Sooooo, another Ferrari employee goes to Mercedes F1 "Giacomo Tortora (who previously worked at Ferrari, he was the head of simulator work) has joined Mercedes. From 01.06.2020, Tortora is the deputy chief designer at Mercedes." Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Also, So according to reports from Germany, apparently Toto will withdraw from his team principal role at Mercedes, but still be involved at the racing team. Possibly as a member of the supervisory board. Motorsport-Article: "This news is considered reliable." Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date
Exclusive! Mercedes-future: Wolff to leave chief-role, but … Image Unavailable, Please Login The puzzle pieces for the Formula 1 future of Mercedes are falling. Team boss Toto Wolff will resign after his contract has expired. The future of Mercedes’ F1 team is in the making The future of Mercedes in Formula 1 is being lashed behind the scenes. One piece of the puzzle fell in the process: As F1-Insider.com has learned exclusively, team boss Toto Wolff will resign from his operational role at the head of the factory team after the end of his contract and switch to the team’s supervisory board. According to our information, it is not yet clear who will become his successor. Wolff had recently indicated that he was thinking about his role in the team: “It’s not just about whether I am now extending my contract as team leader, but what we are going to do with this joint company.” The Viennese now owns 30 percent of the shares in the Mercedes factory team, the rest is owned by the Daimler group. Mercedes has recently repeatedly committed itself to F1. In no contradiction to this: According to F1-Insider-information, Wolff and his friend Lawrence Stroll are set to take over even more shares. That would also mean the end of the Mercedes-worksteam as it is now. The Canadian billionaire has held a 25 percent stake in British car maker Aston Martin, which Wolff also owns, since the beginning of the year. A Tuesday staffing could outline a possible route. Ex-AMG boss Tobias Moers was officially announced as the new boss of Aston Martin. Moers is one of the closest confidants of Daimler CEO Ola Källenius. With the help of Mercedes and AMG technology, the he is supposed to get the traditional British brand back on track and compete with Ferrari. An exchange transaction is could come into play so that Daimler, which previously owns five percent of the traditional English brand, can increase its stake in Aston Martin. The idea that is being discussed in the scene: Daimler receives Stroll’s Aston Martin shares in return for shares in the Formula 1 team. This means: Stroll and Wolff will be the majority owners of the F1-team. Mercedes could kill two birds with one stone: Get out of F1 as the majority owner of the team and thus also meet the corona-related financial challenges in the automotive industry without having to fire employees of the Formula 1 factory in Brackley. The then Stroll team could even continue as a Mercedes factory team. This goes with current statements by Mercedes spokesmen that Daimler’s “clear intention is to continue as a Mercedes-Benz factory team in Formula 1.” A specific request from F1-Insider.com about Wolff’s future role remained unanswered. What would happen to Stroll’s Formula 1 team Racing Point (from 2021 as Aston Martin) remains unclear. It is quite possible that it will be used as a B team. A merger with the ex-Mercedes factory team or a sale are also conceivable. One thing is certain: the teams have to refinance themselves. Mercedes, Stroll, Wolff and Aston Martin put the new budget ceiling of 145 million euros from 2020 and the developments towards more financial sustainability in Formula 1 into the cards. Even more: Insiders believe that this will even make money in the future – even with two teams. https://f1-insider.com/en/formula1/mercedes-future-wolff-to-step-down-as-team-principal/
So the new (enormously complicated) rules are out....and what a bizarre cluster**** have they brought now! On the one hand, they reduce aero testing for better teams, in order to bring teams closer together. But on the other, they restrict engine upgrades! So if your engine is ****, FIA simply tell you ''better luck next time!" Who runs this utter **** show? 2020 and 2021, if you have a good car for this year you're practically guaranteed to win the titles. Well done mercedes, another championship bought.
F1 is as good as dead. The token system got us to where we are now. Dumb rules got us to where we are now. Instead of moving away from ideas that have been proven not to work, they moved closer to them. Further, they haven't gotten rid of the €ngines NO ONE LIKES, they are keeping them! https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/how-f1-stopped-insane-engine-spending-war/4797749/ Engine development not included in cost cap. Driver pay not included in cost cap. WHAT IS THE POINT OF A COST CAP, THEN. I said it before, and I'll say it again. FIA killed WRC, they killed WEC, and they are 100% going to kill F1.
Back in the days, when electing the new FIA president, some idiot German translator just mixed up Todt with Tod (German for dead). FIA got both: Todt and Tod.
F1 News: Government gives Austria F1 opener plans green light https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149691/government-gives-austria-f1-plans-green-light The Formula 1 season openers in Austria planned for 5 and 12 July have been given the green light by the country's government, according to reports in the country. Following weeks of discussions between F1, Red Bull Ring chiefs and local authorities, a safety plan regarding precautions to be taken amid the coronavirus pandemic has been signed off.
I hope this pandemic will crush and bury F1 for good. So that we can finally start over without the damn FIA.
If there was no FIA, there would be another organisation like it anyway. You need a body to oversee international motorsport.
Yeah, despite all the naysayers on here we finally go racing for good. Two are lined up for starters. Excellent!
Of course, you don't need a rocket scientist to figure that out. My point is, the FIA are a bunch of morons, running the so called pinnacle of motor racing.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11998313/f1-two-silverstone-races-set-to-go-ahead-with-quarantine-exemption F1: Two Silverstone races set to go ahead with quarantine exemption Huge boost for Silverstone with government set to confirm quarantine exemption for F1 teams; Races expected in August
Monza has extended its deal to host the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, according to the mayor of Monza, to see its contract include the 2025 season. During the build-u to last year's race F1 confirmed a new five-year contract with organiser Automobile Club d'Italia that covered the 2020-24 seasons. The timing of the new extension agreement suggests that it resulted from the recent negotiations to run this year's race behind closed doors at Monza. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149733/italian-gp-deal-extended-by-an-extra-year-to-2025
Monza is one of those tracks that are essential to F1, with Spa and Silverstone, IMO. I still lament the OLD Hockenheim too.
And so many on here as in the media declared the 2020 season as dead. Neener, neener. Kudos and bravo to Liberty!
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149743/no-plans-for-more-live-freetoair-f1-tv-coverage -- They should offer free to air. Given the world situation it would have been a good idea. Formula 1 says there are no plans to offer more live free-to-air television coverage of the series this year, despite fans being unable to attend races. With governments around the world still pushing to try to avoid a second wave of coronavirus infections, the first batch of European grands prix will all take place behind closed doors with no spectators allowed. While other sports, including some of football's major leagues, are showing selected events on free-to-air television because governments are eager to put live action on again for the public, F1 has made clear that it will be sticking to its current broadcast arrangements. That means, in the UK, F1 will be shown exclusively live on pay-TV channel Sky Sports F1, with delayed highlights of qualifying and the races broadcast on Channel 4. The only exception is the British Grand Prix, which C4 also shows live. Although Silverstone is now set to host two F1 races, F1 says that only one of them - most likely the official British GP - will be live on C4.
