Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams performance chief Rob Smedley says Felipe Massa could not have ended his Formula 1 career any better than with his two strong races in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Massa enjoyed tussles with his former Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso in both

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari had a disastrous start to the 1.6-litre V6 turbo era in 2014, but hit back the following season with Sebastian Vettel winning three races in the Ferrari SF15-T. Born into Ferrari’s latest era of revolving-door management and patchy performance, the

Lewis Hamilton says a winter meeting with Toto Wolff ahead of the 2017 Formula 1 season was “really important” to reset their relationship following Nico Rosberg’s departure from Mercedes. Internal relations became highly strained as Hamilton’s F1 title battles with Rosberg from 2014-16 became affected by various controversies relating to on-track collisions, off-track behaviour and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Schumacher had spent four seasons with Ferrari when he finally won his first Formula 1 drivers’ title for the team in the F1-2000. This was the car that started five years of supremacy for Ferrari, which won the drivers’ and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its ’18 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted. At the championship’s halfway point, Haas sat seventh in the constructors’ standings – four points behind

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda will have its current Formula 1 engine available as a back-up if there are problems with its 2018 specification. Honda completed a major revamp of its engine design over the 2016-17 winter, but a problem with the oil system put

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen upped his game during the 2017 Formula 1 season, particularly in qualifying, according to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. Verstappen finished 32 points adrift of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in 2017, but scored more wins (2-1) and had the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Ferrari 641 was not only arguably one of the most beautiful Ferrari Formula 1 cars, but it also came so close to taking Alain Prost to the world championship. During McLaren-Honda’s dominant seasons from 1988-1991, no car pushed it harder

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton expects title rival Sebastian Vettel to return “all guns blazing” in 2018, having learned from his major errors during their 2017 championship battle. Vettel led the points standings for 12 straight races at the start

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari lost one legend after the 1977 season when Niki Lauda left for Brabham, but gained a new one for the following year in Gilles Villeneuve. Driving the Ferrari 312T3, Villeneuve won his first grand prix on home soil in Canada

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says the French Grand Prix’s long-awaited return would be better if it was at Magny-Cours, not Paul Ricard. The French GP will return after a nine-year absence when it takes place at Paul Ricard on

Pascal Wehrlein reckons his best race performances of the 2017 Formula 1 season were overlooked because Sauber was so far behind by then. Wehrlein scored all five of Sauber’s 2017 points via eighth place in the Spanish Grand Prix and 10th in Azerbaijan, but has lost his seat to Formula 2 champion Charles Leclerc for

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull chief Christian Horner says his Formula 1 team has suffered its worst season with engine reliability since 2006. A string of Renault failures blighted its 2017 campaign, with Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo unable to mount a title challenge.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Ferrari 156 ‘sharknose’ was the first Ferrari Formula 1 car to win the constructors’ championship – and its first rear-engined success story. It also carried Phil Hill to the 1961 title after the death of team-mate Wolfgang von Trips in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas has proved new Formula 1 teams need not be an “embarrassment” in the first two seasons, reckons team principal Gunther Steiner. The previous generation of new F1 entrants had all fared badly, with 2010 incomers Lotus/Caterham, Virgin/Marussia/Manor and HRT all

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso felt humiliated at the start of the 2017 Formula 1 season when he realised Honda had gone backwards over the winter, according to McLaren racing director Eric Boullier. After its abject first season back with Honda in 2015, McLaren