Formula 1 News & Updates Week 04 Below you'll find this weeks news, results, videos, podcasts, sounds & photos from the world of Formula 1 |
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| Fri, 24 Jan 2020 In the second part of his chat with Sir Stirling Moss, Peter Windsor asks the F1 great about his decision to retire; his pioneering approach to the business side of being a racing driver; and about his life as one of the all-time great athletes of the 20th century. This little-known interview was recorded eight.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Presented by Estrella Galicia 0,0, watch as the team continues to work hard on the MCL35 as we edge closer to the big reveal on 13 February. Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Max Verstappen says racing on his driving simulator at home "keeps the calluses on my hands" throughout the winter season. The Red Bull driver and McLaren's Lando Norris both race for the professional online team called Redline. Their latest competition was a 24 hour Daytona race. "It's great preparation for the new season," Verstappen is.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Lewis Hamilton may already be "even greater" than F1 legends Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher. That is the view of former long-time F1 driver Rubens Barrichello, who idolised his Brazilian countryman Senna and was Schumacher's teammate at Ferrari. "Hamilton has a talent that is possibly even greater than that of Ayrton and Schumacher," he told.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 A dark cloud has moved above April's running of the Chinese F1 GP. Over 800 cases of the coronavirus, which has killed 18 people so far, have been detected in China. As a result, the country is quarantining entire cities and China's automobile federation has even banned "all sports competitions until April". The federation said.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Red Bull was a "tough" environment for Carlos Sainz to thrive in, according to McLaren supremo Zak Brown. Sainz, now 25, made his debut via the Red Bull junior program, racing for Toro Rosso for three years until 2017 before switching to Renault and finally signing a contract with McLaren that began in 2019. "Carlos.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 It is an "oversimplification" to say that Formula 1 is suffering because of the move away from free-to-air television. That is the view of the sport's director of media rights Ian Holmes, off the back of reports that in Britain alone, Sky's exclusive live rights have cost Britain 8.6 million TV viewers. Writing in the.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 F1 is now in the "final stages" of negotiating new commercial agreements binding the teams to the sport beyond 2020. That is the news from Chase Carey, who was speaking to Bloomberg at the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We're in the final stages of it," said the F1 CEO, referring to the protracted.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Argentina's new sports and tourism minister wants Formula 1 to return to Buenos Aires. Matias Lammens, who was appointed in December, told Diario AS Argentina: "We would like to work towards recovering Formula 1 in a few years. "It would be very interesting for Argentina from a sporting and a tourism point of view." Buenos.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Jean-Eric Vergne does not sound keen on a potential return to Formula 1. His former boss, Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko, this week all but ruled out a return for the two-time Formula E champion. But Frenchman Vergne, 29, says the sport actually made him feel like a "robot". "They constantly told me 'Eat this,.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Mercedes will be able to attract a good replacement if Lewis Hamilton decides to leave, according to team boss Toto Wolff. In recent days, and in particular following the re-signing by Ferrari and Red Bull of Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen respectively, rumours of a new two-year deal for Hamilton have emerged. But team boss.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Former head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley believes Williams should exercise caution in presuming performance can't get any worse. Williams finished stone last in the constructors' standings in 2019, with just one point. That one point was 27 fewer than Haas-Ferrari, who finished in ninth position. They finished as high as third position in 2015,.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Peter Windsor talks to one of the greatest racing drivers of all time - Sir Stirling Moss. Although Sir Stirling's penchant mainly for driving privately-entered British F1 cars ultimately hurt his ability to win a World Championship, Sir Stirling thrived on giant-killing the big guns - and doing so on the classic circuits - on.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Sebastian Vettel could stay at Ferrari beyond the end of his expiring contract, according to well-known Italian F1 insider Leo Turrini. Turrini, who reportedly has key sources at Maranello, caused a stir last week when he claimed that the data about Ferrari's 2020 car was not looking promising. "I reported that because it seemed bizarre.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Renault engine boss Remi Taffin thinks there will be "no massive changes" on the grid this year, as the sweeping rule changes for 2021 loom large. "I'm not revealing a big secret when I say that 50 percent of our resources are already aimed at 2021," he admitted to Auto Motor und Sport. But Formula.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Mario Isola insists that Formula 1 teams were "not negative" about Pirelli's rejected tyres designed for the 2020 season. Reports indicated that the teams voted to keep the 2019 tyres this year following a round of negative comments when the drivers tested the 2020 design late last season. But Pirelli's F1 boss Isola is quoted.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Renault's engine boss has admitted the French works team was also concerned about the legality of the power unit used by Ferrari last year. Red Bull and Mercedes made no secret of their suspicions about Ferrari's clear engine advantage mid last season, prompting a round of FIA clampdowns. "We are very happy about the clarifications.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 FIA president Jean Todt has played down concerns about F1's ever-expanding race calendar. With many in the sport already unhappy about the unprecedentedly-long calendar for 2020, Liberty Media has negotiated a new cap of up to 25 races for the future. Indeed, the F1 commercial rights holder is open about wanting to add Miami to.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Swedish driver Felix Rosenqvist says he has little interest in launching a Formula 1 career. "Formula 1? No thank you. I want to win races," he told the Swedish newspaper Expressen. Rosenqvist, 28, had a highly promising junior career in Europe, winning the European F3 title in 2015, back-to-back wins at Macau, and testing a.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 To be considered as a signatory an organisation must adhere to the following five principles: Undertake systematic efforts to promote greater environmental responsibility; Reduce overall climate impact; Educate for climate action; Promote sustainable and responsible consumption; Advocate for climate action through communication Both the FIA’s global environmental action and Formula 1’s wide-reaching and pioneering goal.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Renault's engine boss claims the French team now has a better engine than Mercedes. In the 'power unit' era, the widespread belief was that Renault struggled to keep up with Mercedes and Ferrari. But according to Remi Taffin, who is Renault's F1 engine chief, performance measurements taken by GPS show that the French unit is.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Secret photos of F1 legend Michael Schumacher were offered to publications for $1.3 million, according to Britain's Mirror newspaper. Last December marked six years since the seven time world champion fell whilst skiing with his son Mick in the French alps. His condition in the wake of serious brain injuries is largely unknown, but neurosurgeon.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Alfa Romeo is building a "completely new car" for 2020, team boss Frederic Vasseur has admitted. Most teams are looking at the new season as a sort of extension of 2019, as the regulations are stable ahead of the sweeping new rule changes for 2021. But Alfa Romeo, having finished just eighth in the 2019.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 George Russell says he will keep his eye out for "offers" from more competitive F1 teams. The 2019 rookie insists he is happy to remain with backmarker Williams, even though the British team's car and organisation was abysmal last year. But after beating Robert Kubica throughout last season, Russell says if his backer Mercedes invites.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Ferrari will not launch its 2020 car at the team's famous Maranello headquarters on 11 February. The Italian team has announced that the event will instead take place at Teatro Valli, a historical theatre in Reggio Emilia, located about 40 minutes from Maranello. "It is a dream come true," Reggio Emilia mayor Luca Vecchi is.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Romain Grosjean has admitted he has given some thought to life after Formula 1. At 33, the Haas driver is now one of the oldest drivers on the grid, but he thinks he still has several years in the fuel tank. "Yes, I have thought about it (retirement). I have a lot of plans for.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Claire Williams has admitted that Roy Nissany, the team's new test driver, could be on the grid in 2021. Nissany, 25, has been ridiculed by some for a lack of competitiveness, but he comes with the key backing of Canadian-Israeli billionaire Sylvan Adams. The Israeli driver, who is the son of the infamously slow former.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 More news about Robert Kubica's future will be forthcoming "soon", according to his backer. On the first day of the year, it was announced that the former Williams racer would be Alfa Romeo's reserve in 2020. Kubica, 35, wants to combine that role with a race seat in the German touring car series DTM, and.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Dr Helmut Marko wants Formula 1 to revisit the rules concerning how drivers qualify for a super licence. Currently, a complex points system based mainly on a driver's achievements in the junior categories determines whether he qualifies for the mandatory credential. But Marko, the boss of Red Bull's successful driver development program, thinks the system.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Miami is working through the "issues" standing in the way of F1's second grand prix in America. In December, F1 CEO Chase Carey said he is still determined to take the sport to Miami. "We still have some issues to resolve in Miami," he told CNN. "They're, probably at this point, predominantly political ones." Indeed,.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 More rumblings about trouble with Ferrari's 2020 car are emerging. Last week, journalist and Ferrari insider Leo Turrini claimed that data from the 2020 car coming out of the simulator and wind tunnel "have not impressed the engineers". And now, citing 'reliable sources within Ferrari', Germany's Auto Bild says the data from the wind tunnel.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Lewis Hamilton says he feels "fitter than ever" as he targets a record-equalling seventh world championship in 2020. A few days ago on Instagram, the newly 35-year-old Mercedes driver warned that he will be "a machine this year, on another level than ever before". But he now tells GQ Hype that he hopes he remains.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Zak Brown is not expecting McLaren to be much higher in the pecking order in 2020. The British team's recovery from a recent slump took a major step forward last year, as McLaren finished a distant fourth overall in the constructors' championship. But team supremo Brown is quoted by Marca sports newspaper: "I do not.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Haas looks set to revert to its 2018 style livery this year, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. Last year, the small American team exchanged its predominantly white, grey and red livery for all black and gold colour scheme in deference to title sponsor Rich Energy. But with that ill-fated deal now in the.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Esteban Ocon may not have raced since 2018, but he is already hard at work as he prepares for his Formula 1 return with the works Renault team. The first step, according to the Frenchman, was to get to know the Enstone based team at the factory. "The goal at the beginning of January and.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Claire Williams is expecting the struggling British team to be ready for the very first day of winter testing next month. Before struggling to dead last in the constructors' championship last year, Williams was the only team that was not even ready for the start of pre-season testing. "The goal is to have the car.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Fernando Alonso and McLaren have officially split. At the end of 2018, the Spaniard called time for now on his long Formula 1 career, choosing instead to focus on other pursuits like Le Mans, the Indy 500, and the Dakar rally. But until now he has remained part of the McLaren team as an ambassador,.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Formula 1's door is "not closed" to Hockenheim, according to Thomas Reister. Reister is the boss of Emodrom, a company charged with the strategic development of the venue that has been left off F1's 2020 calendar. It is reported that, in the wake of the collapsed F1 deal, Hockenheim will focus on hosting business, music,.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Dr Helmut Marko has all but ruled out a return to Formula 1 for Jean-Eric Vergne. Vergne, now 29, raced for Toro Rosso between 2012 and 2014, but since being ousted by Red Bull he has established himself as a top Formula E driver, winning the title twice. But Red Bull boss Marko told motorsport-total.com:.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 I think I speak for most Michael Schumacher fans by stressing that we *all* wanted his boy to be good. We all still want his boy to be good. But 2020 is young Mick Schumacher's Last Chance Saloon. Now six years since the then 13-year-old watched his father's helmeted head strike a rock whilst they.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Lawrence Stroll and Toto Wolff could be planning to take over the Mercedes works team from 2021, according to veteran German correspondent Ralf Bach. The report, published on Bach's website f1-insider.com, says team boss Wolff had actually negotiated a deal to replace Chase Carey at Liberty Media. But Ferrari vetoed that plan, demanding that Wolff.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Valtteri Bottas says he is not surprised that top teams Ferrari and Red Bull are leading the way with the 2021 driver 'silly season'. Like many drivers on the grid, Mercedes driver Bottas is out of contract at the end of this season. So it is interesting that top teams are already busily signing the.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Alfa Romeo's 2020 car has passed the FIA crash tests on the second attempt. Just before Christmas, we reported that the Swiss team's 2020 chassis had been "completely destroyed" whilst trying to clear the mandatory tests at the CSI facility near Milan. It emerges that Toro Rosso, to be renamed Alpha Tauri this year, has.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Former F1 driver Alex Wurz has penned a circuit intended to be the host of a Saudi Arabia GP in 2023. Arabian Business reports that the venue on the outskirts of the capital Riyadh is part of state-run Qiddiaya, an entertainment "giga-project" that hosted the final stage of the Dakar rally. Among those at the.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 F1's commercial director Sean Bratches is set to leave the sport. We reported last September that an announcement could be "imminent", with Liberty's Chase Carey and Ross Brawn staying put but Bratches set to leave. Mark Kleinman, Sky News' City editor, believes an announcement could now be made "as early as" this week. "Sources said.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Red Bull must be cautious not to become over-reliant on technical boss Adrian Newey, according to former F1 driver Giedo van der Garde. Newey is regarded as being among the greatest ever car designers in F1 history, but in recent years he has stepped away from the sport to design an America's Cup yacht and.....check out full post » Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Lewis Hamilton looks set to re-commit to Mercedes, according to the authoritative Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The report claims that the six-time world champion, earlier linked with a 2021 switch to Ferrari, will in fact re-sign with Mercedes for 2021 and 2022. Recently, the 35-year-old Briton's options for 2021 and beyond became limited.....check out full post » |
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