Last updated on 23 April 202023 April 2020.From the section Motorsport Formula E’s new esports series will be streamed live across BBC platforms. The Race At Home Challenge will take eight weeks and include the drivers and teams from the regular season, which was postponed due to the coronavirus. Coverage starts this Saturday 25 April
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“Training, simulator, cooking – that is basically my days,” says Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of his life during lockdown. The cooking is not going that well, it seems. “I am still very bad at it. Pasta, chicken. I am not taking too much risk.” The simulator, though, is another matter. Leclerc is quite new to
Lewis Hamilton says he is “not trying to move” away from his Mercedes team in this year’s driver market. The world champion is one of a number of top drivers whose contracts expire at the end of a 2020 season thrown into disarray by the coronavirus. Hamilton said on Instagram: “There is no dream of
He scored four pole positions in a row in his first season for Ferrari last year. And after only a couple of weeks of practice is now on course for an unprecedented quadruple. Well, no idea if it’s unprecedented, given how many people have games consoles, but Charles Leclerc’s having quite the week when it
As Formula 1 is put on hold for the foreseeable future, keeping entertained at home has become top priority for the super-focused 2020 grid. In a sport that travels the world for nine months of the year, sitting around at home and not going flat out around a famous circuit is a new concept altogether.
Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff has bought a stake in Aston Martin. The British sportscar company is controlled by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, owner of the Racing Point F1 team, which will be rebranded as Aston Martin in 2021. Wolff has bought a stake of just under 5%, which will become 0.95% after a
All Formula 1 races held in Europe this season could be closed to spectators, McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown says. On Thursday, F1 bosses discussed a plan to start the season with the Austrian Grand Prix behind closed doors on 5 July, then two races at Silverstone. “Everything is very tentative but [the British GP]
It’s 7.30 in the morning and an online news conference organised with Sebastian Vettel is a few minutes old when it dawns on the Ferrari driver that there are a large number of British journalists on the call. “I just realised it’s an hour behind in the UK, so it’s even earlier there,” he says
Formula 1 teams and bosses are to meet next week to discuss a proposal to reduce the sport’s budget cap to $130m (£104.6m) by 2022. A meeting on Thursday broke up without agreement but all sides described it as positive and constructive. The main discussion was over a plan to set a cap of $145m
The first new medical ventilator to treat people with severe symptoms of Covid-19 has been approved in the UK. Hundreds of the Penlon Prima ESO2, which is an updated version of an existing model, are expected to be built for hospitals over the next week. But the consortium of major firms that helped to develop
Formula 1 faces a “difficult” decision as to when racing can start later this year, according to McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl. The sport is considering a number of options to start the season after the postponement of the first nine races as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Seidl said: “There is a big
The seven UK-based Formula 1 teams have contributed to the supply of more than 20,000 orders from the NHS for devices to treat coronavirus patients. A consortium involving all the teams and several other manufacturers has had more than 10,000 ventilator orders. This is as well as 10,000 breathing-aid devices being produced to a new
The French Grand Prix is set to be the next Formula 1 event to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis. French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation on Monday that restrictions on public events would continue until mid-July. France’s round of the F1 championship is set to
Sir Stirling Moss has been praised as a “true icon and legend” who lived an “incredible life”. The world of motor racing has paid tribute following his death aged 90. Moss is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, even though he did not win the World Championship. “I
British motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90 following a long illness. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, even though he did not win the World Championship. Moss retired from public life in January 2018 because of ongoing health problems.
In 1961, racing driver Sir Stirling Moss – who has died at the age of 90 – was named Sportsview Personality of the Year winner for his outstanding contribution to Formula 1. Moss finished the 1961 season second in the World Championship despite a great win in the German Grand Prix. Four times runner-up in
US-owned Haas have become the fifth Formula 1 team to put a major part of their workforce on enforced leave as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The majority of their UK-based employees are now on furlough, following similar moves by McLaren, Williams, Racing Point and Renault in the past 10 days. Haas drivers Romain
We all have a favourite F1 car livery – but could you identify some of these classics? We don’t doubt you could. So we want you to tell us the team and – to keep things interesting – the year it was run on the car. Warning: this is a difficult quiz. Can you handle