Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel doubts the need for city-centre races like a London grand prix and is happier staying at Silverstone than Formula 1 trying “something fancy”. The British Grand Prix’s future has been secured to 2024 after circuit bosses struck a new deal with F1 ahead of the 2019 edition of the race.

McLaren says addressing its weakness in slow speed corners is a ‘high priority’, in a bid to assert itself at the top of the Formula 1 midfield. The team has made good progress with its new MCL34, but it has been aware since the start of the campaign that it is lacking in slow-speed corners

Aston Martin will not “muscle in” on Honda’s Formula 1 engine supply deal with Red Bull but will “stand ready” to up its involvement should the Japanese manufacturer withdraw. The British company has had a title sponsorship deal with Red Bull since last year, expanding a pre-existing relationship that included an alliance with Red Bull

Formula 1 has established a ‘rule breaking’ group using its top aerodynamic engineering staff to try and expose potential loopholes that could stop the 2021 regulations successfully improving racing. With F1 and the FIA now in discussions with teams about finalising the details of the new rules, there is a determination to ensure that the

Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner says he must come up with a “solution” to his clashing drivers because team instructions are not getting through to them. Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen hit each other on the opening lap of the British Grand Prix, an incident that caused both to eventually retire and ruined Haas’s

Formula 1 looks set to abandon high degradation tyres from 2021, as its bosses now admit it was “not the way” for the championship to go. The FIA and F1 owner Liberty Media are working on a revamp of the rules for 2021 that they hope will make the racing better and boost F1’s popularity.

Ferrari must see Red Bull’s upturn in form as a “further boost” to improve, says its Formula 1 team principal Mattia Binotto. After starting the season expecting to fight Mercedes for the title, Ferrari has failed to win a race this year whereas Red Bull claimed its first victory with Honda in Austria. Red Bull

The F1 organisation has extended Melbourne’s deal to host the Australian Grand Prix by a further two years, taking the race into the 2025 season. After a decade in Adelaide the event moved to the Victorian capital in March 1996, and it has been a regular fixture on the calendar ever since. It has been

The legal case between Russian chemical company Uralkali and the Force India Formula 1 administrators is set to go to trial in late 2020. Last summer Uralkali, led by Dmitry Mazepin, was one of the failed bidders that attempted to buy the struggling Force India team from administrators FRP Advisory LLP. It believes it made

Honda believes there is no “easy answer” to whether it and Red Bull have closed in on Mercedes and Ferrari as much as the last two Formula 1 races suggest. Max Verstappen won last month’s Austrian Grand Prix to give the Red Bull-Honda partnership its first victory, and should have finished on the podium in

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc says his battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at Silverstone was “the most fun race since I started in F1”. During the course of the race, Leclerc and Verstappen sparred on track – and went side-by-side in the pitlane – in the wake of the controversial the pair had in Austria

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says Lewis Hamilton made “all the data look a little bit silly” when he took the fastest lap in the British Grand Prix. Hamilton had already been on his hard tyres for 31 laps when he decided to go for the extra point at the end of the

Alfa Romeo technical director Simone Resta will leave the team at the end of the month to rejoin his ex-Formula 1 employer Ferrari. Resta joined Alfa one year ago when it was entered in F1 as Sauber after establishing himself as an important part of Ferrari’s design team. Heading up Sauber/Alfa’s technical department gave Resta

Although Formula 1’s 2021 rules have not yet been finalised, the ideas are advanced enough for technical expert Giorgio Piola to imagine how the new generation of cars will look. Here, he offers more detail about the changes that will appear from 2021 as F1 bids to create a formula that allows cars to follow

William Storey is no longer associated with Rich Energy, UK government documents have confirmed – and in addition the company has been renamed Lightning Volt. Storey had been in dispute with shareholders of the company since last Wednesday, when he announced on Twitter that the sponsorship with the Haas F1 team has been terminated. Those

Aston Martin’s first public run of the Valkyrie hypercar it developed with Red Bull was chosen for the British Grand Prix partly to give “two fingers” to the company’s critics. The road-going version of the Aston Martin/Red Bull Advanced Technologies-developed Valkyrie, which will be built for the new World Endurance Championship rules as well, complete

Sebastian Vettel’s clash with Max Verstappen in the British Grand Prix was the latest in the growing list of high-profile errors the Ferrari Formula 1 driver has made in battle. On a weekend where he was already being noticeably outperformed by team-mate Charles Leclerc, Vettel was attempting to reclaim the third place he had just

Max Verstappen reckons Charles Leclerc was so robust with his defensive driving in the British Grand Prix because he was ‘still sore’ over their clash in Austria. The Red Bull and Ferrari drivers fought wheel-to-wheel for the first time at Silverstone since their controversial incident at the Red Bull Ring two weeks before. With Leclerc

Lewis Hamilton says he decided not to block Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Valtteri Bottas while the pair battled for the lead in the early laps of the British Grand Prix. Hamilton managed to squeeze past race leader Bottas around the outside exiting Brooklands on the fourth lap, but Bottas then surged back past heading into

Lewis Hamilton says he went against his Mercedes Formula 1 team by not pitting for fresh tyres for a late British Grand Prix fastest lap attempt. Hamilton scored a record-breaking sixth victory at Silverstone after a safety car period allowed him to jump ahead of polesitting team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The two Mercedes drivers opted for

An unusual high-voltage problem denied Alex Albon a points finish in the British Grand Prix after his Honda Formula 1 engine issue prevented him from making a second pitstop. Albon was among the first drivers to make a schedule stop, on lap 13 of 52, and he spent most of the Silverstone race inside the

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says he has made a “massive step” forward during what he feels is so far his “strongest” weekend of the season at Silverstone. Gasly qualified fifth for the British Grand Prix, matching his strongest grid position of the year, as he ended up just under half a second

Daniel Ricciardo has praised Renault for putting aside the ‘frustrations’ of having to abandon some of its new upgrades as it returned to form at the British Grand Prix. Following a deeply disappointing outing in Austria a fortnight ago, Renault went back on a setup direction and decided to take off some of the new

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff said he was ‘surprised’ to see Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton claim the front row in qualifying for the British Grand Prix. Bottas set a time of 1m25.093s to deny his team-mate Hamilton a pole in his home race at Silverstone by a margin of just 0.006s, but

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto believes there is no doubt that Sebastian Vettel is “fully committed” to a future in Formula 1 with the Italian team. Vettel has admitted that the direction F1 takes with its 2021 rules will be an important factor in deciding whether to stay in the championship beyond next season. His

FIA president Jean Todt has asked Formula 1 bosses to consider whether refuelling should return from 2021 to help improve the spectacle. Motor racing’s governing body is working with teams and Formula 1 owners Liberty Media on a raft of new rules for the 2021 season, designed to simplify cars while also making the racing

Daniel Ricciardo says the Renault engine which expired in Formula 1 British Grand Prix FP2 was a high-mileage, older-spec unit which was reserved solely for Friday running. He was forced to park up at the Maggotts section in the closing stages of Friday’s second practice at Silverstone when his car shut down. Ricciardo, who claimed

Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams has rubbished talk of tension with Robert Kubica and dismissed rumours that he may not see out the season. As well as Williams facing competitive struggles, which prompted the departure of technical chief Paddy Lowe, Kubica has struggled to match the impressive pace of teammate George Russell. The disparity

A new statement attributed to Rich Energy CEO William Storey has blasted the company’s own communication in a fresh twist to the Haas Formula 1 team’s title sponsor saga. On Wednesday, a Tweet emerged from the energy drink’s account announcing that it had terminated its deal with Haas due to “poor performance”. The post added

Charles Leclerc says he is happy to race aggressively like how Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix if their controversial incident is consistently viewed as acceptable in Formula 1. Leclerc lost the first victory of his F1 career when Verstappen passed him late on at the Red Bull Ring – a move that triggered