While Formula 1’s championship battle last year was not the closest in history, the season did produce a series of sensational races. The Italian Grand Prix, which has been re-run on F1’s channels today, was one such classic, as Charles Leclerc brilliantly held off Lewis Hamilton to claim an emotional win just a week after
7:17 AM ET Ferrari blocked motor racing’s governing body, the FIA, from releasing the details behind the controversial settlement over the Italian team’s engine. Nate Saunders talks to Rudy van Buren, who was propelled to a McLaren F1 simulator role through his competitive racing in esports, to talk about the industry and how it can
Renault has put the majority of the Formula 1 staff at its Enstone factory on furlough in a bid to try to protect the team’s future in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. With all F1 teams facing cashflow problems because of the lack of racing, a number of outfits have already moved to make
5:03 AM ET The all-electric Formula E series has postponed for a year the introduction of its new Gen2 Evo car as part of cost-saving measures agreed unanimously by teams, manufacturers and the governing body. The series said in a statement on Thursday it had acted to promote the long-term financial stability of the championship
Join Stuart Codling for the second Autosport Formula 1 Pub Quiz! To play along, get your pens and paper at the ready and don’t forget to write your answers in the comments too! There will be five rounds of 10 questions, ranging from simple to super hard (those should be the new tyre compounds!), designed
1:51 PM ET Renault have furloughed most of their British-based Formula One race team until the end of May due to the coronavirus pandemic, the French carmaker announced on Friday. Three other British-based teams — McLaren, Williams and Racing Point — have already announced they are furloughing staff with drivers also taking pay cuts. Renault
Cal Crutchlow admits “there’s no reason why I won’t be racing” in MotoGP in 2021, having previously said that he expected his current contract to be his last. The LCR rider stepped up to the premier class from World Superbikes in 2011 with Tech3, and has gone onto win three races in that time. Currently
Ex-Formula 1 driver and inaugural Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr is considering a return to NASCAR, having raced in its three lead categories after his F1 career ended. Since losing his Jaguar FE seat to Alex Lynn midway through the 2018-19 season, Piquet has been racing in the Stock Car Brasil championship – frequented
It is notoriously difficult to rank Formula 1 drivers. The difference in machinery, competitiveness of the era and context of the times makes direct comparison impossible. But it is possible to pick a selection of the best, each excelling in different ways at different times to illustrate the depth and range of talent that F1
6:58 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live On one Sunday in April 1993, Ayrton Senna passed four cars on the first lap — in the rain — and took
FIA President Jean Todt says motorsport and Formula 1 is facing a new reality and requires a new approach as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking for the first time publicly about the crisis in an exclusive interview with Autosport, Todt says F1 costs were “still crazy” and will need to be slashed further
Lando Norris feels he has gained “respect” after completing his first Formula 1 season, and that this has led to McLaren listening to and relying more to his feedback. Norris finished 11th in the 2019 championship – his rookie campaign after a rapid rise through the junior ranks – as he and his team-mate Carlos
3:39 AM ET It is likely the new Formula One season will get underway without spectators as the sport’s organisers remain optimistic about salvaging as many as 19 races this year. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the first nine races being either postponed or cancelled, leaving the 2020 F1 calendar in tatters. 1 Related
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Honda MotoGP boss Alberto Puig admits Marc Marquez “would have suffered hell” with his injured shoulder had Qatar gone ahead, but believes he would have fought for the win regardless. Reigning six-time world champion Marquez partially dislocated his right shoulder in a heavy crash during qualifying for November’s Malaysian Grand Prix, before aggravating it further
Former Formula 1 driver Felipe Nasr remains optimistic of racing an IndyCar after his one-off deal to race for Carlin at St. Petersburg was aborted by the coronavirus pandemic. The Brazilian’s deal to contest the IndyCar season-opener for the team with which he won the 2011 British Formula 3 championship and finished second in GP2
McLaren’s Zak Brown says a “couple of teams” are “playing with fire” by resisting a further Formula 1 cost cap reduction, and warned they could end up racing themselves. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, teams have provisionally agreed to lower the 2021 cost cap from $175m to $150m as part of a variety
5:43 AM ET Formula One is facing a new reality and must make deeper cost cuts to ensure the sport emerges intact from the coronavirus crisis, FIA president Jean Todt has said. Nine Formula One Grand Prix races have been cancelled or postponed since the start of the season in Melbourne last month and the
Motorsport Heroes, the feature-length documentary available to watch on Motorsport.tv, follows the incredible racing careers of five icons of the sport. One of those heroes is 11-time Formula 1 race winner Felipe Massa, who charts the soaring highs and crushing lows of a career which saw him race for Sauber, Ferrari and Williams. From the
5:28 AM ET Formula One is in “a very fragile state” due to the coronavirus crisis and risks losing some of its 10 teams unless some big changes are made, McLaren boss Zak Brown warned on Sunday. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal
Azhan Shafriman Hanif has taken over the CEO role at the Sepang International Circuit from Razlan Razali, who is stepping down to concentrate on his MotoGP role. The change comes after an 11-year stint from Razali, whose tenure formally ended on Tuesday. He’s been immediately replaced by trained mechanical engineer Hanif, who is fresh out
FIA president Jean Todt says he would “love” to release the details about the Ferrari engine controversy and the team’s sanction, but the Scuderia is stopping him from doing so. Speaking exclusively to Autosport for the first time since the row over the private agreement between the FIA and Ferrari erupted over a settlement regarding
8:53 AM ET Williams has become the second Formula One team to announce furloughs for some of its staff and pay cuts for its drivers. George Russell and Nicolas Latifi, who is yet to make his F1 debut due to the delayed start to the current season, join senior management in taking the pay cut,
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Petronas SRT team principal Razlan Razali says he will “strive” to keep Yamaha-bound Fabio Quartararo for 2021 should the 2020 season be cancelled outright by the coronavirus pandemic. The opening eight rounds of the 2020 MotoGP season have been either postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, with uncertainty as to when racing will
Sebastian Vettel says Formula 1’s “ridiculous” amount of downforce at the moment still cannot make up for the current generation of cars being too heavy. F1’s car weight has shot up under the turbo hybrid era, with the arrival of the halo head safety device in 2018 also helping contribute to the cars now topping
4:22 AM ET Formula One has furloughed 50 percent of its staff until the end of the season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with CEO Chase Carey among senior management to have taken a pay cut. F1 employs over 450 people across two locations in the UK, their headquarters in London and the TV
Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola says the idea of MotoGP following in Formula 1’s footsteps and racing with current machinery next year to save costs is “not madness”. The 2020 MotoGP campaign is on indefinite hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the opening six races either cancelled or postponed, with further rounds at Mugello and