1:51 PM ET Renault have furloughed most of their British-based Formula One race team until the end of May due to the coronavirus pandemic, the French carmaker announced on Friday. Three other British-based teams — McLaren, Williams and Racing Point — have already announced they are furloughing staff with drivers also taking pay cuts. Renault
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6:58 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live On one Sunday in April 1993, Ayrton Senna passed four cars on the first lap — in the rain — and took
5:03 AM ET The all-electric Formula E series has postponed for a year the introduction of its new Gen2 Evo car as part of cost-saving measures agreed unanimously by teams, manufacturers and the governing body. The series said in a statement on Thursday it had acted to promote the long-term financial stability of the championship
Apr 6, 2020 Former McLaren boss Ron Dennis has donated £1 million as part of a new initiative he has created to help National Health Service frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. 1 Related Dennis’ family foundation has raised the money to support SalutetheNHS, which aims to to provide food to key NHS staff as
5:43 AM ET Formula One is facing a new reality and must make deeper cost cuts to ensure the sport emerges intact from the coronavirus crisis, FIA president Jean Todt has said. Nine Formula One Grand Prix races have been cancelled or postponed since the start of the season in Melbourne last month and the
3:39 AM ET It is likely the new Formula One season will get underway without spectators as the sport’s organisers remain optimistic about salvaging as many as 19 races this year. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the first nine races being either postponed or cancelled, leaving the 2020 F1 calendar in tatters. 1 Related
2:02 PM ET Formula One’s 10 teams have agreed to extend their sport-wide factory shutdown by another two weeks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In order to save costs and free up potential race weekends in August, the teams had already agreed to move the traditional two-week August shutdown forward and extend it
7:04 AM ET Mercedes has repurposed its Formula One engine factory in Brixworth, England, into a facility to produce breathing aids to assist with the fight against coronavirus. Mercedes and University College London (UCL) have worked together to reverse-engineer a device known as Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). It is hoped the device will ease
7:38 AM ET The Canadian Grand Prix scheduled for June 14 has been postponed on request of its organisers because of the coronavirus pandemic, further delaying the start of the Formula One season. Montreal’s Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve is a semi-permanent circuit, and organisers had to make a call by this weekend due to the
4:22 AM ET Formula One has furloughed 50 percent of its staff until the end of the season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with CEO Chase Carey among senior management to have taken a pay cut. F1 employs over 450 people across two locations in the UK, their headquarters in London and the TV