Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes there is “momentum” behind Formula 1’s attempts to finalise its 2021 rules package. Meetings of both the Strategy Group and F1 Commission will take place next Tuesday to help shape F1’s next major rules overhaul, and FIA president Jean Todt has indicated he expects progress to be made during

The FIA is working to make Formula 1’s starting lights more visible in Bahrain, as bigger wings on the 2019 cars made the lights difficult to view in Australia. Williams driver Robert Kubica, who was last on the grid in Melbourne, and Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly who started 17th, both revealed after the race that

The Australian Grand Prix offered Williams no reprieve from a dismal start to the 2019 Formula 1 season, but there is a glimpse of light in the team’s darkness. Williams’s FW42 was late to testing, slow when it got there, and featured designs that needed to be modified to be legal in time for the

Haas boss Gunther Steiner has expressed doubts that everything Formula 1 needs to resolve in order to finalise its 2021 rules package can be sorted at a meeting next week. On Tuesday the strategy group – made up of F1, the FIA, and the top six teams – will meet in London in order to

Formula 2 racer Juan Manuel Correa has been signed by the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team as its development driver for 2019. Correa will drive for the Sauber Junior Team in F2 this year – an outfit run by Czech team Charouz Racing System – having graduated from the GP3 Series after finishing 12th in

Formula 1 rookie George Russell says he is “not interested” in battling exclusively against Williams team-mate Robert Kubica at the back of the grid. After the late arrival of its new FW42 led to a disrupted pre-season programme, Williams was firmly last in the pecking order throughout all of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Russell

Toro Rosso technical director Jody Egginton says the team has been impressed by the ‘methodical’ approach of Alex Albon after his Formula 1 race debut at the Australian Grand Prix. Albon, who had not driven an F1 car until last month’s shakedown just before pre-season testing, qualified 13th and finished 14th at the Albert Park

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes the FIA will find it “impossible” to replace Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting with a single person. Whiting died on the Thursday before the F1 season opener and the FIA reacted with emergency measures, moving Michael Masi into the race director role for the Australian Grand Prix. The FIA

Charles Leclerc established a “good starting point” on his Ferrari Formula 1 debut and is already pushing its engineers “hard”, according to his new team boss Mattia Binotto. Leclerc was signed to replace Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari for 2019 after just one year in F1 with Sauber. He finished fifth, just behind four-time world champion

Robert Kubica insists he has no regrets about returning to Formula 1 despite the competitive struggles Williams is facing. Williams has endured a tough start to the 2019 season, which started with its FW42 arriving late to pre-season testing. Its technical chief Paddy Lowe has decided to take a leave of absence, and the car

Carlos Sainz Jr believes he suffered every piece of bad luck he could have done on his McLaren Formula 1 team debut in the Australian Grand Prix. The Renault convert started only 18th after encountering Robert Kubica’s puncture-hobbled Williams on his final Q1 lap, and then became the race’s first retirement with an MGU-K failure

Daniel Ricciardo has hinted he will take a different approach to the Australian Grand Prix build-up in 2020 after being left “drained” ahead of his Renault Formula 1 team debut. Ricciardo only qualified 12th for his first race with his new team, then ripped his front wing off when he took to the grass off

Ferrari’s deficit to Mercedes was a big surprise during the Australian Grand Prix weekend, particularly given the Scuderia ended Formula 1’s fortnight of pre-season testing as the clear early favourite. Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel qualified third in Melbourne but was more than seven tenths slower than Mercedes’ polesitter Lewis Hamilton, and dropped to fourth

Honda has been “relaxed” by scoring its first Formula 1 podium in 11 years at the first attempt with Red Bull, but still sees a “clear” performance gap to reduce. The Japanese manufacturer rejoined the F1 grid in 2015 but failed to score a top-three finish across three seasons with McLaren and then spent last

Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner insisted new signing Pierre Gasly must be ‘given time’ after his disappointing Australian Grand Prix. Gasly was eliminated from Melbourne qualifying in Q1 when Red Bull was caught out by track evolution, and could only recover to 11th in the race. He spent most of the race

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says his drivers ‘ignored’ pre-race instructions to not chase the new bonus point for fastest lap in the Australian Grand Prix. But he admitted that in the end he was happy that the victorious Valtteri Bottas earned the extra point awarded under the rule change for 2019. Wolff

Robert Kubica says a pre-race grid panic, plus a mirror falling off his Williams early in the Australian Grand Prix, added to the dramas of his Formula 1 return. Any hope of a good result in Kubica’s first F1 race since the 2010 Abu Dhabi GP was dashed at the first corner when a collision

Formula 1 championship leader Valtteri Bottas has dedicated his Australian Grand Prix victory to long-serving FIA race director Charlie Whiting, who died ahead of the season-opening weekend. Whiting was at the Melbourne circuit on Wednesday but passed away overnight after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Bottas ended an answer in the post-race press conference to ensure

Honda has made a “huge step forward” and made Red Bull look a “very different” prospect in terms of straightline speed, according to Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff. Max Verstappen split the Ferrari drivers in the first qualifying session for Red Bull-Honda’s new partnership, and will start the season-opening Australian Grand Prix from

Michael Masi may be low-profile, but do not assume he is in at the deep end replacing Charlie Whiting as Formula 1’s race director at the Australian Grand Prix. Even beyond the shock of Whiting’s death, Masi’s appointment as stand-in may seem out of the blue, but it is not for those working inside in

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says the Formula 1 team owes Pierre Gasly an apology for the “stupid mistake” that compromised his Australian Grand Prix qualifying. Gasly endured a nightmare first qualifying session for his new team and will start only 17th on the grid after being eliminated in the opening segment. Red Bull

Which Formula 1 team has the best-looking livery on the 2019 grid? We asked a panel of our Motorsport Network journalists to rank each car from best to worst based on its colour scheme, and we combined the results to give us a full rundown from 10th to first. There’s more to beauty than a

Which Formula 1 team has the best-looking livery on the 2019 grid? We asked a panel of our Motorsport Network journalists to rank each car from best to worst based on its colour scheme, and we combined the results to give us a full rundown from 10th to first. There’s more to beauty than a

Honda has given Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly’s engine the all-clear after a late power loss scare in Australian Grand Prix practice. The only blemish on an encouraging first day of official running for the new Red Bull-Honda partnership was an engine issue late on that forced Gasly into the pits early. “There

The easing of driver weight rules for the 2019 Formula 1 season means this is the first year that Valtteri Bottas has not had a long illness during the winter. Among the F1 rule tweaks for 2019 is a stipulation that a driver and their seat must weigh a minimum of 80kg. Previously driver weight

There can’t be many more enjoyable ways for a Formula 1 fan to spend an afternoon than nosing around the HQ of the undisputed champions of the hybrid era – and thanks to Official Team Partner Bose, that’s exactly what Executive Editor Stuart Codling had the chance to do last week. “From the outside, it’s

The FIA has identified how it will fill three mandatory senior officiating roles in the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix, following the shock death of Charlie Whiting. F1’s sporting regulations require the FIA to nominate a race director and permanent starter for each grand prix, both of which must be present at the start

Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has passed away aged 66. A statement from the FIA confirmed that the Brition died from a pulmonary embolism in Melbourne, on the eve of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix weekend. Whiting had been present in the Albert Park paddock on Wednesday. FIA president Jean Todt said: “It is

Daniel Ricciardo’s decision to move from Red Bull to Renault is something his former Formula 1 team boss Franz Tost says he has “never understood and will not understand”. This weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix will be Ricciardo’s first in F1 driving for a non-Red Bull team, after deciding to leave his long-time backer to

Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has signed a deal with the agency that represents 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg, football star Cristiano Ronaldo and basketball ace Dwyane Wade. Ricciardo has joined the Renault team for 2019 from Red Bull after a lengthy decision-making process last year. The seven-time grand prix winner has not had