Ferrari will continue to investigate the rim failure that caused Sebastian Vettel to crash during the second week of Formula 1 testing in Barcelona. The German crashed into the Tecpro barriers after he lost control of his car at Turn 3 during the morning session on Wednesday. Ferrari concluded the front-left wheel rim had failed

The Mexican Grand Prix organisers say they have missed a deadline for provisional 2020 Formula 1 calendar inclusion, at a time when five races are in doubt for next year. The event recently lost its central government support, while the contracts of the F1 races in Spain, Britain, Germany and Italy all expire this season,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari backed up its early promise in Formula 1 pre-season testing by ending the second week at Barcelona a comfortable favourite for the start of the 2019 season. Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg had been fastest overall in the opening test on

Formula 1 champion team Mercedes came close to deposing winter pacesetter Ferrari as pre-season testing ended at Barcelona on Friday. After two days of Ferrari smashing the fortnight’s previous best times, the very end of the session featured Sebastian Vettel being sidelined with an electrical fault and Lewis Hamilton getting to within 0.003 seconds of

Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Mattia Binotto has moved to clarify that newcomer Charles Leclerc will be “free to fight” team-mate Sebastian Vettel in 2019. Leclerc has replaced Kimi Raikkonen alongside Vettel at Ferrari in the off-season, and Binotto said during the launch of Ferrari’s new SF90 challenger that the team would prioritise the four-time

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Every Formula 1 team set its fastest time of 2019 pre-season testing so far on the penultimate day of the final test, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc setting the fastest lap. Leclerc later said that Italian team was not running “flat

Ferrari exhaust problems caused Charles Leclerc’s on-track stoppage and the delay to Haas driver Romain Grosjean’s running on the penultimate day of Formula 1 pre-season testing. Leclerc set the fastest time of Barcelona testing so far on Thursday but brought out a red flag in the afternoon. Ferrari has since confirmed it was caused by

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe says he has no concerns for his position following speculation the Formula 1 team’s 2019 car delays may threaten his future. The FW42 did not run until the third day of pre-season testing at

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren topped the times at Formula 1 testing again on Wednesday, prompting questions about what its regular presence near the head of the order in pre-season means. So does it actually have a fast car? Edd Straw and Tom Errington

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen says Alfa Romeo tried “a lot of things” on its Formula 1 car on Wednesday as he experimented with its set-up properly for the first time. Raikkonen finished the second day of the second test fourth-fastest, as Alfa

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The start time of MotoGP’s 2019 season-opening Qatar Grand Prix could be changed after riders voiced safety concerns in testing. Carmelo Ezpeleta, head of MotoGP promoter Dorna, has revealed the race will potentially start an hour earlier than the currently-planned

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren set the pace on the opening day of the second Formula 1 pre-season test, but all the action that really mattered went on behind Lando Norris on the timing screens. After banking as many laps as possible in week

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes’ oil pressure problem in Barcelona Formula 1 testing hampered the team’s chance to fully evaluate its new aerodynamic package. F1’s champion squad arrived at the final week of pre-season running with substantial revisions to its W10 design. Lewis Hamilton

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-McLaren Formula 1 chief Eric Boullier says aiming for “something different” pushed him towards his new French Grand Prix role, because he was not “desperate” to stay in the paddock. Boullier returned to the F1 paddock on Tuesday at the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. How big is Ferrari’s advantage? Is Mercedes really in trouble? Is Red Bull-Honda right to be so confident? Week two of Formula 1 pre-season testing begins with many unanswered questions. On the eve of the final winter test beginning at

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Formula 1 technical director Andrew Green says the investment from its new owners has made a big difference – joking that it can finally afford an IT upgrade. The former Force India team is already planning to increase

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas feels he has not “achieved anything” in Formula 1 yet, as he targets a championship challenge for 2019. Bottas scored nine grand prix podiums for his first F1 outfit Williams, establishing himself as the team’s lead

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo thinks Renault’s Formula 1 progress will be boosted by the fact he and team-mate Nico Hulkenberg are on the “same page” with what they want from their car. Ricciardo has switched to Renault for 2019 after a five-year

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton mixed up his training regime over the winter to bulk up under Formula 1’s new driver weight rules, and says he is in his best condition ever. The five-time world champion pledged to become a “different athlete” last

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Albon is “exceeding expectations” and “ticked all the boxes” in Formula 1’s first pre-season test at Barcelona last week, says Toro Rosso’s deputy technical director Jody Egginton. Albon, who finished third in F2 last season, had not driven an

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Hulkenberg believes the 2019 Formula 1 rear wing is like a “parachute” – and the extra drag means that it is harder to compare Renault’s latest engine with last season’s. For 2019, the FIA has mandated a larger rear

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mexican Grand Prix’s future is “not looking good” and it could be out of Formula 1 for decades if it loses its calendar slot, fears Sergio Perez. The current contract for the Mexico City race ends this season, and

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso technical director Jody Egginton has hailed Honda’s first week of 2019 Formula 1 pre-season testing as “fantastic”. Honda’s first week supplying two teams in the V6 turbo-hybrid era was very productive, as its new team Red Bull and

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical chiefs are now predicting that the 2019 cars will be faster than last year, despite the rule changes having originally been expected to slow them down. F1’s aerodynamic regulations have been altered for this season with the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three McLaren Formula 1 team members have been given medical treatment after a fire occurred in the squad’s garage at the Barcelona circuit. Along with Racing Point and Williams, McLaren had been running its new MCL34 machine as part of

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso has agreed to release James Key to take up his new position of McLaren technical director just after the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Key will officially leave Toro Rosso on March 23 and begin working

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull expects a “far more mature” Max Verstappen to show greater “patience” in Formula 1 this season, according to its motorsport advisor Helmut Marko. Verstappen was involved in various incidents in a scrappy start to last season but a

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has revealed its first estimation of the performance gap between the five different compounds of tyres it is running in 2019. Although the company admits it can be more definitive about the lap time delta

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica admits that the Williams Formula 1 team is testing its new FW42 car in a “compromised” condition this week at Barcelona. Williams’s 2019 car missed the first two days of running altogether due to delays with the production

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas team boss Gunther Steiner says his team must fix the “little gremlins” having suffered electrical trouble three times during the third day of Formula 1 testing at Barcelona. After an electrical problem forced the VF-19 to stop on track