Formula 1 News & Updates Week 25 Below you'll find this weeks news, results, videos, podcasts, sounds & photos from the world of Formula 1 |
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| Sat, 20 Jun 2020 After 11 years, Scuderia Ferrari clinched both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ titles. The Ferrari 312 T also went down in history as the first car that won the championship with young Ferrari team principal Luca di Montezemolo. Here you can see the 1975 Italian F1 GP result. Sat, 20 Jun 2020 James Allison, Technical Director at Mercedes-AMGF1 talks about the development journey of the W11 and how the team returns to racing Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Alex Zanardi only raced in F1 41 times, never finishing higher than sixth. But for millions of fans around the world, he remains both a hero and an inspiration. A dazzling racer, who only really showed his true talent in IndyCars, Zanardi’s career story took an unexpected turn in 2001 when he was gravely injured.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - Dr Helmut Marko has confirmed that world champion Lewis Hamilton apologised for this week's media misunderstanding. The Mercedes driver had slammed the top Red Bull official after Marko was quoted as suggesting Hamilton was "distracted" by the Black Lives Matter movement. The comments attributed to Marko, however, were false. Marko said Red Bull.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - Sebastian Vettel did not join his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc in agreeing to reduce his pay during the 2020 corona crisis, according to Italian reports. The reports, suggesting that tensions between the quadruple world champion and the Maranello team are now likely to further escalate, emerged after boss Mattia Binotto revealed that Leclerc.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - Esteban Ocon says his test in Austria this week reassured him that he is ready for Formula 1's post-corona crisis restart. Although the test irked Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko, Renault drivers Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo drove a two-year-old car at the scene of the forthcoming Austrian GP. "It was great. It only.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - Team boss Franz Tost says he is more than happy with AlphaTauri's two drivers. The Austrian suggested that both Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly were given premature call-ups to the senior Red Bull team in the past years. "We actually had no choice (about the promotions) with either of them," Tost told Formel.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - It is "practically certain" that Italy will host a second grand prix in 2020. That is the word from Florence mayor Dario Nardella, who is optimistic about the local Ferrari-owned Mugello circuit being able to host the race one week after Monza. "A second grand prix this year is practically certain and would.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - Mattia Binotto has hit back at fellow F1 team boss Toto Wolff after the Mercedes chief expressed surprise about recent driver signings. Wolff said he was surprised that Ferrari announced so early that Sebastian Vettel will leave at the end of 2021 and be replaced by Carlos Sainz. "I'm glad that Mercedes always.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - Crash repairs and engine changes will take significantly longer at grands prix in 2020, Racing Point technical boss Andy Green has warned. He said strict social distancing measures in the garages at the forthcoming 'ghost races' means work on the cars will "automatically take longer". "We have a limited number of people who.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.19 - "Nothing is certain" about the future of the small American team Haas in Formula 1. That is the admission of team boss Gunther Steiner, who admits the outfit has been hit hard by the corona crisis and financial fall-out. Even driver Kevin Magnussen knows Haas is in trouble. "It's a major crisis," he.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.18 - Hot on the heels of news that Williams is for sale, another independent British team - McLaren - is reportedly also on the market amid the corona crisis. Mark Kleinman, the respected City editor for Sky News, says talks between McLaren officials and "advisers and lenders" have already taken place. A source said.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.18 - Lewis Hamilton has withdrawn a scathing rebuke of Dr Helmut Marko after it emerged that comments attributed to the Red Bull official were not real. The six-time world champion said on social media that he was "offended" that Marko had reportedly pointed out that "certain drivers" were "distracted" by political issues while Max.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.18 - There is "enough scope" in the new corona-era car development freeze for uncompetitive teams to improve their single seaters for 2021. That is the claim of Racing Point technical boss Andy Green, referring to the fact that teams must also use their 2020 cars in 2021 to keep costs down. "A bad car.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.18 - Kevin Magnussen says the "timing" just wasn't right for him to be considered for the 2021 Ferrari race seat. Instead, McLaren's Carlos Sainz got the nod to replace quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel. "I haven't hidden that I would like that seat," Magnussen told Ekstra Bladet newspaper. "It's a lot to do with.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.18 - Daniel Ricciardo "fits" with the McLaren brand and team supremo Zak Brown. That is the view of Gil de Ferran, the former Indy 500 winner who now heads McLaren's Indycar project. The Brazilian was recently also McLaren's F1 sporting boss, and he told Globo Esporte's Na Ponta dos Dedos podcast that he can.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.18 - Ferrari has reportedly found 15 horsepower to add to its 2020 engine ahead of the resumption of racing in Austria early next month. Ralf Bach, a prominent German journalist writing for Sport1, said the update is also more reliable following problems with the Melbourne-spec engine in winter testing. As for the power upgrade,.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - An unhappy internal atmosphere will plague Ferrari's 2020 season, according to Zak Brown. McLaren supremo Brown will lose his driver Carlos Sainz to the Maranello team for 2021, with Ferrari having signed him to replace Sebastian Vettel. Vettel, however, will race in 2020. "I doubt there will be a great environment in the.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Lewis Hamilton reportedly intends to kneel during the Austrian anthem ahead of Formula 1's post-corona return to racing next month. British newspapers cited "sources close" to the six-time world champion who said Hamilton's gesture will be in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The Mercedes driver appears to have the support of.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Ross Brawn says Formula 1 will only "very slowly" push to reintroduce spectators in the wake of the corona crisis. The sport has confirmed only eight 'ghost races' at six European venues for 2020 so far, but there are plans for around 15-16 by the end of the year. Some of those European.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Valtteri Bottas thinks he and Lewis Hamilton will be using the new 'DAS' steering system once the 2020 season gets up and racing next month. Mercedes' highly innovative system, which alters the 'toe' of the front wheels when the drivers pull or push on the steering wheel, attracted queries about its legality in.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Dr Helmut Marko is unhappy with the management of Red Bull's own Formula 1 circuit in Spielberg. This week, Renault is testing a two-year-old car at the Red Bull Ring, which will be the scene of the first two post-corona races beginning next month. Red Bull's Marko is not happy that the circuit's.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Charles Leclerc thinks the way current drivers were ranked by the developers of the new official game F1 2020 was "not appropriate". For the game's new 'My Team' feature, developer Codemasters has ranked the current drivers out of 100 in terms of how expensive they are for users to sign up. Lewis Hamilton.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Frederic Vasseur is giving no hints about whether Mick Schumacher will make his Formula 1 debut with Alfa Romeo in 2020. FIA president Jean Todt, who knows Mick's father Michael well, this week called the 21-year-old German driver "intelligent, mature and humble". "I hope he has a good season in Formula 2," Todt.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.17 - Mugello looks set to host a second grand prix in Italy this year, one week after Monza. Imola, yet another Italian circuit, is also in the running. "Imola is just too narrow for Formula 1 with these wider cars," said La Gazzetta dello Sport's Andrea Cremonesi. "There would be hardly any overtaking and.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 The countdown to Formula One’s return to racing in Austria is on! The first step after the mandatory shutdown period was reopening the factories, making sure team members were able to return to work safely and efficiently 💪 Rob Thomas, our Chief Operating Officer, talks through the steps we took to bring the factories back.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.16 - Jean Todt says he hopes Sebastian Vettel stays in Formula 1 beyond 2020. Ferrari will head into 2021 with Carlos Sainz alongside Charles Leclerc, but the FIA president said no driver should be blamed for Ferrari's failure to win a title since 2007. "Motorsport is a combination of man, machine and teamwork," he.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.16 - Engine boss Andy Cowell is leaving Mercedes' F1 team next month. Instead, he will "consult to Mercedes-Benz AG on a major future project" until 2021, and be replaced by "internal appointments", the reigning world champions said. "Now is the right time to move on from my role and seek a new engineering business.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.16 - Jean Todt says Formula 1 is working on "other innovative ideas" after Mercedes vetoed the plan for qualifying sprint races and reverse grids in 2020. The FIA president said the corona crisis means the sport needs to become creative about how best to put on a show this year. "We have to take.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.16 - China is shaping up to host not one but two grands prix in 2020, even though reports suggest coronavirus cases are surging once again in the country. As thousands line the streets in Beijing following a reported new outbreak of the virus that has swept the world, Shanghai's sports chief Xu Bin revealed.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.16 - Jean Todt has welcomed news that Ferrari and Mercedes are looking into expanding beyond Formula 1. The FIA president said installing an even lower than originally planned budget cap for 2021 - $145 million per team - is the right thing to do. "We had to be ambitious because with the costs of.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.16 - While Jean Alesi has sold a Ferrari F40 to finance his son Giuliano's Formula 2 career, Max Verstappen has bought one of the Italian marque's road cars. La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that the Dutchman has ordered a Ferrari Monza SP2 for about EUR 1.6 million. But the Dutchman is determined to beat.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.15 - Opinions are split over whether Fernando Alonso should return to Formula 1 with Renault next year. The Spaniard's friend and former rival Mark Webber thinks Alonso is "not at his peak anymore", while his first boss Giancarlo Minardi says Renault is not the right destination for the two-time champion. "He has no chance.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.15 - Those in charge of F1's biggest budget teams must be suffering from a "massive headache", according to Racing Point technical boss Andy Green. While admitting to Auto Motor und Sport that the $145 million spending cap for 2021 will require some reorganisation, Green said the Silverstone based team actually has a smaller budget.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.15 - Bernie Ecclestone is advising his friend Sebastian Vettel to take a sabbatical in 2021. With the seat at Mercedes now looking unlikely for the Ferrari refugee, former F1 supremo Ecclestone told f1-insider.com: "He should take a year off and then position himself for 2022." Red Bull has also repeatedly closed the door to the.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.15 - Lewis Hamilton is facing fierce backlash from within Spain after criticising the traditional practice of bullfighting. Although he later deleted the post, the six-time world champion reportedly said on Instagram that Spanish children being "taught to torture and kill bulls" is "truly disgusting Spain!" "We're asking Spain's Ministry of Education to close bullfighting.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.15 - Hockenheim officials have warned that they cannot wait forever for Formula 1 to decide if the German venue will be added to the 2020 'corona calendar'. Baku, Singapore and Suzuka have all now been officially cancelled, triggering F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn's plan to replace them with more European events. Some of the.....check out full post » Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Jun.15 - The absence of spectators will not be the only major change when Formula 1 gets back up and racing in Austria next month. F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn says the usual pre-race grid activities and even the traditional podium will be missing as F1 enforces strict social distancing. DPA news agency quotes him.....check out full post » |
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