Saturday’s new fast-moving F1 cars Lewis Hamilton get a new race engineer at Ferrari and a row in progress at Michael Schumacher in Germany.
Let’s charge through the day’s main headlines at the speed of light…
Lewis Hamilton goes to paint with Carlos Sainz’s former racing engineer, Riccardo Adami, in his first season with Ferrari in F1 2025.
Adami has worked in the past with four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari, with reports claiming last year that Hamilton approached Vettel to get a first impression of Adami.
Planetf1. com revealed last summer that Peter Bonnington, the veteran Hamilton racing engineer, would follow the seven -time Ferrari world champion, after being promoted to a higher position in Mercedes for F1 2025.
Read more: New racing engineer for Lewis Hamilton as Ferrari’s inner circle takes shape
Mick Schumacher hailed father Michael Schumacher as “my hero” after the F1 legend turned 56 on Friday.
It comes amid an ongoing dispute in Germany after Schumacher was denied honorary citizenship in his hometown of Kerpen.
Schumacher was born in nearby Hurth, but came to be closely associated with Kerpen over the course of his glittering F1 career.
Read more: Michael Schumacher ‘my hero’ while the ‘anger’ extends for a debatable decision
Jos Verstappen has defused Helmut Marko’s considerations that Max Verstappen will be slower after the birth of his first child.
Verstappen revealed at the end of last year that he is expecting his first child with partner Kelly Piquet, daughter of three-time F1 World Champion Nelson Piquet.
Marko believes that Verstappen will lose three tenths of a moment of the new final.
Verstappen’s response senior? “It is. “
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The Aston Martin driver, Fernando Alonso, has revealed that he plans to return to the legendary Dakar Rally after his retirement from F1.
It comes after the two-time World Champion admitted that F1 2026 is likely to be his last season in Formula 1 as things stand.
Alonso previously competed in the Dakar Rally in 2020, his F1 sabbatical, finishing 13th.
Read more: Fernando Alonso, the next target after the F1 dropout rate
Alpine Advisor Flavio Briatore accused Esteban Ocon of being “completely demotivated” in the last weeks of the 2024 F1 season with his head already in New Employer Haas.
Ocon left his seat at Alpine ahead of the final race of the 2024 F1 season in Abu Dhabi, and Jack Doohan made his debut one race earlier.
Ocon will shape an entirely new diversity of drivers for Haas alongside Ferrari junior Oliver Bearman this year.
Read more: Flavio Briatore takes aim at ‘completely demotivated’ Ocon before Haas move