Motorsport Debrief: No new teams on the F1 horizon

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F1 has no "serious offers" from new teams - Todt

FIA president Jean Todt says he has not had any offers he deems serious from interested parties wishing to enter Formula 1 in the future.

Earlier this year, Serbian businessman Zoran Stefanovic revealed plans for a second attempt to enter a team for 2019, having previously tried to enter as Stefan GP. There are believed to several parties, including a group from China, that are evaluating entering F1.

Though Todt has had contact from interested candidates, he said: "Not something I will comment as a very serious offer. When we will see there is some serious offer, as we did when Haas came to Formula 1, we understood there was some serious interest so we created a tender."

Marcus Ericsson, Sauber C36, Pascal Wehrlein, Sauber C36

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Sauber "starting from scratch" with 2018 F1 car

Sauber team principal Fred Vasseur says the outfit's 2018 Formula 1 challenger will be "completely different" to its current package.

Sauber is working out the exact nature of its new partnership with Ferrari, which could involve it taking non-listed parts in an arrangement similar to that of rival Haas does.

"It's a completely new car," said Vasseur of the 2018 plans. "The car is already in the windtunnel and I think we are doing a decent job. We are still discussing the parameters of the Ferrari collaboration, but [the carryover will] probably less than 20 percent.”

Pascal Wehrlein, Sauber C36-Ferrari, Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull Racing RB13, Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team VF-17, fight three abreast in to the chicane

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Monza showed F1 must scrap three-engine limit plan - Horner

Red Bull boss Christian Horner plans a fresh push to scrap rules limiting drivers to three engines per year from 2018, in the wake of the Italian Grand Prix grid penalty farce.

Horner thinks it should be a priority for F1 chiefs to change things to better cope with the ever complicated V6 turbo hybrids.

"I think this engine has done nothing positive for Formula 1 since it was introduced," said Horner. "What concerns me is that we are now going to three engines for next year with more races.

"I tried to get it changed at an earlier meeting in the year, but there was no support for it. I would hope that there would now be a different outcome, with teams staring down the barrel of further penalties between now and the end of the year."

Antonio Giovinazzi, Haas F1

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Giovinazzi gets Singapore FP1 run after Monza miss

The Haas Formula 1 team will field Ferrari third driver Antonio Giovinazzi in the opening practice session for the Singapore Grand Prix, in place of his scrapped Italy outing.

Giovinazzi was due to make his third FP1 appearance of the season for Haas at Monza, but the plan was altered because the team feared bad weather would compromise its Friday running. After driving Kevin Magnussen’s VF-17 for the first time in Britain, Giovinazzi will take the Dane’s seat again in the opening session in Singapore.

Giovinazzi has four other FP1 outings planned for the remainder of the season, in Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

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