Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s 2019 calendar and a host of technical and sporting rule changes were formally approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Friday. Following the WMSC meeting in Paris, no changes have been made to the 21-round 2019 schedule from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says his team is continuing to tighten its radio communications after incidents this season, and is trying to stay out of strategy discussions himself. Wolff admitted after the Russian Grand Prix that he had distracted chief

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 2 title favourite and Mercedes protege George Russell has secured a Williams Formula 1 drive for the 2019 season. The 20-year-old has signed a “multi-year agreement” with the British team but will also maintain his link to Mercedes, for which Russell

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says his Formula 1 employer Red Bull forbade him from trying out a MotoGP bike on the grounds that it would be “too dangerous”. The 21-year-old Dutchman, who has four grand prix wins to his name and is contracted with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has told the Formula 1 field that if drivers make two separate defensive moves in the same direction in the future they risk being penalised. In the wake of Sebastian Vettel’s double block of Lewis Hamilton as they battled for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault thinks it has become “collateral damage” in a Formula 1 engine arms race between Mercedes and Ferrari. The 2018 season began strongly for Renault and it appeared to have established itself as the leading team behind the top three outfits before

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull believes its future Formula 1 relationship with Honda could become “massive” in Japan, based on the reaction to Toro Rosso at Suzuka last weekend. Toro Rosso’s livery was much in evidence among local fans at F1’s Japanese round, despite the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Who is your Formula 1 driver of the year? Which overtake has set your pulses racing the most during this season of F1 racing? Which team has the best car? Once again, F1 Racing magazine is conducting an online vote to decide

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari’s aim for the final races of the 2018 Formula 1 season is now to prove it is better than recent disastrous grands prix suggested. Ferrari appeared to hold the edge in the championship battle at mid-season, but its

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff believes Valtteri Bottas has suffered a “mental setback” as Mercedes has focussed its efforts on winning the Formula 1 drivers’ world championship with Lewis Hamilton. Bottas struggled to match Hamilton’s pace in the Japanese Grand Prix, one week after a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has unveiled teams’ tyre selections for the upcoming United States Grand Prix at Austin, for which McLaren has made another conservative choice. The team was left on the back foot last time out in Suzuka, having picked

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. While Ferrari’s Formula 1 world championship hopes may have been derailed by strategic and operational failures, on the technical front the team continues to push hard to close down Mercedes. The family of front end parts installed on the car in Russia,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner believes Sebastian Vettel’s move on Max Verstappen at Suzuka was “optimistic”. Vettel attempted to overtake Verstappen for third down the inside of Spoon Curve after an early safety-car restart, but ended up spinning after colliding

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton believes he and Mercedes can take credit for putting pressure on Ferrari in the two Formula 1 teams’ psychological “war” the for the 2018 title. Hamilton has won the last four grands prix to build a 67-point lead over Ferrari’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel wants to speak to Max Verstappen in private, rather than get involved in a public war of words, about his defensive driving in Formula 1. The Ferrari driver felt that his Red Bull rival had been too aggressive in trying

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has no doubts that Max Verstappen ‘clearly’ deserved a penalty for his first lap incident with Kimi Raikkonen in the Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen felt it was a ‘bit stupid’ that he recieved a five-second penalty

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has no doubts that Max Verstappen ‘clearly’ deserved a penalty for his first lap incident with Kimi Raikkonen in the Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen felt it was a ‘bit stupid’ that he recieved a five-second penalty

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says the penalty he was handed in the Japanese Grand Prix shows “how bad Formula 1 is” with its race stewarding. Alonso was given a five-second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage after he was sent onto

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean admits he came “very close” to following Ferrari in going out with intermediate tyres in the final segment of Formula 1 qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix. Ferrari paid the price for the decision to leave the pitlane on intermediates

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso said he did not leave one millimetre anywhere on “one of the best laps in my life” at Suzuka to secure 18th in Formula 1 qualifying in Japan. McLaren’s terrible 2018 season continued with Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne only outqualifying

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says he is “not blaming anybody” at the Ferrari Formula 1 team for the failed tyre gamble in Japanese Grand Prix qualifying. Vettel and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen were the only drivers to be sent out on intermediate tyres at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton wants Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli to move “three steps softer” with its 2019 selection in order to remove “ridiculous” one-stop races. Pirelli expanded its tyre range for this year, moving a step softer with its existing compounds and adding

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda believes it has made a “big improvement” with its upgraded Formula 1 engine after working on the issues that delayed the new specification until this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. The Japanese manufacturer’s updated engine was used in practice last week in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen called Japanese Grand Prix practice on Friday “one of my worst this season” and said he did not enjoy “one lap” in his Red Bull Formula 1 car. Verstappen was fourth-fastest in practice two at Suzuka, splitting the Ferraris, but

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson is talking with IndyCar teams as he eyes a full-time racing campaign in the United States alongside his role as third driver for Sauber in Formula 1. Ericsson will lose his Sauber seat at the end of the season with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull made it “easier” for Renault to steal Daniel Ricciardo away by blocking the French Formula 1 manufacturer’s attempts to permanently sign Carlos Sainz Jr, according to Cyril Abiteboul. Renault’s shock signing of Ricciardo means Sainz’s short spell with the team

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez believes Suzuka should have a DRS zone on the back straight that forces Formula 1 drivers to risk taking the famous 130R corner with the rear wing open. The FIA has been experimenting with additional or longer zones this year

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean says this year’s German Grand Prix was the crucial point he knew he had turned around his form and could save his Formula 1 seat with Haas. The American team announced last week that it will field Grosjean and Kevin

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren sporting director Gil de Ferran is not in favour of any Formula 1 format overhaul that would reduce the “value” of winning a grand prix. F1 bosses have considered the merit of shaking up how race weekends work and even discussed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has gone from fighting a rearguard action against a faster Ferrari to take charge of the 2018 Formula 1 season. These technical changes have been key to that swing Understanding, unlocking and managing tyre performance has always been an artform in