Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 and Facebook will combine to release a documentary series based on the inaugural F1 Esports Series Pro Draft that took place earlier this year. The documentary will release in four episodes broadcast on Facebook and “select” TV broadcasters and the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has delayed the first Miami Grand Prix to 2020, with next year’s calendar expected to feature just 20 races, due to Germany dropping out. Paddock sources have been suggesting for weeks that it was becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting says there was no exact precedent for the pit entry offence committed by Lewis Hamilton in the German Grand Prix. Winner Hamilton escaped with a reprimand after changing his mind, abandoning the pit entry and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India admits it is losing out in Formula 1’s midfield development race due to financial pressures. Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon scored with seventh and eighth in last weekend’s German Grand Prix, moving the team ahead of Haas into fifth place

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says he would have asked Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas to hold station in the German Grand Prix irrespective of who was leading. He insists that they will still be allowed to race each other

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he was “100% open” with Formula 1’s stewards when called to explain his controversial pit entry move during the German Grand Prix. Hamilton was summoned for cutting across the grass from the pit entry and back onto the track

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the German Grand Prix has been thrown into doubt with the Mercedes driver summoned to see the stewards over a potential breach of the rules for crossing the pit entry line. The world championship leader cut across the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says he took Hockenheim’s Turn 1 flat out on his final run in Q3 in Saturday, and reckons he became the first Formula 1 driver ever to do so. The Dutchman, who qualified fourth, said he also tried to take

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff says Mercedes lost out to Ferrari by half a second just on the straights in Formula 1 qualifying at Hockenheim, which he described as “a severe warning”. Ferrari has shown impressive pace since its latest power unit upgrade was introduced

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says his McLaren team needs to conduct a “deep investigation” into the “clear” lack of downforce affecting his Formula 1 team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne. Vandoorne, who is yet to outqualify Alonso in 2018, has been well off his team-mate’s pace in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says he was backed up by Formula 1 champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel when his British Grand Prix penalty came up in the drivers’ briefing at Hockenheim. Gasly was fuming after what he felt was a “completely ridiculous” sanction

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne says he endured the “worst Friday of my career” in practice for Formula 1’s German Grand Prix. Following a very difficult British GP two weeks ago, Vandoorne continued to struggle with his car at Hockenheim. He was slowest

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says Williams’s new front wing is a “step in the right direction” as the team bids to add stability to its troublesome 2018 Formula 1 car. In an attempt to help cure the balance issues that have plagued the start

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says Formula 1 drivers are going to have to be extra careful that their DRS shuts before Turn 1 at Hockenheim, given the crashes at Silverstone. Several drivers hit trouble during the British Grand Prix weekend because they did not

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he “didn’t give any air” to an approach from a rival team after he and Mercedes agreed not to look at other options for 2019 and beyond. Mercedes announced on Thursday that Hamilton had agreed a contract extension, committing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll has been strongly linked with a move to Force India next season, with the Canadian admitting his Formula 1 future may not be with Williams. On the back of Williams’s struggles this season, Stroll has been evaluating his options in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull thinks it “odd” that European Formula 3 title contender Dan Ticktum cannot run in one of its young driver test days because of Formula 1’s superlicence points criteria. Macau Grand Prix and McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Ticktum is in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Morris Nunn, who ran his underdog Ensign Formula 1 team for a decade before finding huge success as an engineer in Indycar racing, has died at the age of 79. Known to everyone in the sport as ‘Mo,’ he ran some of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas says it is wary of pushing on with major team expansion while Formula 1’s 2021 rules are uncertain, even though it knows that stance could hurt it later. The team is chasing Renault for fourth place in the constructors’ championship, and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Miami GP could take a step closer to becoming a reality next week when a meeting of the City Commission votes on the proposed 20-year contract for the race. In an earlier vote the City Commission voted to authorise the City

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe believes he faces the biggest challenge of his Formula 1 career in trying to return the team to competitiveness. After a lacklustre start to the campaign, Williams is last in the constructors’ championship and has struggled to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen reckons the decision to hire an ex-Bridgestone tyre engineer over the winter has been “one of the biggest factors” in the improved performance of Haas in Formula 1. The American F1 team has shown greater consistency in 2018, challenging for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Grand prix winner Mark Webber believes Formula 1 has already gone “too far” with fan access and that the series is in danger of “trivialising” drivers. F1 has often been criticised for being too closed off to fans. But, after his debut

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says Toro Rosso has not yet got the most out of Honda’s latest Formula 1 engine upgrade since it was introduced. The Japanese manufacturer introduced an improved V6 in Canada earlier this year, which played a key role in convincing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel clings onto first place in Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings by the smallest of margins over his potential future team-mate Charles Leclerc. The top two performers of the season so far were separated by just 0.02 points after the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams has made improvements to its 2018 Formula 1 car that have been masked by other factors, according to the team’s race driver Sergey Sirotkin. The aggressive new design philosophy behind the Williams FW41 has not worked in practice and Sirotkin is

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The completion of Formula 1’s triple-header last weekend should kill off a “stupid” conspiracy theory that was surviving despite mounting evidence it was nonsense. When Pirelli announced it would make tyres with a 0.4mm thinner tread for the races in Spain, France

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical chiefs have been called to a special meeting with the FIA at the Hungarian Grand Prix to discuss potential changes to mirror rules to improve driver visibility. Drivers have regularly complained about poor rear view under the current regulations.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Codemasters has chosen six classic Formula 1 machines from the 1970s and ’80s to bring its total historic count to 20 cars for this year’s F1 2018 game. Earlier this year, Codemasters revealed Jenson Button’s 2009 title-winning Brawn GP-001 and the 2003

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jacques Villeneuve does not believe his former team Williams will improve during the 2018 Formula 1 season and fears it is “dead”. Williams has scored four points in 2018, all from Lance Stroll’s eighth place finish in Azerbaijan, as it has struggled