9:04 AM ET Haas has confirmed Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of former world champion and Indy 500 winner Emerson, and Louis Deletraz will stay with the Formula One team in test and reserve driver roles in 2020. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss Lando Norris’ star turn in the virtual world of esports and
While No. 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing driver Joey Hand won at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series, it’s his infamous crash in 2006 that is remembered by most. In this Throwback Thursday, Hand revisits his magnificent incident yet expresses his excitement to return to the track.
Formula 1 reached peak meme levels during the 2018 season. Take a look back as we explore some of the internet’s fondest buzzwords, catchphrases and moments, re-imagined… For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1 #F1
Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
With no motorsport for the foreseeable future, Formula 1 fans need to look elsewhere to feed their racing addiction over the coming months. Fortunately there are a plethora of motorsport books out there going back well over half a century covering the lives of the paddock’s brightest stars. From Virginia Williams’ insight into the fortunes
Daniel Ricciardo says the cancellation of the Monaco Grand Prix “hurt” as the reality of the delayed start to the Formula 1 season begins to set in. The opening eight races of the 2020 season have all been called off as a result of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, with the events in Australia and Monaco
6:58 AM ET McLaren has confirmed it will still be switching to Mercedes engines for next season despite Formula One’s decision to delay the 2021 rule changes. Given the unprecedented circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic, F1 decided to delay the introduction of its new rules package for another year. The revamp was set to implement
Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso believes that a compressed schedule in the second half of 2020 owing to the global coronavirus pandemic will be “difficult for everyone”. The new season is currently due to begin at Jerez in early May following the cancellation of the Qatar Grand Prix for the premier class and the postponement
Charles Leclerc doubts Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel will be destabilised by his expiring Ferrari contract through 2020, expecting the German to be “very strong”. Leclerc managed to beat Vettel in their first season together at Ferrari in 2019, scoring his first two F1 victories in Belgium and Italy en route to fourth place in
9:23 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo admits the cancellation of this year’s Monaco Grand Prix was tough to process, especially after watching onboard footage from previous years. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss Lando Norris’ star turn in the virtual world of esports and the significance of F1 pushing its real-life rules revolution back
How does DRS actually work and how fast do F1 cars really go? The 2019 grid reveal all about the fastest and most sophisticated cars on the planet. For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1 #F1
Formula 1’s stable rules for 2020 were expected to lead to design convergence between the top teams, but there has still been room for divergence among their respective suspension designs. The arrangements that Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull have produced, particularly with the placement of their steering assemblies, suspension arms and heave dampers all show
The 2020 World Rally Championship has been hit by further delays due to the coronavirus outbreak, with Rally Portugal and Sardinia officially being postponed. Last week’s Rally Mexico was ended early as a result if impending travel restrictions in the US threatening travel chaos for the paddock. Winner Sebastien Ogier said afterwards that the rally
The McLaren Formula 1 team staff that had been quarantined in Melbourne due to coronavirus concerns since the aborted 2020 Australian Grand Prix will return to the UK this week. McLaren pulled out of the Melbourne event, which was ultimately cancelled, after one of its team staff tested positive for COVID-19 the night before the
KTM MotoGP boss Pit Beirer has confirmed to Autosport that a test will take place prior to the coronavirus-delayed 2020 season getting underway. The current championship has had the first four races of the season struck from the schedule, while it is highly expected that May’s Spanish, French and Italian Grands Prix will also be
Coronavirus might mean uncertain times for Formula 1 with the world’s sport postponed indefinitely, but there is still plenty of ways for fans to get a regular motorsport fix. In the last 10 years alone a wide range of F1-based documentaries have hit the market and now is the perfect time to capitalise on the
It was all so real. But it was also never real. “It sure felt real to me,” Hamlin said, laughing. Sunday’s race was the NASCAR equivalent to Tron, with an entire racetrack, garage area and grandstand digitized via iRacing, the hyper-accurate racing simulation software that has long served as an escape for gamers as well
Eight is the score to beat… How will Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz fare under the Grill The Grid spotlight? For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1
McLaren has confirmed that it will continue with plans to switch to Mercedes power units for 2021, despite chassis designs being frozen for the next Formula 1 season. Within the current storm of the coronavirus pandemic, the much-vaunted technical changes for the 2021 F1 season have been delayed by a year in response to the
5:54 AM ET Reigning Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has hit out at those ignoring calls to self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. Hamilton took to social media last weekend to reassure fans he is healthy and free of coronavirus symptoms having self-isolated. The British driver had attended an event in London on March 4
MotoGP has clarified its homologation rules for engines and aerodynamic fairings amid the coronavirus shutdown, with the cancelled Qatar race the point at which the rules are being enforced. MotoGP’s current technical regulations stipulate that engines and the first of two allowed aero fairings for all non-concession manufacturers (Yamaha, Honda, Ducati, Suzuki) must be homologated
Formula 1 boss Chase Carey expects the 2020 season to consist of “15-18 races” once it gets underway, and will likely extend past its original November 29 end date. The current F1 campaign came under further delay on Monday due to the coronavirus pandemic, after June’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix was formally postponed – an expected
2:57 PM ET Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Formula One remains confident it can deliver a 15 to 18 race calendar in 2020, starting at some point during the summer. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss Lando Norris’ star turn in the virtual world of esports and the significance of F1 pushing its
The Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix has formally been postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Baku City Circuit has announced. The Baku street event, scheduled for 7 June, becomes the eighth grand prix to be lost from the 2020 calendar as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. It joins Australia, Bahrain, Vietnam,
7:06 AM ET The start of the Formula One season is set for further delays after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, by request of race organisers. The street race in Baku was scheduled for June 7 and had originally been viewed as a potential season opener after the first
Team-mate tension at Force India hit a peak at the 2017 Belgian Grand Prix after a series of on-track tussles between Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez. Whose side are you on?! For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1
Lando Norris is planning to use a one-off helmet at every Formula 1 race this season after the FIA lifted the ban on design changes for 2020. Drivers were previously only permitted two substantial design changes per season, only for F1’s governing body to announce last week it had removed the ruling. Norris has taken
7:33 PM ET Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 While there was no actual racing to speak of with the Bahrain Grand Prix
The start of the 2020 Formula 1 season looks set for an extended delay with Baku expected to announce on Monday that it is postponing its grand prix. The coronavirus pandemic has already forced F1 to call off the first seven grands prix of the year, but there had been some hope that the event
12:04 PM ET Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. On a conference call between team bosses, the FIA and Formula One on Thursday, the sport reached a unanimous agreement to delay 2021’s major rules revamp by a year due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, F1 fans will have to wait