Formula 1 News & Updates Week 31 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, 31 Jul 2020 F1 Race Event: British Grand Prix Race Track: Silverstone Weather: dry 34.7°C Tarmac: dry 49.4°C Humidity : 27.8% Wind : 2.3 m/s NW Pressure: 991.6 bar Daniel Ricciardo was the first to put a lap time on the leaderboard this second free practice for the British Grand Prix. His first lap in the Renault RS20.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Williams Racing driver George Russell talks about his home race, the British Grand Prix, at Silverstone and what makes it so special. Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Watch Alex Albon tackle the high speed corners at Silverstone powered by Citrix. How fast are you on the Formula 1 Game by Codemasters? Fri, 31 Jul 2020 F1 Race Event: British Grand Prix Race Track: Silverstone Weather: dry 29.8°C Tarmac: dry 40.1°C Humidity : 34% Wind : 0.6 m/s N Pressure: 993.8 bar Sergio Perez won't take part for Racing Point after testing positive for Covid-19. His seat is taken by former Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg, which is basically the same.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Red Bull is "getting nervous" in its battle to quickly catch up with Mercedes, team official Dr Helmut Marko has admitted. The team wanted Max Verstappen to become F1's youngest ever champion this year, but the Dutch driver admitted he could be as much as a second off the pace at Silverstone. When.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Formula 1 should not be involved "in racism or politics in general", according to the sport's former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone. Since the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-racism demonstrations the world over gained steam in the wake of George Floyd's death, the issue spread even to the F1 paddock. It has been.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Sebastian Vettel insists he is not under "time pressure" to decide his next career move. We reported that a July 31 deadline, tying in with an exit clause in Sergio Perez's contract, had been set for the quadruple world champion to decide whether to move to Racing Point for 2021. "There is no.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Red Bull is expecting Alexander Albon to enjoy "an increase in performance" thanks to working with a more experienced race engineer from now on. It has been announced that the struggling British-born Thai driver's existing engineer, Mike Lugg, has returned to Milton Keynes for a factory based role. Back from the factory to.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Esteban Ocon is still finding his feet at Renault after a year out of the sport. That is the view of former McLaren boss Eric Boullier, who is now a leading official of the French Grand Prix. When asked by Ouest France to comment on fellow Frenchman Ocon's return to F1 this year,.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Valtteri Bottas says talks to extend his contract with Mercedes have already begun. While there was speculation the Finn could be replaced by Sebastian Vettel or George Russell, Mercedes bosses have been saying for several days now that they are more than happy with Bottas alongside Lewis Hamilton. Six-time world champion Hamilton said.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Carlos Sainz says it is only "common sense" to conclude that he will not be world champion or even win races after switching to Ferrari next year. The Spaniard, who currently drives for McLaren, was asked about Ferrari chairman John Elkann's recent admission that a red car is unlikely to win a race.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.31 - Nico Hulkenberg looks set to make a shock return to Formula 1 this weekend at Silverstone. It comes after Sergio Perez was sidelined after testing positive for coronavirus. Formula 1 insists, however, that the back-to-back races in Britain will go ahead. "The procedures set out by the FIA and Formula 1 have provided.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 As many of you probably know, Formula 1 will be racing twice in two weekends at Silverstone, the site where the first-ever Grand Prix of the World Championship of Drivers took place. The 2020 British Grand Prix will be the first of the two events and, after three good races to start the year, the.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Dr Helmut Marko is expecting Racing Point's 'pink Mercedes' to be highly competitive over the next two race weekends at Silverstone. But the Red Bull official told Kronen Zeitung that he expects the black works Mercedes to be clearly out the front. "Hats off to them," said Marko, referring to the reigning world.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Race organisers in Austin and Mexico say they accept Formula 1's decision to cancel their races for 2020. Brazil - the third cancelled race on the American continents - is threatening to sue Liberty Media over the decision, claiming the pandemic is not an instance of 'force majeure'. Bob Bobby Epstein, chairman of.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Operators of the former F1 circuit in Turkey have admitted they are in a "confidentiality agreement" regarding talks about a 2020 race at Istanbul Park. We reported this week that the Turkish government has announced that the venue "continues to work for inclusion on the Formula 1 race calendar for 2020". With a.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Fernando Alonso's weight and fitness is back at the same levels as when he was at his peak. That is the news from his physio Edoardo Bendinelli, as the former two-time world champion this week turned 39 ahead of his 2021 return to F1 with Renault. Observers have noticed that the Spaniard is.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Haas is now battling among the slowest teams on the Formula 1 grid, driver Romain Grosjean has admitted. After a horror 2019, teammate Kevin Magnussen insists that the new Haas car is "very useable" in comparison to its predecessor. However, it's not particularly fast. "We're now fighting with Alfa Romeo and Williams just.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - A familiar face is returning to the F1 paddock to help Alexander Albon get up to speed. Having been promoted to the senior Red Bull team mid-way through his debut season last year, the British-born Thai driver is still struggling to keep up with Max Verstappen. It means speculation is swirling about the.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Timo Glock says he feels "sorry" that quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel's achievements are being diminished. Eddie Jordan, a former F1 team owner turned outspoken television pundit, told the F1 Nation podcast that he would "probably not" sign up the Ferrari refugee for 2021. "Can he rekindle a kind of sparkle and a.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.30 - Formula 1 still has a "green light" to race in Barcelona later this month. There has been speculation that, because coronavirus cases are spiking near the scene of the August 16 Spanish GP, Silverstone may be asked to host a third consecutive race instead. "Despite the rise in corona numbers in Spain, we.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Preview by Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc on the 2020 British Grand Prix on the Silverstone track. It will be held without spectators. Fri, 31 Jul 2020 It's British GP time - twice over. The British Grand Prix will be staged at Silverstone this weekend - and then we'll have another round of the FIA F1 World Championship (the "70th Anniversary GP") at the same venue a week after that. We've seen a pattern developing around various F1 car performances over the.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 We're getting set for another F1 triple-header, beginning at the iconic Silverstone circuit! Given the fact it often rains when we visit Britain, we put a scenario to Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly to see how they would react in the event of a race with changing conditions. Would you choose the same strategy? Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Get hyped for the British Grand Prix as Max Verstappen and Alex Albon share their thoughts on the next race of 2020 on Silverstone. Fri, 31 Jul 2020 This week we welcome one of the bright young stars of Formula 1 to the show: Williams driver George Russell. The British racer has been making waves this season, dragging his car far higher up the grid than many thought possible, and giving us a glimpse of the talent that made Mercedes sign him as.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - Formula 1 is "fully open" to welcoming a new Russian team to the sport, according to sporting boss Ross Brawn. Rumours about Russian interest have been circulating for some time, especially since last September, when trade minister Denis Manturov said a Russian team is "not far off". Around the same time, SMP Bank.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - McLaren has added its concerns to the complex 'token' system that will govern car upgrades for 2021. To cut costs amid the corona crisis, the teams will only be allowed to make minor modifications to limited areas of their 2020 cars for next season. But we reported recently that Racing Point and AlphaTauri.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will move to Maranello next year, Ferrari chairman John Elkann has announced. In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Agnelli family heir defended Ferrari's decision to oust Sebastian Vettel. "In the last decade we have had champions like Alonso and Vettel but it is more difficult.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - Mercedes wants to get to the bottom of a conspicuously smoky issue with its 2020 engine, according to team boss Toto Wolff. Just as Ferrari took a big step backwards in power following the 2019 engine legality saga, Mercedes stepped up its efforts over the winter to catch up with the Italian team......check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - Toto Wolff says his talks with Daimler over his future at the top of Mercedes' works team are "on the right track". In the past weeks and months, and particularly since he bought into Lawrence Stroll's Aston Martin project, there has been speculation the Austrian is on the verge of moving on. When.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - Imola's 2020 grand prix has been reduced to two days instead of three for logistical reasons. As the races in the US, Brazil and Mexico were cancelled due to the pandemic, Formula 1 also announced that new races at the Nurburgring, Portimao and Imola will all take place in October and November. Imola's.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.29 - F1 race promoters in Brazil and Mexico could sue Liberty Media over their cancelled 2020 races. Tamas Rohonyi, who fronts the race at Interlagos near Sao Paulo, told O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper that F1's owner cancelled the race for an unacceptable reason. "The contract can only be cancelled for reasons of force.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 THURSDAY, 30 JULY, 1400 HOURS LOCAL TIME Nicholas Latifi (Williams) George Russell (Williams) Romain Grosjean (Haas) Kevin Magnussen (Haas) Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) Kimi Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo) Sergio Perez (Racing Point) Lance Stroll (Racing Point) Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri) Esteban Ocon (Renault) Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) Lando Norris (McLaren) Carlos Sainz (McLaren) Alexander Albon (Red.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 In his ongoing campaign to raise awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lewis Hamilton has declared his desire for a race in Africa. In an interview with Mercedes sponsor Petronas when asked where he would like F1 to race he commented, “I think bringing firstly the attention back into Africa and highlighting the beautiful.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.28 - Honda officials are meeting with their Red Bull counterparts this week to discuss the disappointing start to their 2020 championship campaign. Red Bull went into the year confident Max Verstappen may become the youngest ever Formula 1 title winner. But in Austria and Hungary, Mercedes clearly dominated, and that dominance is expected to.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.28 - The Turkish government has admitted Istanbul could be yet another venue to be added to the 2020 'corona calendar'. The latest confirmed additions to the schedule are the Nurburgring, Portimao and Imola, taking the calendar up to 13 races and counting. "We are pleased that we continue to make strong progress in finalising.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.28 - Alex Zanardi's condition is once again listed as "stable" following a fourth operation. On Monday, we reported that the former F1 driver had to be moved from a rehabilitation clinic back to intensive care, because his condition had become "unstable". But Milan's San Raffaele hospital reports that Zanardi has now undergone another "delicate.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.28 - Gunther Steiner says Haas will not change its approach to racing, even though it cost the small American team in Hungary. Kevin Magnussen lost a point after the race near Budapest because the team asked both drivers to pit for dry tyres after the formation lap. The radio instruction contravened a 2017 rule.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.28 - Charles Leclerc has not had a good start to 2020, according to former F1 driver Nick Heidfeld. Indeed, although he was a surprise second in the uncompetitive Ferrari in the first Austrian race, the 22-year-old took all of the blame for a crash with his teammate Sebastian Vettel in the second. And although.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.28 - Sebastian Vettel has mere days to decide if he wants to join the Racing Point team - set to become Aston Martin - in 2021. That is the claim of Auto Bild correspondent Bianca Garloff, reiterating that the July 31 deadline ties in with a clause in Sergio Perez's current contract. On July.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - It may not be long before spectators return to Formula 1 races. Although the sport's three races on the American continent - Austin, Brazil and Mexico - have now been scrapped for 2020, another three races in Europe have just been announced. They will take place at the Nurburgring, Portugal's Portimao circuit, and.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - Ralf Schumacher doubts Ferrari's organisational shakeup will fix the struggling Italian team's problems. Last week, following the Maranello outfit's horror start to 2020, it was announced that a new Performance Development department had been created. "It sounds to me like they are trying to demonstrate to the outside world that something is changing,".....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - The promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix has hit out at local authorities for not supporting his push to bring Formula 1 to Montreal amid the corona crisis. After F1 announced that all races on the American continent - the US, Canada and Mexico - have been scrapped for this year, Francois Dumontier called.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - It will "take time" for Alfa Romeo to pull itself off the very bottom row of the Formula 1 grid. That is the admission of boss Frederic Vasseur, who admits that the team operated by Swiss-based Sauber travelled to Austria earlier this month "not knowing what to expect". "We had a couple of.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - The first black man to test a Formula 1 car has called triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart "racist". It comes after reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton said Stewart's recent comments about racism in Formula 1 - that there is not "as big a problem as there might seem" - were "disappointing". "Sir.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - Alex Zanardi is back in intensive care. After a full month in a hospital in Siena, Italy, following a horror hand-cycling crash, the Italian was moved to a rehabilitation centre last week. His son Niccolo said there had been "encouraging signs" since Zanardi's sedation was stopped, and hoped the 53-year-old would soon be.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - Yet another option for Sebastian Vettel may have emerged for 2021. Ralf Schumacher believes the quadruple world champion could move to Red Bull's second team AlphaTauri. Earlier, with Red Bull Racing saying it has no room for the Ferrari refugee, the 33-year-old German was believed to be close to signing for Aston Martin......check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Jul.27 - Red Bull has decided against developing a Mercedes-like 'DAS' steering system. After the FIA rejected Red Bull's protest against the innovative technology, Marko announced that although it is "difficult to reproduce", the team is "discussing whether we will do it". However, the Austrian official has now told Auto Motor und Sport that "DAS.....check out full post » Fri, 31 Jul 2020 Three races are added to the 2020 F1 schedule. After the 10th race in Russia, the drivers return to the grand prix circuit of the Nurburgring on the 11th of October. Two weeks later the circus travels to Portugal to race for the first time ever on the Portimao circuit in the Algarve. One week.....check out full post » |
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