Jun 4, 2020 Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte and AC Milan’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma will be up against eight regular Formula One drivers in the sport’s penultimate virtual grand prix on Sunday. The ESPN F1 Podcast team looks back on one of Formula One’s most intense rivalry, with behind-the-scenes stories and analysis of the major
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6:12 AM ET After Covid-19 lockdown and months of virtual racing, McLaren’s Lando Norris has got behind the wheel for real by taking a Formula Three car for a spin at Silverstone. 1 Related The 20-year-old Briton linked up with his old Carlin team this week as he prepared for the much-delayed season to start
11:32 AM ET Mercedes has scheduled two days of private testing for its drivers at Silverstone next week as the team aims to prepare for Formula One’s return to racing next month. 1 Related Race drivers Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton will drive a day each in a two-year old Mercedes F1 car, with Bottas
4:34 AM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has outlined the reasons why his team decided to block a plan to shake up Formula One’s qualifying procedure at two races this year. The F1 season is due to get underway on July 5 in Austria after a three month break due to the coronavirus pandemic,
7:16 AM ET In the latest episode of the ESPN F1 Podcast, Alexis Nunes is joined by F1 journalists Laurence Edmondson and Nate Saunders to look back at the most explosive F1 rivalry of recent years. Listen to full-length podcast by clicking here Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were teammates at Mercedes between 2013 and
12:19 PM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has refused to rule out signing Sebastian Vettel for next year, but says his priority remains with keeping the drivers he currently has at the team. 1 Related Vettel, a four-time world champion, recently announced he would leave Ferrari at the end of the year, putting himself
5:28 AM ET Formula One has confirmed it will not go ahead with plans to include reverse-grid qualifying races at select grands prix this year, but says it is still open to experimentation with weekend formats. 1 Related F1’s newly-released European schedule features consecutive races at the same circuit in Austria and Great Britain and
5:34 PM ET A driver testing positive for coronavirus would not automatically see a race cancelled when Formula One gets back under way next month, the sport’s CEO Chase Carey has said. 1 Related On Tuesday, Formula One announced plans to kick off its new season on July 5 in Austria as the start of
4:11 PM ET Six-time Formula One motor racing world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Tuesday he felt “completely overcome with rage” as he urged people to speak out against racism and stand up for justice. The Briton had slammed his sport on Sunday for its silence over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black
5:09 AM ET Formula One has announced the first eight dates of its rescheduled calendar as the sport aims to return to racing on July 5 in Austria. 1 Related The first ten races of the original 2020 calendar were either cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, forcing F1 to reschedule as many