The FIA has confirmed the mandatory shutdown for all Formula 1 teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been extended. After the opening eight races of the 2020 season were called off, F1 teams agreed last month to bring the usual August shutdown period forward to free up more time in the summer for races
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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
All six MotoGP manufacturers will meet with each other this week to discuss cost-saving measures, including a freeze on engine development, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has shut down countries worldwide having infected more than 1.3 million people, has forced the opening eight rounds of the 2020 MotoGP season
The Canadian Grand Prix has officially joined the list of postponed 2020 Formula 1 races as the COVID-19 crisis continues to impact sport worldwide. Scheduled for 14 June, the Montreal event is the ninth to be lost thus far, leaving the French GP on 28 June on the bubble as the first race of this
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
The MotoGP season has been delayed until mid-June at the earliest, after the Italian and Catalan Grands Prix were officially postponed on Tuesday. The coronavirus pandemic, which has infected well over a million people worldwide as more countries begin to hit the peak of the outbreak, has played havoc with the MotoGP calendar. After the
Mercedes has revealed that its Formula 1 engine facility at Brixworth has been entirely repurposed for the production of breathing aids to assist COVID-19 patients. Members of Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrain worked with engineers from University College London to reverse engineer Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines that received approval for NHS usage last week.
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
Toto Wolff says he is committed to Mercedes in the “short term”, but expects to stay at the team amid speculation that he may join Aston Martin’s Formula 1 project. The Mercedes motorsport boss’s future has been the subject of intense speculation for months, with his current contract running out at the end of 2020.
10:32 AM ET Formula One’s second Virtual Racing Series event featured a former world champion, a World Cup winning cricketer and five of the existing grid. 1 Related 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 characters. Listen
Aprilia rider Andrea Iannone’s 18-month ban for a doping violation has put his MotoGP career in serious doubt, though he is now in the process of appealing the ruling. After failing a doping test during last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix weekend, Iannone has been under FIM-ordered suspension since December while a hearing was carried out
IndyCar has cancelled the Detroit Grand Prix, while turning some existing events into double-headers and adding an October race at the Indianapolis road course as part of a revised calendar. IndyCar announced on Monday that the Detroit GP – which had become the new 2020 season-opening event following the shift of the GP of Indy
Williams has confirmed it has placed a number of its Formula 1 staff on furlough as well as introducing pay cuts for its drivers and senior management members. As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact F1, teams are anticipating financial difficulties onset by a lack of revenue due to the cancelled races. McLaren was
1:19 PM ET Associated Press Roger Penske has canceled the doubleheader race at Detroit and adjusted the IndyCar schedule Monday as the series remains on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Penske told The Associated Press he had no choice but to cancel the two races at Belle Isle because Michigan is under a stay-at-home order
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Johann Zarco believes he will be “less lost” than the rest of the MotoGP grid when racing resumes having already had more time away from riding than his rivals. The 2020 MotoGP season is on indefinite hiatus right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the cancellation of the Qatar Grand Prix and the
McLaren Formula 1 CEO Zak Brown has cautioned that the series could lose as many as four teams if the coronavirus crisis “isn’t handled the right way”. With no races currently taking place until at least June, after the opening eight rounds were either cancelled or postponed, all teams are facing a financial squeeze. They
5:58 AM ET Former McLaren boss Ron Dennis has donated £1 million to help frontline National Health Service (NHS) workers during the coronavirus pandemic. 1 Related Dennis’ family foundation has raised the money to support his newly-created initiative, SalutetheNHS, which aims to to provide food to key NHS staff as they fight the spread of
Ex-MotoGP star Sete Gibernau says his infamous clash with Valentino Rossi at Jerez in 2005 “opened the door” for contact to become an accepted part of grand prix racing. Nine-time premier class race-winner Gibernau engaged in a bitter rivalry with Rossi during his career in the early-mid 2000s, with the last-corner tangle at Jerez –
Formula 1 could impose an engine development freeze on the current powerunits as an emergency measure if there needs to be a further dramatic reduction in costs to save teams. With the coronavirus pandemic having a major financial impact on everyone involved in the series, discussions are already under way between the competitors, the FIA
5:03 PM ET Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won his debut Virtual Grand Prix after dominating Sunday’s online esports race among F1 drivers past and present. F1 is holding an online race in lieu of every postponed or cancelled grand prix this year, and Leclerc was among six current F1 drivers taking part on Sunday evening. But
Ducati believes it will be difficult to find 10 countries able to host a race this season due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has offered up a radical alternate solution. The opening six round of the 2020 MotoGP campaign have been either postponed or cancelled, with the originally scheduled seventh and eighth rounds at Mugello
Ex-McLaren Formula 1 chief Ron Dennis has announced a new initiative to help support NHS frontline workers during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Dennis, who was at the helm of McLaren from 1981 until 2017, is spearheading the new initiative called SalutetheNHS.org, that will provide high-quality meals to NHS workers for the next three months. The
With the sun shining magnificently, the second Blancpain Race Weekend took place at the world-renowned Silverstone race track. This time, Blancpain.tv takes you on an exclusive “Behind the Scenes” tour and let you discover the race from another angle. From the Timekeeping office to the Race Control tower, this episode will show you how a
Multiple MotoGP race winner Max Biaggi admits he “misses” his grand prix days and his intense rivalry with seven-time premier class world champion Valentino Rossi. Biaggi stepped up to the premier class in 1998 as reigning four-time 250cc world champion, winning on his 500cc debut in Japan, before going onto win a further 12 grands
Lewis Hamilton took just two runs of his debut McLaren Formula 1 test to show his rivals he was going to be a “massive problem”, Pedro de la Rosa revealed. The British driver was handed his first run in an official test by McLaren in September 2006, just days after his title-winning GP2 Series campaign
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Due to the enforced racing hiatus by the coronavirus pandemic, MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports has announced a financial package to sustain the paddock. Last week, Dorna confirmed it would be offering financial assistance to all independent MotoGP teams – LCR, Pramac, Avintia, Petronas SRT, Tech3 and Gresini Aprilia – as well as the squads in
Lando Norris says McLaren will need to consider Williams in its strategy planning heading into each race through 2020, believing the team is now within the midfield battle. Williams spent the entirety of the 2019 season languishing at the back of the field as it failed to compete with the other midfield teams, scoring just
5:52 PM ET Associated Press Scott McLaughlin’s real IndyCar debut is on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Australian V8 SuperCars champion isn’t letting that stop him from learning how to virtually drive the cars. McLaughlin won IndyCar’s virtual race from virtual Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, the second race in the series’ attempt