Formula 1 news

• Formula 1 revises its rules over collision penalties for 2017

  24-01-2017 17:04
  
  Formula 1 drivers will not receive penalties for collisions in 2017 unless it is absolutely clear who is at fault, the FIA has confirmed
  
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• Big shake-up on the cards for Formula 1’s new era

  24-01-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bernie Ecclestone’s ousting as Formula One supremo will take the sport in a different, digital direction under new American owners Liberty Media but there is much work to be done in the months and years ahead.
  “F1 has huge potential with multiple untapped opportunities,” said new chief executive Chase Carey after ending 86-year-old Ecclestone’s 40-year reign on Monday.
  “We will work…to enhance the racing experience and add new dimensions to the sport and we
  
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• WATCH: How F1 can move forward

  24-01-2017 15:09 via skysports.com
  
  In an exclusive Sky Sports interview, Chase Carey outlines his vision for the future of Formula 1 and discusses Bernie Ecclestone's legacy.
  
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• Brundle: F1 can hit new heights

  24-01-2017 15:00 via skysports.com
  
  Sky F1's Martin Brundle believes the sport can go "to a new level" in its latest era of ownership after Liberty Media's takeover was formalised.
  
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• F1 chief explains GP blueprint

  24-01-2017 14:30 via skysports.com
  
  Chase Carey has spoken of his desire to add a US "destination city" race to the Formula 1 calendar and says he has already engaged with a "number of markets".
  
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• Brawn: We need solutions for the small teams

  24-01-2017 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The transition of Formula 1 power from Bernie Ecclestone to Liberty Media has been ruthlessly swift as within a few hours of the announcement that Chase Carey, Ross Brawn and Sean Bratches now rule the sport, their focus was already being outlined to media.
  One of the first issues that Brawn addressed in an interview with Sky sports was the plight of smaller teams, “We need to find solutions where the small teams can stand on their own two feet and put up a good challenge to the hierarchy
  
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• The new main men of Formula 1

  24-01-2017 14:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chase Carey will lead the all new Formula 1 senior management team on behalf of new owners Liberty media with his two lieutenants Ross Brawn and Sean Braatches set to do do the work in the trenches as a new era for the sport has been ushered in very swiftly and with immediate effect.
  The triumvirate spoke of their respective appointments and in their early messages the will to improve the sport while seeking to work closely with the stake holders is clearly a collective goal.
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• Formula 1's 2017 changes just 'window dressing' - Red Bull's Horner

  24-01-2017 13:54
  
  Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes Formula 1 is in need of a bigger shake-up than the 'window dressing' changes for 2017
  
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• Carey: Ross has really got respect across this business

  24-01-2017 13:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ross Brawn is one of the most respected men in Formula 1, having enjoyed massive success in team management and ownership, thus it was a no-brainer for Liberty Media to latch on to him as they plotted their purchase and takeover of the sport.
  Newly appointed Chairman and CEO of F1, Chase Carey revealed,  “Ross has really got respect across this business. I have yet to meet somebody that hasn’t brought him up as somebody that would be invaluable as an addition to Formu
  
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• 'F1 must support small teams'

  24-01-2017 13:50 via skysports.com
  
  Ross Brawn hopes to make F1's revenue distributions to the teams more even to help secure the long-term futures of the smaller teams.
  
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• Carey: Bernie has run the business as a one-man show

  24-01-2017 13:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Formula 1’s new chairman and CEO Chase Carey has acknowledged the big role that Bernie Ecclestone has had in the history of Formula 1, but he doubts the 86 year old will fit into the new Liberty Media era where the management line-up will include Ross Brawn and Sean Bratches.
  Carey told Sky Sport, “Bernie has run this business the majority of his adult life. When he’s run it for the period he’s run it I certainly understand that the change is going to be difficult for hi
  
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• Carey: Difficult for Ecclestone

  24-01-2017 12:00 via skysports.com
  
  New F1 chief Chase Carey has told Sky Sports Bernie Ecclestone will find it "difficult" to adjust to his new role but hopes the sport continues to benefit from the Briton's input.
  
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• F1's lack of growth prompted Liberty to oust Bernie Ecclestone

  24-01-2017 11:45
  
  Formula 1's new CEO Chase Carey says the championship's lack of growth in the last five years prompted Liberty Media's decision to install new management
  
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• How Bernie Ecclestone transformed Formula 1

  24-01-2017 10:06
  
  For vivid proof of the changes that Bernard Charles Ecclestone wrought on the pinnacle of motorsport, simply compare images of Formula 1 paddocks over five decades
  
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• WATCH: Bernie & Brundle

  24-01-2017 10:00 via skysports.com
  
  Watch Martin Brundle's exclusive chat for Sky Sports F1 with Bernie Ecclestone last November as the Sky F1 pundit visited his Brazilian ranch.
  
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• Brawn: It’s fantastic to be returning

  24-01-2017 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Ferrari technical director and world championship-winning team principal Ross Brawn stepped back into the Formula One arena on Monday in the new role of managing director for motorsport.
  New owners Liberty Media said the burly Briton, whose Brawn team won the 2009 constructors’ and drivers’ titles, would be one of two managing directors under chief executive Chase Carey.
  The other, for commercial operations, is former ESPN executive Sean Bratches.
  “It’s fantastic
  
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• Ecclestone’s exit marks end of an era

  24-01-2017 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bernie Ecclestone used to joke that retirement would come on the day of his funeral but in the end it was an American businessman in a suit who quietly ushered Formula One’s 86-year-old ringmaster towards the exit.
  Formula One’s new U.S.-based owner Liberty Media on Monday completed its takeover of the sport’s commercial rights and with it ended one of the longest, most colourful and controversial reigns in global sport.
  Chase Carey, the man with the twirly moustache who had b
  
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• Formula 1 world reacts to the end of the Ecclestone era

  24-01-2017 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  2016 World Champion Nico Rosberg: “Bernie, mega job! But a change has been overdue. Mr. Carey, all the best in making our sport awesome again.”
  F1 driver-turned-commentator Martin Brundle: “He was the circus master. He was in charge and sometimes you need a sport to be run like that. It was his way or the highway. He might not be very tall but he was certainly feared in the paddock … and we all did extremely well hanging on to his shirt-tails.”
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• Liberty Media: Delighted to welcome Ross back

  24-01-2017 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Press release: Chase Carey, Chairman and CEO of Formula 1, announced on Monday the appointments in newly created roles of Ross Brawn as Managing Director, Motor Sports, and Sean Bratches as Managing Director, Commercial Operations.
  These appointments are effective immediately in conjunction with the completion of Liberty Media’s acquisition of Formula 1 announced earlier on the day.
  Ross Brawn is one of the most successful and innovative Technical Directors in Formula 1 history. A Formula
  
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• Liberty Media completes acquisition of Formula 1

  24-01-2017 08:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Press Release: Liberty Media Corporation (“Liberty Media”) (Nasdaq: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRK, LMCA, LMCK) and Delta Topco, the parent company of Formula 1 (Delta Topco herein referred to as “Formula 1” or “F1”) announced today that Liberty Media has completed its previously announced acquisition of F1, the iconic global motorsports business, from a consortium of sellers (the “Selling Shareholders”).
  F1 has appointed Chase Carey as Chief E
  
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• Rue Jules Bianchi inaugurated in Nice

  24-01-2017 06:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The late French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi now has a street named after him following a ceremony in his home city of Nice on Monday.
  Compatriot and former racing rival Jean-Eric Vergne posted a photograph on Instagram of the street sign at the Rue Jules Bianchi, with the dates 1989-2015 and the words ‘Pilote de Formule 1.’
  “Merci Nice…we miss you Jules,” he added.
  Bianchi, 25, died in hospital in Nice after nine months in a coma following a Japanese Grand Pr
  
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