Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Williams Formula 1 signing George Russell has explained some of the details he put in the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation he made in a bid to impress the team. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe revealed earlier this month that Formula 2 points

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar-bound Marcus Ericsson says his target at the end of the 2018 Formula 1 season has been to show what his Sauber team will be “missing” next year, when he will be replaced. Sauber has signed Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso is promising to add “many more” races to his schedule in 2019 after he leaves Formula 1 and may include “a couple of iconic places”. The two-time world champion wants to expand his programme beyond his existing commitments after he

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo believes his aggressive moves during his debut season with Red Bull in 2014 “changed the level of overtaking” in Formula 1. Ricciardo is preparing for his final race with Red Bull as this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marks his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff has pledged the manufacturer will “really go for broke” in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix now both titles have been secured. The Anglo-German team has already wrapped up its fifth consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ championship

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Louis Deletraz says Haas “sees his potential” after handing him his first test in a current Formula 1 car at the 2018 Pirelli tyre test following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 21-year-old Swiss is competing in Formula 2 this year with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nissan and Renault chairman Carlos Ghosn, a key supporter of Renault’s Formula 1 programme, is set to be sacked amid allegations of financial impropriety. Ghosn, who leads the alliance of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, has been arrested in Japan and accused of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team believes it has reaped the benefits from its first real year of car development. Haas entered F1 in 2016 and turned heads by scoring points on its debut, but after finishing in the top 10 in three

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc claims Sauber’s impressive progress in the final part of the Formula 1 season is due to set-up work, not upgrades, because it stopped developing its 2018 car early. Sauber started the year fighting Williams at the back of the grid

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams needs to make changes in all areas of its organisation if it is going to recover from its disappointing 2018 Formula 1 campaign, says departing engineering chief Rob Smedley. Having taken third in the constuctors’ championship in 2014 and ’15, Williams

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes Max Verstappen will be a Formula 1 world champion once the “raw edges are off”. Wolff suggested that Verstappen’s clashes with Esteban Ocon on and off the track in last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix indicated he

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Signing Pietro Fittipaldi will help the Haas Formula 1 team address a weakness with its simulator use, reckons the team’s race driver Romain Grosjean. Fittipaldi, grandson of two-time world champion Emerson, has been named Haas’s 2019 reserve driver next year and will

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda is weighing up giving Japanese driver Naoki Yamamoto a free practice run in Formula 1 next season after his 2018 Super GT and Super Formula title success. Yamamoto became first driver since Richard Lyons in 2004 to achieve titles in both

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has not raced with its controversial wheel spacer design for the past few Formula 1 races, but it has not stopped developing the idea as the latest updates used in Brazil show. The spacer works in conjunction with the rear wheel

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton predicts Mercedes will enjoy “a great knock-on effect” for 2019 from clinching its fifth consecutive Formula 1 title double in the face of increased competition from Ferrari. Hamilton’s Brazilian Grand Prix victory last weekend, coupled with Valtteri Bottas finishing fifth,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s chassis technical director Nick Chester says the French manufacturer is making “strong progress” with its 2019 Formula 1 challenger. Next season will be Renault’s fourth since returning to the F1 grid as a works team and it has signed Daniel Ricciardo

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 boss Chase Carey says he will drop races that have “unattractive” agreements with the championship, and replace them with deals negotiated by the new management. The only new race confirmed on Carey’s watch is Vietnam, which is scheduled for 2020.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s engineering chief Jock Clear believes the team has had its “strongest season for 10 years” in Formula 1 during 2018. Although Ferrari emerged as a major threat to Mercedes in the fight for the Formula 1 championship this year, late season

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tatiana Calderon will be back behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car when she tests for Sauber at the Fiorano circuit this weekend. Calderon, the Swiss squad’s test driver, will run in a V8-powered Sauber C32 – the team’s 2013 F1

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull junior Dan Ticktum could step down to a lower-level junior series this winter in a bid to end his “annoying” quest for a Formula 1 superlicence. After a year where he was unable to test for Red Bull because he

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Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Sauber Formula 1 team has partnered with junior single-seater outfit Charouz Racing System to form a young driver development programme. Sauber has not previously had a defined junior operation but has established close ties to Ferrari. It handed Ferrari-bound Charles Leclerc

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche’s former World Endurance Championship LMP1 team boss Andreas Seidl is set to move into Formula 1 in a senior role at a team. Although his departure from Porsche has not been confirmed and it is not yet known which F1 team

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says he feels like he is taking “uppercuts” with the number of problems he has had in the final part of the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Red Bull driver has endured a troubled end to his final campaign with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has hit back at complaints over the FIA’s weighing procedure after Sebastian Vettel was punished for “destroying” the weighbridge at Interlagos last weekend. Vettel was given a reprimand and fined €25,000 for failing to obey the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli has released the tyre selections of the Formula 1 teams for the 2018 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with the choices dominated by the hypersoft tyre. Ferrari has gone slightly more conservative than its rivals, opting for three sets of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso’s STR13 Formula 1 car has become a sort of mobile laboratory for Red Bull and Honda in the final part of the 2018 season. On the engine front, Honda has not been shy about using Toro Rosso’s car as a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn says Max Verstappen showed he is not capable of keeping his emotions in check in his post-race confrontation with Esteban Ocon in Brazil. Verstappen was ordered to carry out two days of “public service” with the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton escaped an investigation into his near-miss with Sergey Sirotkin in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying because it was viewed as an unfortunate misunderstanding by Formula 1 race officials. The eventual polesitter and the Williams rookie narrowly avoided a huge crash when

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting says Esteban Ocon was not wrong to try to unlap himself in the Brazilian Grand Prix but fighting Max Verstappen was “wholly unacceptable”. Verstappen was taken out of the lead of the race after Ocon,