Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull believes Max Verstappen’s first-lap Austrian Grand Prix battle with Kimi Raikkonen could have been “a very different” story earlier in the Formula 1 season. Verstappen was squeezed by the Ferrari driver on the run to Turn 4 but retaliated a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Formula 1 season is set to start a week earlier next year, with the Australian Grand Prix announcing a provisional mid-March date for 2019. Having run on the fourth weekend of March for the past two years, Melbourne race organisers have

Lance Stroll has had 10 seconds added to his Austrian Grand Prix race time and received three penalty points for failing to obey blue flags as Sergio Perez lapped him. The time penalty meant that Stroll traded 13th place with his Williams team-mate Sergey Sirotkin, who had been behind him on the road. Stroll made

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has explained how it failed to bring Lewis Hamilton in under the Austrian Grand Prix virtual safety car on its “most painful day”. The team admitted to a wrong strategy call after Valtteri Bottas retired from the race and triggered the VSC, which meant all the frontrunners except leader Hamilton

Formula 1’s midfield teams were shocked by how fast Haas was in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, where Romain Grosjean split the Red Bulls. Grosjean will start Sunday’s race at the Red Bull Ring from sixth having beaten Daniel Ricciardo to a third-row spot and lapped just 0.052s slower than Max Verstappen. Kevin Magnussen

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India Formula 1 drivers Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez believe the delay to an upgrade package planned for the Austrian Grand Prix caused their qualifying struggle. Ocon missed Q3 in 11th place, while Perez was caught in traffic in Q1 and

Charles Leclerc has revealed his Austrian Grand Prix gearbox change penalty was triggered by a suspension failure on his Sauber Formula 1 car. Leclerc had looked set for another strong showing in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, but his Sauber stopped on track on an out-lap at the end of final practice. Sauber discovered

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas claimed his first pole position of the 2018 Formula 1 season in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. Bottas, whose previous pole position came in last year’s season finale in Abu Dhabi, hit the front in the Q3

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Poor track-limit policing and inconsistent kerb designs during the Formula 1 season encourage drivers to take the liberties causing problems in Austrian Grand Prix practice, argues Sergio Perez. The high yellow kerbs in the final section of the Red Bull Ring were

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas both praised the Mercedes Formula 1 car’s latest upgrade package for the W09 after topping the Austrian Grand Prix Friday practice times. Mercedes has brought its biggest set of updates of 2018 so far to the Red

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber team boss Frederic Vasseur says there has been no discussion with Ferrari over Charles Leclerc taking Kimi Raikkonen’s seat during the current Formula 1 season. Ferrari is understood to be leaning towards replacing Raikkonen with Leclerc for 2019. Rumours emerged in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton hopes the major update package Mercedes has introduced for the Austrian Grand Prix will “frighten” main rivals Ferrari and Red Bull. Although Mercedes has officially said little about the updates for this weekend’s race, the changes to the W09 include

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading drivers have warned Formula 1 chiefs against allowing the championship to become like “Mario Kart” after a third DRS zone was added to the Austrian Grand Prix circuit. In a bid to improve overtaking in this weekend’s Red Bull Ring race,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has unleashed the biggest update of the season so far for its Formula 1 car at the Austrian Grand Prix, as it bids to pull clear of Ferrari and Red Bull. Just a week after Mercedes introduced an engine upgrade in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The rise of active suspension and the role it could play in helping modern Formula 1 are explored by a Motorsport Show interview with legendary McLaren designer Neil Oatley. F1 teams tabled some suggestions to reintroduce active ride to grand prix racing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Legendary former McLaren Formula 1 designer John Barnard doubts the team could survive the major changes he thinks are required for it to return to the front. Barnard’s spell at McLaren from 1980 led to major success, as he turned around the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc has closed right onto Sebastian Vettel’s tail in the battle to lead Autosport readers’ 2018 Formula 1 driver ratings table after the French Grand Prix. Alhough Vettel fought back from 17th to finish fifth following his first-lap clash with Valtteri

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India believes it can no longer “realistically” hope to catch Renault in the Formula 1 constructors’ standings, after suffering its first double retirement in almost two years in France. Renault scored points with both of its cars for the third successive

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ross Brawn says Formula 1’s 2019 aerodynamic regulations have finally been fully agreed by teams, and are set to be signed-off at the next Strategy Group meeting on July 4. Although the concept of simplified wings [pictured] and brake ducts to aid

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The French Grand Prix organiser wants a significant crowd increase for 2019 because it believes every Formula 1 fan caught in traffic chaos over the weekend still attended the race. Paul Ricard hosted France’s first F1 race in 10 years on Sunday,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is set to release the definitive 2021 Formula 1 engine regulations to manufacturers this week. While the basic concepts were announced jointly by the FIA and F1 last October, refining the detail in conjunction with the four current suppliers and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff has admitted Sergio Perez’s engine problem in the French Grand Prix left him worried about the fate of his drivers and other customers. Lewis Hamilton earned a comfortable victory for Mercedes at Paul Ricard, where

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will finally introduce its long-awaited new Formula 1 MGU-K, originally planned for 2017, at the Austrian Grand Prix, but customers McLaren and Red Bull might not use it. The new part was postponed from the start of last season due to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly have both been reprimanded for their accident on the opening lap of Formula 1’s French Grand Prix. Toro Rosso driver Gasly looked to challenge down the inside of Ocon at the Turn 3 right-hander but lost the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso felt his McLaren Formula 1 team got “overexcited” on the radio during a French Grand Prix in which he was on course to finish last. Alonso ultimately pitted from the back of the field on the final lap with a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault marked the lifting of Saudi Arabia’s women driving ban by inviting Aseel Al-Hamad to drive a Lotus Formula 1 car at Paul Ricard ahead of the French Grand Prix. As part of a pre-race ‘passion parade’ that featured several cars from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 drivers and teams have expressed concerns about the Paul Ricard pitlane ahead of a potentially wet French Grand Prix. The pit exit and entry were discussed at length in Friday evening’s drivers’ briefing, although there was no scope to make

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has “no explanation” for the spin that sent him into the barriers during French Grand Prix qualifying. Grosjean lost control of his car during Q3 at the Turn 3/4 complex, spinning and ending up hitting the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India Formula 1 team has been fined after Sergio Perez lost a wheel during practice for the French Grand Prix. A €15,000 fine, and additional €85,000 penalty that is suspended for 12 months, was dished out by FIA stewards following

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India will be investigated by the FIA stewards for potentially releasing a car in an unsafe condition after Sergio Perez lost a wheel in Formula 1 practice at Paul Ricard. Although no official summons has been issued as yet, the FIA