Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica believes his return to Formula 1 testing last year was misunderstood by people who considered him “something mega” and did not realise he was effectively a rookie again. Renault handed Kubica a test in a 2012 Lotus last year, which

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 engineering director Aldo Costa will step back and move into a consultancy role for 2019 as part of a shake-up of the team’s technical structure. Costa originally joined Mercedes in 2011 after a lengthy spell at Ferrari, which had

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A collection of ‘Starcards’ signed by 2018 Formula 1 drivers is being auctioned in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. The Starcards initiative has been fundraising for Great Ormond Street for 16 years, with Sutton Images supporting it since 2004. The

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. United States Grand Prix promoter Bobby Epstein believes Formula 1’s proposed Miami street race risks diluting the American fanbase. With Miami poised to join the 2019 F1 calendar, Epstein is cautious about the impact of fans having to choose whether to go

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting believes there is nothing wrong with incorporating a corner into DRS zones and drivers just need to manage the system better. The FIA has been experimenting with DRS this year to make it a more

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica has confirmed he signed a contract to race for Ferrari in Formula 1 before suffering the rallying crash that left him with severe injuries and interrupted his career. Kubica was competing on the Ronde di Andora rally prior to the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mercedes Formula 1 team says it is doing “a lot of work” at its Brackley factory this week in a bid to help it match the race starts Ferrari is capable of. While the German manufacturer has taken pole position at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest Autosport podcast delves into the Mercedes Formula 1 squad’s British Grand Prix strategy and asks if it was wrong not to pit Valtteri Bottas under the safety car. With Bottas slipping from first to fourth in the closing laps on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso is still investigating the front suspension failure that triggered Brendon Hartley’s huge Formula 1 accident at Silverstone and caused the New Zealander to miss qualifying. Hartley’s suspension failed at the end of the Wellington straight on his first run in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Renault Formula 1 team says the “shock” of its Austria tyre problems led to the unusual strategy that propelled Nico Hulkenberg to sixth place in the British Grand Prix. Hulkenberg and team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr were the only drivers to start

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Rosberg says it is obvious there was nothing deliberate about Kimi Raikkonen’s clash with Lewis Hamilton at the start of the British Grand Prix. While comments from Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes made in the heat of the moment after the Silverstone

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he has accepted an apology from Kimi Raikkonen for their first-lap clash in last weekend’s British Grand Prix and wants to “move on” from the incident. Hamilton was spun around by the Ferrari driver at Turn 3 at Silverstone,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says the Red Bull Formula 1 team’s straightline speed deficit was “tragic” and “like driving in a different series” in the British Grand Prix. Verstappen retired from the race late on with a brake-by-wire failure but had been embroiled in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly has lost the point he scored in the British Grand Prix after receiving a post-race penalty for a collision with Sergio Perez. Gasly beat Perez to 10th, securing his third points finish of the season, but only after late-race contact

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel passed Valtteri Bottas late on to win a thrilling British Grand Prix in which Lewis Hamilton charged back to second after being spun around on the opening lap. Mercedes used a safety car to get Bottas ahead of early race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The high-speed spins suffered by both Williams Formula 1 drivers in British Grand Prix qualifying were caused by a fresh aerodynamic stall the team does not fully understand. Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin both lost control of their cars in qualifying at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says it feels like Red Bull is missing 70-80 horsepower in Formula 1 at the moment, which is costing it one second per lap at Silverstone this weekend. Red Bull’s two cars qualified a distant fifth and sixth for the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo said a DRS problem added to his British Grand Prix qualifying frustrations, after he was unable to open his rear wing on his first lap in Q3. Silverstone’s high-speed nature, particularly with the latest generation of F1 cars, has played

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA will address the issue of track limits abuses by Formula 1 drivers at Silverstone’s Club Corner by adding an extra kerb on the outside of the corner overnight. On Friday, a number of F1 drivers were ran wide onto the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says allowing drivers to use DRS through Turn 1 at Silverstone is a “pointless exercise” and creates “an unnecessary kind of danger”. F1 has added an extra DRS zone to several circuits’ layouts in order to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel topped the second Formula 1 free practice session ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, while Max Verstappen crashed his Red Bull early on. Vettel’s team-mate Kimi Raikkonen topped the early stages of the session with a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel fears the use of DRS through the fast opening corners at Silverstone could split the Formula 1 grid more at the British Grand Prix. The FIA has added a third DRS zone that is active from the start-finish straight through

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has played down his involvement in the management changes at the McLaren Formula 1 team, insisting he was not consulted on what it would do after Eric Boullier’s resignation. The new role for his 2017 Indianapolis 500 advisor Gil de

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has admitted the team’s 2018 Formula 1 car has less downforce than last year’s machine. The team announced a reshuffle of its management on Wednesday, which included the resignation of racing director Eric Boullier – triggered by

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe believes his team’s “humility and sportsmanship” is why critics are not willing to “tear us apart” for underperforming like they have McLaren. The two British teams are among F1’s most famous and have won 296 grands prix

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari will bring a new floor to the British Grand Prix in response to the major update package that Formula 1 rival Mercedes introduced in Austria. The new floor design is intended to improve the performance of the SF71H in high-speed corners,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Christian Horner thinks it is “unfair” that Mercedes strategist James Vowles felt he must confess to an error in the Austrian Grand Prix to keep Lewis Hamilton calm. Vowles made a rare appearance on Mercedes’s team radio during last weekend’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The disastrous turn of events that led to Mercedes converting a front-row lockout into zero points in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix is the focus of the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. The big question is how Mercedes came to leave

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says Max Verstappen showed “champion’s quality” during his drive to victory in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix. Marko praised the way Verstappen controlled the Red Bull Ring race from the front and saved his tyres, while

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas has admitted the misfortune dogging his 2018 Formula 1 season “feels like a bit of a bad joke” after the Austrian Grand Prix poleman retired from Sunday’s race. Bottas beat team-mate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying but dropped to fourth after