Get unlimited access for free You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Luciano Burti believes his former team did not do enough to ease the pressure on Sebastian Vettel during the 2018 season. Vettel made a series of mistakes in the second half of last year, commencing with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso spent more than €2million because of a number of heavy crashes its drivers suffered during the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Red Bull junior team ended its first year with Honda ninth in the constructors’ championship after scoring 33 points,

The 2018 Formula 1 season was packed with a bumper mix of stories and sub-plots that centred on an explosive driver market and technical intrigue. As Mercedes and Ferrari went head-to-head for both titles, off-track there was a driver merry-go-round of a scale rarely seen before that ended with only two teams confirming the same

The Williams Formula 1 team found the “bottom of the trench” performance-wise in 2018, according to chief technical officer Paddy Lowe. Williams finished 10th in the constructors’ championship, the worst result in its history, as its FW41 proved fundamentally flawed and its young drivers Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin scored just seven points between them.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The reliability of Honda’s Formula 1 engine reached a comfortable level in 2018 that was “completely different” to its previous years with McLaren. Honda partnered with Toro Rosso for 2018 and scored more points with Red Bull’s junior team than it managed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton reached a “surreal level” in 2018 that was similar to how Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna changed the “reference” for Formula 1 drivers, says Ross Brawn. Hamilton wrapped up a fifth world title this year with a season that featured

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean is proud of his comeback against Haas Formula 1 team-mate Kevin Magnussen in 2018 and believes he did a “great job” to recover the way he did. Grosjean failed to score points in any of the first eight races of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Brabham and McLaren Formula 1 designer Professor Gordon Murray has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen’s New Year Honours. The legendary designer’s accolade is in recognition of his ‘services to motoring’ – rewarding his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner believes that his team did everything it could to retain Daniel Ricciardo for the 2019 Formula 1 season. After weeks of discussions the Australian was expected to sign a new contract shortly after the Hungarian GP.

Formula 1’s premier technical artist, Giorgio Piola, has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to allow fans of the sport a direct-to-consumer opportunity that makes a collectible timepiece much more affordable. Piola, who has attended more grands prix than anyone in history, has launched his newest line of watches, the SHIFT collection, on a limited endeavor

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has offered hints at possible alternatives to grid penalties in a new survey for fans. As part of its ‘F1 Fan Voice’ online community, F1 regularly carries out surveys to gauge the opinions of its audience. In the latest of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esteban Ocon says his improvement in Formula 1 qualifying this season was important because Mercedes wanted to see him in make gains in that area. Ocon made his full-season debut with Force India last year and his qualifying record against the experienced

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says he feels humbled to have joined Ferrari in winning five consecutive world championship doubles in Formula 1. In 2018 Mercedes became only the second team in history after Ferrari to have won five drivers’ and constructors’ crowns

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team has admitted it surprised itself by being able to fight with Renault for a top four place in the constructors’ championship in 2018. The team only entered F1 three years ago, and although Renault beat it for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 team principal Franz Tost says he was “shocked” by how little specific car knowledge Honda had after its three-year partnership with McLaren. Honda started supplying engines to Toro Rosso at the start of 2018 and scored its best

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says that he stopped caring about his Formula 1 statistics in comparison to Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen, in a season plagued with reliability issues. Ricciardo, who will move to Renault in 2019, scored two wins early on in the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Claire Williams believes her Formula 1 team’s 2018 car was so flawed that it would have been difficult to improve “even if we had tripled” the budget. Williams finished 10th and last in the constructors’ championship in 2018, the team’s worst result

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull could target Le Mans 24 Hours success with an Aston Martin Valkyrie-based hypercar instead of Formula 1, if it does not see a viable post-2020 grand prix future. The energy drinks company took over Jaguar’s works entry for the 2005

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The autonomous racing series Roborace is not limited to running alongside Formula E and would be open to demonstrating its driverless car technology alongside Formula 1 and other series. Roborace’s inaugural season is due to commence next spring, with its ‘Season Alpha’

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s performance in the 2018 Formula 1 season was a “highlight” for Toro Rosso because rival teams thought it was “totally crazy” to choose the engine manufacturer. Toro Rosso swapped Renault engines for Honda for this year after the Japanese company finally

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen thinks Haas faced too much of a “headwind” in 2018 during a campaign where almost everything “that could go wrong did go wrong”. Haas had the fourth-quickest car at times this year, but team boss Gunther Steiner has admitted the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. In 2018 Formula 1 fans had the chance to submit their own driver ratings for each grand prix as part of Autosport’s popular feature. The new feature gave fans the chance to have their voices heard alongside Autosport’s own scores, and as

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo reckons his qualifying record and points tally compared to Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen in the 2018 Formula 1 season were distorted. Abysmal reliability meant Ricciardo slipped to a distant sixth in the championship, 79 points behind Verstappen, after winning

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault says it is “sorry, but not sorry” to have ended its relationship with Red Bull after some rollercoaster years with the energy drinks backed team. Although the Red Bull-Renault partnership produced four consecutive Formula 1 title doubles between 2010 and 2013,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA U-turn that caught Honda out ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix helped the Formula 1 engine manufacturer make an important breakthrough with the governing body in 2018. Honda had to abort a planned change to help its upgraded F1 engine

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren says a lack of communication and clarity of roles within the Formula 1 team were the key factors that triggered the problems that were exposed in 2018. McLaren hoped that switching from Honda to Renault engines for 2018 would put it

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Christian Horner believes that Red Bull produced the best Formula 1 chassis in 2018, which he says was demonstrated at races where outright power was a reduced factor. Red Bull scored four wins in 2018 and for the first time in F1’s

Most racing drivers start out with the intention of getting to Formula 1, but for many their time on the grand prix grid is just the precursor to greater success elsewhere in motorsport. Some even become so well-known for their triumphs in sportscars, touring cars or beyond that it’s easy to forget their F1 exploits

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda Formula 1 boss Masashi Yamamoto says the manufacturer’s “biggest change” in 2018 with Toro Rosso compared to its McLaren partnership was “much better communication”. The Japanese company returned to F1 in 2015 as sole engine supplier to McLaren, but a troubled

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Official attendance figures released by Formula 1 reveal the British Grand Prix had the highest attendance of any race during the 2018 season. The Silverstone race – which still does not have a deal in place beyond 2019 after circuit bosses activated