Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has revealed the requirements Formula 1 teams will need to adhere to in order to produce unrestricted CFD simulations for the planned 2021 aerodynamics regulations. In December’s World Motor Sport Council meeting, the FIA announced that the limit on CFD

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Jr was “really hurt” by the missed opportunities during his 2018 Formula 1 season before leaving Renault with a final flourish. Sainz snuck into the top 10 of the championship by securing his first best-of-the-rest ‘win’ of the year in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull must become a championship contender again with its Honda partnership, says ex-Ferrari boss-turned-Formula 1 head Ross Brawn. After sweeping four consecutive F1 title doubles from 2010-13, the V6 turbo-hybrid engines that arrived in ’14 reduced Red Bull to a bit-part

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s 2019 Formula 1 challenger will be launched at its Enstone factory the week before the start of pre-season testing. The French manufacturer has confirmed its “season launch” will take place at its UK base on February 12. Pre-season testing begins at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has spoken to Fernando Alonso about the possibility of him testing its 2019 Formula 1 car. Although Alonso has now left F1 and will continue his World Endurance Championship commitments, as well as return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019, he

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Autosport’s annual ranking of the top 50 drivers of the year is always one of our most popular, and controversial, features of the year. This year’s edition has been no exception, and on the latest edition of The Autosport podcast we reveal

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has found “a lot of kilowatts” in the development of its 2019 Formula 1 engine, customer team McLaren has been told. While the French manufacturer failed to do enough last year to convince Red Bull to keep using its engines, the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The prospect of a London grand prix has been boosted by the city mayor believing it “should be possible” and Formula 1 targeting a grand prix on the capital’s outskirts. A grand prix in the English city has been little more than

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc will not be as “accommodating” towards Sebastian Vettel as Kimi Raikkonen was at Ferrari, reckons Formula 1’s sporting chief Ross Brawn. Leclerc, F1’s star rookie of 2018, will replace Raikkonen alongside Vettel next season and has been tipped to fight

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso driver Alexander Albon has picked #23 as his full-time Formula 1 race number, joking that he is taking “half” of MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi’s famous #46. Formula 2 race winner Albon is stepping up to F1 next year after being

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo believes the 2018 Formula 1 season was his toughest year mentally because he has never had to overcome so many “hurdles” before. The Australian won two of the first six races of 2018 but failed to finish on the podium

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson believes he is leaving Formula 1 at the end of his strongest year in grand prix racing. The Swedish driver will switch to IndyCar next season after Sauber opted for an all-new line-up of Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The key technical differences between Mercedes and Ferrari and how they defined the 2018 Formula 1 title battle are scrutinised in our special analysis of their respective challengers. Mercedes clinched a fifth consecutive F1 title double this year but that success came

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Racing Point Formula 1 team is set to reveal its new look at the Canadian International AutoShow next February. Racing Point, the successor to the Force India entry that fell into administration last summer, will officially present its new identity and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes initially did not fully understand the engine upgrade that it introduced for the second half of the 2018 Formula 1 season. The defining moment in the F1 title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel came following the summer break, when

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says it was “shameful” that debris left on the track during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix ended up costing Valtteri Bottas a Formula 1 victory this year. Bottas had been leading in Baku with three laps to go when

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc says he found Formula 1 “intimidating” at first as he adapted to dealing with more people than he had been used to in his junior career. Leclerc did not score a point at any of the opening three rounds of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo expected to have a worse relationship with Max Verstappen as Formula 1 team-mates at Red Bull but thinks they will stay friends even with Ricciardo moving to Renault. Ricciardo and Verstappen spent almost three full seasons together following the young

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India Formula 1 team missed out on a full upgrade during the 2018 season because of its budget problems. Financial problems at the squad came to a head in the middle of the year, and it had to go into

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso reckons his LMP1 and IndyCar exploits boosted him as a driver and helped him record a career first by trouncing Formula 1 team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne in qualifying. Alonso beat Vandoorne in every qualifying session in 2018 and was last outqualified

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes is turning to psychologists, well-being practices and medical support for its staff in its bid to remain at the top of Formula 1. Although Mercedes secured a fifth consecutive double of drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 2018, it faced its sternest

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe says outgoing head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley leaves the Formula 1 team on the best possible terms. Smedley’s departure was announced early last month, with the 45-year-old stressing he wants to focus on spending time

The colourful money man behind the Onyx team’s Formula 1 entry in 1989, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, has died at the age of 73. The Belgian, whose death has been announced by the media in his homeland, backed Onyx with his Moneytron investment company for its graduation to F1 from the Formula 3000 ranks with Stefan

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Monza is considering removing one of its chicanes and reprofiling the second Lesmo corner as part of a proposed €100million revamp to mark the Formula 1 circuit’s centenary in 2022. Ahead of discussions to secure the Italian Grand Prix’s future beyond next

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has announced that its 2019 Formula 1 car, codenamed internally 670, will be revealed on February 15. Team principal Maurizio Arrivabene revealed the news during the Autosprint award ceremony of Caschi d’oro, which was held on Thursday evening in Milan at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says he does not expect there to be “anything wrong on-track” between himself and new Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc in 2019. Vettel’s four seasons at Ferrari have been spent alongside Kimi Raikkonen, with whom the four-time world champion

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says his Formula 1 exit has hit him hard because his efforts with Williams “took so much as a human” and he will not benefit in 2019. The Russian made his grand prix debut with Williams this season but will

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says his Austrian Grand Prix victory stands out in his impressive 2018 Formula 1 season because it was “completely unexpected”. Verstappen recovered from a tough start to the year to enjoy the best campaign of his young F1 career, winning

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lando Norris says he steered clear of choosing hero Valentino Rossi’s #46 to use on his McLaren in Formula 1 because he did not want to be a “copycat”. The young British driver has been a fan of the MotoGP legend since

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says he was losing sleep in the second half of the 2018 Formula 1 season, as misfortune dogged his final races as a Red Bull driver. Ricciardo, who will move to Renault for 2019, was as high as third in