Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Mercedes be able to extend its run of Formula 1 dominance into the 2019 season? Legendary technical expert Giorgio Piola looks for clues from its recent designs. Piola and our Technical Editor Jake Boxall-Legge travel to Mercedes’ F1 factory

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes protégé Esteban Ocon has pledged to “transform” himself under Formula 1’s new weight rules ahead of his planned return to the grid in 2020. Ocon will spend 2019 mostly on the sidelines having bagged a reserve driver role with

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly believes Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen is the “perfect reference” to have in his first season with a front-running Formula 1 team. The French driver completed his first full campaign in the sport last year, racing for Toro

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari sponsor Philip Morris International is adamant its Mission Winnow initiative fully complies with tobacco advertising laws, despite an investigation being launched in Australia over the matter. Mission Winnow’s sponsorship of Ferrari was launched at last year’s Japanese Grand Prix,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean thinks he may have ‘overdone’ the weight gain that new Formula 1 regulations allow, but says the sport will be better for the changes. In a move to level the playing field between the smaller and bigger drivers,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The growth of two serious bids to revive and host the Dutch Grand Prix makes Formula 1’s return to the Netherlands credible, despite the country’s government ruling out financial assistance. Long-time Dutch GP venue Zandvoort and established MotoGP circuit Assen

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mark Webber says his former Porsche LMP1 boss Andreas Seidl will have a “red hot go” at turning McLaren’s Formula 1 fortunes around. The nine-time grand prix winner and Seidl have a history that dates back to Webber’s first season

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari is likely to adopt a double-stacked exhaust system with its 2019 Formula 1 car, judging by the first images of customer team Haas’s new design. Ferrari raised eyebrows last year when it trialled a new exhaust concept at the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas became the first team to unveil its 2019 Formula 1 car on Thursday, complete with an all-new livery thanks to its tie-up with drinks firm Rich Energy. The car Haas displayed at a launch event in London was based

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams will reveal its new 2019 Formula 1 season livery – its first since Martini’s exit as title sponsor – on Monday afternoon. It is the last F1 team to announce plans for a pre-season launch event, announcing what it

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The boss of Haas Formula 1 team title sponsor Rich Energy says doubting the legitimacy of his company or its products is “like saying man never walked on the moon”. Haas unveiled its 2019 Formula 1 car on Thursday, complete

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team will unveil its new livery on Thursday, and you can see it first by following the event live on Autosport. Haas struck a title sponsorship deal with British energy drink company Rich Energy late last

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen is the driver that Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel “fear the most”. Verstappen won two races and finished fourth in the championship in 2018, and has been tipped by

Dr Robert Hubbard, the engineer behind the HANS device that saved many lives across motorsport, has died. Hubbard, who was a professor of materials science and mechanics at Michigan State University until his retirement in 2006, conceived the HANS device in collaboration with his brother-in-law and IMSA SportsCar Championship racer Jim Downing. Although it took

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner thinks Formula 1 owner Liberty Media would accept that rushing through aerodynamic rule changes for 2019 was a “mistake” if they do not improve overtaking. F1 teams have spent the winter working to a raft

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says it was “a little bit strange” grand prix promoters publicly criticised Liberty Media last week, a day before a meeting scheduled to discuss concerns. Liberty, F1’s owner, was criticised in a statement issued on

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Williams test driver Susie Wolff is hopeful Tatiana Calderon will get a Formula 1 race chance in the future, but concedes the superlicence points system is an additional “stumbling block”. Calderon has spent the last three seasons in GP3, earning

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Luciano Burti says he only survived his 111G accident in the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix thanks to safety improvements triggered by the death of Ayrton Senna. Burti crashed his Prost head on into the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne says he is enjoying Formula E following his Formula 1 exit because of the difference in camaraderie between drivers and paddock “politics”. After graduating to F1 as a GP2 champion and Formula Renault 3.5 runner-up, Vandoorne

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Brendon Hartley has landed a Ferrari simulator role for 2019. Hartley was axed by Red Bull after just one full season in F1, a move he recently claimed was the result of a plan that

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas will reveal its livery for the 2019 Formula 1 season next week on Thursday February 7. The American team’s livery is expected to reflect the black-and-gold colours of title sponsor Rich Energy after signing a deal with the energy

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Hulkenberg was not “resting on any laurels” last season but sees new team-mate Daniel Ricciardo as “an opportunity to prove himself”, reckons Renault Formula 1 executive director Marcin Budkowski. Hulkenberg holds the F1 record for the most races without

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa believes the pressure and “obligation” that Ferrari has to win is a “problem” for his former team. Massa, who spent eight seasons at Ferrari and won 11 races, said the Italian team “did a great

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly feels his Red Bull Formula 1 shot is payback for being snubbed after his GP2 title success, when he was “at the right place at the wrong time”. Gasly became Red Bull’s first junior to win the GP2

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 rookie Antonio Giovinazzi has been tipped to cause Kimi Raikkonen “trouble” at Sauber this season, as Ferrari’s ‘other’ protege prepares for his first full grand prix season. The emergence of Charles Leclerc in 2018 and his subsequent promotion

Valtteri Bottas says he will be stronger in Formula 1 this year after finding “many positives” that he could not see at the end of 2018. The Mercedes driver followed up a solid first season with the world championship-winning team with a winless campaign last year. While bad luck played a part in the first

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alfa Romeo’s return to a full Formula 1 entry comes at the cost of one of grand prix racing’s longest-running and most popular independent names. Peter Sauber’s eponymous company started in sportscar competition, peaking with a deal to operate Mercedes’

Daniel Ricciardo’s arrival at Renault will help it “fast-track” its bid to challenge at the front of the Formula 1 field, reckons managing director Cyril Abiteboul. The manufacturer pulled off a major coup last summer when it lured Ricciardo away from Red Bull, even though it is not expecting to be fighting for wins and

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Sauber name will disappear from the Formula 1 grid in 2019 as the team officially rebrands as Alfa Romeo Racing. Alfa’s title sponsorship of Sauber last year marked its first major F1 involvement since the 1985 season. That partnership

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Applied Technologies recently revealed a radical vision for how Formula 1 could look in 2050 – the 300mph ‘MCLExtreme’ proposal. As outlandish as the concept looked, the ideas behind it have roots in technology already being developed and McLaren