George Russell says the fact he qualified closer to the rest of the Formula 1 field than Williams has managed all season at the Spanish Grand Prix bodes well. In every other 2019 qualifying session so far, Williams has been at least one second behind the next slowest car. At Barcelona, Russell was just over

Charles Leclerc said he was surprised by how much his Ferrari Formula 1 car was damaged when he ran wide in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying. A trip over the kerbs at the fast Campsa right-hander in Q2 sent debris flying from Leclerc’s car, and Ferrari made multiple attempts to get it fully fixed as qualifying

Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel hopes Ferrari’s “daring” race set-up for the Spanish Grand Prix will revive the team’s fortunes and admits he was surprised at Mercedes’ dominance in qualifying. The four-time champion qualified only third as title rivals Mercedes earned another front row lock out at Barcelona, and trailed polesitter Valtteri Bottas by 0.866

Sergio Perez says “everything looks bad” after struggling to optimise Racing Point’s Formula 1 update package in Spanish Grand Prix practice, which he finished faster only than the Williams drivers. Perez’s struggles – the Mexican finished 17th in FP1 – compounded a challenging day for Racing Point, as Lance Stroll’s crash in first practice meant

More new Formula 1 technical developments emerged in the Barcelona pitlane at the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, with big updates from Red Bull and McLaren catching the eye. Red Bull decided to run its new and previous packages back-to-back, with Max Verstappen trialling a number of new parts including a more complex bargeboard as

Valtteri Bottas topped the second Formula 1 free practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix, outpacing Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.049 seconds. Bottas, who also set the pace in the morning session, was fastest in the early stages when using medium-compound Pirellis, seven-tenths faster than Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel. Vettel and team-mate Charles Leclerc

Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says it could take another year to address all the bugs in the F1 TV ‘over the top’ streaming service. He called problems that stuck F1 TV during the recent Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend “unexpected”. OTT is regarded by Liberty Media as a significant future source of revenue, as it

Sebastian Vettel says it is a “shock” the Brazilian Grand Prix could move to Rio de Janeiro in 2020, while Nico Hulkenberg would “drop a tear” over losing Interlagos. Controversial Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed the race will move from the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, which has hosted the grand prix since 1990,

Renault will introduce an upgraded Formula 1 engine for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in a bid to boost both performance and reliability. Although the new internal combustion engine is not being tagged as an official ‘spec 2’, it is understood the changes have been deemed promising enough to elect to race it now. In

The Brazilian Grand Prix will move next year to a new purpose-built circuit in Rio de Janeiro that could be named after Ayrton Senna, the country’s president has revealed. Amid uncertainty over the long-term future of the current Formula 1 event at Interlagos in Sao Paulo, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has said that a switch

After a clean sweep of Mercedes 1-2s in the opening four rounds of the Formula 1 season, Ferrari has brought forward its engine upgrade to the Spanish Grand Prix. Originally planned for the Canadian GP in two races’ time, as Edd Straw and Jake Boxall-Legge discuss in our latest video, introducing the package early is

George Russell hopes his Formula 1 reputation will be lifted by what fellow rookies Alex Albon and Lando Norris are achieving, amid his current Williams struggles. Toro Rosso newcomer Albon and McLaren protege Norris have both starred in the opening stages of the 2019 season, and were the drivers Russell beat to last year’s Formula

Ferrari will introduce its first engine upgrade of the Formula 1 season at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, two races earlier than planned. The Italian team intended to wait until the Canadian Grand Prix, round seven of the season, to run its second-specification power unit for the first time. However, ahead of the weekend Ferrari

Red Bull is planning a “fairly subtle” upgrade for the Spanish Grand Prix, having “closed the gap” to Formula 1 pacesetters Mercedes and Ferrari since the start of 2019. The team scored a podium in the first race of the season on its debut with Honda engines but finished fourth in the three races that

Romain Grosjean says it is “almost like everyone’s going to have a B-car” at the Spanish Grand Prix, as his Haas Formula 1 team readies a major upgrade package. The first non-flyaway race of the season is traditionally when teams bring significant updates, although it has become more common for those with greater resources to

Formula 1 teams are edging towards an October compromise over the finalising of the 2021 car regulations, in a bid to make things fairer for all teams. As Autosport revealed earlier this year, teams have pushed for a delay in publishing the new 2021 regulations because of fears that going too early with them could

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff believes the thinner-gauge tyres introduced for this season have made what teams learned last year about the vital “science” involved less relevant. In 2018, Pirelli introduced tyres with a slightly thinner tread for the races in Spain, France and Britain to prevent blistering, and decided to make that

Alex Albon believes Toro Rosso is not getting the results it deserves in Formula 1, and has the potential to be higher than ninth in the constructors’ championship. Although the Faenza-based team had looked strong throughout practice and qualifying at the last race in Azerbaijan, Albon and team-mate Daniil Kvyat were unable to turn their

Haas team principal Gunther Steiner believes the large impact that Pirelli’s 2019 tyres are having on the Formula 1 pecking order is “not the right thing” for grand prix racing. The American outfit has been affected badly by tyre warm-up issues at the start of the campaign, scoring just one top-10 finish in the first

Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto says Mercedes currently has a “slightly better” Formula 1 car, but insists the gap between the two squads in the championship is not representative. Ferrari’s new SF90 was the benchmark in F1’s pre-season testing in Barcelona, yet it was Mercedes instead that picked up four consecutive 1-2 finishes to begin

Christian Horner is “totally confident” Max Verstappen will remain at Red Bull team beyond this season, following recent speculation Mercedes is interested in Formula 1’s youngest race winner. Last month Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff laughed off rumours he had been calling Verstappen and the young Dutchman’s father Jos in a bid to lure him

Carlos Sainz Jr has revealed he has learned “a few interesting bits” about McLaren that used to leave him “puzzled” when racing for its Formula 1 rival Renault last year. After losing his drive for the works Renault team, which finished fourth in the championship last year, Sainz moved to McLaren to try to help

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says he made a step forward with the RB15 in Baku, even though his improved pace went unrewarded. The Frenchman, promoted from Toro Rosso to replace Daniel Ricciardo at the main Red Bull outfit, had struggled to get the most out of the car at the start of

Azerbaijan Grand Prix officials have confirmed that Williams will get compensation for the damage caused to George Russell’s car when it hit a loose drain cover in Baku. Russell’s chassis had to be sent back to the Williams factory after it ran over the grid cover, which dislodged as the Williams went over it and

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says he sees similarities in the battle between Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas and Hamilton’s fight with former team-mate Nico Rosberg from 2014-16. Bottas and Hamilton have two victories each from the opening four races of the 2019 season, with Bottas leading the drivers’ standings by dint of earning

If you thought that Grand Prix racing started in 1950, then you’d be mistaken. If you thought that the pre-war dominations of Mercedes and Auto Union was the real start, then again you’d be wide of the mark. In fact, the first ever Grand Prix took place in 1906 and the name has stuck ever

The Haas Formula 1 car’s lack of race pace is caused by the inability to “get out of the graining phase” with its tyres, according to team principal Gunther Steiner. The American outfit has had both cars in the final qualifying segment in the first three races of the season, but picked up just a

Valtteri Bottas’s form at the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season has already prompted concerns at Mercedes about the emergence of another intra-team rivalry. Bottas won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix last weekend to match team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s early tally of two victories, a result that also promoted him back into the lead of the

Jacques Villeneuve says Ferrari promoted Charles Leclerc one year too early because it is not ready to manage the competition between the Formula 1 driver and his team-mate Sebastian Vettel. Leclerc came close to victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix and has been subjected to team orders in favour of Vettel three times this season.

The first look at the new permanent facility for the Vietnam Grand Prix, set to make its debut on the Formula 1 calendar in 2020, has been revealed by F1 Racing. Computer generated images of the pit building – exclusively revealed in the latest issue of F1 Racing that is on sale on Thursday –