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Almost four months after initially scheduled, the much needed upgrade of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza has started on Monday, being kicked off in a lengthy ceremony presided by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, with the Automobilie Club d’Italia president, Angelo Sticchi Damiani, as master of ceremonies.

Highly experienced Formula 1 man Tim Goss has left the FIA at the start of this year, extending the talent exodus that has been hitting the Federation’s sporting department, just weeks after Steve Nielsen gave his notice and will leave his role as Sporting Director at the end of this month. Goss has now left his position as Single-seater Technical Director and is believed to be on the verge of returning to the competitive side of Grand Prix racing, joining one of the Formula 1 teams in the next couple of weeks.

Red Bull’s advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed the first monocoque of the new RB20 failed the FIA-mandatory frontal crash test as we wrote last week. While the team is always tremendously protective of all its internal information and almost never reacts to media reports, the 80-years old Austrian seems unable to resist commenting on every single detail and has now confirmed to a German website this story.

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Mercedes Benz and Williams has announced that they will continue to use Mercedes engines for the 2026 season and beyond.

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There has been a change of guard at the Ferrari Driver Academy, with the departure of Marco Matassa, who had been leading the young drivers’ program since the start of 2018, the Italian expected to return to his previous team, Faenza-based AlphaTauri – racing under a new name this year – with his position in Maranello being taken over by the highly experienced Jock Clear.

McLaren’s impressive recovery during the 2023 season, with two major upgrades – the first introduced in Austria, the second one in Singapore – transforming the MCL60 into the second quickest car in the field after starting the year at the back of the grid – has given reason to optimism inside the Woking-based team now looking ahead at the 2024 Formula 1 World Championship.

One year after Pierre Gasly and Lance Stroll started the 2023 season under the threat of immediate race bans, as they were close to reaching the dreaded 12 penalty points that come with a one race ban, only Sérgio Pérez and Logan Sargeant will have to be a little bit carefull with their track manners in the first two thirds of the season, as they’re the two drivers who have accumulated the most penalty points during the last championship.

With just over seven weeks to go before the start of testing in Bahrain, half the Formula 1 teams have already confirmed the launch dates of their 2024 cars with the other five teams yet to announce when their new machinery – or at least their new colours - will first be shown to the fans and the media.

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Better late than never, as they say, as the urgent upgrades Monza needed tlo complete in order to negotiate a new deal to keep the Italian Grand Prix beyond the end of its current contract with Formula 1, are finally set to start on Monday, January 8th.

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The distance between the FIA leadership and the ten Formula 1 teams has become much bigger in recent months, with the competitors openly siding with the Commercial Rights Holder and being very critical of some of president Ben Sulayem’s moves. The sudden departure of the FIA Sporting Director, Steve Nielsen, is set to increase the gap between the sport’s regulator and the teams, as the veteran Englishman is hugely respected in the paddock, having successfully worked with a large number of teams, to the point he was singled out by drivers and Team Principals as a tremendously valid part of their discussions on the subject of improving the regulations and the way the sport operates – praise that is unusual to hear regarding an FIA official.

The German arm of Sky TV and the historic RTL channel gave the German Formula 1 fans a great Christmas gift with the announcement that seven Grand Prix will be broadcast live, a luxury they hadn’t enjoyed in the last couple of years, from the moment RTL decided it could no longer pay the huge fees demanded by Formula 1.

Red Bull’s preparation for the 2024 season are rumored to have suffered a setback just before the winter shutdown, with sources close to the Austrian team suggesting the first monocoque of the new RB20 failed the mandatory frontal crash test. Like all UK-based teams, Red Bull conducts the crash tests of its cars in Cranfield, but according to those sources, the team will now need to bring the second chassis into that facility, with at least one extra layer of carbon fibre added to the frontal structure, in order to pass thus crash test and get the necessary homologation.

Gil de Ferran, a celebrated figure in motorsport and the 2003 Indianapolis 500 champion, has died at the age of 56.

Robert Kubica says he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" when he made his failed attempt at a return to Formula 1 with Williams in 2019.

The key to Sergio Perez upping his game and hanging onto his Red Bull seat beyond 2024 is confidence.

Max Verstappen's personal marketing team has swollen to no fewer than 35 people - and they are even beginning to look beyond his Formula 1 career.

There is bittersweet news for the Leclerc family just ahead of Christmas.

Rival Formula 1 teams will be keeping a very close eye on Alpha Tauri next year.