Formula 1 News & Updates Week 09 Below you'll find this weeks news, results, videos, podcasts, sounds & photos from the world of Formula 1 |
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| Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Here you can find the photos that were shot of the 2020 F1 cars that were tested on February 28th 2020, the 6th day of testing in the second week on Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona in Spain. ✅ Check out the testing results of the 6th day of 2020 F1 winter testing Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Event: Winter test Barcelona Track: Catalunya Circuit Weather: Overcast & dry Winter testing is over. Valtteri Bottas drove the quickest lap of week 2 today. He lapped the Catalunya circuit in 1:16.196 on hard tyres. Both Alex Albon and Kimi Raikkonen spun in the cooler morning conditions. The fastest lap of testing in 2020 was.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Although Mercedes' new DAS-equipped 2020 car has wowed onlookers in Barcelona, the Achilles heel may be the engine. Engine customer Williams expressed frustration this week about repeated problems with the 2020 Mercedes engine in testing. Appearing to confirm that there may be a deeper problem, Lewis Hamilton stopped on track in the works car on.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Formula 1 has gone into high alert over the ever-deepening coronavirus crisis. When a reporter for RTBF had a coughing fit during an interview on Thursday, Esteban Ocon asked him at the Barcelona test: "That's not coronavirus, is it?" It was a joke, but the widespread anxiety is real. AlphaTauri, whose factory is located in.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Lando Norris says there are "areas" of McLaren's 2020 car that have not been significantly improved over the winter. Last year, the British team was 'best of the rest' behind the top three teams. But so far in winter testing, McLaren and Renault look neck and neck, with Racing Point having leapfrogged them both. "The.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Sergio Perez has brushed off suggestions that Racing Point's 2020 car is a "pink Mercedes". The Silverstone based team, seventh overall last year behind McLaren, Renault and AlphaTauri, has instantly leapfrogged to the very top of the midfield with a car that looks strikingly like the 2019 Mercedes. "I don't care if they say it's.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Alain Prost has confirmed claims that Renault will introduce a brand new engine for 2021. Of the four engine makers on the grid, Renault has been the most reliable in winter testing. That could be because the engine is basically the same as the one that raced in 2019. Renault is clearly focusing more on.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Gunther Steiner has admitted that Haas may not be able to return to the level of competitiveness the small American team had in 2018. Last year, hopes were high for another good season, after Haas finished fifth overall in 2018. But the 2019 car, while often competitive over a single lap, just as often slumped.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Robert Kubica has a chance of returning to the Formula 1 grid. That is the claim of Frederic Vasseur, boss of the Alfa Romeo team where the Polish driver is now the official reserve. Having spent all of 2019 at the bottom of the grid with Williams, Kubica topped the timesheets in Barcelona earlier this.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 The boys are back in (London) town for the premiere of Netflix's Drive to Survive Season 2. Let's hope they behave... Don't forget, you too can catch Season 2 of Drive to Survive on Netflix from Friday 28 February. Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Here you can find the photos that were shot of the 2020 F1 cars that were tested on February 27th 2020, the 5th day of testing in the second week on Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona in Spain. ✅ Check out the testing results of the 5th day of 2020 F1 winter testing Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Event: Winter test Barcelona Track: Catalunya Circuit Weather: Overcast & wet/dry After several chilly but sunny mornings, today was dawned cooler and overcast, with evidence of overnight rain. A few teams - including Ferrari - said that they would feature some quick runs on the softest tyres during the last two days of testing. But.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 The most work goes on before the curtain lifts. Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Toto Wolff thinks Ferrari may have "a second" of laptime up their sleeves. Ferrari's lack of testing pace in 2020 has been conspicuous. "Mercedes is certainly still the yardstick," team boss Mattia Binotto insists. But Sebastian Vettel reported: "We are sure that the new car is better. We feel a significant improvement, especially in the.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Claire Williams says the British team is suffering from multiple engine problems in Barcelona. The British team slumped to dead last by some margin last year, but boss Williams says many of those problems have now been solved. But she revealed: "We've had several problems with the power unit." Williams is powered by engines that.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Daniel Ricciardo is reluctant to comment on rumours that he is on Ferrari's wish-list for 2021. Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says Sebastian Vettel is the top priority, but paddock gossip has also named Carlos Sainz as another potential replacement for the quadruple world champion. When asked what racing a red car would mean to him,.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Rumblings of a Melbourne protest against Racing Point's 'pink Mercedes' are circulating in the Barcelona test paddock. Bigger teams like McLaren and Renault are coming to terms with the fact that they have been leapfrogged as 'best of the rest' by a car that is visually almost identical to the Mercedes. Some suspect the front.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Sebastian Vettel hit back at wild rumours in Barcelona that he could be set to announce his retirement. Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo are being linked to his Ferrari seat for 2021, but the quadruple world champion insists he is not worried. "The situation is no more stressful than it was three years ago," Vettel.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Mattia Binotto has revealed that Ferrari considered but then abandoned the idea of developing a system similar to the 'DAS' that is being tested for 2020 by Mercedes. Because Mercedes' drivers can push and pull the 2020 car's steering wheel rather than just steer it left and right, questions have been asked about the system's.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Kimi Raikkonen says the biggest obstacle to Fernando Alonso's potential return to Formula 1 next year is the availability of a seat. Alonso, who bowed out of his McLaren seat and Formula 1 at the end of 2018, looks unlikely to land a drive at Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull. And even Zak Brown has.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 The global coronavirus crisis could throw F1's 2020 season into chaos. China has already been postponed, but now the other three races at the top of the calendar - Australia, Bahrain and Vietnam - are in doubt. F1 CEO Chase Carey said in a teleconference that the sport is indeed "heading to Melbourne, heading to.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Esteban Ocon is not a better choice than Nico Hulkenberg for the 2020 Renault race seat. That is the view of the French team's 2019 reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin. Having lost his seat to 23-year-old Ocon for 2020, the decade-older Hulkenberg is currently taking in the Carnaval festival in Rio de Janeiro as he contemplates.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Here you can find the photos that were shot of the 2020 F1 cars that were tested on February 26th 2020, the 4rd day of testing in the second week on Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona in Spain. ✅ Check out the testing results of the 4th day of 2020 F1 winter testing Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Event: Winter test Barcelona Track: Catalunya Circuit Weather: Sunny & dry Air temp: 5-18ºC Tarmac: Dry, 6-28ºC The first day of the second week of testing started to day. All teams will test their new 2020 machines for 3 days this week before they hopefully go towards Australia for the first race in Albert Park of.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Always pushing to improve! 👊 But how do you find gains when the regulations have remained stable? 👀 James Allison looks at the areas Mercedes has focused on with their 2020 F1 car, the W11... Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Daniel Ricciardo looks to be moving towards extending his stay at Renault beyond 2020. The Australian left Red Bull at the end of 2018 to join the French works team on a lucrative two-year deal which expires this year. He has been regularly linked with Ferrari, and top Renault officials admit they may struggle to.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Esteban Ocon has revealed that his schedule in 2019 left him physically "destroyed". The Frenchman, who returns to the grid with Renault this year, was Mercedes' reserve driver in 2019. He says he was worked particularly hard. "It was very, very demanding," said the 23-year-old. "I sometimes did not sleep for two days and the.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Carlos Sainz says it is "nice to hear" his name being linked with a switch to Ferrari. But the Spaniard says he is happy at McLaren. "Everyone knows that I feel at home here and I am talking to them about 2021," he told Sky Italia. "Of course, it is nice to hear that people.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Nico Hulkenberg says he is not desperate to return to Formula 1 or motor racing. After a decade on the grid, the 32-year-old lost his Renault seat at the end of last year and reportedly turned down opportunities to switch to Haas or Williams. For now, he is happy to live a different life, and.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Sergey Sirotkin has played down the role Mercedes' innovative 'DAS' steering system will play in 2020. The F1 paddock was stunned at the first Barcelona test when it was noticed that Mercedes' drivers also push and pull on the steering wheel to adjust the 'toe' of the front wheels in motion. But Sirotkin, the former.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 The deepening coronavirus crisis is putting a large dark cloud over Formula 1's looming 2020 season. Only seven countries on the entire 22-race calendar for 2020 do not have active infections or deaths recorded as a result of what could soon be declared a global pandemic. China has already been postponed, but even the season.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Williams will need to "adapt" to a new era in which Formula 1 teams do not design every component of their cars. That is the news from Claire Williams, boss of the eponymous and once-great team founded by her father that crashed to dead last in 2019. It is now a hot topic in the.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Zak Brown has ruled out a return to Formula 1 with McLaren for Fernando Alonso. That is despite the fact that Alonso will race a third McLaren entry in May's Indy 500, after Honda vetoed his first-choice deal with Andretti. "We've always said we're open to running Fernando in a third car for the 500,.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Racing Point looks to have leapt to the very top of the 2020 midfield. The team finished just seventh last year, but with more funding thanks to new owner Lawrence Stroll and a new approach, the 'pink Mercedes' has been produced. "They've copied last year's Mercedes and it seems to work extremely well," former F1.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Dr Helmut Marko thinks Red Bull-Honda is Mercedes' "first challenger" in 2020. The Red Bull official was speaking before the final three days of winter testing in Barcelona this week. "We will only get a clearer picture this week," he told Auto Bild. "We'll be driving the Melbourne version on Friday and I assume the.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Ferrari could be sandbagging in the 2020 winter tests, according to former driver and pundit Marc Surer. The Italian team openly says it is lagging behind Mercedes and Red Bull, and some think even Racing Point could be ahead of Ferrari. Surer isn't so sure. "In the last few years Ferrari has been the testing.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Gunther Steiner says he is not worried about Haas' early testing form. After a bad 2019, the small American team had high hopes for a big improvement. But so far, there have not only been crashes with the 2020 car, Kevin Magnussen's best time last week in Barcelona was the slowest overall. Steiner insists: "There.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Ferrari will seek "clarification" about the legality of Mercedes' trick steering system DAS. It appears that the FIA has declared the 'push and pull' function of the steering wheel, which adjusts the toe-in and toe-out in motion, to be legal. "We know very little about this decision," Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies said. "We rely.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 The 2020 pecking order appears to be Mercedes ahead of Red Bull and Ferrari - and Racing Point's 'pink Mercedes' not too far behind. That is the claim of former long-time F1 race and test driver Pedro de la Rosa, who last week watched trackside at Barcelona with his daughter Luna. "Racing Point is no.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Daniel Ricciardo has urged Esteban Ocon to behave in 2020. After a year on the Mercedes bench, 23-year-old Ocon is returning to the grid this year as Ricciardo's teammate at Renault. Ricciardo says Ocon is noticeably "hungry", and the Frenchman says he is targeting his Australian teammate. "He (Ricciardo) is a guy who has won.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Red Bull's second team Alpha Tauri is high in the 2020 midfield, according to Dr Helmut Marko. After the debut of Racing Point's 'pink Mercedes', it became clear that the car is the first challenger behind the big three teams. But Marko said that following close behind is Alpha Tauri. "Our second team Alpha Tauri.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Valtteri Bottas is aiming to conduct his contract negotiations this year away from the "headlines". Last year, before his Mercedes deal was extended for one more season, speculation in the media about the Finn's future was rife and he said it affected his performance. So he is already starting to think about how the talks.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Renault will do some quick-fire car development early in 2020. After a low-profile winter, it was thought the French team had effectively written off 2020 in favour of focusing fully on the new rules for 2021. While that may partially be true, Renault does intend to aggressively develop the newly-launched car early this season, with.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Robert Kubica says he does not want to compare last year's Williams with the 2020 Alfa Romeo. The Pole struggled badly with Williams last year, and last week got his new reserve role with Alfa Romeo up and running in Barcelona. "I don't want to compare," Kubica said at a sponsor event in Warsaw. "Unfortunately,.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Romain Grosjean says his wife tries to reassure him about his negative reputation in Formula 1. The Haas driver says he is constantly being attacked on social media, having attracted an unshakeable reputation for mistakes and crashes. "It's much easier to criticise Romain Grosjean than Lewis Hamilton, who wins all the races," he told France's.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 F1 teams are unlikely to give up their impressive paddock motorhomes, according to Christian Horner. Recently, F1 sporting director Ross Brawn said he is looking into making the sport more sustainable. One idea is to transport more equipment by sea and rail, and another is to end the fleet of trucks that take the huge.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Formula 1 could be on a collision course with coronavirus. The Chinese F1 GP has already been postponed, a question mark hangs over Vietnam, and McLaren has blocked Chinese people from entering its motorhome in Barcelona. And now, La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Ferrari has ramped up anti-pandemic measures at its Maranello factory. There.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Mercedes looks set to race its controversial new 'push-pull' steering wheel system called DAS in 2020. When images of the drivers adjusting the 'toe' of the front wheels by pushing and pulling on the steering wheel emerged last week in Barcelona, it caused a major stir. But 'DAS' - standing for duel-axis steering - appears.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Italy's automobile club Aci says it will support Imola and Mugello as the circuits bid to replace the postponed 2020 Chinese F1 GP. It was already known that Imola had put its hand up to replace Shanghai amid the coronavirus crisis, but now it emerges that Ferrari-owned Mugello is also keen. "To hold a grand.....check out full post » Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Adrian Newey says the 2021 regulations risk turning Formula 1 into a sort of "GP1". The Red Bull technical boss, who is one of the sport's most famous designers in history, told the British source Inews that he usually "looks forward" to regulation changes. "What was very nice about the last major change back in.....check out full post » |
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