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Bottas wins in Austria, Leclerc/Norris get surprise podiums

Valtteri Bottas won a thrilling Formula 1 season-opening Austrian Grand Prix as a penalty for clashing with Alex Albon dropped Lewis Hamilton from second to fourth

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Live F1 Q&A with The Race’s Scott Mitchell

As the 2020 Formula 1 season begins, The Race’s Scott Mitchell will be answering readers’ question live on Sunday evening

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10 things to watch for in the Austrian Grand Prix

From tyre gambles up front to midfield surprises, and even the potential effect of a livery change – the Austrian Grand Prix has a lot of potential storylines

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Wolff tired of Ferrari engine saga and aero weakness talk

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says he “can’t listen” to Mattia Binotto talking down Ferrari’s aerodynamic performance anymore, and “enough has been said” about its heavily-scrutinised 2019 engine performance

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Hamilton cleared of rules breach due to ‘conflicting signals’

Lewis Hamilton will keep his second place on the Austrian Grand Prix grid after the Formula 1 stewards decided against taking action over a potential yellow flag rule breach in qualifying

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Our verdict on Ferrari’s Austrian GP qualifying disaster

Valtteri Bottas might have taken pole for Mercedes to kickstart the 2020 Formula 1 season at the Red Bull Ring – but the biggest talking point was Ferrari’s disastrous qualifying, with departing driver Sebastian Vettel knocked out in Q2

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Vettel: Missing Q3 ‘of course a surprise’

Sebastian Vettel admitted his Austrian Grand Prix Q2 exit came as a “surprise”, and suggested Ferrari had underestimated its rivals’ true pace

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Hamilton tops final practice but Red Bull draws closer

Lewis Hamilton completed a clean sweep of fastest times in Austrian Grand Prix F1 practice sessions on Saturday morning

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Video: Everything you need to know about the DAS ruling

We’re not even into qualifying for the first grand prix of the 2020 Formula 1 season and already the first major technical dispute has flared up and been thrashed out

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Our writers’ verdicts on the Mercedes legality decision

Late in the night after Austrian Grand Prix Friday practice, the FIA stewards declared Mercedes’ DAS system was legal. Here’s what our F1 writers made of that decision

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What we learned on the first proper day of F1 2020

After a seemingly never-ending off-season, Formula 1 roared back to life in Austria on Friday – with a multitude of new storylines set up to play out in 2020

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Mercedes still reigns, but midfield’s had a major shake-up

Friday’s Formula 1 practice running at the Red Bull Ring offered us the first look at the competitive order for 2020 – it’s brilliant news for one supposed midfield team, but bad news for two major names

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Horner: Friday DAS protest would be ‘fairest’ solution

Red Bull has heavily hinted it will lodge a protest against Mercedes’ DAS system before the end of Friday practice at the Austrian Grand Prix

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Ferrari defiant amid new push for engine settlement release

Ferrari is back under pressure over its controversial settlement with the FIA over 2019 engine legality, with rival teams urging it to make the full details public – but Ferrari remaining defiant

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Video: How covering F1 from the track has changed for 2020

Mark Hughes is on site for The Race at the Austrian Grand Prix. He explains what working at the track is like for Formula 1 journalists amid 2020’s restrictions

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Steiner’s F-word column: Back to a very quiet paddock

Guenther Steiner reports from the Austrian Grand Prix paddock in his exclusive column for The Race, and also covers Haas’s likely competitiveness and why he’s still frustrated reversed grids weren’t tried

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The quirkiest ways F1 drivers spent lockdown

Thanks to social media, it’s felt like fans have known most of what the F1 drivers have got up to over the three and a half months they’ve been separated from their cars – but there was still room for some surprises on Thursday in Austria

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Hamilton: Winning F1 title in 2020 would mean more

Lewis Hamilton says winning the Formula 1 world championship this year would mean more than his other drivers’ titles because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and his personal fight against racism

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Ocon keen to have Alonso as 2021 team-mate

Renault Formula 1 driver Esteban Ocon says he would be “very happy” to have Fernando Alonso as his team-mate in 2021

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Video: Our 2020 F1 season predictions

Who will be the champion? Which team will conquer ‘class B’? Who will be the surprises and disappointments of the season? Our F1 writers make their predictions

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Seven things you forgot we learned in F1 testing

Edd Straw, Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes run through a reminder of all we learned at pre-season testing, as anticipation builds ahead of the 2020 Formula 1 season

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Seidl dislikes idea of reverse grids but would trial it

McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andreas Seidl says he would have supported a reverse-grid race experiment despite being “old-style” and not liking artificial changes to racing

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Gary Anderson Podcast: Why Verstappen’s my title favourite

Gary Anderson tips Max Verstappen to win the 2020 Formula 1 world championship in the latest edition of his podcast

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Video: 10 things that have changed about F1 2020 since March

The start of the 2020 season is finally upon us, and Formula 1 looks very different compared to how it did in March when the Australian Grand Prix was cancelled

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Esports Podcast: Inside the Legends Trophy title fight

David Brabham joins our esports podcast fresh from narrowly missing out on The Race Legends Trophy title in the extraordinary finale

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Every Austrian F1 driver rated

Formula 1 2020 is about to begin with two grands prix in Austria. There aren’t any Austrian drivers on the grid this time, but the country has produced world champions, race winners and some talents who tragically never had chance to show what they could do in F1

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MotoGP podcast: Repercussions of Dovizioso’s ill-timed injury

Andrea Dovizioso’s broken collarbone just weeks before the delayed start of the 2020 MotoGP season is the main topic of our latest podcast

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Zanardi undergoes further neurosurgery

Alex Zanardi has undergone further neurosurgery in the Siena hospital where he is being treated for the severe head injury he suffered in a handbike accident 10 days ago

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Live pre-season Q&A with our F1 writers

With the 2020 Formula 1 season about to begin (again), The Race F1 writers Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw will be answering readers’ questions from 4pm UK time today

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McLaren secures £150m financing facility from Bahrain

McLaren Group has secured a £150million financing facility from the National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) in a move that will ease its current cashflow concerns

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Magnussen: Drivers not impacted by hiatus like other sportspeople

Haas driver Kevin Magnussen is convinced he and his Formula 1 peers will not be lacking in race fitness once the season gets underway, as he believes grand prix racing isn’t comparable with other sports in this aspect

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Seven F1 drivers we’ve learned more about in lockdown

Normally it’s their off-track or in-garage actions that reveal most about Formula 1 drivers. But as racing prepares to resume, our perceptions of several drivers have changed or been enhanced by their lockdown activities

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Podcast: How the F1 2020 picture has changed since March

The 2020 Formula 1 season is previewed again in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast, but the season that we look ahead to is very different to the one that we discussed three months ago ahead of the abandoned Australian Grand Prix

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F1 Revisited: Legendary start crash overshadows home win

Our F1 Revisited series ends for now with a French Grand Prix far more eventful than anything Paul Ricard has hosted lately

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Ricciardo: F1 at Mugello would be ‘insane’

Renault driver Daniel Ricciardo believes driving a 2020 Formula 1 car at Mugello would be “insane” should the Italian venue hold a grand prix this season

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Dovizioso breaks collarbone in motocross crash

Andrea Dovizioso has been taken to hospital after suffering a crash while competing in a motocross race in his native Italy on Sunday

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Quiz: Name the F1 winners who won Le Mans too

As the ROKiT Triple Crown season of The Race All-Star Series concludes today, here’s another Triple Crown quiz for you to warm up with

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10 F1 liveries that never raced

Williams switching livery before the 2020 racing season starts means its original colour scheme joins a list of F1 livieries that never made it onto the grid. Here are 10 of the best

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Podcast: Gary Anderson on working with Zanardi

Gary Anderson answers listener questions in his latest podcast, including on working with Alex Zanardi in Formula 1 and CART

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Norris identifies weaknesses to tackle in his ‘season 1.5’

McLaren driver Lando Norris says he will focus on tackling the “limiting factors” that held him back in 2019 heading into his second Formula 1 campaign, which he regards as season ‘1.5’ thanks to the unusual circumstances