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F1 chiefs confirm no replacement for Chinese GP

Formula One will have a four-week hole in this season's calendar after the sport's bosses confirmed the Chinese Grand Prix would not be replaced.

Motorsport • 17 Jan 23

Frederic Vasseur hired as new Ferrari team principal

Fred Vasseur appointed as new Ferrari team principal

Ferrari have appointed Frenchman Frederic Vasseur as Formula One team principal and general manager, replacing Mattia Binotto.

Motorsport • 13 Dec 22

Six sprint races will be part of the 2023 season

Six sprint races chosen for new Formula 1 season

Azerbaijan, Qatar, Austria, Brazil, Austin in the USA and Spa in Belgium will be the venues for the six sprint races in the Formula One calendar from the 2023 season.

Motorsport • 07 Dec 22

Chinese Grand Prix cancelled for fourth year running

F1 cancel 2023 Chinese Grand Prix over Covid situation

Formula One's Chinese Grand Prix was cancelled for the fourth year in a row on Friday due to strict local measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Motorsport • 02 Dec 22

The German will be leaving the US-based team after two years

Mick Schumacher to leave Haas at end of F1 season

Mick Schumacher will be without a full-time Formula drive next season after the Haas team announced his departure on Thursday.

Motorsport • 17 Nov 22

Verstappen ends Sky boycott after 'Lewis robbed' jibe

Max Verstappen confirmed on Thursday that he has buried the hatchet in his dispute with Sky Sports and said he and Red Bull will cooperate with the broadcaster as normal at this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 11 Nov 22

Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was made an honorary citizen of Brazil on Monday

Lewis Hamilton becomes honorary Brazilian citizen

Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was made an honorary citizen of Brazil on Monday by the country's lower house of Congress and dedicated the honour to his boyhood idol, the late Brazilian triple world champion Ayrton Senna.

Motorsport • 07 Nov 22

A video on social media showed the former world champion saying Brazil's President-Elect belongs "in the cemetery"

Piquet faces investigation over Lula 'cemetery' comment

Brazilian prosecutors late on Thursday asked local police to open an investigation against Nelson Piquet after a video on social media showed the former Formula One world champion saying President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva belongs "in the cemetery".

Motorsport • 04 Nov 22

Verstappen took issue with comments made during the broadcaster's F1 coverage

Verstappen boycotts Sky after 'Hamilton robbed' jibe

Max Verstappen accused Sky Sports of being "disrespectful" and "living in the past" after Red Bull boycotted the broadcaster at the Mexican Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 30 Oct 22

"We were a little bit taken aback by the comments from our two rival teams"

Horner threatens legal action over Wolff claims

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has accused rival boss Toto Wolff of "hugely defamatory, fictitious claims" and threatened legal action against Mercedes amid the cheat row overshadowing this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 01 Oct 22

Christian Horner and Toto Wolff at the Italian Grand Prix

Wolff urges action as Red Bull deny salary cap breach

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has demanded Formula One's governing body the FIA take robust action over reports Red Bull broke the rules when Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton to last year's world championship.

Motorsport • 30 Sep 22

Albon released from hospital after respiratory failure

Alex Albon has been released from hospital after he suffered respiratory failure and was left on a ventilator following complications from surgery.

Motorsport • 13 Sep 22

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto: 'Certainly, I need to apologise'

Ferrari chief sorry for comparing Tsunoda to tsunami

Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto apologised on Saturday for causing upset by comparing accident-prone Japanese Formula One driver Yuki Tsunoda to a tsunami.

Motorsport • 10 Sep 22

Wolff slams 'total idiots' after Dutch flare incident

Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes boss Toto Wolff fears a Formula One driver could face "lethal consequences" if flares are thrown on to the track at Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 03 Sep 22

Piastri to replace Ricciardo at McLaren as dispute ends

Australian rookie Oscar Piastri will race for McLaren next season after the Formula One team won a contract dispute with Renault-owned rivals Alpine on Friday.

Motorsport • 02 Sep 22

Fernando Alonso pictured talking to the media ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort

Fernando Alonso apologises to 'legend' Lewis Hamilton

Fernando Alonso apologised on Thursday for calling Lewis Hamilton an idiot after they collided at last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix and said his heat of the moment comments were blown out of proportion.

Motorsport • 01 Sep 22

Lewis Hamilton (R) and Fernando Alonso collide in the opening lap

Verstappen wins at Spa, Alonso slams 'idiot' Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton was called an "idiot" and told "he only knows how to drive and start in first" by a furious Fernando Alonso following their opening-lap crash at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Motorsport • 28 Aug 22

Lewis Hamilton will start fourth in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix

Wolff: Hamilton feels like he is dragging a parachute

Lewis Hamilton told Toto Wolff he feels like he is dragging a parachute behind him as the Mercedes boss labelled his team's abject qualifying for Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix as "unacceptable".

Motorsport • 27 Aug 22

Piastri is believed to have signed a deal to race for rivals McLaren

Alpine confident for Piastri contract ahead of hearing

Renault-owned Alpine expressed confidence in their case ahead of a meeting on Monday of Formula One's contract recognition board to decide which team Australian Oscar Piastri should race for next season.

Motorsport • 27 Aug 22

Hamilton sad to see old pal Vettel retire from racing

Lewis Hamilton praised Sebastian Vettel for standing by him in Formula One's "lonely" world - before hailing the German as a great of the grid.

Motorsport • 28 Jul 22

Charles Leclerc is on pole at the French GP

Leclerc takes pole position at French GP

Charles Leclerc secured pole position at the French Grand Prix, after he breathed fresh life into his championship bid with a comprehensive victory at the last round in Austria a fortnight ago.

Motorsport • 23 Jul 22

Lewis Hamilton's car is towed away after he crashed into barriers

Hamilton crashes out in Austria sprint-race qualifying

Lewis Hamilton said he was "incredibly disappointed" after crashing out of qualifying for Saturday's sprint race in Austria.

Motorsport • 08 Jul 22

It was a weekend of firsts for Ferrari's Carlos Sainz

Sainz capitalises on pole to win wild British GP

Carlos Sainz won a dramatic British Grand Prix which saw Zhou Guanyu survive a horror opening-lap crash and protestors invade the track at Silverstone.

Motorsport • 03 Jul 22

Bernie Ecclestone claims Vladimir Putin is "a first-class person"

Ecclestone would 'take a bullet' for Putin

Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said he would "take a bullet" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and described him as "a first-class person".

Motorsport • 30 Jun 22

Lewis Hamilton said: 'I've been surrounded by these attitudes and targeted my whole life'

Hamilton: 'Archaic mindsets' need to change

Lewis Hamilton insists "archaic mindsets" need to change after it emerged former Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet used a racial epithet towards the Mercedes driver.

Motorsport • 28 Jun 22