Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel’s Brazilian Grand Prix was compromised by a sensor problem that forced him to run different settings and made his Ferrari Formula 1 car difficult to drive. Vettel started on the front row of the grid at Interlagos but was passed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Formula 1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne have both received points on their licences for ignoring blue flags while being lapped during the Brazilian Grand Prix. The pair were also given five-second time penalties – Alonso’s was awarded during the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has declared Ferrari the favourite to win the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix after the Italian team staked everything on a risky strategy in qualifying. Ferrari changed both Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen on to Pirelli’s soft

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen is now just one reprimand away from a Formula 1 grid penalty, after being found guilty of driving too slowly on an in-lap in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying. The Haas driver was found to have not kept below the maximum

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton says Sergey Sirotkin acted in a “disrespectful” manner by passing him on an out-lap as the pair nearly came to blows in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying. Most teams were in a rush to log flying laps at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World champion Lewis Hamilton says he is not in favour of the Formula 1 calendar expanding beyond the current level of 21 races. With Vietnam joining the calendar in 2020, and F1 bosses looking to finalise deals with Miami and possibly Zandvoort,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Delegates from the Formula 1 Group, the FIA and Pirelli attended an extraordinary meeting of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association at Interlagos to discuss the future of F1. The gathering had been widely expected to focus on the drivers’ misgivings about the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says a loose screw in his Ferrari Formula 1 car’s cockpit prompted the cheeky joke he made to his team during the second Brazilian Grand Prix practice session. In a radio message broadcast on F1’s coverage of FP2 at Interlagos,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari-bound Charles Leclerc hopes the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team will sign Alexander Albon for 2019. Albon is second in Formula 2 at the moment and sits between two confirmed 2019 F1 drivers in the standings, behind George Russell (Williams) and ahead

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniil Kvyat will be reunited with the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team in the post-season Pirelli tyre test in Abu Dhabi. Kvyat has been re-signed by Red Bull to drive for its junior team next season, after being dropped in late-2017. The

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Grand Prix Drivers’ Association plans to discuss concerns about tyres and the state of racing in a meeting in Brazil on Friday, amid mounting frustrations with Formula 1. An increased reliance on tyre management, plus an ever-widening gulf between the top

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast marks this month’s 50th anniversary of Graham Hill’s second Formula 1 world championship victory in 1968. For all his success, Graham Hill is often left out of discussions about grand prix racing’s greatest drivers. So

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s commercial managing director Sean Bratches has hinted the British Grand Prix could move away from Silverstone to preserve the future of the race. Last year Silverstone bosses activated a break clause in the race’s contract, agreed under F1’s previous ownership,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson has admitted it “hurts a bit” to be losing his Sauber Formula 1 drive just as the team is moving forward. Ericsson has driven for Sauber since 2014, scoring 18 points in that period, but will be relegated to a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso will return to Honda’s upgraded Formula 1 engine for the Brazilian Grand Prix because the high-altitude challenge of Interlagos is not as extreme as at Mexico City. Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley used an older specification of Honda engine for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. George Russell tried to land a 2018 Williams Formula 1 drive and made a PowerPoint presentation to aid his bid, the team’s chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has revealed. Russell has been confirmed at Williams for 2019 after impressing the team with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India’s Otmar Szafnauer says Sauber has “outdeveloped” Formula 1’s top teams with the leap it has made from its 2017 car to the current C37 challenger. Sauber propped up the constructors’ standings last year, scoring just five points to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs have been urged to do more to clamp down on oil burn, even though new rules have done much to discourage teams from exploiting it. With F1’s turbo hybrid rules having imposed strict limits on fuel flow and quantity

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene says his team needs to overcome a fear of winning if it is to finally beat Mercedes in Formula 1. Ferrari’s title hopes have been derailed by late-season problems again this year, and Arrivabene said the team has

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton fears young drivers risk compromising their education too much and intends to talk with FIA president Jean Todt on the matter. Hamilton wants to help aspiring racing drivers who are taken out of school in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen believes tougher stewarding on bigger incidents would eliminate “stupidity” from Formula 1 drivers. The FIA is constantly adapting its stewarding process to try to improve how it polices bad driving, ranging from appointing former racing drivers to its panel of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maurizio Arrivabene has hit out at “false rumours” concerning the future of Ferrari Formula 1 technical director Mattia Binotto, saying they are designed to “create instability” at the team. After Ferrari’s latest failure to beat Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes to the F1

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Jr says it was important for him to finish the 2018 season strongly with Renault, once it was confirmed that he would be moving to McLaren next season. The Spaniard found out over the summer that he was being replaced

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has targeted at least getting “close” to Michael Schumacher’s all-time records over the remainder of his career. Hamilton moved level with Juan Manuel Fangio on five titles with his latest championship victory last Sunday

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner thinks it would be unfair to expect Pierre Gasly to challenge Max Verstappen immediately next year, but says the team predicts ‘big things’ from him. Gasly has been handed a golden opportunity to step up to Red

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel thinks it essential that he and new Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc have a cooperative working relationship in Formula 1 next season. With the Scuderia deciding against retaining its number two driver Kimi Raikkonen for 2019, Vettel will have a new

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes’ innovative Formula 1 wheel assembly remains the focus of much attention following last weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix. For the second race in succession, the team did not run the set-up that helps it keep rear tyre temperatures under control, amid talk

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will swap cars with NASCAR superstar Jimmie Johnson at the end of this month. The car swap will take place at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit on November 26, the day after the F1 season finale in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says the perception that Ferrari’s Formula 1 car was dominant at times this year is wrong, and insists the team never enjoyed the advantage that Mercedes often has. Vettel’s hopes of landing this year’s world championship ended in Mexico last

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 cars’ “really bad” mirrors mean drivers are often “blind” in battle, reckons Kevin Magnussen – who has been at the centre of recent blocking controversies. Magnussen escaped sanction for a clash with Charles Leclerc at the Japanese Grand Prix when