Formula 1 News & Updates Week 50 Below you'll find this weeks news, results, videos, podcasts, sounds & photos from the world of Formula 1 |
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| Fri, 13 Dec 2019 As a young karter, George Russell dreamed of making it to Formula 1. As he comes to the end of his rookie year in F1, he reflects on his journey so far. Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Question: When was the last time you were seriously impressed with Sebastian Vettel? Now, I don't have Bernie Ecclestone's excuse of being achingly close to nonagenarianism, but I don't really remember either. And, like Bernie, I'm a big Vettel fanboy too! "Recently, I have not seen his willingness to do anything to win," the former.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Ferrari has slammed the door shut to Max Verstappen. At the Maranello team's end of season dinner, bosses Mattia Binotto and Louis Camilleri confirmed that Sebastian Vettel's 2021 seat may be up for grabs. But the talk was mainly about Lewis Hamilton, as Binotto swept away any lingering speculation that Fernando Alonso might return to.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri has admitted that Sebastian Vettel's future at Maranello is clouded. With the emergence of his young teammate Charles Leclerc, who Camilleri says has a "long term contract", quadruple world champion Vettel has lost his number 1 status for 2020. Team boss Mattia Binotto says the pair will start 2020, the last.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Ferrari's 2020 car will feature fundamental changes when it is revealed to the public on February 11. Speaking at the team's end of season dinner, boss Mattia Binotto thinks Ferrari will be "probably the first" of the ten teams to launch for 2020. Indeed, February 11 is a full eight days prior to the start.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Max Verstappen says he would drive less aggressively at the wheel of a Mercedes. Most pundits agree that the Dutchman was notably more mature in 2019 compared to his early days in Formula 1 as a teenager. But six time world champion Lewis Hamilton has said that Verstappen, 22, is still too aggressive on occasion......check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Ferrari says it would veto Toto Wolff's appointment to the top job in Formula 1. After presiding over six consecutive world championships at Mercedes, the 47-year-old Austrian has been linked with replacing Chase Carey at Liberty Media. But Ferrari has a unique and controversial right of veto, and CEO Louis Camilleri warns that Maranello would.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Barcelona needs "help" in order to extend its contract to host the Spanish GP beyond 2020. Liberty Media agreed an eleventh hour, single-year solution for next year's race at Circuit de Catalunya, but track boss Vincenc Aguilera says the next deal should be for "three, four or five years". "I want to say that we.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 A 2021 Ferrari race seat for Mick Schumacher would be "too early" for the F1 legend's son. That is the claim of team boss Mattia Binotto, even though 20-year-old Schumacher has already tested a 2019 Ferrari and is a member of Maranello's driver academy. Schumacher, whose father is seven time world champion and former Ferrari.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Lewis Hamilton has confirmed reports that he had a minor incident whilst riding Valentino Rossi's MotoGP bike at Valencia this week. Amid an information blackout in the 24 hours after the Mercedes and Yamaha swap, Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport reported a rumour that Hamilton had crashed with "no consequences" for the world champion. But.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Here you can find unique photographs of the most amazing motorsport event of 2019: The Lewis Hamilton & Valentino Rossi drive-swap! You can see pictures of Hamilton on a MotoGP Yamaha bike and Rossi driving the Mercedes F1 car. ✅ Check out the Hamilton & Rossi drive-swap video Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Liberty Media made an enquiry in the summer about whether there might be room at Red Bull's top F1 team for Fernando Alonso. That is the claim of Dr Helmut Marko, who with tongue in cheek described F1 owner Liberty as the new "Alonso managers" who offered to help the two-time world champion with his.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Zak Brown thinks McLaren will have to wait until 2022 to get a shot at catching top teams Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. The Woking based team was the most improved in 2019, beating Renault to fourth in the constructors' world championship. McLaren supremo Brown says the team will have the same budget in 2020.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Williams should focus on building a much better car for 2021, according to former team driver Sergey Sirotkin. The Russian, who became Renault and McLaren's reserve driver this year, drove for Williams in 2018, where he witnessed first-hand the famous team's decline to backmarker status. "Williams made fundamental miscalculations in the processes and methods of.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Bernie Ecclestone thinks Sebastian Vettel may have lost his edge. Many pundits are currently discussing Ferrari's driver lineup, after quadruple world champion Vettel's number 1 status was challenged in 2019. The pair's on-track bickering also culminated in their clash in Brazil, but former F1 supremo Ecclestone thinks the main problem could be German Vettel's hunger......check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Daniil Kvyat must beat Toro Rosso teammate Pierre Gasly in 2020 to secure his place in Red Bull's F1 program. That is the view of Kvyat's Russian countryman Sergey Sirotkin, the Renault and McLaren reserve driver this year. Kvyat claimed recently that 2019 was actually his best in Formula 1, but Sirotkin thinks his performance.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 In this video you can see 6 times F1 WC Lewis Hamilton and 7 times MotoGP WC Valentino Rossi swap their drive. Hamilton drives the Yamaha of Rossi and Rossi drives the Mercedes of Hamilton. They also go both out on the track on a Yamaha MotoGP machine so Rossi can learn Hamilton a few.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 He’s that rarest of creatures: a multifaceted, outgoing personality who also happens to be a world-class competitor, beloved by fans, media and even his fellow drivers. On this week’s show we go deep with Daniel Ricciardo on his life on and off the race track, from his present with Renault to his past with Red.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Mercedes is perhaps the greatest Formula 1 team ever, according to several well-placed insiders. Although 2020 is shaping up as an epic three-way battle also involving Ferrari and Red Bull-Honda, Mercedes has just wrapped up its record sixth consecutive drivers' and constructors' world championships. "Mercedes is the most dominant team ever," Toro Rosso boss Franz.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Haas is not commenting on reports that McLaren's aerodynamics boss Guillaume Cattelani is heading to the small American team. Denmark's BT newspaper cited 'sources' who claim Cattelani, who worked for Enstone based Lotus before moving to McLaren in 2014, is switching to Haas. Haas struggled with Pirelli's tyres but also aerodynamics in 2019. Before entering.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Max Verstappen says he will not accept a move down the grid in order to extend his Formula 1 career. The 22-year-old Dutchman is regarded as a title contender for 2020 with Red Bull-Honda, and has been linked with potential moves to Mercedes or Ferrari for 2021. Bt he says the actual length of his.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 2020 will be a "critical" season for Renault, the French works team's boss Cyril Abiteboul has admitted. Although missing its goal of getting closer to the top three teams this year, Abiteboul insists that Renault is making progress. "If you want to win in Formula 1 you must have the best drivers, the best chassis.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Mattia Binotto insists it is not "difficult" to manage Ferrari's current driver lineup. With Sebastian Vettel alongside Charles Leclerc labelled by some as too "explosive", the hot rumour at present is that six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton could be heading to Maranello for 2021. But team boss Binotto is backing the current lineup, including the.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Pirelli boss Mario Isola is warning F1 teams that tyre pressures will need to be raised in 2020. Although some teams including Haas were vehemently critical of Pirelli's 2019 tyres, the teams have voted unanimously to scrap the proposed tyres for 2020. Pirelli said the teams argued that the 2020 tyres were requiring considerable aerodynamic.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Dr Helmut Marko broke "promises" to Pierre Gasly in 2019, the French driver claims. Gasly, 23, had a fraught 2019 season, as he underperformed initially for Red Bull's top team and was relegated back to Toro Rosso, where he thrived. "There are some things that must stay between the team and me," he told France's.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Former F1 driver JJ Lehto has questioned a new Formula 1 rule limiting the amount of brake components a driver can use during a season. Grid penalties will be handed out from 2021 if drivers have to use more than 22 sets of brake discs and pads. The number is derived from the number of.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 The founder of the team known as Toro Rosso says he is impressed with the Faenza based team's recent progress. Giancarlo Minardi, now 72, was actually born at Faenza in Italy, and initially began entering his Minardi team in Formula 2 races in 1980. Minardi sold his ailing F1 team to Paul Stoddart in 2000,.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Michael Masi says he is "looking forward" to returning to his new role as F1 race director in 2020. Following the shock death in Melbourne of Charlie Whiting ahead of the 2019 season opener, deputy Masi stepped in and has kept the top role ever since. "I am often asked about the most difficult event.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Lewis Hamilton may have crashed Valentino Rossi's MotoGP bike at the Valencia circuit this week. The pair swapped their Mercedes and Yamaha machines for a promotional event organised by mutual sponsor Monster, but the media was locked out and no official information whatsoever has been forthcoming. But two Italian newspapers are reporting information unofficially. La.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Having analysed all the results and team assessments from the recent test in Abu Dhabi, a vote for the specification of the tyres for the 2020 F1 calendar was carried out according to Article 12.6.1 of the technical regulations. The vote resulted in a unanimous decision to keep the 2019 specification tyres for the 2020.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 In this video F1 photographer Kym Illman shows us his top 10 F1 women list, he has came across at the Paddock during the 2019 F1 season. Who is your favourite? Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Lewis Hamilton (video) and Mercedes' Toto Wolff (on stage) received major awards at the blue-riband British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) Awards ceremony in London today. Lewis spoke from Valencia, where he was enjoying a bike-car swap with Valentino Rossi, and Toto talked about how the team rebounds from the bad days and the loss of.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Mattia Binotto thinks Ferrari's rivals complained about the legality of the Italian team's 2019 engine to "put pressure on us". Some rival teams claimed the Maranello-made power unit suddenly became 50 horsepower better in 2019, prompting a late-season round of scrutiny by the FIA that is ongoing. "The truth is far from that number," team.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Zak Brown says new McLaren principal Andreas Seidl took "the politics" out of the team in 2019. Brown, still McLaren CEO, says that when he arrived at McLaren in the wake of the Ron Dennis era, "There were many chefs in the kitchen". "Many things were happening in the company and among the shareholders," he.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Lewis Hamilton joining Ferrari would "not change much" at the Italian team, according to Pirelli CEO Marco Tronchetti Provera. Rumours are abounding that Mercedes' new six-time world champion may be flirting with a move to Maranello for 2021. "Wherever he goes he would be good as he's a great driver," Tronchetti Provera told Italian radio.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Ferrari is still not happy with the published rules for 2021. That is despite the fact that the Maranello team, as the only F1 outfit on the World Motor Sport Council, actually voted for them. "We voted for it, although the package still does not convince us one hundred per cent," said team boss Mattia.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Max Verstappen says he was "more zen" throughout the 2019 season. Although he was chided for some media comments this year, including accusing Ferrari of "cheating", most agree that the Red Bull driver appeared to have matured this year. "This year I was a lot calmer in front of the camera. More zen," the Dutchman.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Despite a more than decade-long title drought, Ferrari has everything it needs to succeed again in Formula 1. That is the view of Aldo Costa, the engineering boss at Mercedes who was actually technical director at Ferrari when Kimi Raikkonen won that last Ferrari title in 2007. When he moved to Mercedes for 2012, the.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 An Israeli driver looks set to sign up as a Williams test driver for 2020. At the post-grand prix Abu Dhabi test, 25-year-old Roy Nissany, who reportedly sat out the 2019 racing season with an injury, tested the struggling British team's F1 car. The well funded driver was several seconds off the pace of the.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 McLaren has teamed up to take on the top level of cycling including the Tour de France. Already entering a team in Indycar next year, the Woking based outfit has now agreed a 50-50 joint venture with Bahrain to launch the UCI cycling team Team Bahrain McLaren. The team - to wear orange jerseys in.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Formula 1 has vowed to "closely monitor" Russia's new four-year ban from all sporting events. At present, it is not clear if the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ban includes the annual Russian GP or Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kvyat. But Sochi organisers say the Formula 1 race will not be affected. "The contract was signed.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Vietnam GP organisers say they will be ready for the inaugural F1 race in Hanoi. Although Hermann Tilke's organisation is currently still working on the circuit, Vietnam GP CEO Le Ngoc Chi tells France's Auto Hebdo: "We are 80 per cent ready." She said work is currently taking place on the grandstands, the interior of.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Jacques Villeneuve does not think Red Bull-Honda can win the 2020 title. A lot is riding on the team's performance next year, as Max Verstappen will be out of contract and Honda is yet to commit to F1 beyond 2021. Outspoken 1997 world champion Villeneuve says Red Bull has a "great car", but he questioned.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Dr Helmut Marko has played down rumours that Red Bull could lose its title sponsor. "We have a contract," said the top team official, following reports that Aston Martin could in fact be bought by Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll. It is believed Marko was referring only to 2020. The reports suggested the Aston Martin.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 A respected F1 commentator has questioned the contribution to Renault made so far by Daniel Ricciardo. After a disappointing first season for the French team's high-profile signing, Renault has now ousted its long time chassis technical boss Nick Chester. "The progress we have made on the engine is clear," boss Cyril Abiteboul is quoted by.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 New six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has admitted he put on 5 kilograms this year. The Mercedes driver is an ardent supporter of veganism, telling the Malaysian magazine The Edge that it helps him to be a better athlete. "I often see messages on my Instagram saying 'I need my protein because I am trying.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Max Verstappen has admitted there may be "opportunities" for a move to another team for 2021. At the FIA prize-giving gala, the futures of the Dutch driver as well as Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff continued to be hot topics. "Of course we want to know what each other's plans are," Wolff said,.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Valtteri Bottas may be lacking the "hunger" to beat Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes. That is the view of Mark Webber, who told Britain's Channel 4 that 2019 was "a tough season" for the Finn. Bottas has kicked off the winter season by winning an asphalt rally at Paul Ricard. He is not ruling out a.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Chase Carey wants the teams to sign up for the new Concorde Agreement "as soon as possible". The F1 CEO's comments coincide with reports that Mercedes had secret talks with Liberty Media at the FIA prize-winning gala. Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko confirmed to Kronen Zeitung that talks are still taking place. "There is no.....check out full post » Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Gerhard Berger has backed Ferrari's controversial driver lineup. Some believe Charles Leclerc has thrown quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel's entire F1 career into doubt with his performance and attitude in 2019. The pair also clashed in Brazil, and Berger - once the great Ayrton Senna's teammate - says it is clear that Leclerc is the.....check out full post » |
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