F1’s foolish season is ramping up and the most recent rumours concerning 2021 – together with the futures of George Russell, Sergio Perez and Mick Schumacher – leads our newest gossip column…
– Sergio Perez to interchange George Russell at Williams, Mick Schumacher to Haas alongside Nikita Mazepin, Nico Hulkenberg frontrunner for Pink Bull and Pierre Gasly linked to Renault? These are the most recent driver market switch rumours doing the rounds for 2021 because the foolish season appears to be like set to ramp up (RaceFans)
– Haas staff boss Guenther Steiner has confirmed that the US outfit is all for the potential of signing present Method 2 championship chief Mick Schumacher (Auto Bild)
– F1’s ban on the usage of excessive efficiency engine modes in qualifying has introduced Pink Bull “a step nearer” to Mercedes, in response to the staff’s trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin (Formula 1)
– Helmut Marko has advised Sky Germany that the 2021 F1 calendar may start in Asia and the Center East with the opening rounds happening in China, Vietnam and Bahrain earlier than the standard curtain-raiser takes place in Australia (Sky Germany)
– In the meantime, the already postponed first ever inaugural Vietnam Grand Prix has now formally been cancelled by race organisers as a result of “uncertainty” over the coronavirus pandemic (BBC F1)
– Renault’s F1 positive aspects this season exhibits it could now be considered a critical challenger, says staff boss Cyril Abiteboul (Motorsport Week)
– However Abiteboul has insisted that Renault gained’t enable Fernando Alonso’s return to the staff to distract it from its plans to deal with its 2022 automobile growth, regardless of the momentum it has been constructing this 12 months (RACER)
