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Porsche not ruling out 2025 F1 foray

Porsche not ruling out 2025 F1 foray
Start, Mexican GP 2019
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Porsche's racing boss Fritz Enzinger is not ruling out a Formula 1 foray for the Volkswagen-owned German sports car brand.
He told Auto Motor und Sport that Porsche is "following" the current behind-the-scenes talks about the future of the sport - particularly the new engine rules for 2025.
"Basically, we monitor and evaluate all ongoing developments in the globally relevant racing categories," he said.
Enzinger admits that Porsche is interested in F1's apparent direction for the future.
"The new engine regulations will not come until 2025," he said. "This may also be in parallel to the introduction of e-fuels, which is the prerequisite for CO2-neutral racing."

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Alpha Tauri step due mainly to Honda

Alpha Tauri's obvious step forward for 2021 is due "mainly" to the new Honda engine.

Austria , Japan , Japanese , Austrian , Alpha-tauri , Aston-martin , Franz-tost , Alfa-romeo , Honda , Ferrari , Red-bull-owned , Not-aston-martin

Negative F1 reputation makes Alonso laugh

Negative F1 reputation makes Alonso laugh
Fernando Alonso, Bahrain GP 2021
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Fernando Alonso has hit back at the continuing narrative that he is difficult to work with in Formula 1.
Alpine advisor Alain Prost last week said the team needs to be "very careful" to manage the new dynamic between two-time world champion Alonso and his teammate Esteban Ocon.
"You have to be very careful about that, because problems between the drivers can kill you as a team," he told Le Figaro.
Alonso, 39, regularly hits back at the narrative that he is a problematic presence for the teams he drives for. So he has now told El Mundo Deportivo newspaper that he maintains strong relationships with most of the teammates he has ever worked with in motor racing.

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F1 CEO may not support $30m driver spending cap

F1 CEO may not support $30m driver spending cap
Lewis Hamilton, Bahrain GP 2021
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Stefano Domenicali has suggested that Formula 1 may in fact not support moves to install an annual $30 million per team limit on driver salary spending.
We reported last week that the FIA and Liberty Media are poised to circulate such a proposal among F1 teams.
However, F1 CEO Domenicali has now told Corriere dello Sport newspaper: "The drivers are particularly relevant in our sport. There are just 20 of them, not 200 or more.
"A team's two drivers are the spearhead that unites the ambitions of a team with hundreds of other people," the Italian added.

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Marko denies mysterious suspension rumours

Marko denies mysterious suspension rumours
Max Verstappen, Bahrain GP 2021
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Dr Helmut Marko has rubbished rumours that Red Bull is set to debut a new and "mysterious" suspension system this weekend at Imola.
"This is complete nonsense," said the Austrian team official.
"We already had this 'mysterious' suspension in Bahrain but it's nothing special," Marko told Sport1.
"We had to design it because we needed a suspension that would fit the extremely narrow rear end that we built around the new, smaller and more compact Honda engine this season," he added.
Marko is therefore expecting another very close battle between Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton this weekend.

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Three F1 names defend under-fire Mazepin

Three F1 names defend under-fire Mazepin
Nikita Mazepin, Bahrain GP 2021
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Three prominent members of the F1 circus have defended the under-fire Nikita Mazepin.
After a scandalous pre-season and nightmare opening race in Bahrain, many are now openly laughing at the plight of the Russian rookie.
However, Ralf Schumacher warned his nephew Mick not to become complacent about the 22-year-old Mazepin's presence.
"Getting control of someone like Nikita Mazepin is not that easy," former driver Schumacher, who is Mick Schumacher's uncle, told Sport1.
"The boy has no limits and will be a danger to Mick."
Former Kevin Magnussen advisor Jesper Carlsen, meanwhile, now works alongside Mazepin at Haas, and the Dane calls his new Russian colleague "actually a really good guy".

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Aston Martin warned FIA impact of rule changes

Aston Martin warned FIA impact of rule changes
Lance Stroll, Bahrain GP 2021
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Otmar Szafnauer was a man in a mission in Bahrain, desperate to explain to everybody the changes introduced in the Technical Regulations for this year had hurt his team and all others with a low-rake a lot more than the teams that, like Red Bull, have long followed the high-rake concept. The Romania-born American could be seen with his lap top in hand, going into the FIA and the FOM offices in the Bahrain International Circuit to show the World Championship organizers and promoters data to validate his point and admitted that right from the start of the weekend in Bahrain, his team knew they were in the backfoot for the early part of the season.

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First lap overtakes were the key says Norris

First lap overtakes were the key says Norris
Lando Norris, Bahrain GP 2021
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Lando Norris nearly equaled the way he started the 2020 season, when he finished 3rd in the Austrian Grand Prix, but the McLaren driver admitted fourth place in Bahrain, last Sunday, was better than he had hoped for. The young Brit had been surprisingly downcast about his chances to fight at the front the whole weekend, in spite of being 3rd fastest in FP1 and then second quickest in the second session as well. A drop to P7 in qualifying seemed to confirm Norris’ fears, but he ended up the race as “best of the rest”, ahead of the recovering Sérgio Pérez and well ahead of his main rivals, team mate Daniel Ricciardo and the Ferrari duo of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.

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Vettel never good under pressure says Berger

Vettel never good under pressure says Berger
Sebastian Vettel, Bahrain GP 2021
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Sebastian Vettel is still struggling with pressure, according to his first Formula 1 team boss Gerhard Berger.
The quadruple world champion was ousted by Ferrari but switched to Aston Martin for 2021 and beyond - and had a dire pre-season test and first race in Bahrain.
"At Ferrari it was the same thing," F1 legend Berger told the official Australian GP podcast.
"I just feel he is not free, not relaxed," said the former Toro Rosso co-owner. "He maybe wants to prove things, but at this moment it is not possible because the car is not good enough, or his own form is not good enough."

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Red Bull too euphoric in Bahrain says Marko

Red Bull too euphoric in Bahrain says Marko
Max Verstappen, Bahrain GP 2021
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Dr Helmut Marko does not think Max Verstappen made a mistake by letting Lewis Hamilton re-pass him for the lead and victory in Bahrain last weekend.
Bahrain GP steward Emanuele Pirro this week revealed that the "maximum" penalty the FIA could have given the Dutchman for his illegal pass on Hamilton was a five second penalty.
"Max said that he could have easily made up for the five second penalty by driving away at the front," team official Marko told Osterreich newspaper.
"But then they just would have given him 10 seconds," he insisted.

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