Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-confirmed Ferrari Formula 1 junior Mick Schumacher is set to be guided by the management company of Nicolas Todt this season. Schumacher, the son of seven-time F1 world champion and Ferrari legend Michael, steps up to Formula 2 this year

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s top teams could converge towards longer wheelbase concepts with their 2019 designs as an unintended consequence of a higher fuel allowance. In a bid to allow drivers to push harder for longer in races, rather than being held

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. George Russell believes Lando Norris securing a Formula 1 race seat before him helped to put pressure on Williams to sign him to its driver line-up for 2019. Norris was signed by McLaren in early September last year, shortly after

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen’s growing presence in sim racing has given those close to the Red Bull Formula 1 star an insight into driving ability that is “almost impossible to imitate”. Five-time grand prix winner Verstappen has spent a lot of time

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael, has officially joined Ferrari’s young driver programme. As reported by Autosport earlier this week, the reigning European Formula 3 champion was close to formalising becoming part of the Ferrari

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has released figures to outline a “significant increase” in audience figures across TV and digital platforms in 2018, the second year of Liberty Media’s ownership. Figures released by the championship state that 490.2m unique figures were registered during

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three Formula 1 teams and UK motorsport’s governing body have discussed collectively writing to British prime minister Theresa May amid mounting concerns over a possible no-deal Brexit. David Richards, the head of Britain’s racing authority Motorsport UK, has been lobbying

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Incoming Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says he is not going to the team in 2019 to be “second driver” to Max Verstappen. Red Bull junior Gasly made his full-time F1 debut in 2018 with Toro Rosso, having

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jerome Stoll will continue as president of Renault’s sporting division despite a replacement being announced by the French company last year. Renault said in November that executive vice-president of sales and marketing Thierry Koskas (pictured, right, with Stoll and Renault

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s target for the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season is to establish itself ahead of Renault and then try to catch Mercedes and Ferrari during the year. The Japanese manufacturer has been the fourth-best in F1 since returning

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo will not be fooled by 2019 Renault Formula 1 team-mate Nico Hulkenberg’s record without a podium because he believes the German is “not that level of driver”. Despite being widely regarded as one of the most impressive drivers

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A study is being undertaken to establish whether Finland could stage a Formula 1 race in the future, with the country’s new MotoGP circuit a possible venue. Finland is one of the most successful countries in F1 history, boasting four

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez believes his ex-Formula 1 team-mate Esteban Ocon’s year on the sidelines in 2019 can “definitely hurt him more than it can benefit him”. Ocon will work as Mercedes’ reserve driver after failing to land a race seat due

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has admitted he “fell into the trap” of not accepting the extent of the Formula 1 team’s problems and how much change it needed. Lowe joined Williams at the start of 2017 after being

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Triple Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has been released from hospital in Vienna, after being admitted earlier this year with a flu infection. The 1975, ’77 and ’84 world champion, who is a non-executive chairman of the Mercedes F1

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 team principal Gunther Steiner does not understand why Kevin Magnussen has been tagged with a “wild” reputation or why people think he fades away over a season. Magnussen was on the receiving end of criticism from several

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari president John Elkann has strongly refuted reports that the Formula 1 team faces further management upheaval and could even turn to former boss Stefano Domenicali for help. The recent promotion of technical chief Mattia Binotto to become new team

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael, is close to confirming a deal to join Ferrari’s young driver programme. The 2018 European Formula 3 champion has courted the interest of F1’s biggest teams since clinching his

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has revealed the full schedule for the 2019 season, which will stick to the slightly later start times introduced last year. For 2018 F1 shifted each part of the weekend schedule back by one hour, moving European races

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari is planning to give its 2019 Formula 1 challenger its on-track debut the day before the start of pre-season testing. Like last year, the Italian team intends to utilise one of its two permitted promotional events to shake down

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost says his team is willing to take more Formula 1 grid penalties in 2019 in order to help Red Bull now both use Honda engines. Last year Toro Rosso drivers Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas team principal Gunther Steiner reckons there would be no point in him staying in Formula 1 longer-term if his squad never had a chance of challenging the top three. The current grid features such a gulf of performance between

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Antonio Giovinazzi says he will not try to replicate Charles Leclerc’s success as a Formula 1 rookie when he makes his full-season debut with Sauber in 2019. Leclerc’s efforts this year paved the way for an immediate graduation to Ferrari

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez says Racing Point’s promising Formula 1 future was one of the decisive factors in him ruling out a move to rival McLaren. The Mexican was one of several drivers on McLaren’s shortlist to replace for Stoffel Vandoorne for

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen’s progress has moved him clear of his ex-Formula 1 team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in both qualifying and race trim, according to Helmut Marko. Verstappen and Ricciardo were broadly equal in their time together at Red Bull from early 2016

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul believes Formula 1’s smaller outfits will be helped by the distraction of top teams needing to make redundancies after the planned 2021 budget cap is introduced. Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull currently have a clear advantage because

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical expert Pat Symonds has warned it would be “all too easy” for rulemakers to slash downforce levels and fail to improve racing. As F1 evaluates ways to create a better spectacle following criticism that cars are too

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen will attend this weekend’s Marrakech E-Prix to serve part of his public service for shoving Esteban Ocon at last year’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Verstappen was handed two days of “public service” at the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari made the “wrong decision” picking Mattia Binotto to replace Maurizio Arrivabene as its Formula 1 team principal, says former technical director Gary Anderson. Binotto took charge of Ferrari’s engine development after its dismal performance at the start of F1’s

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is confident that two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s departure will not leave it without a proper benchmark to gauge the competitiveness of its car. Alonso has elected to step away from F1 for 2019 in the wake