Formula 1 News & Updates Week 44 Below you'll find all our updates, results, videos, podcasts, sounds & photos from the world of Formula 1 of the past week |
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| Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Formula 1 arrives into Italy for the third time this year. This time, the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will be held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, in Imola. The pinnacle of motorsport returns to Imola for the first time since 2006 and the occasion —after the tragedies of the 1994 San Marino.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN will extend the relationship with Kimi Räikkönen and Antonio Giovinazzi to a third season as the driver pairing is confirmed for the team for the 2021 Formula One world championship. The most experienced driver in the history of Formula One, Kimi Räikkönen will continue to bring his incredible mix.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Alfa Romeo's F1 team founder is urging the Swiss outfit to keep Kimi Raikkonen for 2021. On Thursday, the Hinwil based team announced that Sauber Motorsport has extended its naming rights deal with the Ferrari-linked carmaker Alfa Romeo "until at least the end of the current era of Formula 1 regulations". The next.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Dr Helmut Marko has denied Jean Todt's charge that he is trying to "blackmail" the FIA president over his demands regarding Red Bull's engine decision for 2022. Red Bull has threatened to quit Formula 1 if it cannot take over the departing Honda's engine program, insisting it will require a 2022 development 'freeze'......check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Imola wants to stay on the Formula 1 calendar beyond 2020. Alongside other popular replacement venues including Mugello, Portimao and Istanbul, Imola was drafted onto the sport's 'corona calendar' at the eleventh hour. But Andrea Corsini, the tourism chief for the regional Emilia-Romagna jurisdiction, said Imola would like to stay on the calendar.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Organisers of the Australian GP have confirmed that Melbourne will kick off the 2021 season. The news follows rumours that with the Victorian capital still on high alert as a city-wide covid lockdown begins to ease, Bahrain could take over as the first Formula 1 race of next year. "We are pleased to.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Lewis Hamilton has reassured his fans that he will remain in Formula 1 next year - even though he is yet sign a contract. The reasons for the delay are not clear, with theories ranging from Hamilton's demands for a pay increase to complex questions about the future of the Mercedes team and.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Gunther Steiner has hinted that a major problem with Ferrari's struggling 2020 engine relates to overheating. Departing Haas driver Romain Grosjean told L'Equipe recently that the Maranello-made power unit "is not great". He said after Portimao: "Since the start of the weekend we have had problems with the suspension. The car keeps changing.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - George Russell's future is only in doubt because of "political and commercial" considerations at Williams. That is the claim of Toto Wolff, who oversees Russell's career as part of the Mercedes driver program. Recently, reports indicated that despite his impressive performance at Williams in 2019 and 2020, the British team's new owners could.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Sebastian Vettel may be playing a "dangerous" game as his relationship with Ferrari enters the final stretch. After Portugal, following comments made by the struggling quadruple world champion, team boss Mattia Binotto had to deny that Vettel is being supplied inferior machinery compared to his teammate Charles Leclerc. "I think Binotto is handling.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.30 - Fernando Alonso's new relationship with Renault is already "working well", according to F1 legend and team advisor Alain Prost. Spaniard Alonso, 39, is returning to the sport and the team as it becomes Alpine for 2021, but he will be trackside this weekend at Imola. Prost says the working relationship with Alonso began.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 FRIDAY, 30 OCTOBER, 1300 HOURS LOCAL TIME Nicholas Latifi (Williams) George Russell (Williams) Simon Roberts (Williams) Romain Grosjean (Haas) Kevin Magnussen (Haas) Guenther Steiner (Haas) Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) Kimi Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo) Frédéric Vasseur (Alfa Romeo) Lance Stroll (Racing Point) Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) Otmar Szafnauer (Racing Point) Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri) Franz Tost.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Sponsorship in any sport is crucial, as it brings in essential revenue, which is then in turn invested. Deals between the parties are always mutually beneficial too, as partnerships bring a lot of exposure to the company doing the sponsoring. Formula 1, as one of the leading sports on the planet, is the dream investment.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Bernie Ecclestone says it is "tragic" that those who laid the foundations of Mercedes' utter dominance of Formula 1 are not getting the credit. As Lewis Hamilton "cruises" to his sixth world championship in silver this year, having broken Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 91 wins last time out, Ecclestone said the British.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Ferrari's goal for 2021 is a return to podium positions, according to team boss Mattia Binotto. The Maranello team has struggled in 2020, but consecutive car upgrades over the last three races culminated in P4 for Charles Leclerc in Portimao. Binotto said: "We have to check if that was because of the car.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Half of Red Bull's Formula 1 driver lineups for 2020 remain uncertain. Max Verstappen is certainly leading the top team, while the energy drink company announced on Wednesday that Pierre Gasly is definitely staying at AlphaTauri next year. The identity of Gasly's teammate is not clear, however. Daniil Kvyat looks likely to lose.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Bernie Ecclestone is surprised about the success of Lewis Hamilton's political influence at Mercedes. Earlier in 2020, the former F1 supremo was criticised by Hamilton, who said comments made by the 90-year-old about racism were "uneducated and ignorant". "Don't think about what your skin colour is - think about what colour your mind.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - At the eleventh hour, local authorities have banned spectators from this weekend's race at Imola. We reported on Monday that despite the promoters being earlier granted permission for 13,000 spectators, rising covid infections meant that was now in doubt. Indeed, Formula Imola announced on Wednesday that "negotiations on the interpretation of the prime.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he helped Sebastian Vettel to secure a seat at Aston Martin for 2021. The pair have long been friends and backgammon partners, with former F1 supremo Ecclestone revealing on his 90th birthday on Wednesday that he still speaks with quadruple world champion Vettel. "Yes, we talk on the.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Red Bull has set a deadline for clarity about its engine plans for 2022. 'Plan A' is clearly to take over the IP of departing engine partner Honda's technology and operations, but Dr Helmut Marko is demanding that a corresponding 'freeze' be put on engine development up and down pitlane. "It's postponed," he.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.29 - Formula 1 looks set to impose a salary cap for Formula 1 drivers. The Daily Mail and other sources report that teams will only be allowed to spend $30 million on drivers from 2023. The teams reportedly voted unanimously for the measure in Monday's key meeting in Portimao, during which the reverse grid.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 As we all get neck-deep into this weirdest of weird years and most depressing of depressing Formula 1 seasons, something is blindingly obvious - the complacency with which we viewed our world and our sport prior to 2020. It wasn't bad, was it? It's pretty bad now, isn't it? And yet, in 2019 and earlier,.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - Mattia Binotto remains "very happy" with Ferrari's choice of successor for struggling quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel. The fabled Maranello team has signed up Spaniard Carlos Sainz, who last Sunday stunned the F1 world by briefly leading the race in Portimao in his McLaren. "It was definitely a fantastic start and a great.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - Lando Norris has issued an apology after making comments about rivals Lewis Hamilton and Lance Stroll in Portimao. Following a crash, the McLaren driver described Stroll as a "c**t" and a "d***head", but after the race he also played down Hamilton's record-setting successes. "He has to beat one or two other drivers, that's.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - Cyril Abiteboul has denied rumours suggesting Renault might oust Esteban Ocon. Rumours in Portimao had claimed the works team is so disappointed with Ocon's performance on his return to Formula 1 this year that Renault is now eyeing fellow Frenchman and Monza winner Pierre Gasly for 2021. Team boss Abiteboul denies it. "Next.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - There could be as many as an unprecedented 23 races next year, as reports about the 2021 calendar emerge following a key meeting. All the sport's stakeholders, including FIA president Jean Todt and even Chase Carey's 2021 successor Stefano Domenicali, got together for a six-hour meeting early this week in Portimao. Afterwards, RTL.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - The collaboration between Mercedes and Aston Martin is being expanded. For months, there has been speculation that Mercedes' F1 team boss Toto Wolff, who is already an Aston Martin shareholder, is getting fascinatingly close to Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll. Stroll plans to rebrand the Silverstone based team as Aston Martin for 2021......check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - Red Bull's plans to run its own engine program from 2022 have hit a snag. In a key meeting in Portimao early this week, the sport's stakeholders discussed Red Bull's request that engine performance be frozen from 2022 so that the energy drink company is able to run the Honda engines for itself......check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - Toto Wolff has defended some of F1's so-called 'pay drivers', insisting their disparaging image is unfair. "Just name one driver who doesn't deserve to be here this season," the Mercedes team boss told motorsport-magazin.com. It is no surprise that Wolff, a minor Aston Martin shareholder, is defending Lance Stroll, the son of Racing.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 The Indian Grand Prix took place three times between 2011 and 2013 at the Buddh International Circuit, near New Delhi, but the event disappeared from the Formula 1 calendar and has not returned since, nor it seems to be returning at any time in the future. If you are interested in betting on any new.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - Rio de Janeiro's hopes of securing a Formula 1 race have been dealt a blow. Earlier this month, F1 CEO Chase Carey wrote to the Brazilian city's mayor to inform him that a deal with race promoters has been reached in principle. "These agreements are ready for execution and announcement by Formula 1.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.28 - On the occasion of his 90th birthday, former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone still thinks the move to today's power unit regulations was "insane". "When these hybrid engines were introduced in 2014, I said the rulers were insane because Mercedes would win everything," he told Blick newspaper. "Until then, the fans loved the sport,.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Last week Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean learned their services are no longer required by the Haas team. Grosjean told L’Equipe that team boss Guenther Steiner informed him that financially Haas needs two pay drivers. With that news, the rumour mill went into full speed with Sergio Perez, Mick Schumacher, and Nikita Mazepin all names.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.27 - Jacques Villeneuve thinks all of Ferrari's car development in 2020 has been done to suit Charles Leclerc. His comments come after team boss Mattia Binotto denied suggestions that the departing Sebastian Vettel is struggling because his car is no longer identical to Leclerc's. But 1997 world champion Villeneuve thinks a better explanation is.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.27 - Alex Albon only has "two or three races" to prove to Red Bull that he should keep his race seat for 2021. It is now an open secret that the energy drink company's main F1 team is contemplating going outside of its own driver program by potentially signing Nico Hulkenberg or Sergio Perez.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.27 - Opinions remain split over how much credit Lewis Hamilton deserves for racing past Michael Schumacher's all-time F1 record for race victories in Portimao. That is not because he is not a statistical great, with a record 92 wins to his name and on course to match Schumacher's best ever tally of seven world.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.27 - F1 race director Michael Masi has ruled out making any immediate changes to the controversial 'penalty points' system. Multiple drivers have complained in recent days and weeks about the system whereby a range of errors and infractions - including breaching 'track limits' - earn them points on their super licence, which culminate in.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.27 - Red Bull has told Max Verstappen to be more careful with his insults against rivals in future. The Dutch driver's radio cries of "retard" and "mongol" after a clash with Lance Stroll in Portimao is attracting international attention. "Was the whole team briefed on your We Race As One initiative?" wondered Unro Janchiv,.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.27 - No Formula 1 team will be able to rival Mercedes' continuing dominance in 2021, according to Ralf Schumacher. Red Bull is bullish about its hopes of closing the gap to the sport's consistently best team and Lewis Hamilton, but former F1 driver Schumacher thinks any challenge will actually have to wait until 2022......check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 If you are wondering about Lewis Hamilton's future and what other records he might achieve soon, this is the piece to read. Fresh off of his record-breaking 92nd F1 GP win, the six-time F1 World Champion still has a lot left in his tank, and he will be eager to reach far more records. Would.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 As great as the Portuguese GP was for Lewis Hamilton, it also brought other variables - and other drivers - into play. McLaren-Renault's Carlos Sainz and Alfa-Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen dazzled in the opening laps; and, later in the race, Pierre Gasly won another titanic battle with Sainz. In this video - part 2 of his.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Ferrari's recap video of the 2020 Portuguese Formula 1 Grand Prix driven for the first time in on Autodromo Nacional do Algrave near Portimao. Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Friday it was his car, but Sunday it was Pierre Gasly who was on fire! Our Frenchman started the Portuguese Grand Prix in ninth position, made his Soft tyres last whilst making his way up to P5, dropped back to P9 once he made his pitstop, then charged once again to finish in P5! Hear.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Relive the first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix on the Portimao Circuit. See how Raikkonen passed 10 drivers in the first lap to finish 11th on the same event that Lewis Hamilton won his record braking 92nd F1 GP race. Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.26 - George Russell thinks rumours about his potential axing by Williams are being fuelled by the Sergio Perez camp. Throughout the Portimao weekend, speculation indicated that Williams' new owners Dorilton Capital may expel Russell and replace him with Sergio Perez and his powerful Mexican backers. Russell is backed by the team's engine supplier Mercedes,.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.26 - Organisers of this weekend's race at Imola hope local authorities will not ban spectators from attending. The Italian circuit was recently granted permission to allow 13,000 spectators to attend amid strict anti-covid protocols. But with virus numbers rising across Italy and Europe more widely, it now seems possible that the authorities will withdraw.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.26 - Esteban Ocon admits it has been a "long process" to get back up to speed in Formula 1. In Portugal, rumours swirled in the paddock that Renault might look to another Frenchman - Pierre Gasly - for 2021, as Ocon's results alongside the departing Daniel Ricciardo have been disappointing. However, 24-year-old Ocon finished.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.26 - Kevin Magnussen says he has no hard feelings after being told he is not needed by the Haas team for 2021. The small American team is also ousting Romain Grosjean, in a move that clears the way for better funded drivers - reportedly Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher - to race next year......check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.26 - Ferrari won't be able to block moves that would allow Red Bull to run its own works engine program from 2022. That is the claim of Mercedes' Toto Wolff, who is surprising many in the paddock by lending his support to Red Bull's push to take over the Honda IP and operations. "Even.....check out full post » Fri, 30 Oct 2020 Oct.26 - Pierre Gasly is staying at AlphaTauri next year, according to Dr Helmut Marko. After another good performance in Portugal, the French driver was asked if he will be rewarded with a return to Red Bull's senior team and he answered coyly: "We'll see." But Marko says he is definitely staying put. "Gasly will.....check out full post » |
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