Formula 1

Sergio Perez looks poised to secure a seat with Red Bull for the 2021 Formula 1 season, with an announcement set to be made on Friday. Red Bull had vowed to make a swift decision about whether or not to stick with Alex Albon, after the Thai driver struggled to match team-mate Max Verstappen throughout

The FIA has updated the Formula 1 sporting regulations related to tyre usage that meant George Russell risked being disqualified in Sakhir after being fitted with Valtteri Bottas’s tyres. Russell’s car was accidentally fitted with the front two mediums from a set of Bottas’s tyres at the Sakhir Grand Prix earlier this month during his

The World Motor Sport Council has approved the 23-race calendar for the 2021 Formula 1 season, with Vietnam’s April date slot still remaining blank. F1 unveiled its provisional calendar for next season last month, listing a record-breaking 23 races as it bids to return to a more regular schedule following the disruption caused by the

Formula 1 will remain at Interlagos for another five years after a new deal was announced on Wednesday, renaming the race the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. F1 had been due to move the race in Brazil from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro for 2021 after agreeing a deal in principal with new promoters, pending

Daniel Ricciardo believes Formula 1 should consider tweaking the layout of the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, saying the entertainment in its races can be “a bit grim”. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix has served as F1’s season finale since 2014, and hosted the final round of the revised 2020 calendar last weekend. But

Callum Ilott has been confirmed as Ferrari’s Formula 1 test driver for next season, after finishing as Formula 2 runner-up to Mick Schumacher this year. Ilott scored five pole positions and three race wins on his way to second place in this year’s F2 championship, and with Schumacher stepping up to F1 as F2 champion

The case brought by Dmitry Mazepin’s company Uralkali against the administrators of the Force India Formula 1 team in the High Court in London has been dismissed. However the Russian chemical company has not given up its claims, and says it will seek to appeal the judgement. Mazepin, father of recently-signed Haas F1 driver Nikita,

Formula 1 race director Michael Masi has explained the decision to delay the stewards’ investigation into Carlos Sainz Jr’s alleged slow pitlane entry in Abu Dhabi. McLaren driver Sainz was placed under investigation by the race stewards in the F1 season finale for a possible slow entry to the pitlane, holding up Racing Point’s Lance

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says a decision on the second seat at the Red Bull Formula 1 team alongside Max Verstappen will be taken before Christmas. Incumbent Alex Albon, who is in competition for the drive with Sergio Perez, was given until the end of the season to prove his case, with the

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andreas Seidl thinks it is too early for his team to challenge Mercedes and Red Bull in 2021, despite finishing third in the constructors’ championship. The Woking-based outfit pipped rival Racing Point for the best-of-the-rest slot behind the top two teams in the F1 season finale in Abu Dhabi last

The final round of the 2020 Formula 1 season may not have been the most exciting of the year, but was significant for multiple reasons as chapters came to a close and warning shots were fired for 2021. LUKE SMITH recaps the major talking points in Abu Dhabi Formula 1’s strangest of all seasons came

Sebastian Vettel says his final Formula 1 outing for Ferrari formed an “emotional day”, as the four-time world champion finished 14th in the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Vettel was given a guard of honour by his Ferrari mechanics as he left his pit garage ahead of the race, which ended in disappointment for the

Toto Wolff said Mercedes’ defeat to Max Verstappen in the season-ending Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix acted as “a slap on the wrist” for the team. Mercedes swept to a seventh consecutive set of drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 2020, ending the season with 13 victories from 17 races. The team was chasing its

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, winning ahead of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton as Formula 1’s 2020 season ended with a straightforward race. At the start, the top three appeared to launch equally well, with Verstappen moving to the middle of the track from pole to ward off any threat

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff say that Lewis Hamilton is fit to race in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, but it’s down to the driver to make the final call. Hamilton spent 10 days in isolation in Bahrain after testing positive for COVID-19 soon after the first of the two races there, and he was

McLaren is poised to announce the sale of a stake in its Formula 1 team to American investors ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. A deal, first revealed by Sky News, has been agreed with US-based investors MSP Sports Capital leading a consortium that will take a 15% stake in the team – which

Max Verstappen stunned Mercedes Formula 1 duo Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton to take Red Bull’s first pole of 2020 as he topped qualifying at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Bottas edged Hamilton on their final runs as the world champion returned to qualifying action following his absence from the Sakhir GP after testing positive

Kimi Raikkonen insists there was “nothing scary” about his spectacular Formula 1 engine fire in second practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Finn’s Alfa Romeo car suffered an engine failure towards the end of the evening session, and was brought to a halt with flames pouring out the back. A radio message from

George Russell says it was a “strange feeling” learning he would not be racing for Mercedes in Abu Dhabi on Thursday before returning to Williams for Formula 1 practice. Russell raced for Mercedes at the Sakhir Grand Prix after seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton tested positive for COVID-19, and came close to scoring his maiden

The Williams Formula 1 team says that George Russell’s return at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix feels like he has “come home”. Russell was loaned out to Mercedes for last weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix, as a temporary replacement for Lewis Hamilton who was struck down with coronavirus. Despite not having driven the car before, Russell

Lewis Hamilton has been given the all clear to return to Formula 1 action after passing negative coronavirus tests in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, meaning George Russell will rejoin Williams. The world champion was forced to miss last weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix because of being infected with the virus, but tests that have taken place

Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri has announced his shock retirement from the Italian sportscar manufacturer with immediate effect. The move, which has been cited for ‘personal reasons’, has come out of the blue and Ferrari has not yet had time to sort out who will replace him. Ferrari said that its chairman John Elkann would take

Haas Formula 1 chief Gunther Steiner says the team is taking the recent incident with Nikita Mazepin “very seriously”, but has asked for privacy as it addresses the matter. A video emerged earlier this week showing 2021 Haas F1 driver Mazepin groping a woman’s chest in the back of the car after it was uploaded

Formula 1 completes its triple-header finale of the reshuffled 2020 calendar with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Following a pair of dramatic and unpredictable races in Bahrain, the F1 paddock has made the quick hop over to the Yas Marina Circuit for the 2020 finale in Abu Dhabi. As things stand, Mercedes is waiting to

Mercedes says it will do “everything we can” for Lewis Hamilton to race in Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as it waits on news of his COVID-19 recovery. Seven-time world champion Hamilton was forced to miss last weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix after testing positive for COVID-19, paving the way for Williams driver George Russell

Red Bull Racing has named Juri Vips and Sebastien Buemi as its line-up for next week’s Formula 1 post season test at Abu Dhabi. Red Bull’s long-time test and reserve driver Buemi and 20-year-old Vips will each drive a 2020 RB16 for the entire one-day test. Vip recently joined the Swiss veteran as one of

Ferrari’s hopes of giving Carlos Sainz Jr an early Formula 1 run at the Abu Dhabi young driver test have been dashed, after the FIA turned down its request. The one-day run that takes place on the Tuesday after the Abu Dhabi season finale had originally been intended for young drivers only. The rules surrounding

Mercedes Formula 1 trackside engineer Andrew Shovlin says George Russell’s ability to handle pressure during the Sakhir Grand Prix was a standout feature of his weekend. Williams driver Russell was drafted in by Mercedes to replace Lewis Hamilton for the second Bahrain round after the reigning world champion tested positive for COVID-19. Russell topped Friday’s

McLaren boss Andreas Seidl says the late safety car period in the Sakhir Grand Prix robbed Carlos Sainz Jr of a shot at a Formula 1 podium finish. Seidl says Sainz was “on the hunt” on fresh tyres and was not able to use the potential of the car over the last part of the

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff thinks Lewis Hamilton is “on the right track” to return to Formula 1 in Abu Dhabi, but confesses he is in a “pretty ugly” situation. Ever since his positive coronavirus test on the Monday after the Bahrain Grand Prix, Hamilton has hidden from the public spotlight and little has been revealed