7:36 AM ET Mike Elliott will take over from James Allison from July 1 as technical director of Formula One champions Mercedes, the team announced on Friday. Allison will stand back from day-to-day management of technical operations and take on the newly created role of chief technical officer, working closely with the factories at Brackley

11:56 AM ET Sebastian Vettel has revealed he completed an internship on organic farming during lockdown in 2020. Vettel is the only one of F1’s 20 drivers without a social media account and managed to keep a low profile through lockdown ahead of the delayed 2020 season start. The four-time F1 champion, who is racing

6:32 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo has hit out at the “idiots” behind Formula One’s strategy of showing crash footage on its social media accounts. Ricciardo was unhappy to see a montage of 2020’s best moments including several crashes, saying it isn’t something adults should want to watch. It is not the first time Ricciardo has

12:25 PM ET Reuters and ESPN Nico Rosberg’s team won the first race of the new electric Extreme E off-road series in Saudi Arabia on Sunday while Lewis Hamilton’s X44 outfit hit problems and finished third in a cloud of dust. Retired 2016 Formula One champion Rosberg was in Al Ula to celebrate the Desert

10:44 AM ET Lewis Hamilton said he realised last year the value of pushing for equality by diplomatic means rather than by embarrassing people. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has become outspoken on the issue of equality and knelt ahead of every Formula One race last season. Ahead of the season, Hamilton had called out F1

9:14 AM ET Formula One rookie Yuki Tsunoda said he felt emotional overtaking boyhood hero Fernando Alonso on his debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Tsunoda turned in a series of impressive overtakes on his way to ninth position in Bahrain, making him the first rookie to score on debut since Stoffel Vandoorne in 2016.

4:33 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo raced with a significantly damaged car on his McLaren debut in Bahrain last weekend, the Formula One team said on Tuesday. The Australian, who moved from Renault at the end of last season, finished seventh at the Sakhir circuit after qualifying sixth. Daniel Ricciardo finished seventh on his McLaren debut. Clive

4:29 AM ET Formula One’s motorsport managing director Ross Brawn has hailed Yuki Tsunoda as the best rookie in years after the Japanese scored points on his debut in Bahrain last Sunday. The former Ferrari technical director who also ran the Honda, Brawn and Mercedes teams, said he had been impressed by the 20-year-old AlphaTauri

7:00 AM ET The 2021 Formula One season is officially underway. Please tell me you got up Sunday morning to watch the Bahrain GP on ESPN2! If not, you should have. I did — though to quote old Obi-Wan Kenobi, it was from a certain point of view. That POV was from behind the wheel

7:42 AM ET Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 The first race of the Formula One season always results in a series of