McLaren CEO Zak Brown has challenged Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Mattia Binotto to release all details about its secret arrangement with the FIA over its 2019 engine.
- McLaren’s Zak Brown says Ferrari are “living in denial” over its opposition to lowering the F1 cost cap. The two F1 teams have come to blows over the cost cap rules with the Woking-based team leading calls to lower the budget for 2021 to $100m.
McLaren chief Andreas Seidl says he’s support Formula 1 “trying new things” with the 2020 season, including experiments with race schedules and formats, but has urged the sport to focus on addressing areas which need the most attention.
Lando Norris has been confirmed in the driver line-up to make his IndyCar ‘debut’ in the sport’s iRacing Challenge series for this weekend’s race at Circuit of the Americas.
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl is confident all Formula 1 teams will be fully prepared for an immediate return to racing and a potentially intensive but shorter season.
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto says he would “look at other further options for deploying our racing DNA” if a lower team cost cap was installed in Formula 1.
Lando Norris has offered to take Captain Tom Moore on a tour around McLaren’s Formula 1 headquarters following the 99-year-old’s fundraising effort for the NHS.
Cancelling the 2020 Formula 1 season due to the coronavirus crisis would be a “hard blow that would be difficult to accept”, according to Carlos Sainz.
The FIA will closely monitor McLaren’s transition from Renault Formula 1 engines to Mercedes next year to ensure the team does not make any extra performance-related gains.
McLaren and a team of engineering firms have begun manufacturing a new ventilator after it was approved by UK health authorities for production amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Following the sad passing of Sir Stirling Moss, considered the greatest world champion Formula 1 never crowned, it is a good moment to look through the other famous names who never secured the ultimate prize.
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl feels among numerous challenges Formula 1 faces with returning to racing a general backing from the public and fans will be essential.
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl sees the ongoing coronavirus crisis as the most important moment to trigger changes to allow Formula 1 and the teams to survive and improve ahead of crunch talks on the budget cap and other cost-cutting measures.
Formula 1 and its teams can “survive and thrive” after the coronavirus crisis but it must make some “aggressive decisions” to do so, according to McLaren CEO Zak Brown.
As the coronavirus halts Formula 1 and the rest of the wider world, here’s how the sport is helping to respond to the crisis and the measures taken so far.