The Ferrari Formula 1 team has revealed a revised livery for its 2019 F1 car for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Ferrari’s new SF90 challenger had been launched and made its debut in pre-season testing with extensive branding for Mission Winnow, an initiative by title sponsor Philip Morris (pictured below). But news had broken during

Kimi Raikkonnen says Alfa Romeo’s place in the Formula 1 pecking order is a “big mystery” after finding it tricky to explore his new car’s potential in pre-season testing. The former Sauber entry appears to be in the thick of the midfield battle, although not quite at the front of it as the first week

Philip Morris has underlined that Mission Winnow will remain Ferrari’s active 2019 Formula 1 title sponsor, despite the team name change and logos being removed for the Australian Grand Prix. Mission Winnow logos first appeared on the Ferrari at last year’s Japanese Grand Prix, but the initiative’s involvement in F1 has caused some controversy. Australian

Formula 1 will award a world championship point to the driver setting the fastest lap of a grand prix from 2019 after a proposal was met with unanimous approval. Autosport reported last week that the plan had been approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council but will still subject to the result of an

Ross Brawn believes Charles Leclerc is unlikely to be able to beat his Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel in their first season together. Leclerc, replacing Kimi Raikkonen at the Maranello team after just one season at Sauber, has been tipped to be one of the stars of 2019 following an impressive debut campaign in

Formula 1 is now on course to reduce the impact of dirty air on performance by up to five times with its 2021 regulations, sporting director Ross Brawn has revealed. F1’s switch to higher-downforce cars in 2017 triggered a reduction in overtaking and wheel-to-wheel action, as drivers struggled to run close behind other cars due

Formula 1 sporting chief Ross Brawn says the championship is determined to keep the British Grand Prix on the calendar despite there being “no certainty” over its future at Silverstone. Britain’s F1 event is one of five, along with Spain, Germany, Italy and Mexico, whose contracts are up for renewal for 2020. F1 and Silverstone

Honda has produced “everything” it promised over the winter, according to Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen. Red Bull enjoyed a promising two weeks of pre-season testing at Barcelona with its new engine partner and did not suffer any notable reliability concerns. It only lost significant mileage because of two separate Pierre Gasly crashes,

Dan Ticktum is targeting a test in Red Bull’s 2019 Formula 1 car this year to prepare himself for a possible graduation to the category in 2020. Ticktum was in line to take part in the in-season test in Hungary last year, only to be denied the chance as he didn’t have the required superlicence

Honda’s motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto will move into a newly-created, Formula 1-specifc role this year to boost its programme with Red Bull and Toro Rosso. Yamamoto was already in charge of the sporting side of Honda’s F1 programme, and struck the deal to supply engines to Red Bull this year as part of his role

The Haas Formula 1 team has put “a lot of emphasis” on its pitstop preparation to prevent a repeat of its costly errors in last year’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Haas drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean were running fourth and fifth in Melbourne last year but retired from the race in quick succession following

The FIA has underlined its push for standard parts in Formula 1 from 2021 after the World Motor Sport Council approved the issuing of further invitations to tender. Last month, the FIA asked for interested parties to bid on the supply of a standard gearbox cassette to be used by all teams from 2021-24. Thursday’s

A low-key pre-season dogged with niggling reliability problems and a lack of mileage would usually risk setting alarm bells ringing inside a team. While losing more than a quarter of the available track time unsurprisingly left Williams as the least-productive team at Barcelona, its dramas helped keep another team away from major scrutiny. Williams completed

When the sun sets, darkness falls and 1600 floodlights powering up the Marina Bay Street Circuit come alive – the Home of Formula 1® night race sparks into action with man and machine going wheel-to-wheel on the meandering mean streets in the ultimate pursuit of victory. It is three days of pure gripping action that

The Formula 1 organisation wants all 10 teams on board for the second Netflix series about the championship, which is currently in the planning stages. The first series of Drive to Survive is launched worldwide on the streaming service on Friday. Originally only eight teams agreed to be fully involved, with Ferrari and Mercedes opting

The Williams Formula 1 team is modifying part of its front suspension and its mirror design to ensure the car is legal for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Its unconventional wing mirrors and part of the suspension were among the standout features on the Williams FW42 when it finally arrived at Barcelona for pre-season testing.

Praise for a new boss who has brought back the feel-good factor has been a fundamental part of the Ferrari Formula 1 team’s pre-season. New team principal Mattia Binotto has swiftly eliminated the air of misery that seemed to dog the Maranello team as its latest title bid turned to rubble in 2018. With a

Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe is taking “a leave of absence” from the Formula 1 team, Autosport has learned. Lowe’s future at Williams was under scrutiny following the production delays that meant the team missed the first two-and-a-half days of pre-season testing at Barcelona, and the performance of the new car when it did

Formula 1 is “running late” to make the big changes it wants for the 2021 season, according to Renault engine chief Remi Taffin. FIA president Jean Todt claimed in August last year that he expected the regulations to be finalised soon, but there is still no public outline of the sporting or technical rules. F1

Formula 1 rookie Alex Albon says there were no “nasty surprises” from Toro Rosso’s 2019 car when he logged proper mileage for the first time in pre-season testing. Albon has graduated from Formula 2 and will make his F1 debut in the Australian Grand Prix season opener. He had not driven an F1 car before

Everything looks good right now at Ferrari, which will start the 2019 Formula 1 season as early favourite after a strong performance across the fortnight of testing at Barcelona. The squad’s optimism heading into the new campaign is in stark contrast to the mood within the camp towards the end of 2018, and a significant

Ferrari has revealed it has chosen to remove its Mission Winnow branding for the opening grand prix of the 2019 Formula 1 season in Australia. It emerged last month that Australian authorities had launched an investigation into whether the initiative introduced by Ferrari title sponsor Philip Morris late last year contravened laws banning tobacco advertising.

Mercedes’ efforts in the design of its 2019 Formula 1 car have made sources of “pride”, making its previous design “start to look clumsy and naive by comparison”. In a video that compares Mercedes’ new challenger, the W10, with its double title-winning predecessor, technical director James Allison talks through the major changes triggered by F1’s

Having won five consecutive world championship doubles in Formula 1’s hybrid era, Mercedes has more to lose than most from the revised 2019 technical regulations. In a special interview with James Allison for the bumper season preview issue of F1 Racing, filmed before the start of testing, we asked the man with ultimate responsibility for

Five-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has suggested he will make more outings on two wheels this season, after he visits this weekend’s Qatar MotoGP season opener. Hamilton, a self-confessed motorcycling aficionado, is set to attend the first weekend of the 2019 MotoGP season at the Losail circuit as a guest of the Petronas SRT

Formula 1 does not consider Assen a “suitable” candidate for a Dutch Grand Prix and Zandvoort is the only option for the race’s revival, according to the Netherlands’ sports council. Zandvoort and Assen have both been lobbying for a possible F1 race in 2020, with former GP venue Zandvoort securing an exclusivity agreement with the

Williams driver Robert Kubica believes he is only “20 percent” prepared for the first race of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Kubica is set to make his return to grand prix racing in two weeks’ time in Melbourne, having recovered from a major injury that had caused his initial exit from the championship in 2011.

Williams driver Robert Kubica believes he is only “20%” prepared for the first race of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Kubica is set to make his return to grand prix racing in two weeks’ time in Melbourne, having recovered from a major injury that had caused his initial exit from the championship in 2011. But

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton does not have “a lot of good things” to say about Pirelli’s 2019 tyres, and thinks the new compound identification system is “confusing”. Pirelli has modified its rubber for this season, introducing the thinner-gauge tread that was used at three races last year to combat blistering and overheating. However,

Michael Schumacher led Mika Hakkinen past the old pits for the last time, and the Finn was tucked right in the slipstream of the German F3 champion. That, thought the West Surrey Racing team that ran Hakkinen, was surely enough to give him Macau Grand Prix victory to add to that year’s British F3 title.