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Audi provide update on F1 entry as Mattia Binotto to become team boss​

The major change in the engine regulations in 2026 will come with another change to the sport, as Audi join the grid as they complete their takeover of Sauber, which was announced earlier this year. The team have chosen 2026 as their target year to join the grid because they plan to provide their own power unit, and the change in rules provide the perfect window of opportunity. Audi’s Competence Centre Motorsport, which opened its doors in 2014, will be expanding to cater for the car manufacturer’s F1 project, having already helped Audi to success in the Dakar Rally and Formula E.

The Neuburg based facility is set to complete its extension in 2024, and Oliver Hoffman, Audi’s board member for technical development has provided an update on the progress of the new building, known as F7.2. “With the Competence Centre Motorsport, we have an ideal base for our Formula 1 project,” explained Hoffman. “Audi Neuburg was designed from the outset to be able to tackle the most demanding motorsport projects. This foresight is paying off. With the existing facilities, we were able to immediately begin with the Formula 1 project. The expansion will create the necessary infrastructure for the development of our F1 power unit for the long term. With the building extension and the installation of state-of-the-art benches, we are giving our development team the best possible conditions to be successful in the top class of motorsport.”

Audi will need to assemble a race day team, consisting of a team principal and two drivers, and rumours have suggested that the team could play a major role in reviving the careers of certain individuals. Mattia Binotto, who has recently resigned from Ferrari following a disappointing campaign, is rumoured to already be in talks to become the Audi boss, while Mick Schumacher is reportedly a target for the team as they look to secure a German driver for their debut season. Valtteri Bottas has expressed his interest in remaining with Alfa Romeo until 2026, and then transitioning into an Audi driver, as he believes that his experience could be vital to the new team on the grid, and give him one final chance to challenge for race wins before he calls time on his career.

Audi have claimed that they plan to challenge for podiums in their debut season, aiming to be a regular race winner within three years of being in Formula 1, such is their belief in their ability to provide a strong powertrain
 

Court confirms Williams awarded £26 million after case against former sponsor​


Williams have been awarded a payout of more than £26 million after former title sponsors ROKiT were found to have not paid the money owed to them as part of their deal. The venture capital conglomerate began a title partnership deal with Williams in the 2019 season, before announcing a two-year extension in July of that year to take them through to the 2023 season. But despite the logo having appeared on the team’s cars in pre-season testing in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic hit and the curtailing of the Formula 1 schedule saw ROKiT renege on their sponsorship of the team, with then-deputy team principal Claire Williams explaining that the team would re-appear in 2020 without the ROKiT logo on their cars and all ties had been severed with the company, despite having “met all of our contractual obligations” with them.


A lengthy legal process then followed between the team and their former sponsor, with Williams having initially won an arbitration case a federal court hearing in the United States back in January for the £26m figure stated, based on missed payments to the team from ROKiT as part of their sponsorship agreement. But with this, Williams recently sought a Petition to Confirm Foreign Arbitral Award at the end of November – to gain full written confirmation of the ruling in their favour. Their case was then presented to the United States District Court, Central District of California on Thursday 1st December, when Judge Christina Snyder confirmed her final judgment in Williams’ favour in this action.


The final ruling provided written confirmation that the team are owed £26,220,094.25 by ROKiT, along with a further $1million (£813,000) bonus payment, as well as legal costs incurred. Williams dropped to the bottom of the Constructors’ Championship in the 2022 season, with eight points scored across the year between Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi and Nyck de Vries.
 
Got a spare tenner?
A few people who have been put in the frame for Ferrari's new boss are, Frederic Vasseur, Andreas Seidl, Christian Horner and Ross Brawn. A few name have come up from people who are already at Ferrari, such as Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna is set to oversee the F1 team while the search for a successor is ongoing. Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies has deputised for Binotto on several occasions and Antonello Coletta, who is the head of Ferrari’s Sports and GT operation.

If I had a bookie close by I'd maybe stick a tenner on Jock Clear, can't find any odds for him getting the job but for sure he'd be better than 20 to 1 and therefore a great bet if you wouldn't miss the dosh.

Stick a tenner on for me someone please :) hahaha
 

"Lucky" shows former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone as you’ve never seen him before. New eight-part docuseries launching this month on streaming platforms.​

With all the commotion about a certain Netflix release that hit the screens recently, docuseries are quite the thing at the moment. So it’s timely that the latest offering from BAFTA winning “Senna“ writer and producer Manish Pandey should drop at Christmas on Discovery+ and other platforms internationally. Having dominated F1 for over 40 years, Bernie Ecclestone was moved aside in 2017 as Liberty Media stamped their ownership on the sport. But now Ecclestone, 92, is having his say. As the sole protagonist of this new eight-part docuseries, written and directed by Pandey, Ecclestone tells his story from 1950 up to the fateful day in 2017, when Liberty’s newly installed F1 CEO Chase Carey gave him his marching orders after over 35 years as the sport’s ringmaster.

The programmes are incredibly rich in archive, with spectacular footage from 1950 onwards, including the first Grand Prix at Silverstone, where Ecclestone was present. As a frontman for F1 Ecclestone was a man of few words, but here he is front and centre and seemingly comfortable telling his own narrative, with insights that are at times hilarious and at other times extremely sad. The early programmes, covering the ‘50s, ’60s and ‘70s , inevitably feature many driver fatalities. The woefully inadequate safety of cars and race tracks in F1’s early days is depressingly familiar as the decades pass and more great names are lost: Hawthorn, Collins, Rindt, Cevert, Villeneuve. Ecclestone played his part in pushing safety, particularly when he got control of the sport in the 1980s, installing Prof Sid Watkins as F1’s medical supervisor and empowering him.

Ecclestone is at his best here when describing the behind closed doors deal-making, which was his stock in trade. As it is close to impossible to illustrate these anecdotes with archive, the producers hit on an elegant solution with comic book style animation that sounds cheesy, but actually works well. That said, the archive researcher has played a blinder and there is actual footage of race promoters handing wads of cash over to Ecclestone, who arranges them neatly in his briefcase and thanks them for their business. There is also wonderfully atmospheric footage of the kerbside second hand car trading in London’s Warren Street, where Ecclestone cut his teeth as a dealmaker.


But the series must feature the largest F1 video archive purchase in history and as well as racing action, there are some gems, as we saw in Senna. Jean-Marie Balestre, the 1980’s president of the FIA, whom Ecclestone wrestled for control of F1 and who played a starring role in “Senna”, is again portrayed as a pompous buffoon, whom Ecclestone runs rings around in some scenes of exquisite humour and awkwardness. The producers set themselves quite a challenge by making Ecclestone the main narrator of the series; the story is entirely seen through his eyes. Other leading figures from the sport’s history speak, but only in snatches of contemporary interviews; figures like Graham Hill, Colin Chapman captured in their time.

But it works. For the main storytelling elements, Ecclestone is set in a bright, all-white environment, looks straight into the camera, his face lit so all the craggy contours are visible. With nowhere to hide, his face tells a parallel story; there is emotion, some regret, plenty of humour and wry moments of score settling. Ecclestone has made several headlines for the wrong reasons in recent times with controversial pronouncements on Putin and Saddam Hussein. But this exercise is not about headlines, it is very clearly a legacy piece for his young son Ace, who is 89 years Ecclestone’s junior and unlikely to get to know his father’s story in detail from his own lips. By doing it this way, we all get to see it too.


Many biographers and film makers have wanted to tell Bernie’s story. Pandey was in the right place at the right time with the right idea and Bernie has opened up in a way that is hard for anyone who worked with him in F1 to imagine. Of course, like that other much talked about docuseries in circulation at the moment, we only have the main protagonist’s side of the story here, but for anyone with an interest in F1, how it got to be a £2 billion a year business and one of the world’s largest sports, this series will fill in many gaps.
 
1%er said:

"Lucky" shows former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone as you’ve never seen him before. New eight-part docuseries launching this month on streaming platforms.​

With all the commotion about a certain Netflix release that hit the screens recently, docuseries are quite the thing at the moment. So it’s timely that the latest offering from BAFTA winning “Senna“ writer and producer Manish Pandey should drop at Christmas on Discovery+ and other platforms internationally. Having dominated F1 for over 40 years, Bernie Ecclestone was moved aside in 2017 as Liberty Media stamped their ownership on the sport. But now Ecclestone, 92, is having his say. As the sole protagonist of this new eight-part docuseries, written and directed by Pandey, Ecclestone tells his story from 1950 up to the fateful day in 2017, when Liberty’s newly installed F1 CEO Chase Carey gave him his marching orders after over 35 years as the sport’s ringmaster.

The programmes are incredibly rich in archive, with spectacular footage from 1950 onwards, including the first Grand Prix at Silverstone, where Ecclestone was present. As a frontman for F1 Ecclestone was a man of few words, but here he is front and centre and seemingly comfortable telling his own narrative, with insights that are at times hilarious and at other times extremely sad. The early programmes, covering the ‘50s, ’60s and ‘70s , inevitably feature many driver fatalities. The woefully inadequate safety of cars and race tracks in F1’s early days is depressingly familiar as the decades pass and more great names are lost: Hawthorn, Collins, Rindt, Cevert, Villeneuve. Ecclestone played his part in pushing safety, particularly when he got control of the sport in the 1980s, installing Prof Sid Watkins as F1’s medical supervisor and empowering him.

Ecclestone is at his best here when describing the behind closed doors deal-making, which was his stock in trade. As it is close to impossible to illustrate these anecdotes with archive, the producers hit on an elegant solution with comic book style animation that sounds cheesy, but actually works well. That said, the archive researcher has played a blinder and there is actual footage of race promoters handing wads of cash over to Ecclestone, who arranges them neatly in his briefcase and thanks them for their business. There is also wonderfully atmospheric footage of the kerbside second hand car trading in London’s Warren Street, where Ecclestone cut his teeth as a dealmaker.


But the series must feature the largest F1 video archive purchase in history and as well as racing action, there are some gems, as we saw in Senna. Jean-Marie Balestre, the 1980’s president of the FIA, whom Ecclestone wrestled for control of F1 and who played a starring role in “Senna”, is again portrayed as a pompous buffoon, whom Ecclestone runs rings around in some scenes of exquisite humour and awkwardness. The producers set themselves quite a challenge by making Ecclestone the main narrator of the series; the story is entirely seen through his eyes. Other leading figures from the sport’s history speak, but only in snatches of contemporary interviews; figures like Graham Hill, Colin Chapman captured in their time.

But it works. For the main storytelling elements, Ecclestone is set in a bright, all-white environment, looks straight into the camera, his face lit so all the craggy contours are visible. With nowhere to hide, his face tells a parallel story; there is emotion, some regret, plenty of humour and wry moments of score settling. Ecclestone has made several headlines for the wrong reasons in recent times with controversial pronouncements on Putin and Saddam Hussein. But this exercise is not about headlines, it is very clearly a legacy piece for his young son Ace, who is 89 years Ecclestone’s junior and unlikely to get to know his father’s story in detail from his own lips. By doing it this way, we all get to see it too.


Many biographers and film makers have wanted to tell Bernie’s story. Pandey was in the right place at the right time with the right idea and Bernie has opened up in a way that is hard for anyone who worked with him in F1 to imagine. Of course, like that other much talked about docuseries in circulation at the moment, we only have the main protagonist’s side of the story here, but for anyone with an interest in F1, how it got to be a £2 billion a year business and one of the world’s largest sports, this series will fill in many gaps.
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