Ahead of the 2021 F1 season the former Renault team was rebranded to Alpine, the French manufacturer’s sportscar brand. As part of the rebrand, the management structure of the Enstone also received an overhaul under new Renault CEO Luca de Meo. PLUS: How Alpine’s cure to 2021 rules starts at the front Long-time Renault employee
After clinching the FIA Formula 2 title in 2020, Ferrari-backed Schumacher is graduating to F1 with Haas in 2021, 30 years after his father’s debut in 1991 with Jordan. Michael Schumacher went on to become the most successful driver in history with seven world titles, only recently matched by Lewis Hamilton, but Schumacher Jr. doesn’t
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all five days of MotoGP testing for 2021 have been confined to the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, while the opening two rounds of the campaign will also take place there. Yamaha has typically always gone well at both the Qatar test and grand prix in recent years, and
5:19 AM ET Sebastian Vettel completed his first laps for Aston Martin on Thursday, teasing a new race helmet in the process. Four-time world champion Vettel, who has joined after six years at Ferrari, drove at Silverstone during a filming day. The green car was unveiled in an online launch on Wednesday. Of note was
Bahrain has announced it will allow fans to attend the Formula 1 season opener if they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or have recovered from the virus. After running behind closed doors last year in November, the Bahrain Grand Prix is set to welcome fans back to the grandstands for the 2021 opening round on
Led by technical director Tom Fowler, Toyota Gazoo Racing is developing the all-new car for the 2022 hybrid regulations around the road-going GR Yaris architecture. It will go up against a new car from M-Sport Ford that team principal Richard Millener revealed has been in development since the end of 2019, while Hyundai Motorsport has
Aprilia runs its factory operation in conjunction with the Gresini Racing Team, having done so since its return to the premier class in 2015. But the Aprilia Gresini team will go forth in 2021 without its talisman leader Fausto Gresini, who tragically died last month following a lengthy battle with COVID-19. Aprilia is one of
6:00 AM ET Niamh Lewis For over 20 years, Claire Williams would pack a suitcase almost every other weekend and leave for a grand prix. But when she returned home from the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September, she unpacked for the final time and unplugged from Formula One following her decision to step
Four-time world champion Vettel has joined the Aston Martin squad following its rebrand for the 2021 season, as the British manufacturer returns to F1 after over 60 years away. Vettel and team-mate Lance Stroll took part in the launch of the team’s new Aston Martin AMR21 F1 car on Wednesday before hitting the track on
The LMDh rules will take over from the current Daytona Prototype international regulations from 2023 and allow manufacturers to race the same car in both IMSA and the World Endurance Championship, including the Le Mans 24 Hours. While fellow DPi entrant Mazda has said it won’t continue beyond 2021, reigning IMSA manufacturers’ champion Acura pledged
As it is a concession manufacturer, Aprilia is one of only two manufacturers, after KTM, allowed to start the 2021 campaign with a completely new bike as COVID-19 cost-saving rules mean non-concession marques have to carry over their 2020 engines. Despite finishing last in the constructors’ table, Aleix Espargaro repeatedly stated the 2020 RS-GP was
12:57 PM ET Tickets have gone on sale for Formula One’s season opening Bahrain Grand Prix but are limited to individuals who have either been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have recovered from the virus. The race will take place on March 28 and kick off this year’s 23-race season. Formula One has always maintained
A two-year ban for Russian athletes at world championship sporting events was announced in December by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The ban related to state-sponsored doping and cover-ups at the 2014 Winter Olympics following investigations by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which had recommended a four-year ban. The Russian Automobile Federation confirmed in
Fittipaldi, who will also be continuing as Haas F1’s test driver this season, will be returning to the team with whom he made his IndyCar debut in 2018. That season was disrupted after just one race for the Miami-born Brazilian when a car failure in a World Endurance Championship event at Spa-Francorchamps pitched him into
Despite winning half of last year’s races, Yamaha failed to win any of the three championships on offer, with its 2020 M1 riders besieged by various issues with the bike, which led to wildly inconsistent form. After leading for much of the campaign, Fabio Quartararo faded to eighth in the standings over the final six
7:44 AM ET Taking the Schumacher surname back into Formula One this season will be more a source of pride than pressure, Michael’s son Mick said on Thursday. The 21-year-old German, whose father won seven world championships including five with Ferrari, makes his F1 race debut with Haas in Bahrain on March 28. “I’m very
Vettel finished 13th in the points last year, his worst position since his rookie BMW/Toro Rosso part-season in 2007. His tally of 33 points last year was barely one third of that team-mate Charles Leclerc scored, and Vettel admitted he considered retirement before signing with Aston Martin for 2021. But Szafnauer believes he can create
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10:32 AM ET Tom Brady will be cheering for Aston Martin in Formula One this year. Brady appeared at the British manufacturer’s launch event for its new car, the AMR21. Aston Martin is back in F1 for the first time since 1960, having been rebranded from its former guise, Racing Point. Lance Stroll and Sebastian
The Silverstone-based team is embarking on an all-new era under the moniker of the famous British sportscar manufacturer, and has laid down lofty ambitions for what it wants to achieve in grand prix racing. Speaking as the covers came off the green, black and pink AMR21, team principal Otmar Szafnauer said that the ambitions for
The trio took part in a Goodyear tyre test on Tuesday to shakedown the tyre selection for NASCAR’s debut at the 20-turn, 3.41-mile road course. All three NASCAR national series – Cup, Xfinity and Trucks – will compete on the course in Austin, Texas, for the first time on 21-23 May. Each driver described the
Last year, the French car manufacturer elected to delay the introduction of a new engine to 2022 as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. It means it is using just an upgraded engine for this season, but that has given it extra time to evaluate wider scale changes for next season. One of the ideas
The nine-time grand prix world champion has been moved out of Yamaha’s works squad and placed into the satellite Sepang Racing Team on a factory contract. With his current deal only for the 2021 season, Rossi’s MotoGP future beyond this year is uncertain – with SRT boss Razlan Razali revealing this week that the Italian
11:58 AM ET Sebastian Vettel is ready to move on from the disappointment of last season now that he has joined the rebranded Aston Martin team for 2021. 1 Related Vettel finished 13th out of 20 drivers in last year’s championship standings, scoring at third of the points of his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc. It
The green and black livery– with those streaks of pink – is certain to stand out when battle commences in Bahrain later this month. But equally, the unveiling marked the end of a long journey that Aston Martin has made in coming up with the exact colours that will carry the British sportscar manufacturer’s return
F1 is currently establishing details for the running of sprint races at three grands prix in 2021, staged on Saturdays to set the grid for the Sunday race. The proposal to hold sprint races in Canada, Italy and Brazil received “broad support” from teams at the latest F1 Commission meeting, but requires further details to
6:01 AM ET Fernando Alonso is fit and ‘fully operational’ after jaw surgery and will be fine for Formula One’s pre-season testing in Bahrain, his Alpine team boss said on Tuesday. The double world champion fractured his jaw in a collision with a car while cycling on a road near his home in Switzerland last
Davide Brivio says it was “not easy” to leave Suzuki’s MotoGP title-winning squad to become Alpine’s Formula 1 racing director, but thought he would regret not making the move. As part of the overhaul of the Renault works F1 squad and rebranding as Alpine for 2021, the team announced a new leadership structure in January,
10:18 AM ET Alpine has revealed the car Fernando Alonso will drive on his return to Formula One in 2021. The rebranded Renault team will welcome back the two-time world champion as teammate of Esteban Ocon. Alonso has been out of F1 since leaving at the conclusion of the 2018 season. Former Red Bull and
The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the