Ferrari is unlikely to rebound quickly from its poor campaign in 2020, Charles Leclerc said ahead of the first race of the new season. Leclerc salvaged two podium finishes from an otherwise poor campaign for Ferrari last year, in which they slumped to a 40-year low in the constructors’ championship. With limited changes permitted to…
Red Bull’s senior advisor, Helmut Marko has often said in recent years that they had the best winter break ever, but in 2021 that really seems to be the case. The winter test for Red Bull Racing went very well, whereas for Mercedes it was a lot less. Marko isn’t ready to celebrate just yet….
Toto Wolff has hinted that Mercedes is about to unleash a new technical innovation on the world of Formula 1. The narrative heading into this weekend’s season opener in Bahrain is that the previously dominant team has fallen behind Red Bull over the winter. “Honestly, I think so,” seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton told…
Four time world champion has chosen to name his Aston Martin Formula 1 car after the first James Bond girl, Honey Ryder. The 33-year-old who has joined the rebranded Aston Martin squad for the 2021 season following his departure from Ferrari, revealed ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix the name he has given to…
Haas boss Guenther Steiner says new components planned for next month’s Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will be the last brought to the VF-21. Haas has previously outlined its decision to all but abandon development of its 2021 car with a view to focusing its resources on overhauled 2022 regulations. Steiner emphasised earlier in…
Lewis Hamilton is no longer the approachable chap of yesteryear with Martin Brundle saying he is “confused” by the champ’s demeanour during interviews. Brundle has had a front row seat for Hamilton’s Formula 1 career, commentating on it from lap 1 in 2007 all the way through to the Briton’s seventh World title. However, during…
Suzuki Ecstar MotoGP Team has announced that it has reached an agreement with Estrella Galicia 0,0 to start a journey together from 2021 onwards, after signing a contract that will bind both companies for the next seasons in a multi-year agreement. This partnership between the companies, who both have long and illustrious involvements with motorcycle…
Claire Williams’ husband Mark Harris has called Williams Racing’s omission from Season 3 of ‘Drive to Survive’ a “disgrace” and “a total lack of respect” to F1 legend Sir Frank Williams. Netflix premiered the third season of its popular docu-series dedicated to F1 on March 18, and the ten-episode saga covering the eventful 2020 campaign…
Sixty British parliamentarians joined campaigners on Wednesday in urging Formula One to commission an independent inquiry into the human rights impact of the Bahrain Grand Prix.Rights groups said in an open letter to chief executive Stefano Domenicali that they also wanted him to seek “redress for those victims of abuses directly linked to your activities…
Romain Grosjean will maintain a link to Haas in 2021 after agreeing to manage its Formula 1 Esports team through his own R8G Esports outfit. Grosjean made his final grand prix start for Haas at last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix, where injuries sustained in a fiery accident forced him out of the remaining two rounds….
Max Verstappen says he was “amazed” by the amount of close racing that took place in F1 in 2016 when revisiting footage from that season in contrast to today’s on-track action. Verstappen has often voiced his frustration with the current generation of cars whose aerodynamics hinder a driver’s ability to closely follow a rival and…
Red Bull Racing impressed everyone during the winter test in Bahrain. Martin Brundle sees opportunities for Max Verstappen, but also states that a flawless year is needed to beat Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton. Formula 1 has been dominated by Mercedes for the past seven years, but after the winter test in Bahrain there finally seems…
As a result of worldwide demonstrations against racism, Formula 1 also decided to make a statement in 2020. All drivers appeared on the grid prior to each Grand Prix wearing an ‘End Racism’ T-shirt to draw attention to this problem. Formula 1 also started to focus more on diversity, something they will continue to do…
Formula 1’s drivers will continue to be free to take a knee or show other ways of support ahead of Grands Prix in the 2021 season under the sport’s We Race As One initiative. Last year drivers gathered at the front of the grid in a show of solidarity against racism, with world champion Lewis…
Marc Marquez announces he will miss both 2021 MotoGP season openers at the Losail International Circuit on March 28 and April 4. With the first race of the 2021 MotoGP season only six days away, Marc Marquez has taken the decision to miss the opening round at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar on the…
Formula 1 have announced a new partnership with Global Citizen, with the international advocacy organisation becoming a charity partner for the WeRaceAsOne platform. WeRaceAsOne was launched last June ahead of F1’s return following the delay to the start of the season due to the coronavirus pandemic as the series looks to tackle major issues in…
