1:25 PM ET Charles Leclerc has downplayed Ferrari’s chances of challenging for the Formula One title in 2020, saying he is all but certain its current car is a step down on its predecessor. 1 Related Ferrari already has confirmed it will not bring an upgrade to the two Austria events which will start the
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11:49 AM ET Sebastian Vettel has revealed that Ferrari did not offer him a contract for 2021 and says he was “surprised” when team principal Mattia Binotto phoned him to tell him he would not be driving for Ferrari next year. 1 Related Vettel, a four-time world champion, has been at Ferrari since 2015 but
8:03 AM ET When the lights go out and racing starts at Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, it will have been 217 days — or 31 weeks — since the chequered flag last fell on an Formula One championship event. The coronavirus pandemic delayed the 2020 season by nearly four months from its original starting point
12:31 PM ET Formula One’s return to racing in Austria this weekend will get underway with new protocols in place aimed at reducing the chance of a coronavirus outbreak in the paddock. But while the stringent measures should ensure positive cases do not spread, as long as Covid-19 is still in transmission there remains a
6:29 AM ET Former Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin has been confirmed as Renault’s reserve driver for the 2020 season. 1 Related Sirotkin was Renault’s reserve driver in 2017 and 2019, but the role has greater significance this year with the potential for drivers sitting out of sessions because of positive coronavirus tests. The new F1
4:14 AM ET The McLaren Group, which includes the Formula One team, has arranged a £150 million financing facility with the National Bank of Bahrain (NBB), the Gulf bank said on Monday. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the company hard, with sales of its supercars plunging during a factory shutdown. It announced 1,200 redundancies in
Feb 29, 2020 It’s been 18 weeks since Formula One’s pre-season testing in Spain, but with factories in lockdown for nine of those weeks it’s still the best performance guide we have before track running gets underway in Austria ahead of the first race of 2020 this weekend. Below is a look back at how
11:14 AM ET Ferrari is bracing itself for a slow start to the 2020 Formula One season after its poor performance in pre-season testing prompted a rethink of the car’s development that will not bear fruit before the third round in Hungary. As a result, Ferrari will run the same specification of car it used
9:01 AM ET McLaren’s Formula One future was never in doubt despite a cash crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and now resolved by a fresh injection of funds, team principal Andreas Seidl said on Tuesday. The National Bank of Bahrain announced on Monday a £150 million financing facility for the McLaren Group, which
11:10 AM ET Three months after the Australian Grand Prix was cancelled, Formula One is finally ready to start the 2020 season. 2 Related The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed F1’s short- and long-term future, with a raft of rule changes agreed in F1’s elongated off-season, including the decision to delay the big rule change