8:46 AM ET MODENA, Italy — For more than 2000 years, the Via Emilia has connected Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast and the city of Piacenza in the north. Completed in 187 BC, the Roman road draws a diagonal line across the country, dividing the Appenine mountains to the south and Italy’s fertile plains to

5:01 AM ET ESPN and Reuters While he stopped short of shaving it completely, more than 36,000 people watched McLaren driver Lando Norris cut his hair live on Twitch after a successful coronavirus fundraiser last weekend. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal their

6:18 AM ET England international cricketer Ben Stokes will join five current F1 drivers, including Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, in competing in this weekend’s F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix. After the first eight races of the Formula One season were either postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the sport decided to set up esports

7:32 PM ET McLaren became the first Formula One team to furlough staff because of the coronavirus, with drivers Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz joining senior management in taking a pay cut on Wednesday. The sports car maker said in a statement the temporary three-month wage reduction was part of wider cost-cutting measures due to

6:12 AM ET It remains to be seen whether Formula One manages to arrange a championship season in 2020 once the world starts to return to normality after the coronavirus pandemic. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal their favourite of the paddock’s most

5:22 AM ET Reuters and ESPN The coronavirus crisis could lead to Formula One’s already postponed 2021 rules revolution being pushed back another year to 2023. The package has so far been delayed to 2022 to save costs at a time when the sport and teams are facing a significant loss of revenues due to

6:47 AM ET The first eight races of the 2020 Formula One season have either been postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but once it is safe to do so Formula One is hoping to stage a 15-to-18-race calendar over the remainder of the year. What is left of the existing calendar is

9:01 AM ET In addition to delaying Formula One’s next major rule change to 2022, motor racing’s governing body, the FIA, has banned all aerodynamic development of those cars until the end of this year. F1 was planning to herald a new era of racing in 2021 with heavily revised technical regulations aimed at encouraging

12:45 PM ET McLaren driver Lando Norris will shave his head after successfully raising $12,000 for the fight against coronavirus through his Twitch feed. Norris amassed 136,000 viewers on Saturday evening as he played F1 2019, Rocket League and iRacing. The British driver, Formula One’s rookie of the year last season, has already taken part

6:48 AM ET Red Bull’s motorsport boss Helmut Marko considered putting a camp together where his drivers could get infected with coronavirus before the 2020 Formula One season resumed. F1’s season has been indefinitely suspended by the global pandemic. Marko, who runs the famous Red Bull programme which brought the likes of Sebastian Vettel, Daniel