough to catch Mercedes. The Maranello team's boss said this week that early dynamometer testing of the new power unit has been "very promising". "Currently, we don't have the best engine but next year we can have a completely.....check out full post »

Nov.19 - Dr Helmut Marko says Alex Albon is still in the running to keep his seat at Red Bull in 2021. The Austrian official has defended the struggling British-born Thai driver this year, but Marko said Albon "threw away the podium" with a spin in Istanbul. "Both of our drivers overused their tyres, whereas.....check out full post »

Nov.19 - Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius has once again moved to allay fears that Mercedes might be pulled out of Formula 1. 2021 was the German team's seventh consecutive sweep of the drivers' and constructors' world championships, but there have been rumblings that Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff may be looking elsewhere as Mercedes moves.....check out full post »

Nov.19 - Sebastian Vettel has joined Lewis Hamilton in admitting his career is now on a downhill run to retirement. With his seventh title in the bag last Sunday, Mercedes' 35-year-old Hamilton said he will not be racing into his 40s like Kimi Raikkonen. Vettel, a quadruple world champion who is switching from Ferrari to.....check out full post »

Nov.19 - Mercedes has apologised to Chinese fans after Valtteri Bottas made a joke about coronavirus following last Sunday's grand prix in Istanbul. On the day his teammate Lewis Hamilton sealed the title, the Finnish driver was asked by Ziggo Sport if he would like to scratch the date from history. "Yeah, or the day.....check out full post »

Goodbye Istanbul Park 🇹🇷 We had an exciting time 😍

The GP in Istanbul was truly like nothing F1 has ever seen before – but this is part of F1’s attraction: it’s never the same race twice. Onwards to Bahrain.

Rewatch the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix as F1 returns to a legendary track after almost a decade, but the grip is gone. Amidst so many spins and mistakes, another Schumacher record that seemed impossible to break is equaled.

Nov.18 - Max Verstappen has dismissed the opinions of "experts" who were critical of the Dutch driver after the Turkish GP. Countryman Robert Doornbos called it "one of Max's worst performances", Timo Glock said he "took too many risks", and Jacques Villeneuve said Istanbul reminded him of the 23-year-old's "first years in Formula 1". Another.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Nico Hulkenberg says he is keeping himself "fit" in case another opportunity to race in Formula 1 crops up. Appearing on Red Bull's Servus TV broadcaster, the German was asked if he is any closer to knowing his future. "I've signed a new contract," he smiled. "A home loan contract - I hope I.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Mattia Binotto says Ferrari's new engine for 2021 and 2022 is looking "very promising". The Maranello team has struggled with its 2020 power unit in the wake of last year's legality saga. "Currently, we don't have the best engine but next year we can have a completely new one," he said. "At Ferrari.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Renault is still waiting to hear if Fernando Alonso will be permitted to do the forthcoming 'young driver test' in Abu Dhabi. Although the Spanish driver is a 39-year-old double world champion, team boss Cyril Abiteboul argued that Alonso's two-year sabbatical is reason enough to ask the FIA for special dispensation. Multiple rival.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Aston Martin will share F1 safety car duties with Mercedes from 2021, according to authoritative sources. Italy's respected Autosprint and La Gazzetta dello Sport publications claim a deal has been done between Formula 1 and Lawrence Stroll-controlled Aston Martin to supply the safety and medical cars at half of the grands prix. Mercedes,.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Robert Kubica could return full-time to the world rally championship in 2021, according to Poland's Przeglad Sportowy newspaper. Mere days ago, the Pole revealed that he was "tempted" by an offer to do world rally's forthcoming Monza round, but it would have clashed with his Alfa Romeo reserve driver duties in Bahrain. At.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Alexey Popov hopes Formula 1 returns to Sepang next year. With the new Vietnam GP no longer scheduled for 2021, Formula 1 has marked that date on the calendar as 'to be confirmed'. "They immediately started talking about Sepang or Istanbul," Popov, the Russian F1 commentator for Match TV, said. "I am a.....check out full post »

Nov.18 - Lewis Hamilton has admitted he has spoken with Ferrari chiefs "several times" about potentially joining the Maranello team. After matching Ferrari legend Michael Schumacher's seven-title record last Sunday, the Mercedes driver told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "I have never really been close to signing for Ferrari. "We spoke several times but we did.....check out full post »

Nov.17 - Kimi Raikkonen has tipped Ferrari to quickly solve its 2020 performance crisis. Another former Ferrari driver, Gerhard Berger, recently predicted that getting back to race wins and title contention will take the Maranello team several years. But Raikkonen, the last Ferrari champion of 2007, says he has seen similar situations at the team.....check out full post »

Nov.17 - Toto Wolff appears to have played down speculation that Lewis Hamilton could be shaping up to sign a mere one-year contract for 2021. Top drivers like new seven time world champion Hamilton typically sign long and lucrative contracts, but the current situation is notably different. For instance, Mercedes' long term future in F1.....check out full post »

Nov.17 - Michael Schumacher is "following" the progress of his son's rise to Formula 1. That is the word from FIA president Jean Todt, who remains a close friend of the Schumacher family after his time as Ferrari's ultra successful team boss. RTL France asked the 74-year-old if he can update the world about the.....check out full post »

Last week’s column looked at the possibility of Dietrich Mateschitz selling the Red Bull team, leaving the question, what about the Scuderia Alpha Tauri team? The team was originally purchased in late 2005 from Minardi by ex F1 driver Gerhard Berger and Red Bull with the team changing its name to Toro Rosso (translating to.....check out full post »

Nov.17 - Robert Kubica is set to make two more Friday practice appearances this season at the wheel of Alfa Romeo's 2020 car. The Pole, who is the Swiss based team's reserve driver this year with the support of major sponsor Orlen, told TVP Sport that he will drive at one of the forthcoming race.....check out full post »

Nov.17 - Pirelli boss Mario Isola has played down the controversy about the condition of Istanbul's track surface for the Turkish GP last weekend. Williams' George Russell was among the fiercest critics of the slipperiness of the track surface which was re-laid by race organisers just two weeks before the weekend. "The weekend had nothing.....check out full post »

Nov.17 - Max Verstappen says there was a technical reason why he underperformed in last Sunday's Turkish GP. Despite missing pole to Lance Stroll, the Dutchman had gone into the race as the hot favourite to win. But countryman Robert Doornbos said when happened next was "one of Max's worst performances in his Formula 1.....check out full post »

Nov.16 - Mattia Binotto says he is pleased that his experiment of sitting out a grand prix at Ferrari's Maranello headquarters over the weekend was a success. For the first time since becoming team boss, the Italian did not travel to the race location at the weekend. Ultimately, Istanbul turned out to be Sebastian Vettel's.....check out full post »

Nov.16 - Jacques Villeneuve has a rare compliment for his countryman Lance Stroll after the Turkish GP. Although Stroll finished ninth on Sunday, he actually commandingly led the race after powering to his first-ever pole position on super-slippery Saturday. 1997 world champion and fellow French Canadian Villeneuve is a regular critic of Stroll's, insisting he.....check out full post »

Nov.16 - F1 race director Michael Masi has defended organisers of the Turkish GP for the state of the Istanbul circuit's new asphalt surface. Even in Sunday's race, drivers continued to complain about what they described as the lowest-grip surface they have ever encountered in Formula 1. "This weekend was not what we expect in.....check out full post »

Nov.16 - Kevin Magnussen is not ruling out staying in F1 as a reserve driver next year - but he is also keen on races like Le Mans and even the Indy 500. Haas is tipped to replace the departing 28-year-old Dane with an all-rookie lineup for 2021, with Magnussen admitting he lacks the funding.....check out full post »

Nov.16 - Toto Wolff is still not rushing to get new seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton under contract for 2021. After Hamilton wrapped up the championship in Istanbul on Sunday, fans' attention immediately turned to the Mercedes driver's expiring deal. Hamilton sounds keen to race on. "I don't think I'll be here in my.....check out full post »

DRIVERS: 1 – Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), 2 – Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) & 3 – Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Martin Brundle)  Q: Sebastian, welcome back to the podium. What a race. Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, it was quite intense, quite long, but good fun. I had a really good opening lap and I think.....check out full post »

And so he did it. Lewis Hamilton in Turkey clinched his seventh FIA World Drivers' Championship, equalling the record set by Michael Schumacher. It wasn't easy, though. Lewis started only sixth - on the dirty side of a slippery grid. He left the road a couple of times; he couldn't for a while find a.....check out full post »

Ciao Tifosi, #Seb5 has a message for you 🤩❤️🏆

Three hundred races. It’s a pretty hefty milestone and over the past 299 races Red Bull Racing racked up 63 wins, 180 podium, 62 pole positions, eight championships. It’s a roll call of which we’re extremely proud of, but it does present an almighty headache when you’re asked to pick out the very best moments.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Turkish F1 GP Race Track: Istanbul Park Circuit Weather: dry  13.1°C Tarmac: wet  22.7°C Humidity : 81.8% Wind : 1.1 m/s N Pressure: 1008.6 bar Lewis Hamilton won his 7th F1 drivers title and his 94th F1 race at the 2020 Turkish F1 GP today. He started from P6 and won the.....check out full post »

Nov.15 - The current state of Formula 1 amid the coronavirus pandemic "won't work in the long term", according to Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko. An unnamed team boss was recently quoted as saying that another full year of 'ghost races', quarantining and social distancing could bankrupt teams. "The fact that we were able.....check out full post »

Nov.15 - Sebastian Vettel says he will remain a "Ferrari fan" even after leaving the Maranello team next month. The 33-year-old joined Ferrari in 2015 amid high hopes of winning a fifth title, but this year he is struggling to match teammate Charles Leclerc after being told in May that he would be replaced for.....check out full post »

Nov.15 - Toto Wolff has rejected renewed speculation that he may be on the verge of quitting Mercedes and joining the Aston Martin team. The Austrian bought shares in Lawrence Stroll's new project earlier this year but Wolff denies that is a sign that he could switch camps in Formula 1. "I have no stake.....check out full post »

Nov.15 - Chase Carey admits there is some "flexibility" in the unprecedentedly-long 23-race calendar for 2021. Some have expressed surprise that, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, Formula 1 is planning its longest ever calendar - with every race scheduled to host spectators as well. "We are quite optimistic," said Carey, the F1 CEO......check out full post »

Nov.15 - Robert Kubica has revealed that he turned down an offer to make a guest appearance in a forthcoming round of the world rally championship. The Pole, who turned to rallying full-time amid his recovery from a near-fatal crash some decade ago, told Eleven Sports he could not do the rally this year because.....check out full post »

Nov.15 - Likely 2021 F1 rookie Nikita Mazepin has denied rumours that he was arrested in Abu Dhabi for breaking a coronavirus quarantine. "I heard that there were rumours I was arrested in Abu Dhabi," the 21-year-old Russian, who is set to be Mick Schumacher's teammate at Haas next year, reportedly said. "I can assure.....check out full post »

DRIVERS: 1 – Lance Stroll (Racing Point), 2 – Max Verstappen (Red Bull) , 3 – Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Mark Webber)  Q: Sergio, those were extremely challenging conditions. You had pole position for a vast majority of the session, especially when you went onto those intermediate tyres, you look extremely.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Turkish F1 GP Race Track: Istanbul Park Circuit Start time: 11:10 CET | 10:10 UK | 02:10 LA | 19:10 Tokio Racing Point almost had a front row lockout. Canadian driver Lance Stroll will start from P1 for the first time in Turkey. The other Racing Point driver Sergio Perez also scored.....check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Turkish F1 GP Race Track: Istanbul Park Circuit Weather: wet 12.8°C Tarmac: wet 13.6°C Humidity : 90% Wind : 1.2 m/s E Pressure: 1007.9 bar Lance Stroll scored his very first F1 pole position of his career, during the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix qualifying session today. The Racing Point driver will start.....check out full post »

Nov.14 - Lewis Hamilton has described track conditions in Istanbul this weekend as "terrifying". Formula 1 has not used the Turkish venue since 2011, but Istanbul stepped up at the eleventh hour to help the sport through its corona crisis. The circuit was resurfaced just two weeks ago, and it provided an unprecedented lack of.....check out full post »