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Last year’s race in Shanghai was the first to be scrapped following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a further 12 races eventually being cancelled through the 2020 season.<br>F1 unveiled a more usual calendar for 2021 in November, listing 23 races, but is already set to postpone the planned season-opener in Australia due to the ongoing pandemic and global restrictions in place. Doubts ...

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After changing its name to Aston for the start of 2021, the team that started life as Jordan will lose the pink livery associated with Force India/Racing Point and previous main backer BWT, and switch to a British racing green-based livery that will be fully revealed in March.<br>The team has agreed a multi-year deal with American IT consulting company Cognizant Technology Solutions.<br>Rumours ...

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Hogan was best known for his work with Philip Morris, overseeing deals with McLaren and Ferrari that led to World Championship victories for Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher.<br>Hogan arrived in the sport at a time when sponsorship hunting and exploitation was still in its infancy.<br>He was a key player in moving the goalposts and ...

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After seeing its 2020 calendar undergo significant changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 aimed to return to a more regular season in 2021 by announcing a 23-race schedule in November. <br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Formula 1 approves 23-race 2021 calendar <br><br><br>The season was due to begin with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 21 March, marking the first running of the race since ...

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The Corriere della Sera reports that Zanardi, who was badly injured in a handbike crash in June this year, is responding to voices with hand gestures having recovered his hearing and sight following a series of brain operations after his brutal accident.<br>Zanardi, 54, remains hospitalized in the neurosurgical department of the hospital of Padua. The report says that he is able to shake hands and ...

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The two companies tied up at the start of 2018 with both a title sponsorship partnership and a technical collaboration on the Valkyrie hypercar project.<br>As well as being part of the official team name, Aston Martin's logos appeared in prominent positions on the F1 cars - including the rear wing - and on the drivers' overalls.<br>But following Lawrence Stroll's takeover of the Aston Martin road ...

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The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix served as F1’s season finale since 2014, and hosted the final round of the revised 2020 calendar last weekend.<br>But the last six editions of the race have all been won from pole position, while the track layout has been a regular point of contention for drivers left frustrated by the limited overtaking opportunities.<br>Sunday’s race featured just two overtaking ...

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Mazepin was announced as a Haas driver for 2021 earlier on Tuesday, and while there has been no confirmation of the commercial arrangements, the logos of his father's Uralkali concern are expected to be seen on the car.<br>With several other sons of wealthy fathers landing seats on the grid inevitably there has been some scepticism about the choice on social media.<br>However Steiner insisted that ...

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The rule allowing cars to unlap themselves under the safety car came into question during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, after cars passed marshals at high speed.<br>Racing Point's Lance Stroll was seen to pass particularly close to some marshals as they cleared George Russell's car on entry to Acque Minerali, prompting drivers to call for the incident to be addressed.<br>Vettel said it ...

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F1 announced on Thursday that the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix would be joining the calendar from 2021 as part of a long-term partnership with the nation.<br>A night-time street race will be held in Jeddah next year ahead of a planned switch to a newly-built circuit in Qiddiya in 2023.<br>But the announcement drew criticism from Amnesty International, who said staging the grand prix would “be part ...

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The Dutchman has a contract with Red Bull that runs until the end of 2023, and Honda’s decision to leave F1 has fuelled speculation that it could prompt Verstappen to look elsewhere.<br>But while there is uncertainty about what Red Bull’s engine plans are from the start of 2022, Verstappen said it would be foolish to start worrying about what he should do so far in advance.<br>“I just focus ...

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The concession has been made to allow engine manufacturers more time to conduct dyno testing before they head into a race weekend committed to the new restrictions.<br>The move to a single mode for qualifying and the race was first outlined in a letter sent to the teams by the FIA’s secretary general for motorsport Peter Bayer last week.<br>Under the heading “power unit ICE modes – reduction ...

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At the moment Pirelli is expected to retain the current tyres for a third season, but the Italian company wants to refine them if it can do so, in order to meet the challenge of rising downforce levels.<br>With no opportunity for dedicated tyre testing outside races, the 2020 FIA Sporting Regulations were changed to allow prototype running in the first 30 minutes of Friday FP2 sessions, with all ...

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Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz all suffered front left failures in the closing laps of the British GP after pushing their C1 tyres for an unusually long stint, a result of an early safety car intervention.<br>For this weekend as a precaution Pirelli has upped the minimum front pressures by 2psi and the rears by 1psi.<br>In addition Pirelli believes that the move to a one-step ...

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As predicted by Motorsport.com last week, McLaren has agreed a deal with Gulf Oil that will cover both its F1 team and supercar company.<br>The move comes on the back of a previous partnership with Brazilian oil company Petrobras having been terminated at the end of last year by the Brazilian government as part of a cost-cutting drive.<br>The Gulf logos will appear on the McLaren engine cover and ...

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Mercedes has taken three poles and three wins in the opening three races of the season, and in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying its cars were 1.3s and 1.4s respectively ahead of the best placed Ferrari and Red Bull.<br>While acknowledging that it may run alternative strategies at some events this year in order to promote a race between its drivers, Wolff says there’s little the team can ...

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ROKiT previously served as Williams' title sponsor from the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season, only for the deal to be terminated by the team at the end of May.<br>But ROKiT is now on course to become a sponsor of the Mercedes F1 team ahead of the new season, with confirmation of the deal understood to be imminent.<br>A Mercedes spokesman said the team "can't offer comment on any confidential ...

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The news comes as no surprise as the race had not featured on any recent version of a revised calendar that F1 has been working on.<br>The Netherlands remains subject to tight restrictions on events, and the promoters had made it clear that they were not keen to hold their first race behind closed doors, having sold out some months ago.<br>Race boss Jan Lammers told Motorsport.com recently: “It ...

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The Dutch TT at Assen, which had been scheduled as the opening MotoGP event of the season in the final weekend of June, should now fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic ruling, as will the track’s World Superbike Championship round, which had previously been moved from April to August.<br>The government's decision to extend the ban follows advice from the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) which ...

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Scheduled for June 14th, the Montreal event is the ninth to be lost thus far, putting the French GP on June 28th on the bubble as the first race of this year’s World Championship.<br>Although it was supposed to be held only a week after the Azerbaijan GP, which was postponed on March 23rd, Montreal had extra time to make a decision, because it is requires less preparation than a street ...

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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic wrecking the F1 schedule, and teams likely to face huge financial pressure with a likely cut in prize money and sponsor incomes, the sport’s chiefs have moved to make drastic changes over recent weeks.<br>Following discussions between teams, the FIA and F1, it has been agreed that the current generation of cars will be used for next year as well; with a ...

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The Baku street event, scheduled for June 7th, becomes the eighth grand prix to be lost from the 2020 calendar as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.<br>It joins Australia, Bahrain, Vietnam, China, the Netherlands, Spain and Monaco.<br>F1 is continuing to look for dates in which to slot postponed races later in the year, with only Monaco definitively cancelled for 2020.<br>In a statement, BCC said ...

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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 in Azerbaijan on June 7 could be lined up as the first race of the campaign.<br>But with the scale of the virus outbreak showing no sign of slowing down in Europe, it is understood that Baku’s promoters have decided it makes no sense to push on with the ...

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The Automobile Club de Monaco announced the news in a statement that followed the news from F1 earlier today that the race has been postponed along with the Dutch and Spanish events.<br>Monaco said that the event was "no longer tenable".<br>The ACM made it clear that the decision was a result of a combination of circumstances, including the potential availability of the workforce required to build ...

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