Новости за 20.11.2017

Nov.20 - Mercedes has admitted it wants to keep Lewis Hamilton beyond 2018. Some media sources claim the new quadruple world champion is demanding a pay-rise for a new contract in 2019 and beyond. Niki Lauda, the team chairman, thinks Hamilton has driven perfectly this year. "This year, Lewis won the championship for Mercedes, it's […]

Nov.20 - Toto Wolff has now joined Niki Lauda in saying he is worried about F1's future. Lauda, who co-owns the Mercedes team together with Wolff and the German carmaker, recently said he is concerned about Liberty's vision of the sport's future. He now tells Brazil's Globo: "We had to give them time to identify […]

Nov.20 - Felipe Massa does not think his old Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso will win the title next year. Brazilian Massa is retiring, and he admitted his next move will probably be into Formula E. "I think it's the most interesting place to compete and win again. It's the future of the cars we will […]

Nov.20 - Fernando Alonso says he is willing to talk about "the future" with regards to a potential Le Mans foray. Amid rumours he will do the fabled 24 hour endurance race next year, the Spaniard tested Toyota's LMP1 prototype in Bahrain at the weekend. "Such a car is not only fast but also very […]

Nov.20 - Renault cannot approve of Liberty Media's vision for the 2021 engine formula until other aspects of the future are also clear. That is the claim of Cyril Abiteboul, the Renault team boss who said he joins Mercedes and Ferrari in currently opposing the plan for substantially different engines. "What we have been presented […]

Nov.20 - Sao Paulo mayor Joao Doria has dismissed as "speculation" reoprts Interlagos is set to lose the Brazilian grand prix. A cloud was already over the race's future even before a spate of violent robbery incidents marred the recent 2017 edition. But after that, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper claimed Florianopolis had been earmarked […]

Nov.20 - Max Verstappen says Lewis Hamilton's off-track behaviour often leaves him "perplexed". The Red Bull driver told De Telegraaf newspaper that over the course of the last year, he began using social media less and less. "I don't follow many drivers on social media," Verstappen revealed. "I follow Daniel (Ricciardo). And Lewis. And Pierre […]

Nov.20 - Brendon Hartley says he has known for "several weeks" that he will be driving for Toro Rosso next year. Earlier, Red Bull, Toro Rosso and the New Zealander insisted they did not know who would drive for the energy drink company's junior team in 2018. Hartley and Pierre Gasly have now been confirmed. […]

Nov.20 - Dutch sports minister Bruno Bruins says the government will "wait" before getting involved in a grand prix bid. Last week, a feasibility study concluded that there is "no reason" why Zandvoort should not host F1 in the future. But the source Dutch News reports that Bruins told parliament that the study was merely […]