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Christian Horner warns that the pre-Melbourne row with the FIA over its handling of the Ferrari engine issue has not been forgotten.

Red Bull boss, Christian Horner believes the massive rules overhaul originally scheduled for 2021 could now be postponed until 2023.

After all the expectations surrounding the new Ferrari F2002, Michael Schumacher and his team demonstrated that their decision to debut the new car at the Brazilian Grand Prix was right, with the German taking a moral victory, beating the tough opposition from the Williams drivers. As usual, the story was much more complex than that. Both Ralf Schumacher and Ron Dennis claimed after the ... Keep reading

F1 was set to introduce an overhauled set of technical regulations in 2021, but has been forced to postpone the plan until 2022 as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Eight F1 races have already been called off this year, impacting F1's anticipated revenue and the subsequent prize money awarded to teams. This prompted the teams to unanimously agree to delay the regulations until 2022 ... Keep reading

Formula 1 teams are looking to delay the introduction of the new technical regulations by one more year until 2023, according to Red Bull Racing chief Christian Horner

Mercedes has agreed to a plan not to allow DAS systems to remain in Formula 1 in 2021, despite emergency measures to roll over the current cars into next year

Red Bull boss Christian Horner on ventilators, coronavirus 'camps' & F1's new regulations possibly being delayed until 2023.

Mercedes' revolutionary steering system has been banned for 2021 despite the regulations staying the same over the next two seasons.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced dramatic changes to F1, with teams agreeing earlier this month to delay until 2022 the introduction of a major rules revamp that had been planned for next season. It means teams will continue to use their current chassis next year, with some aerodynamic modifications being allowed. Read Also: F1 bans teams from developing 2022 cars this ... Keep reading

As F1 continues to be impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the WMSC issued a statement on Tuesday confirming it had approved a number of changes to the regulations in response to the ever-changing global situation. Among the changes was a ban on “aerodynamic” development for the 2022 regulations during 2020, which came into force on Saturday March 28. The move comes in a bid to ... Keep reading

The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has approved a number of key changes to the F1 regulations to allow it to react more swiftly to the challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Formula 1 teams have been banned from developing their cars for the new regulations due in 2022 for the remainder of the year following a World Motor Sport Council ruling

Boom and bust: that was Ferrari's way. From the peaks, the view was breathtaking. Ascari, Fangio, Hawthorn, Hill, Surtees, Lauda, Scheckter... these were the blessed members of Formula 1's most exclusive club, all having filled their lungs with the heady, rarefied air as Ferrari world champions. Yet, almost to a man, the oxygen turned sour on the inevitable plummeting descent. Backstabbing ... Keep reading

The luxury sportscar manufacturer has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, and the company has had to take action to stabilise its financial situation following concerns about a lack of capital on a scheme outlined in a March prospectus after investor Lawrence Stroll came on board. In a company statement issued on Monday night, it said: "Taking into account the proceeds of the capital ... Keep reading

Lando Norris has revealed he often feels more nervous while sim racing than he does when driving a real-life Formula 1 car

The Swedish driver, who won 10 Formula 1 races before dying after a startline crash at the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, is buried in the Almby cemetery in his home town of Orebro. Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda said the attack happened late on Sunday night, with the vandals attacking random graves rather than specifically targetting Peterson's Church leader Brita Wennsten told the ... Keep reading

McLaren driver Norris has been prolific in sim racing for a number of years, and is heavily engaged in a number of Esports events while the F1 season is on hold. Norris took victory in the first Veloce Pro Series event co-produced by Motorsport Games last weekend against a field containing a mixture of professional racers and Esports stars. Speaking about his preparations for Esports events ... Keep reading

Former Indian Formula 1 Grand Prix venue Buddh International Circuit is being converted into a makeshift quarantine facility by local authorities to combat the increasing spread of coronavirus in India

The 5.14km circuit, which hosted the Indian Grand Prix between 2011-13, will house migrant workers who were leaving Delhi for their hometowns after the country imposed a 21-day lockdown starting March 25. India has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases in recent days, with 1300 cases - including 32 deaths - reported across the nation by Friday morning. The officials are wary of letting tens of ... Keep reading

The coronavirus pandemic has led to the first eight races of the season being postponed or cancelled, although the first scheduled race in Canada on June 14 is far from certain to go ahead as planned. The gap in the calendar has prompted F1 to bring forward its summer summer shutdown to now in a bid to help free up the usual August period so replacement races can be slotted in. But with a ... Keep reading

Ferrari says the delayed introduction of the 2021 regulations has likely put it at a disadvantage to its rivals, but had to accept it for the sake of Formula 1

In 1974, Argentina's Reutemann scored his first Grand Prix win, at Kyalami in South Africa. It was significant not only as the first Formula 1 World Championship triumph for a Brabham since 1970, but also the first victory for a Gordon Murray-designed F1 car – by happy coincidence, in Murray's original home country. The fact that Reutemann should find success early in his third season at ... Keep reading

After giving up on a promising tennis career, Piquet rose through the single-seater ranks following the advice of another Brazilian great, Emerson Fittipaldi, and came to Europe to follow his F1 dream. After hard-fought battles in British Formula 3 against Derek Warwick, Piquet made his first F1 starts with Ensign and McLaren machinery in 1978, before finding a home at Brabham in ... Keep reading

And while most of the attention has been dominated by its DAS system and a bold revamp of its sidepod concept, a deep dig into less obvious areas – like its brakes – highlights the attention to detail the team has put in. The front brake disc bell is a component that usually divides teams into two camps: those looking for maximum stiffness (such as Ferrari) and those that focus their ... Keep reading

For many Murray Walker will always be the voice of Formula 1. With a 52-year-long TV commentary career behind him, Walker is ingrained in the fabric of British motorsport

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic wrecking the F1 schedule, and teams likely to face huge financial pressure with a likely cut in prize money and sponsor incomes, the sport’s chiefs have moved to make drastic changes over recent weeks. Following discussions between teams, the FIA and F1, it has been agreed that the current generation of cars will be used for next year as well; with a ... Keep reading

Norris is a prolific streamer of sim racing, and took part in the Twitch Stream Aid event on Saturday alongside a number of musicians and celebrities to raise money for charity. More than $2.2 million was raised for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO, which is supported by the United Nations Foundation. Norris pledged to shave his hair if fans watching his stream donated more than ... Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris has agreed to shave off his hair after raising more than $10,000 for the COVID-19 response fund

The COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected well over 600,000 people worldwide and killed over 30,000, has forced the postponement and cancellation of many major sporting events, including the opening eight F1 races and the first five MotoGP rounds.  F1 was embroiled in controversy during its Australian Grand Prix weekend a fortnight ago, when it was forced to cancel the event just hours before ... Keep reading

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says he told his team's drivers to become infected with coronavirus while the season is in hiatus.

Helmut Marko admits that his plan to deliberately infect Red Bull's drivers with the coronavirus was "not well received".

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko wanted to organise a 'Corona Camp' for his team's Formula 1 drivers so they would deliberately get infected with COVID-19

Honda team manager Alberto Puig believes MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports has responded to the coronavirus pandemic better than "very hesitant" Formula 1 owners Liberty Media

How many F1 drivers do you think you can name from just three clues? Take the BBC Sport quiz to find out.

The Austrian, who is known to have been outspoken in his views during his long tenure as advisor to Dietrich Mateschitz, believed that exposing his drivers to coronavirus now would help make them immune in the future when the racing season got going again. Speaking in a video interview with Austrian television station ORF, Marko said: "We have four Formula 1 drivers, and eight or 10 ... Keep reading

As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to be felt around the world, F1 teams have committed to lending their engineering capabilities to support health services through the ‘Project Pitlane’ scheme.  In conjunction with mechanical engineers at University College London, Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrain - the F1 team’s engine division - helped reverse engineer a ... Keep reading

A breathing aid that has received design input from Mercedes' Formula 1 engineers has received approval for use in the NHS to aid COVID-19 patients

As on track, Mercedes appears to be leading the way in the bid to fight the coronavirus.

Thousands of the devices, which deliver oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, could be made.

We put two of F1’s legendary photographers on the spot for a documentary film “Enduring Legacy” and asked them: Out of the millions of images you have taken of F1, which one would come to a desert island with you? Michael Tee was active from the first ever F1 race at Silverstone in 1950 until the mid 1980s and his son Steven started at San Marino GP 1984 and is still active today. Between ... Keep reading

Brawn GP’s championship success story has been well documented; it was a remarkable tale of Ross Brawn leading the team from the ashes of Honda over the winter, striking a last-minute engine deal with Mercedes, and securing just enough funding to help it guide through the season. But the fact remains that one-third into the campaign the BGP 001 was no longer the benchmark on the Formula 1 ... Keep reading

Formula 1 is famous for its attention to detail, millimetric-precision and quest for improvements, so naturally it's a sport in which records are king

Hakkinen’s Formula 1 career was highlighted by two drivers’ world championships, 20 grand prix victories, 26 pole positions and 25 fastest laps. But the ‘Flying Finn’ achieved all this following his darkest day on November 10, 1995. During Friday qualifying, his McLaren-Mercedes suffered a left-rear tyre deflation on the approach to Brewery Bend – the fastest corner on the street ... Keep reading

The world championship could extend into January next year as Formula 1 seeks to salvage the 2020 season, says Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto.

The Baku organisers are now in limbo, awaiting any news on an alternative date – and they are ready to press the button and prepare the venue should it prove to be possible to hold the race within 2020. Of the eight Grands Prix lost thus far only Monaco has formally declared that it is not seeking a replacement date in 2020. However, Australia is not regarded as a serious candidate, due to ... Keep reading

The 2020 Formula 1 calendar, like all other sporting events, has been badly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and it is increasingly likely that the season will be severely curtailed

Leclerc managed to beat Vettel in their first season together at Ferrari in 2019, scoring his first two F1 victories in Belgium and Italy en route to fourth place in the drivers' championship. The 22-year-old was rewarded for his good form with a new long-term contract that will keep him at Ferrari until the end of 2024. Leclerc ended the year ahead of Vettel in the points standings, and was ... Keep reading

Carlos Sainz Jr. says there is no problem with Netflix dramatising rivalries and battles in Formula 1 as the Drive to Survive series continues to boost the series' popularity

Formula 1's brave new turbo hybrid era finally delivered in brilliant fashion at the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix - which was the subject of F1's rewind broadcast today

However, more often than not in F1's history, a driver has failed to defend their title – and, on some occasions, has missed the mark spectacularly through various circumstances. Autosport's Technical Editor Jake Boxall-Legge has five such examples of drivers who not only failed to hit the heights of the championship year, but plummeted down the pecking order dramatically. Read ... Keep reading

Here, with the help of the Autosport.com Archive, we take a look back at the stories of the race, and the bigger pictures that were bubbling away in the paddock at the time. Sakhir spectacle Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG Photo by: Charles Coates / Motorsport Images As the result of a move to make grand prix racing more road relevant, F1 had abandoned the screaming V8 engines in ... Keep reading

Ferrari team boss, Mattia Binotto reveals that in their efforts to reschedule the 2020 calendar, F1 bosses are considering two-day race weekends.

1988 Britain Ayrton Senna, McLaren MP4/4 Photo by: Sutton Images Senna displayed his usual wet-weather masterclass at Silverstone in 1988 - and that race would prove crucial for his championship challenge, kick-starting a mid-season run of four consecutive victories. Unusually for the 1988 season, the Ferraris of Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto locked out the front row, but ... Keep reading

Formula 1 teams are open to the idea of a 'super season' that runs into January 2021 and includes two-day grands prix, says Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto

The coronavirus pandemic has forced F1 to put a hold on the 2020 campaign for now, with the first eight races having been either postponed or cancelled. The first scheduled race is the Canadian Grand Prix on June 14, but that is looking increasingly unlikely with the outbreak having shown no signs of peaking in Europe yet. Earlier this week, F1 CEO Chase Carey said he believed he could still ... Keep reading

Formula 1's switch to biofuels with its new generation of cars looks set to trigger a surprise development battleground thanks to a change it brings in engine cooling characteristics

The second series of Drive to Survive came out at the end of February, following a number of drivers and teams with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access through the 2019 season. Sainz's campaign gained particular attention from the Netflix cameras, with one of the early season episodes following the McLaren driver over the Azerbaijan and Spain race weekends. The episode entitled 'Dogfight' ... Keep reading

Former F1 supremo, Bernie Ecclestone believes the sport would be best served by scrapping the entire 2020 season.

Following his horrific FIA Formula 3000 crash at Brands Hatch in 1988, Herbert battled back to be fit enough to make his F1 debut just seven months later. After multiple surgeries on his feet and ankles to ward off the threat of amputation, and months of rehabilitation and physiotherapy, Herbert arrived in Brazil in 1989 ready to start the season with the Benetton team. His long-time mentor ... Keep reading

While managing to successfully defend a Formula 1 world title is an incredibly difficult task, Lewis Hamilton has managed that feat in the past two seasons

With the break in Formula 1 and other motorsports, numerous categories are filling up the gap with their own Esports events

The coronavirus pandemic has already led to F1 cancelling or postponing the first eight grands prix of the year, with the first scheduled race currently the Canadian GP on June 14. But despite huge doubts about racing resuming even by the summer, F1's current CEO Chase Carey said earlier this week that he still believed he could pull together a calendar of up to 18 events. Ecclestone says he ... Keep reading

Bernie Ecclestone says he would abandon the 2020 Formula 1 season entirely if he was in charge of the sport now, rather than attempt to run a shortened calendar

The seven squads – Red Bull, Racing Point, Haas, McLaren, Mercedes, Renault and Williams – and their "respective technology arms", per an F1 statement, are responding to the UK government's call for aid in the production of urgently needed medical equipment. This includes manufacturing ventilators, or ventilator parts, that are crucial to providing therapeutic relief to people suffering the ... Keep reading

Seven UK-based F1 teams have responded to the UK Government's call for assistance with the manufacture of medical devices to help in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.

The collective of seven UK-based Formula 1 teams working to assist the British government in combatting the coronavirus crisis will pool its resources and work under the 'Project Pitlane' banner

Former F1 team boss, David Richards, now chairman of UK Motorsports, admits his fears for F1's "smaller" teams.

A growing move towards closer partnerships between manufacturers and smaller outfits has put some of F1's independent outfits under pressure to decide what they should do. With Haas taking as much as it can from Ferrari, and Racing Point working closely with Mercedes, teams like Williams and McLaren fear they could get squeezed in the future if tie-ups become a cheap way to deliver ... Keep reading

AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost says that the coronavirus pandemic has saved Formula 1 teams money in 2020, as they no longer have to conduct "double development" programmes for 2021

Williams is "not particularly happy" with the current two-tier structure of Formula 1 facilitated by close cooperation between teams, deputy team principal Claire Williams

It was a sunny Californian day not impacted by bad weather, there was no multiple accident to thin out the field, no clever pit stop strategy, and safety car interventions were still a decade away. So how did he do it? Quite simply it was a stunning performance by a motivated driver who was at the top of his game and had complete confidence in the package underneath him. In 1983, Watson was ... Keep reading

In the last 10 years alone a wide range of F1-based documentaries have hit the market and now is the perfect time to capitalise on the recent craze for motorsport films. For F1 fans, re-watching a classic such as Grand Prix or discovering a new favourite in Ferrari: Race to Immortality is guaranteed to alleviate self-isolation cabin fever. These films are all available without leaving the ... Keep reading

The flamboyant Italian, who was boss at Renault at the time as well as Alonso's manager, says he was sceptical from the off about the situation his driver would find himself in. Speaking to F1's Beyond the Grid podcast, Briatore said: "He went to McLaren and this I was not happy [with] because this was not Schumi to go to Ferrari. This was Fernando to go to McLaren, and for Fernando, McLaren ... Keep reading

Flavio Briatore says he warned Fernando Alonso against going to McLaren in 2007 because he believed Lewis Hamilton was in the 'pocket' of team boss Ron Dennis

Coronavirus has caused sporting events around the world to be postponed and cancelled, with Formula 1, Formula E and MotoGP among them

From boxing to Formula 1, sports are reinventing the way they are played during coronavirus pandemic.

On paper, it sounded reasonable enough: Lola T97/30 chassis, Ford Zetec-R V8 engines and, most importantly, major corporate backing from Mastercard. But F1 teams don’t race on paper, and the reality was a total disaster. The driver of the project was Mastercard’s eagerness to launch the ‘F1 Club’ for card holders that was supposed to fund the team. It meant that the project was horribly ... Keep reading

The US-based Haas team name Brazilian Pietro Fittipaldi and Swiss Louis Deletraz as their official test and reserve drivers for this season.

Haas has today confirmed Pietro Fittipaldi and Louis Deletraz as its official test and reserve drivers.

Fittipaldi and Deletraz both made their F1 test debuts with Haas at the end of 2018, and were affiliated to the team last year in support of race drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen. Fittipaldi served as Haas’s test driver through 2019, while Deletraz was the team’s official simulator driver. Both will now share duties as the team’s test and reserve drivers in ... Keep reading

Haas has confirmed Pietro Fittipaldi and Louis Deletraz will serve as its official test and reserve drivers through the 2020 Formula 1 season

Only once previously in the 70-year history of the world championship has a race failed to happen when everyone was already on site. The difference is that at the 1985 Belgian GP the cars did at least take to the track, and a qualifying session took place before the race was called off on the Saturday evening. The reason for the postponement was a spectacular own goal by the Spa management ... Keep reading

Admitting that F1 - like much of the world - is in uncharted territory, Racing Point team boss, Otmar Szafnauer, confirms that work continues in the hope of a return to normality.

Promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix admits that a decision on whether the race will take place must be made by Easter.

The opening eight races of the 2020 F1 season have been called off as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has also prompted all 10 teams to agree on a three-week shutdown in the coming weeks. While F1 bosses remain hopeful of a 15-18-race season starting in the summer, Racing Point chief Szafnauer conceded there was no certainty as to when the sport would return to its usual ... Keep reading

McLaren reveals that team members who had been held in quarantine in Melbourne are now back in the UK.

The story of DAS is intriguing, as the system was only discovered during pre-season testing because F1 had decided to film the sessions live from Barcelona. Onboard footage captured Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas pushing and pulling on the steering wheel, and it immediately sent shockwaves through the F1 world. Since then Dual Axis Steering has become a major topic of discussion in the ... Keep reading

The McLaren staff quarantined in Melbourne as a result of a coronavirus case at the abandoned Australian Grand Prix are all back in the UK.

In the wake of a McLaren employee testing positive for coronavirus at the Australian Grand Prix, a further 14 team personnel were put in to quarantine for two weeks to ensure they had not been infected. Other staff, including racing director Andrea Stella, stayed in Melbourne to help offer support to their colleagues who were trapped in hotel rooms. But with the two-week self isolation ... Keep reading

Ferrari wasted a year "going nowhere" with Kimi Raikkonen in 2018 and should have promoted Charles Leclerc earlier, reckons former Formula 1 title winning team boss Flavio Briatore

McLaren has confirmed that all of its Formula 1 team members who remained in Australia because of coronavirus concerns have now safely returned home

Factories are shut, staff and team bosses are in lockdown in their homes, but worst of all the financial impact is looming large in terms of a big downturn in commercial rights income and sponsor dollars. As McLaren team principal Andrea Seidl said this week: "There is no escaping the severity of the pressures faced by the sport right now." But every crisis has opportunities and, for ... Keep reading

Coronavirus has caused sporting events around the world to be postponed and cancelled, with Formula 1, Formula E and MotoGP among them

(Click on the arrows on the images above to scroll through them) Of the bunch, Senna qualified highest – the future three-time world champion taking 17th on the grid, albeit over 5s off the pole time, but ahead of Toleman-Hart teammate Johnny Cecotto.  Brundle, whom Senna had beaten to the 1983 British Formula 3 title, would line up two places behind in 19th in his normally aspirated ... Keep reading

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The wretched shadow of CVC still hangs over F1, as JP Morgan warns that Liberty "could conceivably breach" loan covenant if sport remains in limbo.

Charles Leclerc doubts Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel will be destabilised by his expiring Ferrari contract through 2020, expecting the German to be "very strong"

While Leclerc proved himself to be one of F1's top stars last year after getting the call-up at Ferrari, Briatore thinks the Italian outfit should have moved earlier to give the Monegasque youngster more top line experience. Instead, when Ferrari had the chance to put Leclerc in its car for his rookie season rather than going to Sauber, it stuck with veteran Raikkonen instead. Speaking to ... Keep reading

Daniel Ricciardo says the cancellation of the Monaco Grand Prix "hurt" as the reality of the delayed start to the Formula 1 season begins to set in

Canadian Grand Prix organisers are "optimistic" but "realistic" over staging the race in Montreal as scheduled on 14 June.

Despite the rules stating that teams must continue using their 2020 chassis next season, McLaren has been given permission to make changes as it switches from Renault to Mercedes power units.

The opening eight races of the 2020 season have all been called off as a result of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, with the events in Australia and Monaco being cancelled completely. Monaco's cancellation was confirmed last Thursday, marking the first time since 1954 the principality will not host a grand prix. With most countries now enforcing self-isolation and lockdown on the public, F1 ... Keep reading

With no motorsport for the foreseeable future Formula 1 fans need to look elsewhere to feed their racing addiction over the coming months

As part of F1's push for sustainability, new rules – which were originally coming in 2021 but have now been delayed – will require teams to run their engines with a 10% blend of advanced sustainable ethanol. Work has already begun among F1's fuel suppliers to optimise the potential of the biofuel, and Ferrari's technical partner Shell has revealed a fascinating characteristic of the new ... Keep reading

Following this week's confirmation that the Azerbaijan GP has been postponed, Canada is currently the opening round of the 2020 Formula 1 world championship. Although not a fully permanent facility, Montreal has a little more time to make a final decision compared with Baku, where organisers have to allow almost three months to prepare the city centre venue. "As you can imagine I'm in ... Keep reading

Canadian Grand Prix promoter Francois Dumontier is "optimistic" the Montreal Formula 1 race can still take place in June, but accepts the event could join the list of postponements

McLaren pulled out of the Melbourne event, which was ultimately cancelled, after one of its team staff tested positive for COVID-19 the night before the race’s opening practice sessions were due to take place. A further 14 members of its staff were quarantined after being in close contact with that individual and also entered a 14-day isolation period, with some of McLaren’s senior race ... Keep reading

The McLaren Formula 1 team staff that had been quarantined in Melbourne due to coronavirus concerns since the aborted 2020 Australian Grand Prix will return to the UK this week

The McLaren staff quarantined in Melbourne as a result of a coronavirus case at the abandoned Australian Grand Prix are due to arrive home this week.

Coronavirus might mean uncertain times for Formula 1 with the world's sport postponed indefinitely, but there is still plenty of ways for fans to get a regular motorsport fix

Coronavirus might mean uncertain times for Formula 1 with the world's sport postponed indefinitely, but there is still plenty of ways for fans to get a regular motorsport fix

Formula 1's stable rules for 2020 were expected to lead to design convergence between the top teams, but there has still been room for divergence among their respective suspension designs

Following Gene Haas' admission that he could pull the plug on his F1 operation, Romain Grosjean applauds the American for his honesty.

Even before the events of Sepang ‘13, Vettel and Webber had endured a fractious relationship as teammates at Red Bull. Vettel was the first star to emerge from Red Bull’s in-house driver academy and had already led the team to three consecutive titles from 2010-12. Webber, meanwhile, was an external recruit and lost his chance to score a maiden world championship in 2010 when he threw away ... Keep reading

Haas told Motorsport.com recently that he wanted to be sure his squad had a chance of being competitive in the future if he was going to continue the huge investment required over the next five years. But while those comments left some uncertainty about the fate of Haas, Grosjean thinks that Haas' honesty should be applauded: as it now gives the team members a clear message about what needs to ... Keep reading

Coronavirus might mean uncertain times for Formula 1 with the world's sport postponed indefinitely, but there is still plenty of ways for fans to get a regular motorsport fix

The season-opening Formula 1 race was called off in sensational circumstances earlier this month, following a positive test for COVID-19 from a McLaren team member on the Thursday evening. While a majority vote from Formula 1 teams against racing effectively sealed the fate of the event, the roll-out of information on the Friday proved confusing for would-be racegoers. The first ... Keep reading

George Russell says he needs to be 'getting his elbows out' this year and stop "fannying around" at the back of the field

Mercedes surprised its rival during pre-season testing when it introduced the innovative concept that allows drivers to alter the toe angle of the front wheels by pushing or pulling the steering wheel. Ocon spent 2019 as Mercedes' reserve and simulator driver before signing a contract to race for Renault this year. The deal with the French squad meant Ocon was not allowed in the Mercedes ... Keep reading

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix, due to take place on 7 June, is postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

The current F1 campaign came under further delay on Monday due to the coronavirus pandemic, after June’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix was formally postponed – an expected announcement Motorsport.com first reported was likely on Sunday. This followed the cancellation of the Australian Grand Prix last week, with Bahrain, Vietnam, Holland and Spain postponed, and Monaco being cancelled ... Keep reading

The latest statement from F1 boss, Chase Carey sees the American insistent that the 2020 season will happen, albeit with a revised calendar of 15 - 18 races.

Formula 1 boss Chase Carey expects the 2020 season to consist of "15-18 races" once it gets underway, and will likely extend past its original November 29 end date

McLaren driver Lando Norris battles with popular streamer Jimmy Broadbent in the closing laps of F1's inaugural Virtual Grand Prix.

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The two separate events, which treated fans to three online races around the Sakhir track, were likely the first time that many had tuned into an online sim racing event. Having sat through the three hours of fun, here are the key things we took away from the evening's action. Read Also: Latifi stars as Bereznay and Bolukbasi win Veloce’s #NotTheBahGP Norris charges, as ... Keep reading

McLaren has confirmed that it will continue with plans to switch to Mercedes power units for 2021, despite chassis designs being frozen for the next Formula 1 season

Within the current storm of the coronavirus pandemic, the much-vaunted technical changes for the 2021 F1 season have been delayed by a year in response to the mandatory lockdowns and financial strains placed on the teams. Furthermore, the current 2020-spec chassis and gearbox designs will be frozen into 2021 to further limit costs. This was expected to be a problematic scenario for McLaren ... Keep reading

Coronavirus has caused sporting events around the world to be postponed and cancelled, with Formula 1, Formula E and MotoGP among them

And there couldn't be any clearer sign of this that with regards to what Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull have done at the front of their cars – with the placement of their steering assemblies, suspension arms and type of heave dampers all showing a different approach. In this article we will take a close look at what the teams have done, and why their approaches have ended up being so ... Keep reading