7:32 PM ET McLaren became the first Formula One team to furlough staff because of the coronavirus on Wednesday, with drivers Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz joining senior management in taking a pay cut. The sportscar maker said in a statement the temporary three-month wage reduction was part of wider cost-cutting measures due to the
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6:12 AM ET It remains to be seen whether Formula One manages to arrange a championship season in 2020 once the world starts to return to normality after the coronavirus pandemic. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal their favourite of the paddock’s most
Apr 1, 2020 Reuters and ESPN The coronavirus crisis could lead to Formula One’s already postponed 2021 rules revolution being pushed back another year to 2023. The package has so far been delayed to 2022 to save costs at a time when the sport and teams are facing a significant loss of revenues due to
6:47 AM ET The first eight races of the 2020 Formula One season have either been postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but once it is safe to do so Formula One is hoping to stage a 15-to-18-race calendar over the remainder of the year. What is left of the existing calendar is
9:01 AM ET In addition to delaying Formula One’s next major rule change to 2022, motor racing’s governing body, the FIA, has banned all aerodynamic development of those cars until the end of this year. F1 was planning to herald a new era of racing in 2021 with heavily revised technical regulations aimed at encouraging
12:45 PM ET McLaren driver Lando Norris will shave his head after successfully raising $12,000 for the fight against coronavirus through his Twitch feed. Norris amassed 136,000 viewers on Saturday evening as he played F1 2019, Rocket League and iRacing. The British driver, Formula One’s rookie of the year last season, has already taken part
6:48 AM ET Red Bull’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko considered putting a camp together where his drivers could get infected with the coronavirus before the 2020 Formula One season resumed. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal their favourite of the paddock’s most animated
5:07 AM ET In the space of just 10 days, University College London (UCL) and the Mercedes’ Formula One engine department were able to reverse engineer a breathing aid so that it can be rapidly produced to treat coronavirus patients. The device, known as Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), is the sort regularly used by
6:32 PM ET Formula One could shorten grand prix weekends and race into January if that helps salvage a season ravaged by the coronavirus, according to Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto. The opening race in Australia on March 15 was canceled and the showcase Monaco Grand Prix in May has also been scrapped – the first
7:32 AM ET Bernie Ecclestone holds little hope of Formula One racing this season due to the coronavirus pandemic and said he would have declared it game over already. The 89-year-old former F1 supremo, speaking to Reuters from the seclusion of his locked-down farm in Brazil, also saw no chance of the British Grand Prix