- Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton reportedly took a pay cut to his sa🌳lary in his one-year extension to stay at Mercedes𒈔 this season () 

- The report stated: ‘Hamilton was thought to be on around $40 mill🥀ion (£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 𓄧Ferrari team boss Marco M🉐attiacci is being linked with 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 cl𝓡oser to have been boosted, with a c🌊runch city council meeting over a race around the Hard Rock Stadium planned for Wednesday this week ()

- F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali says the sport 𝐆is 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 we𝔉 started to think this was properly quick was when we didn’t go testing and 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 pretty 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, this means that we’re nearly two seconds quicker than anyone else’ – and then you think that we must ha🌳ve got our sums wrong… But nothinꦍg 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 hi✅m when he takes on his new ꦆrole as Mercedes chief technical officer in July ()