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Formula One in 'Very Fragile State', Warns McLaren Boss Zak Brown

McLaren boss warned that four teams could be driven out of business due to coronavirus pandemic.




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F1 Team Mercedes to Deliver Breathing Devices to UK Hospitals in Coronavirus Fight

Formula One team Mercedes will make and deliver CPAP devices, which help coronavirus patients with lung infections to breathe more easily, to Britain's NHS.




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Formula One Furloughs Half Their Staff; Bosses Too Take Pay Cuts Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic

Formula One gains most of its revenue from race promotion fees, broadcast deals and advertising and sponsorship which have all been stalled by coronavirus.




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Formula One Considering Closed Races Once Season Starts After Coronavirus Delay

Formula One has seen all its races till June 28 postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic.




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Formula One Faces New Reality Amid Coronavirus Crisis: FIA President Jean Todt

Nine Formula One Grand Prix races have been cancelled or postponed and the next race scheduled is the French GP on June 28.




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Mr. Motor Racing: Sir Stirling Moss Dies Aged 90

Stirling Moss, who was affectionately known as 'Mr. Motor Racing', died peacefully at his London home following a long illness.




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Lewis Hamilton Salutes 'Racing Legend and Comrade' Stirling Moss

Lewis Hamilton paid a tribute to Stirling Moss, who was regarded as one of Formula One's greatest drivers.




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Damon Hill Hails Stirling Moss as F1 'Great' Despite Lack of World Title

Stirling Moss died on Sunday aged 90 following a long illness.




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Formula E Teams Up with UNICEF on Coronavirus Appeal

Formula E have already suspended its season, which runs from December to July, last month.




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Max Verstappen to Race in Virtual Aussie Supercar Series as a Wildcard

Max Verstappen was announced a wildcard entrant in the V8 Supercars All-Stars Eseries.




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McLaren Boss Says Coronavirus is Final Wake-up Call for 'Unhealthy' F1

McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl said the coronavirus is the perfect call up for Formula One and the sport's 'unhealthy' ways.




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Formula E Launches Esports 'Race at Home' Challenge To Fill the Void Left by Coronavirus

Formula E’s version also aims to raise funds for UNICEF after the announcement on Tuesday of a partnership with the U.N. children’s fund’s global coronavirus appeal.




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F1: Belgian Grand Prix in Doubt for August 30, Organisers Looking at 'All Scenarios'

Formula One organisers said that they are weighing up all scenarios, postponement, holding it behind closed doors, or cancelling the Belgian GP.




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Esports: Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois to Race for Red Bull in Virtual Chinese GP

Thibaut Courtois will be joining Red Bull's Alexander Albon and five other regular Formula One racers for a virtual Chinese Grand Prix.




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Sebastian Vettel Dismisses Back-to-back Racing Overload as 'Not Realistic'

The 22-event F1 season has been decimated by the coronavirus with nine races either cancelled or postponed.




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Mercedes F1 Boss Toto Wolff Takes a Stake in Aston Martin

Mercedes F1 spokesman said Toto Wolff's move was purely an investment and would be diluted by a rights issue on Monday from 4.77% to less than 1%.




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Charles Leclerc Wins Virtual China Race, Celebrates With Pasta Not Champagne

Charles Leclerc started on pole in the Formula One Esports Virtual Grand Prix championship and finished ahead of Red Bull's Alex Albon and Guanyu Zhou.




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Lewis Hamilton Ready to Stick with Mercedes 'Dream Team'

Lewis Hamilton was linked with a move to Ferrari after the six-time world title winner revealed in January he had yet to open talks over a new deal with Mercedes.




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Spanish Grand Prix: F1 Will Renegotiate Fees for Races Without Fans

Joan Fontsere, yhe general manager of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, said said Spanish Grand Prix organizers at this moment are not even considering a race with fans.




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Would be Happy for Sebastian Vettel to Continue at Ferrari: Charles Leclerc

Sebastian Vettel has hinted he may have a new deal with Ferrari before the Formula One season begins post the covid-19 pandemic.




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Ferrari Refute Reports of Quiting Formula One, Say They Remain Committed to F1

Ferrari came out to refute report that they are leaving F1 if a proposed budget cap for 2021 was set too low and said that they remain committed to Formula One.




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Formula One Make Cash Payments to Some Teams to Protect 'Ecosystem' Amid Coronavirus Crisis

The 2020 Formula One championship has been thrown into turmoil since the covid-19 crisis swept around the world.




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FIA Safeguard Clause Could Facilitate Lower Formula One Budget Cap

F1 teams have agreed verbally to lower the 2021 budget but some are pushing for further cuts to reflect the global financial crisis caused by Covid-19.




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James Allison Thanks Mercedes for Their 'Gamble' on a Grieving Man Four Years Ago

Mercedes brought James Allison into the team a year after his wife Rebecca died suddenly of meningitis in March 2016.




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British Grand Prix Will Not Take Place in Front of Fans: Silverstone

July 19 British Grand Prix has not yet been postponed or cancelled but organisers have confirmed that fans will not be allowed.




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Formula One Boss Targets Season Start in Austria on July 5 After Coronavirus Delay

F1 boss Chase Carey announced plans of finally starting the truncated 2020 season after coronavirus-forced shutdown.




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Lewis Hamilton Misses Being Out of Racing Action For the 1st Time Since He was Eight

Lewis Hamilton said there was a big void in his life right now since he is unable to race due to coronavirus shutdown.




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Engines Off: Canceled Iconic F1 Race Dents Monaco's Prestige

The Monaco Grand Prix was canceled on March 19 because of the coronavirus outbreak, with the jewel in F1's crown removed for the first time in 66 years.




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Formula One Extends Shutdown Period For Second Time To a Period Of 63 Consecutive Days

Teams normally take most of August off, but that period has now been freed up to give Formula One room to reschedule a string of races postponed due to the new coronavirus.




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Austrian Grand Prix 'Must be Behind Closed Doors', Insists Health Minister

Austria's health minister Rudolf Anschober said the authorisation of stage Austrian GP depended completely on the security plan of the organisers.




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Fans Barred From Hungarian Grand Prix Due to Coronavirus: Formula One Race Organisers

The 35th Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix will not be held in front of spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic, the orgznisers said.




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This Day 26 Years Ago, F1 Racing Legend Ayrton Senna Passed Away

Formula One legend Ayrton Senna died in a horrific crash on this day in 1994




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F1 Agrees $145 Million Cap for Teams in 2021: Managing Director Ross Brawn

Formula One managing director Ross Brawn said after a teleconference with teams and the governing FIA that a much fairer prize fund would feature in a new commercial agreement due by the end of this year.




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Two of the 10 German Football Coronavirus Cases Are at Moenchengladbach: Report

Local newspaper reported an unnamed Moenchengladbach player and physiotherapist had tested positive for the coronavirus.




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Claire Williams Scared of Formula One Team Shutting Down Due to Covid-19 But Won't Risk Staff's Health

Claire Williams said that it was scary that if racing doesn't restart soon due to coronavirus, Formula One could lose an 'awful lot of teams'.




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F1 Looking to Host Races at New Circuits to Save Season after Covid-19 Setback

In the wake coronavirus pandemic, the first 10 races of the 2020 calender have either been called off or postponed.




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PM Modi discusses coronavirus situation with Aung San Suu Kyi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed India's readiness to provide all possible support to Myanmar to mitigate the health and economic impact of COVID-19.




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Afghanistan likely facing coronavirus 'health disaster': US watchdog

The spread of Covid-19 has significantly impacted Afghanistan from complicating the peace initiative to forcing border crossing closures that have disrupted commercial and humanitarian deliveries, according to a a watchdog report to the US Congress.




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Afghanistan suffers upsurge in fighting and in coronavirus




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Nepal gets 3,000 coronavirus testing kits from Germany

Germany has provided 3,000 coronavirus testing kits to Nepal to fight the pandemic. This is part of the bilateral cooperation between Germany and Nepal to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, said Embassy of Germany in Kathmandu. The 3,000 PCR-test kits arrived in Nepal on Saturday through a French repatriation flight, part of a total of 20K kits from Germany.




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Rohingya refugees relocated to controversial Bangladesh island after weeks at sea




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Coronavirus: Nepal records 16 new cases; most in contact with man who attended Tablighi event in India

Sixteen people, including 15 who came in contact with a religious leader who returned after attending the Tablighi Jamaat gathering in Delhi in March, have been tested positive, Nepal's health ministry said. All the 16 people were found Covid-19 positive on Sunday, it said, adding that the total number of coronavirus cases in Nepal now stands at 75.




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B’desh relocates dozens of Rohingya to island




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Lankan Tamils raise release of political prisoners issue with PM Mahinda Rajapaksa

A delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Sri Lanka's main Tamil party, met the prime minister on Monday for a separate discussion on the prisoners issue after attending an all-party meeting convened by Mahinda Rajapaksa.




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Why China's maneuvers in Nepal politics worry India




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Covid-19: Nepal extends lockdown till May 18, suspends cross-border movement until May 3




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IMF approves $214 million to Nepal to address Covid-19 pandemic

The IMF approved a disbursement to Nepal of about $214 million to help it cover the urgent balance of payments and fiscal needs stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. The IMF said Covid is having a severe impact on Nepal's remittances, tourism, and domestic activity. It will substantially weaken the country's GDP growth, balance of payments and fiscal position.




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Bangladesh lifts curbs on mosque prayers as lockdown eases




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Nepal lawmakers being tested for coronavirus ahead of Parliament session

All lawmakers in Nepal are being tested for the novel coronavirus as a precautionary measure ahead of the Parliament's budget session beginning on Friday. The swab samples of the members of Lower House and Upper House were collected for testing through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method, at the Parliament building on Thursday, according to officials.




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Nepal confirms three new coronavirus cases, total infections reach 102: Health ministry