Mercedes will make changes to Lewis Hamilton’s dash layout after he lost time to his Formula 1 team-mate Valtteri Bottas during the virtual safety car in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Hamilton said immediately after the race that he would be requesting changes, but did not go into detail on why they might be necessary. In

Daniil Kvyat says Toro Rosso must investigate its loss of pace in Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix after it had shown promise in practice and qualifying. Kvyat and team-mate Alex Albon both managed season-best grid positions in sixth and 11th respectively after the Russian put together the fourth fastest lap across the first two practice

Red Bull’s innovative suspension solution and Ferrari’s first upgrade of 2019 are the focus of our round-up of the latest Formula 1 technical developments. While Red Bull’s suspension has been in play all season, Ferrari finally gave us something to talk about by introducing updates for last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Using our exclusive 3D

Ayrton Senna won three Formula 1 world championships and 41 races, and while his talent was prodigious, the cars he drove played a huge part in his success. Starting with the Toleman TG184, through a pair of Lotus and a host of McLarens, Senna’s career was tragically cut short while driving the Williams FW16. Ahead

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari will need to “pick it up” to fight for the Formula 1 title because his team is close to performing at 100%. Hamilton finished second in last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas to complete a fourth one-two of the season for Mercedes, the first time that

Zandvoort is being lined up to replace Barcelona as the first non-flyaway race of the 2020 Formula 1 season, with the Spanish Grand Prix falling off the calendar, Autosport understands. In the wake of Max Verstappen’s recent success, momentum has been building for the world championship to return to the Netherlands for the first time

Kimi Raikkonen was excluded from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying result on race day, when his Alfa Romeo Formula 1 car failed a test designed to prevent excessive front-wing flexing. Raikkonen was due to start Sunday’s race eighth, but was forced to take a pitlane start as Alfa Romeo changed the specification of the front

The FIA has opened the tenders for standard brake systems and wheel rims in Formula 1 from 2021 as part of its ongoing push to drive down costs for teams. With F1 preparing for a new generation of cars and a wider overhaul of the sport in two years’ time, there is a desire to

Sergio Perez says the McLaren he held off throughout the Azerbaijan Grand Prix were “a lot faster” than his Racing Point Formula 1 car. Despite pressure from Carlos Sainz Jr and Lando Norris, Perez was able to hang on and finish sixth in Baku. Perez had qualified fifth, and briefly ran ahead of Max Verstappen’s

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc says his muted pace late in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was not representative and did not mean the SF90 struggled on the soft tyres. After crashing in qualifying, Leclerc charged up from an initial 10th place on a fresh set of mediums in the opening stages, snatching fourth from

Max Verstappen’s bid for third place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was reined in as a precautionary response to his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Pierre Gasly’s driveshaft failure. Gasly suffered a driveshaft failure after charging from the pitlane to sixth, and his stopped car triggered a virtual safety car just as Verstappen was mounting

Alfa Romeo Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen will start the Azerbaijan Grand Prix from the pitlane after being excluded from qualifying because of a front wing problem. Raikkonen was meant to start the Baku race in eighth place after his third Q3 appearance in four races with his new team. However, on Sunday morning he

Pierre Gasly has been excluded from the results of Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying because his Red Bull Formula 1 car breached fuel flow rules. But the stewards’ decision will make no difference to the grid because Gasly was already destined for a pitlane start as a punishment for missing a call to the weighbridge at

Haas Formula 1 team drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean both struggled for grip and pace in Baku – despite both reporting that they were happy with the feeling of the car. Magnussen and Grosjean finished qualifying in 14th and 17th places respectively, although have been promoted further up the grid as a result of

Renault revised its rear wing package for the third Formula 1 free practice session ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, dialling in a little extra downforce. The French team trialled a low angle-of-attack rear wing in Friday’s running, aiming to develop as little drag as possible for the 2.2km straight on the Baku street circuit.

Daniel Ricciardo believes running out of useable tyres made second practice for Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix even stranger for him than the abandoned first session. The Renault driver ended FP2 with more than half an hour to go because he had flatspotted two sets of tyres in the first hour. FP1 was red-flagged after

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton believes it is “unlikely” that his team can reel in Formula 1 rival Ferrari overnight after trailing by seven tenths in Azerbaijan Grand Prix Friday practice. After the first session featured no representative running due to George Russell’s accident and subsequent track checks, Ferrari dominated the afternoon practice. Charles Leclerc led

Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner says Honda’s new engine will boost race performance thanks to the increased availability of higher power modes. All four Red Bull and Toro Rosso drivers had new V6s installed for the start of Azerbaijan Grand Prix practice, while Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly also took new

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris only rates the start of his rookie season a “six out of 10” despite claiming his team’s best result across the first three races. Norris qualified in the top 10 on his grand prix debut in Australia and followed that up with his first points finish in Bahrain, where

Lewis Hamilton says the 2019 Mercedes Formula 1 car is harder to work with than its predecessor, despite the team starting the season with a trio of one-two finishes. Mercedes had a difficult start to last year in terms of extracting the most from its car, winning only one of the first three races and

Robert Kubica says the Williams Formula 1 team does not yet have a “clear solution” to the differences between his and team-mate George Russell’s cars this year. Despite having run similar or identical set-ups to Russell, Kubica has felt his car has a different aerodynamic behaviour to his team-mate’s FW42. Kubica saw some signs of

In his bid to be a leading Formula 1 engineer, a 23-year-old Canadian student put the brakes on his racing career and signed up for the 2018 INFINITI Engineering Academy. He is now four months into a once-in-a-lifetime work placement at Renault F1 Team. Last June, engineering student Chase Pelletier impressed judges to scoop the

Everybody at Williams is a victim during the Formula 1 team’s struggles, not just the drivers, says Robert Kubica. Williams slipped to the back of the grid in 2018 and has started 2019 with an even less competitive car, leaving Kubica and rookie team-mate George Russell detached at the back of the grid. The team’s

Gerhard Berger says Lewis Hamilton is the only Formula 1 driver he has seen who he would rank on the same level as his former McLaren team-mate Ayrton Senna. Berger, who is chairman of DTM’s organising body the ITR, partnered Senna at McLaren from 1990-92. The Austrian said he rates five-time world champion Hamilton above

Formula 1 track designer Tilke has revealed what the new Vietnam Grand Prix track will be like from the cockpit with the release of an onboard simulator lap. The build of the new 5.565km (3.46-mile) street circuit in the suburbs of Hanoi is ongoing and the footage from Tilke’s own simulation data has offered a

Daniel Ricciardo believes he and the Renault Formula 1 team have made a breakthrough with the “knife-edge” braking that was holding him back at the start of the season. Ricciardo switched from the race-winning Red Bull team to midfield outfit Renault for 2019 and retired from the opening two grands prix. While bad luck stopped

Ferrari is bringing “a few updates” to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, marking the first development of its 2019 Formula 1 car as it bids to close the gap to Mercedes. The Italian team has scored a best finish of third across the opening three races of the season because of a combination of set-up problems,

Haas Formula 1 team boss Gunther Steiner says he is preparing for “disappointment” at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as the Baku track characteristics are worse for the car than recent venues. The American-owned outfit is struggling this year with its VF-19 that cannot get enough heat into its tyres – and is especially vulnerable on

George Russell believes driving at 98% rather than at his maximum potential could help extract more performance out of his Williams Formula 1 car. Russell has impressed in his first three grands prix of the year against team-mate Robert Kubica as both drivers attempt to get on top of a challenging and underperforming car. But

Christian Horner insists his Red Bull team never laid out a target for the number of Formula 1 wins it wanted in 2019, despite motorsport advisor Helmut Marko’s goal. Marko had said during pre-season that he wanted Red Bull to win more races in 2019 than it had the previous year, which meant it had