F1 Race Event: Styrian Grand Prix Race Track: Red Bull Ring Weather: dry  32.0°C Tarmac: dry  50.2°C Humidity : 32.4% Wind : 0.9 m/s E Pressure: 936.0 bar The 2nd free practice started a few minutes later, due to the qualifying session of F2 took a lot longer than expected. Because the weather forecast promises.....check out full post »

10 Jul - After weeks of speculation and rumours, Formula one officially announced today that the Mugello and Sochi circuit will be added to the 2020 Formula 1 race schedule. The race on Mugello circuit will be called the Tuscan Grand Prix and will be held for the first time ever on the September 13th......check out full post »

F1 Race Event: Styrian Grand Prix Race Track: Red Bull Ring Weather: dry  27.5°C Tarmac: dry  45.7°C Humidity : 41.3% Wind : 1.7 m/s E Pressure: 938.1 bar Esteban Ocon was the first to go out for practice of the first ever Styrian GP. Almost all teams had fitted their high tech machines with aero.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - China's hopes of returning to the 2020 calendar are fading. The Shanghai race was among the very first casualties of the pandemic that started in China, but it had been rumoured that one or even two events might be rescheduled there this year. However, the Chinese government has now announced that no international.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Carlos Sainz says he is not yet worrying about his move to Ferrari for 2021. The Spaniard will replace Sebastian Vettel, but he will presumably not enjoy a substantially better car than the German as the current machines are being carried over to 2021 for reasons of cost. Asked if he is therefore.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Mercedes' current drivers appear to be making moves to ink new deals for 2021. Last weekend in Austria, Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius nixed speculation Sebastian Vettel might join the works team by declaring: "We're staying with our two boys." One of those boys is Valtteri Bottas, who earlier also looked at risk of.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Max Verstappen insists that his chances of winning the 2020 title remain alive. That is despite the fact that his boss Dr Helmut Marko admitted the Dutchman was "really angry" after retiring in Austria last weekend with a Honda-related problem. "Max was really angry, which I understand," Marko told Osterreich newspaper. "Hopefully we.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Antonio Giovinazzi insists he is not giving up on his Formula 1 career. The Italian rose through Ferrari's driver academy to secure the seat at Alfa Romeo, but Ferrari overlooked him in favour of Carlos Sainz to be Sebastian Vettel's 2021 replacement. Giovinazzi, however, insists he is not giving up. "The hope I.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - World champion Lewis Hamilton insists he is not "distracted" by his political activism in 2020. In recent weeks, the six-time title winner has been advancing the cause of the Black Lives Matter movement, and on the grid last Sunday he led 13 other drivers in 'taking a knee'. Hamilton is not ruling out.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Renault advisor Alain Prost says a question mark about Sebastian Vettel's motivation may have thwarted his chances of joining the French team. The Enstone based team decided instead to sign up Fernando Alonso for 2021, with German Vettel admitting he had talks. "They made a different choice, but that doesn't change my plans,".....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Renault's Russian reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin has defended his countryman Daniil Kvyat's decision to refuse to kneel on the grid last Sunday. Lewis Hamilton led the push for the drivers to make the gesture in deference to the Black Lives Matter political movement. But six drivers refused to kneel, including Kvyat, who said.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - His protege Fernando Alonso may be returning to Formula 1, but Flavio Briatore insists he definitely is not. "If Fernando needs it, I am ready to help him," the former Renault boss told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "But I personally have no desire to return to a Formula 1 team. In 2021 Alonso.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Ferrari and Mercedes have been warned about a breach of the strict coronavirus measures in force for the back-to-back races in Austria. While most of the paddock remained in their 'bubbles' between the first and second race weekends, it emerges that Charles Leclerc and Valtteri Bottas each travelled back to Monaco earlier this.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Mick Schumacher is hoping to be able to drive a Formula 1 car again in 2020. Last year, the son of F1 legend Michael Schumacher got to test both Ferrari and Alfa Romeo's up-to-date cars. But any similar plans for 2020 were scuppered by the coronavirus situation. "Because corona has shortened the year,.....check out full post »

Jul.10 - Dr Helmut Marko has once again dashed Sebastian Vettel's hopes of a return to Red Bull next year. This week, rumours gained steam that the energy drink company's boss Dietrich Mateschitz had given Marko the green light to rescue the Ferrari refugee's career. Indeed, the 33-year-old quadruple world champion confirmed on Thursday that.....check out full post »

Jul.9 - Fernando Alonso admits he will not be able to win next year after returning to Formula 1 with Renault. After days of rampant speculation, the French team confirmed on Wednesday that the almost-39-year-old will replace Daniel Ricciardo next year. Alonso has clearly signed a two-year contract, as the Spaniard said he knows that.....check out full post »

Jul.9 - F1 legend Gerhard Berger thinks Sebastian Vettel should quit Formula 1 rather than switch to a midfield team. With Fernando Alonso signed up at Renault, Ferrari refugee Vettel's only options for 2021 are a plum seat at Mercedes, or a move to a smaller team. In Austria last weekend, Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius.....check out full post »

Jul.9 - Red Bull is still waiting for the cause of Max Verstappen's retirement in Austria last Sunday to be confirmed. Initially, the team said it was an "electrical" problem that leaves the Dutch driver with zero points after the first race. "We still have to determine that together with Honda," Dr Helmut Marko told.....check out full post »

Jul.9 - Fernando Alonso has revealed that, amid the coronavirus pandemic, he suffered "for several weeks" with a mystery illness. Many have noticed that the almost 39-year-old Spaniard, who is returning to Formula 1 next year with Renault, has appeared visibly thinner in recent weeks. Alonso admits he was sick "for several weeks". "I went.....check out full post »

Jul.9 - Fernando Alonso has played down suggestions he might make an appearance this year during a Friday practice session. Some have suggested it would be a wise move for the 38-year-old to prepare for his return to Formula 1 next year with Renault. But the Spaniard insisted: "I don't think I will drive a.....check out full post »

Jul.9 - Daniil Kvyat has explained why he refused to kneel on the grid last weekend in Austria. In support of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lewis Hamilton and 13 other Formula 1 drivers followed the trend started by former NRL star Colin Kaepernick in 2016. Russian Kvyat was among six drivers who remained standing......check out full post »

Jul.9 - Mick Schumacher says he has "no plan B" in the event that his Formula 1 dream fades. The burgeoning career of Michael Schumacher's son has been on the rise for the past several years, but he is now facing a crucial second season in Formula 2. When asked by Playboy about what would.....check out full post »

Here we are, a second Formula 1 World Championship race just a week after the first, however, it will be celebrated on the same track. The Styrian Grand Prix is named after Styria, Austria’s second-biggest state and the state where the Red Bull Ring is located. After last week’s result, the race has a lot.....check out full post »

As the FIA’s Race Director and Safety Delegate, Michael Masi’s job is to run F1 races – to keep an eye on everything that happens on track, and plenty of stuff off it too – including running driver briefings and dealing with protests. On this week’s show the Australian gives TC the inside line on.....check out full post »

Jul.8 - Red Bull is looking into designing a "more extreme solution" now that the FIA has declared Mercedes' innovative DAS steering system fully legal. In Austria, the energy drink owned team lodged an official protest against the technology, which allows Mercedes' drivers to adjust the 'toe' of the front wheels by pulling and pushing.....check out full post »

Jul.8 - Mark Webber thinks it could be "better" if his former teammate Sebastian Vettel quits Ferrari before the end of the current season. The Ferrari-Vettel relationship took a further dive in Austria last weekend when the quadruple world champion revealed that his ousting was in fact not a mutual decision. Then, on Red Bull-owned.....check out full post »

Jul.8 - Red Bull has now entered the world of Formula 1 broadcasting. Already an owner of two teams and the promoter of the Austrian Grand Prix, it has now been confirmed that Red Bull-owned Servus TV will keep Formula 1 on free-to-air television in Austria. The broadcaster will share the coverage with existing F1.....check out full post »

Sport news THURSDAY, 09 JULY, 1400 HOURS LOCAL TIME Nicholas Latifi (Williams) George Russell (Williams) Romain Grosjean (Haas) Kevin Magnussen (Haas) Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) Kimi Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo) Sergio Perez (Racing Point) Lance Stroll (Racing Point) Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri) Esteban Ocon (Renault) Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) Lando Norris (McLaren) Carlos Sainz (McLaren) Alex.....check out full post »

Jul.8 - Multiple authoritative media sources are now reporting that Fernando Alonso will definitely return to Formula 1 with Renault in 2021. We reported on Tuesday that, with Spanish radio Cadena SER and Movistar correspondent Noemi de Miguel having broken the news in the past days, the French team was shaping up to announce Daniel.....check out full post »

After such a long wait for the 2020 Formula 1 season to get going, now's the time to relive the first race weekend. We caught up with Pierre and Daniil immediately after the finish of the Austrian GP.

Jul.7 - After a third surgery, the hospital looking after Alex Zanardi says the former F1 driver's neurological condition remains "severe". The Santa Maria Alle Scotte hospital in Siena, Italy, said the latest five-hour operation was for "cranio-facial reconstruction", after the 53-year-old recently crashed into a truck during a hand-cycling road race. "The fractures were.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - Tensions are heating up between title contenders Mercedes and Red Bull. In Austria, it became clear that the fight this year would not just be between their respective drivers Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. On Friday, Red Bull launched a protest against Mercedes' innovative 'DAS' steering system. And on Sunday, the energy drink.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - The opening race weekend of 2020 has made Max Verstappen's big title target "a lot more difficult to achieve". The Dutchman, and his Red Bull team, want the 22-year-old to beat Sebastian Vettel's old record to become the youngest ever world champion this year. But Verstappen retired during the season opener last Sunday.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - Ferrari's CEO has expressed "confidence" in team boss Mattia Binotto after an uncompetitive start to the 2020 season in Austria. The Maranello team is currently fast-tracking its scheduled Hungary update so that "at least some" of the parts can debut on the troubled 2020 car this weekend. But given that the new car.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - Max Verstappen insists he would have "no problem" racing with Sebastian Vettel as his teammate. As Vettel's relationship with Ferrari crumbles apparently by the hour, Red Bull boss Christian Horner continues to play down the likelihood that the quadruple world champion may return to the team he leads. "Seb needs a good environment,.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - Bernie Ecclestone says he advised Sebastian Vettel to go public about the way he was axed by Ferrari. Before last weekend, the official story was that the quadruple world champion and the Maranello team had decided mutually to part ways after 2020. But Vettel shattered that narrative in Austria, revealing that he was.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - Haas will continue to tread water regarding the development of its 2020 car, according to team boss Gunther Steiner. As owner Gene Haas considers whether to keep funding the small American team, Steiner recently ordered a halt to car developments amid the corona crisis and uncertain race calendar. "I still don't know the.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - The first race of 2020 in Austria was "certainly not the best weekend" for Lewis Hamilton. That is the view of former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher, who has been vocally critical of the way Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel performed at the Red Bull Ring. But while in the spotlight for his Black Lives Matter.....check out full post »

Jul.7 - Renault is shaping up to reveal Fernando Alonso as the works team's driver for 2021. The rumours gained new momentum last week, when Spanish radio Cadena SER said the two-time world champion could even return to Formula 1 this season to replace McLaren-bound Daniel Ricciardo. Team boss Cyril Abiteboul denied that, insisting that.....check out full post »

The show eventually got on the road with the first race of the season held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. Behind the scenes, there has been frantic lobbying by Helmut Marko head of Red Bull's driver development program of the Austrian government to make the race a reality. The Austrian wanted the race.....check out full post »

See what happened with this great timelapse during the action packed first race of the very different 2020 season. See and relive the 2020 Austrian F1 Grand Prix virtual in 1:32 min. Check out 2020 Austrian Grand Prix race results Check out 2020 Austrian F1 GP Photos

Wallpaper photos of the 2020 F1 Austrian Grand Prix driven on the Red Bull Ring. This F1 race has been won by Valtteri Bottas with the Mercedes W11 on the 5th of July 2020. This are the first photos we could upload. We will add a lot more later. Check out 2020 Austrian Grand Prix race.....check out full post »

Jul.6 - Ola Kallenius, the CEO of Mercedes' parent company Daimler, has ruled out a move to the German works team for Sebastian Vettel. At the same time, the Swede all but officially confirmed that both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas - who are both yet to sign new contracts - will be staying put.....check out full post »

Jul.6 - Sebastian Vettel's relationship with Ferrari continued to deteriorate after the 2020 season re-start in Austria. It was the first race weekend since the Maranello team made the decision to oust the quadruple world champion at the end of the year. The event finally made clear the extent of Ferrari's problems with its 2020.....check out full post »

Jul.6 - Jean Todt admits Formula 1 should be "very careful" about letting the world of politics into the paddock. As the sport got up and racing in the coronavirus era on Sunday, six of the 20 drivers chose not to follow Lewis Hamilton's lead by kneeling on the grid in support of the Black.....check out full post »

Jul.6 - Dr Helmut Marko says Formula 1 should re-think the "whole system" of in-race driver penalties. After Max Verstappen retired with technical trouble, his Red Bull teammate Alexander Albon tried to pass Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in Austria but was tipped into a spin. "This guy is such a sore loser!" Albon raged on the.....check out full post »

Jul.6 - Mugello's chances of hosting a Formula 1 race on the 2020 'corona calendar' stand at 98 percent. That is the claim of Mattia Binotto, Ferrari's team boss. The Maranello-based company also owns Mugello, a challenging circuit in northern Tuscany. Mugello is well known as a test track, but it is now slated to.....check out full post »

Jul.6 - The Formula 1 circus has received a green light to travel to Britain for the back-to-back races at Silverstone next month. Until now, all international travellers to Britain were facing 14 days of mandatory quarantine, which would have made the races almost impossible. "Now that the pubs have opened ... we assume there.....check out full post »

DRIVERS 1 – Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) 2 – Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 3 – Lando Norris (McLaren) TRACK INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Jenson Button)  Q: Valtteri, wow! I mean the pressure on you through that race. One safety car, fair enough, but two and the tyre changes for people behind you, but you held it together man......check out full post »

Event: Austrian Grand Prix Track: Red Bull Ring Weather: Dry 27.6°C Tarmac: Dry 53.7°C Humidity: 34.8% Wind: 0.9 m/s N Pressure: 939.1 bar Valtteri Bottas won the 2020 Austrian F1 GP. He started from pole and won his 8th F1 race in Spielberg. It was the 103rd victory for Mercedes and Bottas his first win.....check out full post »