New images released today show the surface layer for the Hanoi Circuit - the newest track on the F1 calendar is being rolled out. The process is expected to take approximately 5 days, with a minimum of 1 km of surface being laid each day. This coating is the last asphalt layer of the newly.....check out full post »

If you were to summarise 2019, the obvious headline would be that Mercedes continued to dominate the 'power unit' era with sixth consecutive drivers' and constructors' world championships. And that was pretty predictable, right? Not exactly. The desperate-for-something-different media and increasingly bored fan contingent had gone into Melbourne all but certain that it would in.....check out full post »

According to a media report, Red Bull will launch its 2020 car on February 12 - one day after Ferrari. When Ferrari announced in December that it would reveal its own new car on February 11 - a full eight days before winter testing in Barcelona - boss Mattia Binotto predicted it would be one.....check out full post »

Former F1 driver Robert Doornbos says Max Verstappen's new long-term contract with Red Bull is "surprising". Some, including Mika Salo who said an extension was "quite expected", were surprised when it was announced so far ahead of time that Verstappen's stay had been extended from the end of 2020 until 2023 inclusive. But Doornbos told.....check out full post »

Fernando Alonso says he wants to be with "the best possible team" later this year for his third attempt at winning the Indianapolis 500. With Monaco and Le Mans wins already in his pocket, the famous American oval race is all the Spaniard needs to become the second person after Graham Hill to ever complete.....check out full post »

Peter Windsor rides alongside Mario Andretti as the former winner of the F1 World Championship, the Indy 500, the Daytona 500 and three IndyCar Championships takes a tour of his home town in Pennsylvania, USA. Among many aspects of his brilliant career, Mario talks about growing up in Nazareth after his family emigrated from Trieste,.....check out full post »

The sponsorship dollars brought by Nicholas Latifi's new race seat are now starting to flow at Williams. This week, we reported that Williams' major backer since 2015, Rexona and its parent Unilever, have left as the Oxfordshire based team faces a third consecutive season at the very back of the grid. And that came after.....check out full post »

Australian GP boss Andrew Westacott has played down reports that bushfires could threaten the running of the 2020 season opener in March. International media reports on Wednesday claimed Formula 1 authorities are "monitoring" the situation in Australia, where unprecedented bushfires are ravaging several states. It is reported that in the Australian capital Canberra, which is.....check out full post »

Max Verstappen has "every confidence" in Red Bull-Honda after signing on for the next four seasons, according to his father and co-manager Jos. The Verstappen camp, earlier linked with a move to Mercedes, surprised the F1 world when it was announced a long time in advance this week that the 22-year-old Dutchman will in fact.....check out full post »

Max Verstappen's co-manager says the new contract with Red Bull was negotiated "fairly quickly". It is reported that the Dutch driver's salary has been doubled or even tripled as he ends speculation of a potential Mercedes switch with a deal through 2023. "Max, Jos and I agreed fairly quickly that this was the best choice,".....check out full post »

Ferrari is in no rush to complete its driver lineup for 2021. Just before Christmas, the Italian team announced that it has secured Charles Leclerc's services until the end of 2024. Sebastian Vettel still has a deal for 2020, but he has lost his number 1 status. "When we go to Australia, there will be.....check out full post »

Daniel Ricciardo has played down the chances that he will be the next top driver to quickly sign up beyond 2020. Ahead of F1's new era for 2021, the grid for next season is already starting to shape up, with Charles Leclerc and now Max Verstappen signing long-term deals with Ferrari and Red Bull respectively......check out full post »

Formula 1 is "monitoring the situation" in Australia as bushfires ravage the country that is slated to kick off the new season in March. The reportedly unprecedented fires, which have gained international attention, are already causing consternation as Melbourne prepares to host the first tennis Grand Slam of 2020. "We have access to real-time monitoring.....check out full post »

Kevin Magnussen has revealed he has stepped back from personally managing his Instagram account. The Haas driver's fans enjoyed a spate of recent social media posts that Magnussen now admits were written entirely by him. For instance, after a crash at Suzuka, he uploaded a 'poo' emoji and Magnussen told Ekstra Bladet that it was.....check out full post »

Dr Helmut Marko admits he was "very worried" that Max Verstappen could quit Red Bull and switch to Mercedes for 2021. It was announced on Tuesday that the Dutch driver is staying at Red Bull until at least the end of 2023. "I spent the holidays fixing the contract," Marko told Auto Bild. "I was.....check out full post »

Former F1 driver Jan Lammers thinks it is possible that Mercedes will quit the sport. At present, no team or manufacturer is officially committed to Formula 1 beyond 2020, but top outfits Ferrari and Red Bull have at least signed up their key drivers for the long-term future. The future is less clear for Mercedes,.....check out full post »

With Max Verstappen now signed up through 2023, Dr Helmut Marko's next step will be to keep Honda at Red Bull for the future. Currently, the Japanese manufacturer is committed to Formula 1 only for 2021, but the new Verstappen deal could be the key to an extension. "Honda is positive about this news," Marko.....check out full post »

Red Bull-Honda could be poised to break through and push for the 2020 world championship. That is the view of Luca di Montezemolo, the former long-time Ferrari president who presided over many of the great Italian team's championship wins. But he thinks Ferrari, and also Mercedes, could struggle to be on top this year. "Ferrari.....check out full post »

Former F1 driver Mika Salo has backed Max Verstappen's decision to commit to Red Bull for the next four seasons. Some were surprised that the 22-year-old Dutchman committed so early, as he was strongly linked with a potential move to world champions Mercedes. But Salo told C More: "Red Bull has been able to guarantee.....check out full post »

Williams spoke to W Series champion Jamie Chadwick after it was announced she would remain part of the ROKiT Williams Racing team as a Development Driver in 2020.

Lewis Hamilton says losing a key engineer to his teammate's side of the garage hurt his performance at the start of 2019. Last year, Mercedes promoted Ricciardo Musconi - Hamilton's second engineer - to the role of primary race engineer for Valtteri Bottas. "It certainly didn't help," Hamilton, who ultimately won his sixth world championship,.....check out full post »

Valentino Rossi says he came tantalisingly close to switching to Formula 1 in 2006. Last month, the MotoGP legend swapped his bike for Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in a highly publicised event at Valencia. Rossi, 40, told La Gazzetta dello Sport that he came close to being just a second off Hamilton's pace. And Luigi Mazzola,.....check out full post »

Signing up Esteban Ocon to be Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes teammate in 2020 was ruled out by Toto Wolff because of the "risk". Instead, the Wolff-promoted Ocon is emerging from his sabbatical with Renault this year, while Valtteri Bottas keeps his seat alongside Hamilton for another season. "Putting him against Hamilton, who has been with Mercedes.....check out full post »

Amid a deep performance crisis, Williams has lost yet another major sponsor. PKN Orlen, the Polish oil company backing Robert Kubica, has departed for Alfa Romeo, and Sportowe Fakty reports that Symantec, Omnitude and Tata have also recently left. And now, the same Polish source says Rexona, a highly visible presence on the Williams livery.....check out full post »

Dr Helmut Marko does not think Ferrari will get in the way of Red Bull's fight for the 2020 title against Mercedes. Red Bull actually finished third last year behind both Mercedes and Ferrari, but Marko thinks the energy drink-owned team is poised to leapfrog its Italian rival. "We were ahead of them in the.....check out full post »

Canada GP promoter Francois Dumontier has defended Lance Stroll, as the young Canadian prepares for his second season with his billionaire father's F1 team. Stroll, whose father is Lawrence Stroll who took over the financially flailing Force India team in 2018, admits he must up his game against teammate Sergio Perez at Racing Point this.....check out full post »

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing is pleased to announce a contract extension with Max Verstappen to race with the Team until the end of the 2023 season. Max became the youngest ever race winner in his inaugural season with the Team in 2016.  The eight-time Grand Prix winner has since become an integral member of.....check out full post »

Haas F1 Team photographer, Andy Hone, selects the favorite photos he's taken during the 2019 F1 season.

Ferrari needs "two experienced drivers" for 2021, according to team boss Mattia Binotto. Just before Christmas, the Maranello team announced that Charles Leclerc's current contract has been extended for two more years, taking the new deal to the end of 2024. La Gazzetta dello Sport claims the deal involves a tripled salary for the 22-year-old......check out full post »

Lewis Hamilton is still better than Max Verstappen, according to the Red Bull driver's boss Dr Helmut Marko. "Max may already be the fastest," Marko told Germany's motorsport-total.com. "But as a package, Hamilton is still the best," he added, referring to the Mercedes driver and reigning six-time world champion. "He has an incredible basic speed.....check out full post »

The pecking order in 2021 will "not be very different" to today, according to Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto. The rules are changing considerably for 2021, including radically different cars and a $175 million budget cap. "These new rules will give stability to F1 for five years," Binotto told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "But in.....check out full post »

It is "not possible" for McLaren to take on the top three teams until the budget cap comes into force. That is the admission of team boss Andreas Seidl, who is nonetheless upbeat about McLaren's chances from 2021 after a strong recovery last year. "We believe we can improve with the new rules," he told.....check out full post »

Gunther Steiner has admitted he was "pretty close" to taking drastic measures after Haas' two drivers crashed at Silverstone last year. "I was pretty close," the team boss smiled to Denmark's Ekstra Bladet. "As you know, I'm temperamental." The newspaper claims that the situation became very heated in the hour after the incident, with Kevin.....check out full post »

Fernando Alonso insists his participation in the fabled Dakar Rally is not a marketing gimmick. The Spaniard, who quit F1 at the end of 2018, finished stage one of the notorious off-road rally eleventh, admitting he was "on tiptoes". "It's not a show where you go out on the track swapping a motorcycle for a.....check out full post »

Ferrari must speed up its pit stops in 2020, boss Mattia Binotto has admitted. Red Bull had the fastest pit stops last year, with five stops performed under the two second barrier, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. Perhaps surprisingly, Williams was second best, with Ferrari slipping to third ahead of Mercedes. "Our pit.....check out full post »

The Dutch F1 GP is being set up to survive without Max Verstappen, according to Zandvoort circuit boss Robert van Overdijk. Extensive renovations at Zandvoort are currently taking place to prepare for Holland's 2020 return to the Formula 1 calendar, including novel banked corners. "We are setting up the ultimate racing festival which can compete.....check out full post »

Williams has determined areas of the team's cars in 2018 and 2019 that were "fundamentally wrong". That is the news from George Russell, who will have a new teammate for 2020 in the form of Nicholas Latifi. Russell told Auto Motor und Sport that Williams, woefully off the pace in 2019, had a lot of.....check out full post »

Charles Leclerc is now "equal number 1" at Ferrari. That is the view of former Ferrari driver Alain Prost, who is now an advisor at the rival Renault team. Just before Christmas, Ferrari announced that Leclerc, 22, has had his contract extended until the end of 2024. "Charles has earned his stripes," Prost told France's.....check out full post »

Kimi Raikkonen says he wants to add a world rally title to his CV in the future. The 40-year-old Finn, who won the Formula 1 title for Ferrari in 2007, could leave Formula 1 after his current contract with Alfa Romeo expires late this year. During his F1 sabbatical in 2011, Raikkonen contested the world.....check out full post »

Racing Point can finish fourth overall in 2020, according to Sergio Perez. The Mexican has re-committed to the newly Lawrence Stroll-owned team for the coming seasons, despite the fact that last year was "tough". "When my contract expires, I always get offers, which is nice to know," Perez told Auto Motor und Sport. But he.....check out full post »

Robert Kubica will have an important role at Alfa Romeo in 2020, the Polish driver's sponsor PKN Orlen has announced. On New Year's Day, it was revealed that Orlen, the Polish oil company, would switch from Williams to a major sponsorship role at Alfa Romeo for 2020. "We were not a title sponsor before, but.....check out full post »

Lance Stroll, the son of team owner Lawrence Stroll, says he knows he has to up his game at Racing Point alongside Sergio Perez in 2020. "Sergio dominated me in qualifying, which is the main area I have to work on this season," the Canadian is quoted by France's L'Equipe. "He was better than me.....check out full post »

Whether Germany returns to the F1 calendar is in large part up to Liberty Media. That is the view of Jorn Teske, the boss at Hockenheim. In 2020, the circuit and Germany are missing from the schedule. "Germany is a country with a long racing tradition, a strong federation and automobile clubs, but it is.....check out full post »

Porsche motorsport boss Fritz Enzinger has revealed that the German marque designed a Formula 1 engine in 2017. A full F1 project was subsequently ruled out, but Enzinger says Porsche was so serious about its deliberations that it actually designed a turbo V6 engine. "It was so close," he told Speed Week. "When the board.....check out full post »

Former Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin has admitted that he is "very unlikely" to ever race again in Formula 1. The Russian lost his race seat at the end of 2018, and last year served as the reserve driver at both Renault-powered teams, Renault and McLaren. Sirotkin admits 2019 was difficult for him. "This year taught.....check out full post »

Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says 2020 will be a "delicate" moment for Sebastian Vettel. Just before Christmas, Ferrari extended Charles Leclerc's contract until the end of 2024, isolating former number 1 Vettel whose deal runs out this year. "Leclerc is a hard racer and an intelligent boy who can become a champion," Montezemolo.....check out full post »

F1 could soon add Saudi Arabia to the race calendar. That is the news from Flavio Briatore, who some years ago helped to broker the deal that took the sport to Azerbaijan. Referring to Saudi Arabia, the former Renault boss told Rai radio: "It is a country that has had an incredible evolution in the.....check out full post »

The 1959 Grand Prix of Portugal, run on Circuito de Monsanto, on the Monsanto Park, in Lisbon. It was the first and only time this circuit was used. This circuit is no longer identifiable, with part of it being a main highway. The race was won by Stirling Moss in a Cooper-Climax. Here you can.....check out full post »

See the highlights of the 5th Dutch F1 GP race held at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands. The race was won by Swedish driver Jo Bonnier in a BRM which was his first and only F1 race win. Here you can see the 1959 Dutch F1 Grand Prix classification.

Tony Brooks heads a Ferrari 1-2-3 on the daunting Avus circuit in Berlin. One of only two German GPs to be held at Avus (notwithstanding the non-championship F1 event held there in 1955) the 1959 race was run on a layout that included a steeply-banked, flat-out corner and two long, parallel straights (actually public motorways).....check out full post »