Formula 1 News & Updates Week 33 Below you'll find all updates, results, videos, podcasts, sounds & photos from the world of Formula 1 of the past week |
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| Fri, 14 Aug 2020 F1 Race Event: Spanish Grand Prix Race Track: Catalunya Circuit Weather: dry 30.8-30.1°C Tarmac: dry 48.9-47.5°C Humidity : 48.8-51.6% Wind : 1.5 m/s NW Pressure: 1001.8-1000.3 bar The second practice for the Spanish Grand Prix was driven under hot weather circumstances as it was a scorching day in Catalunya. The drivers had to contend at.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 F1 Race Event: Spanish Grand Prix Race Track: Catalunya Circuit Weather: dry 27.8-30.4°C Tarmac: dry 35-2-44.5°C Humidity : 60.8-51.4% Wind : 2.3 m/s S Pressure: 1001.5 bar The first practice for the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix was driven under dry and warm circumstances. It's the first time in history that the Spanish GP will be.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.14 - After Nico Hulkenberg revealed talks with 'two teams' about 2021, the identity of those teams is now clear. "The short answer is yes," said the German driver when asked if he has talked with Frederic Vasseur, a friend and former boss from his junior series days and now in charge of the Alfa.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Flavio Briatore agrees with Bernie Ecclestone about Ferrari's lack of leadership. Amid the Maranello team's latest crisis, former F1 supremo Ecclestone said his friend and former business partner Briatore would be an "incredibly competent" replacement for Mattia Binotto. Briatore agrees that Ferrari's troubles are home-made. "There are people who always follow the difficult.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.14 - Between Sergio Perez and Sebastian Vettel, the driver market in Formula 1 is enjoying a particularly exciting moment. At Silverstone, Mexican Perez was not only out with coronavirus, but looking likely to lose his Racing Point - or Aston Martin - seat to Vettel for 2021. But in Barcelona, Perez is virus-free and.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.14 - Former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has scolded Lawrence Stroll following his fellow billionaire's comments about the 'pink Mercedes' affair. As the legality of Racing Point's 2020 car looks set to move on to the international court of appeal, team owner Stroll launched a vigorous defence of his integrity. "I do not often speak.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.14 - Adding Jerez to F1's 2020 'corona calendar' would be good news for Formula 1 and Spain. That is the view of Spaniard Carlos Sainz, as he prepares for his home race in Barcelona this weekend. There are rumours that with Formula 1 still targeting a full calendar of up to 18 races in.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.14 - Esteban Ocon says he is still getting back up to speed in Formula 1. The Frenchman lost his seat at the end of 2018, but he retained the support of Mercedes and for this year has returned on a two-year deal with the works Renault team. However, while teammate Daniel Ricciardo has occasionally.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.14 - A sudden and surprise rule change in Formula 1 is a "golden opportunity" for Red Bull. After the earlier-dominant Mercedes struggled badly with mandatory higher tyre pressures at Silverstone, it now emerges that the FIA is planning to immediately ban 'party mode' engine settings. "It's obviously to slow us down, as they're always.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - "All the signs" point to Gene Haas signing up to the 2021-2025 Concorde Agreement. That is the view of the small American team's boss Gunther Steiner, having earlier admitted that owner Gene Haas is contemplating pulling the plug. After Toto Wolff indicated that he is not ready to sign the new commercial agreement.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Sergio Perez he got the all-clear to return to his Racing Point cockpit in Barcelona this weekend. Nico Hulkenberg is once again on standby for the Mexican, who missed both races at Silverstone following a positive coronavirus test. Perez said this week that he only ever had "mild symptoms" and is ready to.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - The forthcoming schedule for Alfa Romeo's staff will be "brutal", according to team manager Beat Zehnder. While the sport's UK-based teams have been given a quarantine exemption, Swiss-based Alfa Romeo's staff will have to go into strict isolation after attending the Spanish GP in Barcelona. "We have to go back to Switzerland before.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Christian Horner says Red Bull is not planning any significant changes to its technical structure. His comments come after some questioned whether Adrian Newey, one of the most famous and successful designers in F1 history, is still at the top of his game. "I won't tell you a fairytale," Max Verstappen is quoted.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Mattia Binotto says Ferrari's target for 2021 is second place. It comes after the famous and struggling Maranello team's chairman John Elkann recently ruled out a realistic title challenge until 2022. Team boss Binotto admits that a big problem is that, amid the pandemic, Formula 1 decided to restrict certain areas of car.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Although not formally joining the appeal, Red Bull supports the push to challenge the FIA's recent 'pink Mercedes' ruling. While Racing Point is vowing to appeal the EUR 400,000 penalty and lost 15 points for supposed 'car copying', Renault and Ferrari have filed an appeal to challenge the leniency of those sanctions. Mercedes-powered.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - About 30,000 spectators could attend Sochi's Russian Grand Prix in September. That is the claim of race promoter Rosgonki's boss Alexey Titov, who said tickets are about to go on sale. Russia could therefore become the first GP attended by fans amid the pandemic. "For three months we have not been engaged in.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Fernando Alonso says it is "impossible" for him to keep chasing the fabled triple crown in the next two years. This week, the Spaniard is preparing for his third Indy 500 campaign, this time again with a McLaren-linked team. But next year, he will return to Formula 1 full-time with Renault. When asked.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - The new president of the Spanish Grand Prix venue says she will do "everything in our power" to keep Formula 1 in Barcelona. This week, the F1 circus is preparing to race at the Circuit de Catalunya. But beyond Sunday, the future is much more clouded. "We don't want to imagine Barcelona without.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.13 - Circuit boss Paulo Pinheiro admits Formula 1's Portuguese stop in 2020 may be a one-off. The Portimao venue has been drafted onto the calendar to replace one of the originally-scheduled non-European races that had to be cancelled. "The contract only runs for 2020," circuit boss Pinheiro confirmed to Speed Week. "But if we.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 THURSDAY, 13 AUGUST, 1400 HOURS LOCAL TIME Nicholas Latifi (Williams) George Russell (Williams) Romain Grosjean (Haas) Kevin Magnussen (Haas) Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) Kimi Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo) Lance Stroll (Racing Point) Sergio Perez (Racing Point) Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri) Esteban Ocon (Renault) Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) Lando Norris (McLaren) Carlos Sainz (McLaren) Alexander Albon.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 As Formula 1 arrives in Spain, the picture of the championship seems to be different from what was expected before the previous race. Now, there is the belief that Red Bull’s Max Verstappen might mount a title challenge against Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. If temperatures are high and Mercedes cannot solve their tyres issues, then the.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 In this week’s Mercedes F1 Race Debrief, Andrew Shovlin answers your 70th Anniversary Grand Prix queries – from what tyre blistering is to why we put Lewis on the Hard tyre for the final stint, and much more! 👀 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 He is in the Renault Sport Academy, he has had a string of FIA F3 podiums so far this year, including a win, but this is his greatest challenge yet! Previewing the Spanish GP for Renault DP World F1 Team, and he did it well! Nice one Oscar Piastri 👊 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 He may not have been Team Principal at Alfa Romeo that long – having taken the reins in July 2017 – but Fred Vasseur has had a huge influence on F1 for many years, having guided the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas and Nico Hulkenberg into Grand Prix racing via.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.12 - Mercedes will stay in Formula 1 next year - but not commit to the full five years of the proposed Concorde Agreement. That is the claim of Sport1 correspondents Ralf Bach and Bianca Garloff, who cited a "reliable source" in reporting that the reigning world champions will commit only to racing in 2021......check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.12 - Ferrari's former president says he hopes the Maranello team is treating Sebastian Vettel fairly in 2020. Unlike some others, Luca di Montezemolo does not think the driver he selected to replace Fernando Alonso from 2015 will leave Ferrari before the end of the year. "It is a very delicate moment for him," the.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.12 - Toto Wolff says he is not worried about Mercedes' name being dragged through the mud over the Racing Point car copying affair. An appeal against the leniency of the stewards' recent ruling on the legality of the 'pink Mercedes' will go ahead, the original protester Renault has announced. In a statement, the French.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.12 - Two highly respected Formula 1 correspondents do not think Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari will split before the end of the 2020 season. The parties' 2021 split is already well known, but tensions between the fabled Italian team and the quadruple world champion became palpable at Silverstone last weekend. However, Corriere della Sera correspondent.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.12 - Nico Hulkenberg has revealed he is talking to "two teams" about his future in Formula 1. The German, having substituted at short notice for Sergio Perez at Silverstone, will travel to Barcelona this weekend just in case the Racing Point regular again tests positive for coronavirus. But Hulkenberg will not hang around all.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 A 70th anniversary is supposed to be platinum, but our weekend at Silverstone was encapsulated in a rather more base material. We’re into the meat of what promises to be a hard-fought scrap for the rest of the year. Fri, 14 Aug 2020 This is Mercedes series of trackside explainers that's back and this week they are looking at the pit wall. Ron Meadows (Sporting Director) explains to you what is the pit wall for, how does it work, who sits there, and why is it so important? Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - 2020 will be Kimi Raikkonen's last season in Formula 1, according to Mika Salo. At 40, Finn Raikkonen is the oldest and most experienced driver on the grid. But this year, he is struggling at the very back with the uncompetitive Alfa Romeo, and is no longer clearly ahead of teammate Antonio Giovinazzi......check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Following a five-month lockdown Formula E returned with six races in nine days at Berlin’s Tempelhor track. So, should Formula 1 be worried about Formula-E? Well, the short answer is yes and no. Formula-E was the inspiration of Jean Todt the FIA president and ex Ferrari team principal. In 2011 Todt discussed his idea over.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - Dr Helmut Marko says Red Bull must keep the pressure on Mercedes. As the reigning champions struggled with excessive tyre wear at Silverstone, Max Verstappen said on the radio that he refuses to "drive like a grandma" and went on to beat both Mercedes cars against the odds. "If you have the right.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - Nico Hulkenberg is travelling to Barcelona this week. The German became Sergio Perez's eleventh-hour replacement at Racing Point following the Mexican's positive coronavirus test. But team boss Otmar Szafnauer is now "99 percent" sure that Perez will be virus-free for this weekend in Spain. However, Hulkenberg told RTL: "I'll prepare for Barcelona in.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says he deserves some of the blame for the Maranello team's horror 2020 season. Although he was ousted in 2014, that year was when Formula 1's controversial hybrid 'power unit' engine regulations were introduced. "I was president when it was decided to switch to hybrid," Montezemolo told.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - Formula 1 is targeting a full and normal 22-race calendar for 2021, as the sport revealed an almost total collapse of revenue amid the corona crisis. The Financial Times reports that F1's revenues dropped to just $24 million in the last quarter - down from $620 million compared to a year ago. The.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - Liberty Media is pressing ahead with its August 12 deadline for the finalisation of the 2021 Concorde Agreement. While Cyril Abiteboul says "95 percent of the teams are agreed" about the terms of the next binding commercial deal, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says he is not ready to sign. He alleges Mercedes is.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.11 - Sebastian Vettel will have a new chassis at his disposal from this weekend as his relationship with Ferrari teeters on the brink. 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg had suggested the remedy in order to get the quadruple world champion out of his competitive slump. "Sometimes there are minimal things wrong that are barely.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Max took a stunning 70th Anniversary Grand Prix victory at Silverstone beating Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas thanks to a superbly worked tyre strategy that allowed him to pull away from the Mercedes pair throughout the final third of the race. Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Peter Windsor looks back at Max Verstappen's breathtaking 70th Anniversary GP win at Silverstone. After choosing the hardest Pirelli compound in Q2 on Saturday, Max brilliantly took the lead in the first phase of the race when both Mercedes, which had started on medium Pirellis, stopped before him. Despite a late-race charge from Lewis Hamilton,.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Relive the 70th Anniversary Formula 1 Grand Prix in 1:20 minutes. See how Max Verstappen could even create a gap after both Mercedes' drivers got fresh rubber. Check out 70th Anniversary Grand Prix race results Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Scuderia Ferrari's recap of the 70th Anniversary Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone. For Charles Leclerc the weekend was damage limitation. For Sebastian Vettel it must have been one of the toughest weekends in his career. Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - Top Formula 1 drivers say they are not overly worried about travelling to Barcelona for this weekend's race. The Catalonia region is experiencing a significant uptick in coronavirus infections, with the British government officially advising against travel to the area. "I don't really know a lot about what's happening there," world champion Lewis.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - Lewis Hamilton has denied insinuating that Red Bull under-inflated Max Verstappen's tyres for Sunday's race at Silverstone. While Verstappen raced to victory and the two Mercedes struggled with excessive tyre problems, world champion Hamilton said on the radio: "He must have less pressure in his tyres or something." Former Red Bull driver Robert.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - Kevin Magnussen thinks something is fundamentally wrong with his Haas car. The Danish driver retired from Sunday's race at Silverstone with excessive vibrations, and the team had run out of suitable new tyres to return to the track. Magnussen suspects something is wrong with his car - but not teammate Romain Grosjean's. "We.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - Red Bull will continue to give Alexander Albon "time" to get up to speed alongside Max Verstappen. As a rookie, Albon was promoted to the energy drink company's senior team mid-last year to replace the struggling Pierre Gasly. But now the British-born Thai is having the same confidence problem in the same seat,.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - F1's governing body is open to tweaking a rule about radio communications. Kevin Magnussen lost a point in Hungary after engineers at Haas asked both drivers to pit for dry tyres after the formation lap. The radio instruction contravened a 2017 rule about driver coaching. "We need to move on from this," team.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel should split immediately. That is the view of former Ferrari driver and F1 legend Gerhard Berger, after tensions between Vettel and the Maranello team continued to flare on Sunday. "You know that you've messed up," the quadruple world champion said on the radio during the Silverstone race. He was.....check out full post » Fri, 14 Aug 2020 Aug.10 - Red Bull is not joining the five teams vowing to appeal the outcome of the 'pink Mercedes' protest. Racing Point team owner Lawrence Stroll - who normally keeps an extremely low media profile - has lashed out at the four teams who think the EUR 400,000 fine and 15 deducted points penalty is.....check out full post » |
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