Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India left Singapore without points, but its pace over the weekend was boosted by a major upgrade it hopes can help its charge up Formula 1’s constructors’ championship table. The financial woes that Force India faced going into the 2018 season

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault technical chief Marcin Budkowski believes the controversy over him joining the Formula 1 outfit from the FIA last year was blown out of proportion by rival teams. Budkowski’s signing last October caused uproar among Renault’s rivals, which were concerned that the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson believes he can use his team-mate Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari Formula 1 move for 2019 to land a new Sauber deal. While F1 rookie Leclerc has earned a swift graduation to Ferrari, Sauber veteran Ericsson is fighting to remain on the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari might not have won the Singapore Grand Prix, but it arrived with another significant Formula 1 update to make sure its car was suited to the low-speed street circuit. At the rear of the car, Ferrari introduced a new rear wing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso was never considered by Red Bull for 2019 says Max Verstappen, who insists the Formula 1 team was only focused on finding a driver he would work with. Although Alonso and Red Bull had a war of words over the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has climbed four places in Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings following the Singapore Grand Prix to get into the top three. The McLaren driver claimed his second ‘Class B’ victory of the season with seventh place in Singapore, earning

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The benefits of Kimi Raikkonen’s return to Sauber for the 2019 Formula 1 season are already becoming apparent, says boss Fred Vasseur. Having lost his Ferrari seat to Charles Leclerc, Raikkonen will next year rejoin the Sauber team that gave him his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas has admitted his disappointing 2018 Formula 1 season is now starting to take its toll on his confidence. Bottas took three grand prix wins, 10 other podium finishes and four poles in his first campaign with Mercedes last year. He

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton has called on his Mercedes team to bring forward developments planned for the 2019 Formula 1 season because he wants to “feel it on a race weekend”. Mercedes was expected to struggle compared to Ferrari in last weekend’s Singapore Grand

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s 2019 signing Charles Leclerc will drive the team’s current Formula 1 car in a Pirelli test at Paul Ricard this week. Ferrari and Mercedes are both testing for Pirelli at the French Grand Prix venue on Thursday and Friday as the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says Max Verstappen’s second place in the Singapore Grand Prix was vindication for its “not perfect” Spec C engine. Red Bull driver Verstappen used the French manufacturer’s latest spec at Marina Bay, despite Renault having warned

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has opted for a more aggressive tyre selection than Formula 1 championship rival Lewis Hamilton for the upcoming Russian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver, who trails Hamilton by 40 points in the standings after the Singapore GP, has decided to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes lapped Formula 1 drivers should have “more of a global perspective” when the leaders are coming up behind them. His comments come Lewis Hamilton was badly held up on the way to his Singapore Grand Prix victory.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA plans to inspect the Ferrari Formula 1 team’s latest camera device to check that it has not been designed in a way that would block onboard television views. Ferrari has caused ongoing intrigue among fans and rival teams for having

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting finds it hard to believe that Sergio Perez deliberately drove in to Sergey Sirotkin during their intense battle in the Singapore Grand Prix. Perez and Sirotkin came to blows at the Marina Bay circuit after the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff believes Lewis Hamilton’s Singapore Grand Prix win was one of the “greatest” of the current Mercedes team’s 74 victories in Formula 1. As well as coming at a venue where Mercedes has struggled relatively in recent years, only winning last

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has no need to change its blue flag rules, says race director Charlie Whiting, despite complaints from drivers about difficulties passing backmarkers in the Singapore Grand Prix. Dealing with lapped traffic proved to be one of the biggest challengers for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting believes Romain Grosjean committed “one of the worst cases” of ignoring blue flags he has seen in a long time at the Singapore Grand Prix. Grosjean received a five-second penalty and two licence penalty points for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India Formula 1 team-mates Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon will again be banned from racing each other following their Singapore Grand Prix contact. They had previously been ordered not to battle in 2017 following a string of incidents. In Singapore the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton swept to a virtually unchallenged win in the 2018 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix as another Ferrari tactical blunder cost Sebastian Vettel the chance of victory. Vettel had to settle for third place behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Hamilton and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says driving his Williams in qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix felt like a battle for ‘survival’ in its worst qualifying performance of 2018. Sirotkin and team-mate Lance Stroll qualified on the back row but ended up 1.399 seconds adrift

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says he cannot explain why he was a second slower than Haas Formula 1 team-mate Romain Grosjean during qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix. Magnussen was eliminated during Q1, in which Grosjean set the fourth quickest time, and was a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix with what Mercedes described as an “epic” lap. The F1 world championship leader – whose Mercedes team had been expected to trail Ferrari in Singapore – set a best time of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says his near-miss with Formula 1 title rival Sebastian Vettel in second practice for the Singapore Grand Prix was the result of a “rookie error” on his part. Hamilton tried to clear Vettel on approach to the Turn 14 right-hander

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari made some changes that didn’t work for the second Formula 1 free practice session in Singapore, during which he hit the wall and curtailed his running. Vettel ended the session ninth fastest after brushing the wall on the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has denied it broke an informal agreement among Formula 1 teams by protesting Romain Grosjean’s Haas after the Italian Grand Prix. Grosjean was excluded from sixth after Renault lodged a protest against his car’s floor. Haas has appealed, and its case

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has admitted that he is his own “biggest enemy” in stopping Ferrari winning the 2018 Formula 1 world championship, amid a number of a driving errors. The German has a 30-point deficit to Lewis Hamilton in the standings, having seen

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber is understood to be waiting for Ferrari to decide whether Antonio Giovinazzi becomes Kimi Raikkonen’s 2019 Formula 1 team-mate at Marcus Ericsson’s expense. The deal between Sauber and Ferrari and its sister company Alfa Romeo gives Ferrari the right to nominate

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen remains convinced he was treated unfairly with his Italian Grand Prix penalty, after claiming other Formula 1 drivers got away with much worse behaviour at Monza. The Red Bull driver was handed a five-second penalty after colliding with Valtteri Bottas

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs’ recent suggestion that points should be extended beyond the top 10 has been backed by Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe. The prospect of points going down to 15th or even being awarded to the full 20-car field was