Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has said he is confident that the Scuderia has made significant progress in addressing the weaknesses of its 2020 challenger, which was one of the slowest cars in a straight line at many of the circuits raced at last season. Speaking during a Ferrari launch event on Friday, Binotto stressed
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Amid much anticipation, Sir Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes F1 Team finally agreed a contract extension earlier this month. However, unlike all of Hamilton’s previous Silver Arrows deals, this extension was just for a single season, so the seven-time World Champion could be free to walk away from Mercedes at the end of the season.
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Sergio Perez gave Red Bull’s 2021 car, the RB16B, its first shakedown at Silverstone earlier this week, in his first opportunity to drive a Red Bull F1 car on a circuit instead of the simulator. As indicated by its name, the RB16B is a carry-over of Red Bull’s 2020 car, with its chassis remaining largely
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The Haas F1 Team had a miserable 2020 campaign, with a combination of an uncompetitive chassis and a weakened Ferrari power unit leaving them well outside the points at most grand prix contested last season. The American racing outfit may benefit from Ferrari’s 2021-spec power unit, but Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has already made
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Austrian water treatment company BWT will stay on as a sponsor of the Aston Martin F1 Team following their rebrand from Racing Point this upcoming season. BWT’s sponsorship of the Silverstone-based team goes back to 2017, and last year, they became their title sponsor. READ: Albon Eyeing 2022 Return, Has No Hard Feelings Towards Tsunoda
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has said the Silver Arrows will start to think about their 2022 driver line-up towards the middle of the year. Sir Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will both be out of contract at the end of this season, so Mercedes could well opt to run an all-new driver line-up the
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Red Bull have unveiled their 2021 car, the RB16B, with the team releasing the first images of the race car on Tuesday. As you can tell from its name, Red Bull’s 2021 challenger is closely based on last year’s car, the RB16, and it will be the team’s last Honda-powered challenger of the V6 turbo-hybrid
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While Formula One opted to delay its shake-up of the technical regulations until 2022 as a cost-saving measure in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 will nevertheless see cars have considerably different aero regulations, with the FIA mandating significant cuts to the rear floor and other down-force generating components. And, although the 2021 cars will
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Ferrari and Estrella Galicia have announced a partnership ahead of the 2021 season getting underway, with the Spanish beer brand agreeing a sponsorship deal with the Scuderia following Carlos Sainz’s move to the Maranello-based team. The Spanish beer brand previously sponsored McLaren when Sainz was one of their drivers. READ: Alfa Romeo Unveils 2021 Car
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Alex Albon has said he has no “hard feelings” towards Red Bull or Yuki Tsunoda after being dropped by the team at the end of the 2020 season. Sergio Perez was signed as Albon’s replacement at Red Bull, but the Thai driver would have ended up at Scuderia AlphaTauri had Tsunoda not been in the
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