Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean’s Haas has been disqualified from the Italian Grand Prix after his Formula 1 car was found not to be in compliance with the regulations. Following a protest lodged by Renault against Grosjean’s Haas immediately after F1’s race at Monza, the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas says it would have no qualms about being the only Formula 1 team to block Force India getting full prize money. The ‘new’ Force India entry is trying to get unanimous support for earning extra ‘Column 1’ prize money immediately –

Valtteri Bottas believes he effectively matched Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the end of Italian Grand Prix qualifying and only lost time because he had no tow. Bottas has trailed Hamilton all weekend and on his final run in Q3 he lapped 0.35s slower than the Briton, who will start one place ahead

Toto Wolff has questioned the future of Mercedes’ young driver programme amid difficulties in trying to find places in Formula 1 for his junior drivers. The manufacturer’s three young drivers – Esteban Ocon, George Russell and Pascal Wehrlein – could all be on the F1 sidelines in 2019, and Wolff has expressed some frustration at

Christian Horner says Renault’s new ‘Spec C’ Formula 1 engine has delivered as predicted and will run in both Red Bulls for the rest of the Italian Grand Prix. Daniel Ricciardo took a complete set of new power unit elements on Friday, earning himself a demotion to the back row of the grid. After a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has stepped back from open threats to quit Formula 1, with its new CEO Louis Camilleri confident a deal to extend the team’s commitment beyond 2020 can be reached. Camilleri has taken over at Ferrari from Sergio Marchionne, who died last

Carlos Sainz Jr hopes Formula 1 eventually drops its “dangerous” DRS after it caused Marcus Ericsson to suffer an Italian Grand Prix practice crash his rivals called “crazy” and “scary”. The DRS flap on Ericsson’s Sauber did not reattach under braking for the first chicane at Monza in FP2, which meant he lost control of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari considers the issue of the legality of its 2018 Formula 1 car to be “completely closed” following the checks conducted by the FIA earlier this season. During the Monaco Grand Prix weekend in May, the FIA said it had completed a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean will both use the Haas Formula 1 team’s updated floor at the Italian Grand Prix after initial tests in Belgium proved inconclusive. The revised design ran on both cars during Friday practice at Spa, but Haas struggled

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has received a replacement Formula 1 chassis following his Spa crash, meaning McLaren has been left without spares for some of its latest specification parts at Monza. It is yet to be determined if Alonso’s Renault engine survived the first-lap

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner has stressed that Ferrari does not dictate the team’s driver choice, as it finalises its 2019 line-up. Steiner emphasised that the team was even free to take a driver like Esteban Ocon – who is tied

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel had a small crash during the F1 Live event in Milan, which took place ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Both Vettel and his Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen drove an SF71H car as part of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The halo passed its first test in Formula 1 last weekend when Charles Leclerc was hit by the McLaren of Fernando Alonso at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso was launched over the top of Leclerc’s Sauber after he was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Sport Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says Esteban Ocon’s ties to Mercedes worked against him when the team made its final call on drivers for 2019. Ocon had been expected to be named as Nico Hulkenberg’s team-mate, but that plan was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault believes its upgraded Formula 1 engine should be worth 0.3 seconds around Monza, but it still does not plan to use the new specification at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. As first reported by Autosport, the French manufacturer has reliability fears

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams have approved a plan to introduce rear wing rain lights in 2019 to help the cars stand out more clearly in low visibility conditions, Autosport has learned. At the post-Spanish Grand Prix test earlier this year, Lewis Hamilton trialled

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has already run at Monza this year after using a filming day that gave Charles Leclerc his first on-track experience of its 2018 Formula 1 car. It has emerged in the build-up to this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix that Ferrari completed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA race director Charlie Whiting has elaborated why Nico Hulkenberg did not receive as harsh a penalty as Romain Grosjean was given after a similar incident at Spa six years ago. Grosjean was handed a one-race ban after triggering the crash at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo will have to take Italian Grand Prix grid penalties when he becomes the first driver to use Renault’s new ‘spec C’ Formula 1 engine. Ricciardo is out-of-sequence on engine usage following failures earlier in the season, and Red

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes believes “many deficits” it has with its Formula 1 car are behind Ferrari’s current performance advantage. On the back of Sebastian Vettel’s crucial victory in Belgium, on a track where Mercedes has traditionally been strong, Ferrari’s title hopes have been reinvigorated

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting says he was “amused” by Lewis Hamilton’s suggestion after the Belgian GP that Ferrari has trick things on its cars. The reigning world champion later clarified he didn’t mean to imply the Italian team was doing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc feels “lucky” after seeing the damage to his Sauber Formula 1 car’s halo caused by an airborne Fernando Alonso in the Belgian Grand Prix first-corner crash. Alonso was rear-ended by Nico Hulkenberg under braking for La Source, which sent the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Jr and Stoffel Vandoorne will start from the back of the Belgian Grand Prix grid after taking new Renault Formula 1 engines ahead of the race. Both drivers were knocked out of the first part of qualifying on Saturday so

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esteban Ocon is still linked with a 2018 McLaren move, but Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says several “chess figures” would have to move for it to happen. With the door now closed at Renault for 2019 with Daniel Ricciardo’s upcoming

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India is to lose its place on Formula 1’s influential Strategy Group as part of the new team deal that saved its future, Autosport has learned. The Strategy Group is made up of representatives from the FIA and FOM,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has made its upgraded Spec C engine available to Red Bull and McLaren for the Italian Grand Prix, but the works team will not use it for reliability reasons. Renault Sport Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul acknowledged the upgrade will carry

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen has lost a legal case brought by his former agent, who must now be paid 20 per cent of his earnings until 2021. A judge in Denmark has ruled that Magnussen’s former agent Dorte Riis Madsen

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stoffel Vandoorne says McLaren needs to sort its reliability before it can think about comparing him with Lando Norris, his potential rival for a 2019 Formula 1 seat. With McLaren assessing its options for Carlos Sainz Jr’s team-mate after Fernando Alonso’s exit

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in the opening practice session for the Belgian Grand Prix as Formula 1 returned from its 2018 summer break. Vettel edged Red Bull driver Max Verstappen to the quickest time in FP1 at Spa, with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says he was offered Daniel Ricciardo’s vacant Red Bull Formula 1 seat for 2019, a claim the team has denied. Two-time world champion Alonso will stop racing in F1 at the end of the season, accusing it of being too