Formula 1 drivers will switch teams during the career mode of the championship’s official game for the first time in this year’s F1 2019 release. Contractual restrictions within F1 have always prevented game developers from being able to allow the official drivers to change teams, for example prohibiting a move such as Lewis Hamilton leaving

Sebastian Vettel coyly avoided questions about his Canadian Grand Prix penalty and his Ferrari Formula 1 team’s Friday hearing in France, as he reiterated his belief he did nothing wrong. Ferrari has been summoned to the stewards tomorrow at Paul Ricard to discuss its request for a review of the incident where Vettel ran across

Daniel Ricciardo says Renault’s recent run of form has ‘ignited a pretty nice fire’ inside the team, which he says reminds him of qualities that make Red Bull so strong. The Australian has helped lift Renault to fifth in the constructors’ championship with a season-best result sixth last time out in Canada, ahead of the

Ferrari has been summoned to a hearing at Paul Ricard on Friday, for an inquiry into the Formula 1 team’s request to review Sebastian Vettel’s controversial Canadian Grand Prix penalty. Team representatives will need to meet with the stewards from the previous race in Montreal following Ferrari’s request to review the the decision to hand

Formula 1 will descend on the French Riviera on the 21-23 June for the eighth round of the world championship. After a break of 10 years, the French Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 2018 with the action taking place at the famous Circuit Paul Ricard. The track was built in 1970 and regularly

The Ferrari Formula 1 and Ducati MotoGP teams could run without Mission Winnow branding for the remainder of the season, Autosport has learned. Both outfits are sponsored by the initiative of title partner Philip Morris, which is part of a move to a non-tobacco future for the company as it moves to electronic cigarettes. But

Honda will introduce its second upgrade of the Formula 1 season at the French Grand Prix, where three cars will benefit from its latest specification engine. The Japanese manufacturer will give the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly, plus Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso, a fresh engine upgraded mainly around the combustion engine and

Formula 1 boss Chase Carey is confident of finding “tricks” to ensure that the proposed 2021 cost cap can be policed effectively. A new set of financial regulations will be implemented from 2021, including a maximum spend of $175m, which excludes areas such as driver and top management salaries, as well as marketing expenditure. Only

The McLaren Formula 1 team has now confirmed that overheating brakes set in motion a chain of events that led to Lando Norris’s unusual Canadian Grand Prix suspension breakage. Norris retired in Montreal when his right rear suspension collapsed as he crossed the line at the end of his eighth lap. He stopped just past

Mercedes reserve driver Esteban Ocon hopes his future will be sorted “very, very soon” in his bid to return to a Formula 1 race seat next season. Ocon lost his Racing Point drive following the takeover of the Force India team by a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, whose son Lance moved across from Williams

The Ferrari Formula 1 team has lodged a request for the FIA to review the decision to punish Sebastian Vettel at the Canadian Grand Prix, as predicted by Autosport. Amid ongoing unhappiness over the five-second penalty that cost Vettel victory in Montreal, Ferrari wants the FIA stewards to look again at the verdict that Vettel

Racing Point believes getting on top of the car balance issues that have blighted its early season form is key to helping it make progress over the remainder of the campaign. Although the Silverstone-based outfit has been a regular points-scorer this year, both Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll have struggled to extract the maximum out

Pirelli Formula 1 boss Mario Isola says it is wrong to assume that switching to last year’s tyres would help teams struggling with the 2019 specification. Amid Mercedes’ dominant start to the season, Pirelli’s thinner-tread 2019 tyres have been criticised by several teams for being too difficult to get to their optimal working temperature. That

Ferrari’s Formula 1 engine has a power mode that Mercedes cannot match at the moment, reckons championship leader Lewis Hamilton. Mercedes has won all seven grands prix so far this season and Hamilton has taken five of those victories, with the most recent coming in controversial circumstances last weekend in Canada. Sebastian Vettel’s lost victory

Romain Grosjean says time spent driving a 125cc gearbox kart reiterated how Formula 1 needs to change, because it left him “more tired” than racing in a grand prix. The Haas driver and Grand Prix Drivers Association director has been a key advocate of F1’s rules changing so drivers can push more during races. While

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton believes he hit a “sweet spot” in form during 2018 and has managed to maintain it ever since. Hamilton has won five of this season’s grands prix so far and is now 29 points clear of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the championship battle. In 2018 he took control

Making Formula 1 cars more physical would not guarantee modern drivers end races exhausted because they are so much fitter than those in previous decades, reckons Franz Tost. F1 switched to more aggressive, faster cars in 2017 but world champion Lewis Hamilton has spoken out more than once this season about drivers needing to face

Formula 1 practice sessions will count towards a driver’s bid to gain a superlicence from 2020, while W Series is to be formally added to the list of qualifying categories. To race in F1 a driver must earn 40 ‘superlicence points’ across three seasons in order to be eligible for a superlicence. The list of

Formula 1 practice sessions will count towards a driver’s bid to gain a superlicence from 2020, while W Series is to be formally added to the list of qualifying categories. To race in F1 a driver must earn 40 ‘superlicence points’ across three seasons in order to be eligible for a superlicence. The list of

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff wants a discussion with Formula 1 stakeholders to establish new rules for 2021 that allow drivers to engage in “harder racing”. Wolff’s driver Lewis Hamilton won last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix because on-the-road victor Sebastian Vettel was slapped with a five-second time penalty after going off the circuit while leading,

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen says there is too much self-interest from teams in Formula 1 and there needs to be “one person in charge” to sort the rules out properly. F1 has agreed to delay the publication of the 2021 rules this week and continues efforts to try to reach consensus over plans for the

Haas team principal Gunther Steiner says “there must be an end” to the team’s misfortunes in the 2019 Formula 1 season. Despite often having the fourth-fastest car this year, Haas is currently only eighth in the constructors’ championship. Its difficult Canadian Grand Prix was the fourth time in this season’s seven races that it has

Formula 1 teams and series chiefs have agreed to delay the presentation of the 2021 regulations until October, following a summit meeting on Thursday joined by world champion Lewis Hamilton. As reported by Autosport earlier this week, the FIA had invited teams to a get together at its headquarters to try to break the deadlock

Veteran engineer John Gentry has worked in almost every conceivable branch of motorsport – from Formula 1 to grand prix motorcycling, sportscars and touring car racing. In a special edition of the Autosport podcast, Gentry, who has worked with the likes of Chris Amon, Gilles Villeneuve, Derek Warwick, Elio de Angelis, Kevin Schwantz, Rickard Rydell,

McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andreas Seidl says the FIA must stick to the principles of the 2021 regulations even if a delay in their publication allows time for changes. The rules were due to be ratified by the World Motor Sport Council on Friday, but the FIA and the F1 organisation have asked the

We go behind the scenes at the Montreal Shell Track Lab to find out what it’s really like to be part of the team that helps to power Scuderia Ferrari How long have you been working as part of the Shell Track Lab team? Since last summer. I’m very proud and honoured to be part

Carlos Sainz Jr and George Russell are proving to be the underdog stars of Autosport readers’ driver ratings after one third of the 2019 Formula 1 season. The McLaren driver and Williams’s rookie are currently fourth and fifth in the season-long aggregated ranking generated through Autosport readers’ votes in the driver ratings feature that runs

Valtteri Bottas says he cannot afford many weekends like the Canadian Grand Prix after getting “a bit of a wake-up call” in the Formula 1 title battle. Bottas has fallen to 29 points adrift of team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who took his fifth win from the first seven races of the season in controversial circumstances in

After a successful weekend entertaining and educating Formula 1 fans in Montreal, Shell House comes to an end. Here are the highlights from the Canadian Grand Prix event. It was been an exciting week in Montreal, with plenty of action both on and off the track. At Shell House, fans and special guests explored the

Jacques Villeneuve says Sebastian Vettel did nothing “dirty” to earn his penalty in Canada, opposed to Daniel Ricciardo’s defensive manoeuvre in the same Formula 1 race. Vettel was penalised five-seconds as he was deemed to have rejoined the track unsafely after a mistake sent him over the grass at Turn 3 as he battled Lewis