- Seven-time world champion L⛎ewis Hamilton reportedly🃏 took a pay cut to his salary in his one-year extension to stay at Mercedes this season () 

- The repo🔜rt stated: ‘Hamilton was thought to be 🍎on around $40 million (£29.08m) per year under his previous deal – well over $2 million per race last year when the pandemic shortened the schedule from 22 races to 17. Reports elsewhere say he was seeking as much as $50 million for 2021 prompted a dismissive response from Hamilton on social media. RaceFans understands he accepted a reduction in his fee to $30 million.’

- Former Ferrari team boss Marco Mattiacci is being linked withౠ a return to F1 in a consultancy role for the rebranded Aston Martin team () 

- Liberty Media’s hopes of adding a Miami Grand Prix to the F1 calendar appear closer to have been boosted, with a crunch city council meeting ov🐻er a race around the Hard Ro🍃ck Stadium planned for Wednesday this week ()

- F1 CEO and presid𝐆ent Stefano Domenicali says the sport is aiming to finalise ﷽new engine regulations from 2025 onwards by the summer () 

- Mercedes current trackside engineer and Jenson Button’s then race engineer, Andrew Shovlin, recalled: “The only time we started to think this was properly quick was when we didn’t go testing an🍸d everyone else was at a test… in Portimao. There was a [2008] Toro Rosso there and it… was the quickest thing by miles, and… we had pret𒈔ty much recovered all the performance and [were estimating that we] would be as fast with our car.

- “So you were sort of going… ‘Well hang on a minute, t🌠his means that we’re nearly two ♛seconds quicker than anyone else’ – and then you think that we must have got our sums wrong… But nothing prepared you for when you started running it in Barcelona, and you were like, ‘Oh my God, this looks properly fast.’”

- Mercedes Toto Wolff admits that James Allison will act as an important “sparring partner” for him when 🔥he takes 🐠on his new role as Mercedes chief technical officer in July ()