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Nikita Mazepin will not get preferential treatment at Haas this season, team boss Gunther Steiner insists.

Organisers of the grand prix at Sochi are pressing ahead with preparations for the race in September, despite Russia's anti-doping ban from international sport.

Sebastian Vettel left the pre-season test in Bahrain with the slowest lap time of all 20 race drivers that run in the desert island, as well as with the lowest number of laps achieved by those that will be taking part in the 2021 Formula One World Championship. A new experience for the four-times World Champion, who managed only 177 laps in the course of his thee half days of running, with a best time of 1m33,742s, almost four seconds off Max Verstappen's pace setting time.

Mercedes endured its toughest pre-season since the introduction of the Hybrid Power engines seven years ago and left Bahrain as the team with the least laps completed over the course of the three days of running – only 304 laps between Hamilton (154) and Bottas (150) – while AlphaTauri, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari all completed over 400 laps in the same period of time.

Lance Stroll could be "a benchmark" for quadruple world champion and teammate Sebastian Vettel in 2021.

Max Verstappen was "much faster" than Mercedes' drivers at the Bahrain test.

Former F1 driver Christijan Albers has dismissed claims that Mercedes may be sandbagging ahead of the 2021 season.

Sharp-eyed observers have questioned rookie Yuki Tsunoda's pace in the pre-season Bahrain test.

McLaren is "surprised" to be the only team exploiting an early loophole in the tweaked aerodynamic rules for 2021.

Team boss Gunther Steiner admits it is "possible" Haas will finish dead last in the 2021 world championship.

Long-time F1 safety car driver Bernd Maylander admits to feeling "nervous" about the 2021 season.

Formula 1 is hoping to race through the covid crisis by attending all 23 scheduled grands prix on the 2021 calendar.

Mercedes has made "a horrible start" to the 2021 season, according to team boss Toto Wolff.

Alpine's executive director Marcin Budkowski has defended the emergence of a notably 'plump' area of the 2021 car's engine cover just behind the airbox.

Ferrari has succeeded in producing a more powerful engine for 2021.

The winner of the trial 'sprint qualifying' races in 2021 will receive 3 points as well as pole position for the main event.

Ferrari hopes to have done enough work with its Power Unit to match at least Renault right from the start of the season. While the 2020 season was spent, for the Scuderia and costumers Alfa Romeo Sauber and Haas, fighting against more powerful rivals – a consequence of the FIA investigation that concluded the Italians were using an energy recovery system that didn't comply with the spirit of the rules at the end of 2019 – the Italian engineers have spent a lot of work finding the missing horsepower and, according to sources close to the team, have managed to extract 30 bhp more from their Power Unit.

Marc Gene was the first driver to try the Circuit de Catalunya’s new Turn 10 during a demonstration run he did at the start of the week, driving a Ferrari 488 GT at the request of the track’s new management. On Monday, the former Minardi and Williams driver, now ambassador for Ferrari and demonstration driver for the Scuderia as well, did a few laps around a circuit he knows like the back of his hand and came out of the car beaming with delight.

Toto Wolff confirmed on Friday he’s in talks with Nico Hulkenberg, to make the veteran German one of Mercedes’ reserve drivers for this season. Hulkenberg stood in on three Grand Prix last year, always for Racing Point, replacing Sergio Perez in the British and 70th anniversary Grand Prix, both ran in Silverstone, and just for qualifying and the race at the Eifel Grand Prix, in place of Lance Stroll, as both the team’s drivers contracted the COVID-19 virus during the season.

The ten Formula One teams have agreed to run three Sprint Races this year, in Silverstone, Monza and Interlagos, during a pre-test meeting chaired by new Formula One CEO Stefano Domenicali. The format, which still has to be finalized, to be voted before the start of the season, means Friday running will include just one Free Practice Session lasting one hour, before qualifying – run in the current format – is held in the afternoon.

It is "too early" to be totally confident that June's Canadian GP will take place as scheduled.

The 'super qualifying' sprint races to be trialled in Formula 1 this year will only last half an hour, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has revealed.

Formula 1 needs to be "careful" not to be left behind as climate change takes centre stage, according to quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel.

Ferrari has recovered a "large part" of its engine power deficit of 2020 ahead of the new Formula 1 season, according to long-time team test driver Marc Gene.

Legendary Ferrari figure Mauro Forghieri has questioned Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto's ability to pull the Maranello marque out of its performance slump.