Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 drivers asked the FIA to remove the chicane on Paul Ricard’s backstraight in order to improve racing at the French Grand Prix. Several drivers used Friday’s drivers’ briefing to suggest the current layout would not make for great racing on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson will miss the second free practice session for the French Grand Prix thanks to damage to his Sauber Formula 1 car from his morning crash. The 27-year-old spun late in the first free practice session and hit the barrier at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull title sponsor Aston Martin says the Formula 1 team’s switch to Honda engines for the 2019 season has caused no concerns about brand confusion. Red Bull’s current Renault engines have been branded TAG Heuer since 2016 to avoid the team

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas have hinted at a further delay for Mercedes’ new Formula 1 engine specification, with no confirmation of its French Grand Prix use yet. Mercedes had planned to introduce the new spec across all six of its cars

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean will take part in French Grand Prix practice with the Ferrari Formula 1 engine that caused his smoky exit from qualifying in Canada. Grosjean had new Ferrari engine components fitted for the race in Montreal, which activated the final free

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has dismissed criticism from Martin Whitmarsh as “ill-judged and ill-informed” after the Formula 1 team’s former boss suggested it needed to axe senior personnel to revive its fortunes. Last weekend Whitmarsh, who worked for McLaren from 1989 to 2014 and rose

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s last visit to Paul Ricard produced an all-time classic giantkilling performance, as Ivan Capelli came within three laps of a shock victory for the tiny Leyton House team. In the end, the race got away from him thanks to fuel

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gunther Steiner says Haas’s Formula 1 rivals cannot believe how unlucky the team has been so far in 2018. Despite its Ferrari-powered car showing promise, Haas is only eighth in the constructors’ championship after an incident-packed start to the campaign. It has

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s decision to switch to Honda engines in Formula 1 next season is just reward for the Japanese manufacturer’s perseverance on a sometimes tortured path. Honda returned to grand prix racing in 2015 with McLaren, a disappointing reunion that promised so

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says that the decision to switch from Renault to Honda power for the 2019 Formula 1 season was a “pretty clear cut” technical choice. Its sister team Toro Rosso moved to Honda engines this year, allowing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The dissolution of the Red Bull-Renault Formula 1 partnership risks leaving an ultra-successful grand prix racing combination with a corrupted legacy. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner could be referring to any number of achievements when, in his team’s announcement of its

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has decided to switch to Honda Formula 1 engines next year, high level sources have revealed, with confirmation of the move likely ahead of this weekend’s French Grand Prix. Although the Milton Keynes-based team had been expected to wait until

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe is adamant his Formula 1 team has not given up on improving its 2018 car despite already commencing early work on the ’19 package. The team’s terrible season continued with a difficult Canadian Grand Prix in which

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s 2019 aerodynamic regulation change comes at a “perfect moment” for Sauber, says team principal Frederic Vasseur. Sauber is currently rebuilding its engineering team under new technical director Simone Resta. Long-time Ferrari man Resta left his role as head of vehicle

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc has admitted that the step he had to make from winning Formula 2 to racing in Formula 1 was bigger than he expected. The Sauber rookie had a tricky first three races of the 2018 season but turned that around

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Renault Formula 1 team is nearly ahead of its target having trebled its points haul from the first seven races of 2017 and almost matched that season’s total already. Renault now has 56 points after Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz Jr

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s choice between sticking with current Formula 1 engine supplier Renault and becoming Honda’s works team will have a huge impact on the coming seasons. The multiple championship-winning squad will make its decision imminently, with an announcement expected by next month’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has worked out how the software governing Formula 1’s virtual safety car can be manipulated and will fix it to stop drivers cheating the system. When a VSC period is activated, an ECU map gives drivers a delta laptime that

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams’ designers will “forget about overtaking” when they get to work on the changes being enforced for 2019, Haas team boss Gunther Steiner has warned. Last-minute changes were pushed through at the end of April to alter the design of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The future of the Belgian Grand Prix has been secured by the local government, which has signed a new three-year extension with Formula 1’s owners Liberty Media. Belgian business newspaper L’Echo reports that the deal was signed this week, between Spa-Francorchamps’ local

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has taken the lead in Autosport’s readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings following his victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver moves ahead of Fernando Alonso in our season-long average scores, after registering the highest rating among Autosport Plus

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new exhibition featuring 12 Formula 1 cars raced by Michael Schumacher has been unveiled in Germany. The career of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion, who continues to recuperate from a head injury sustained in a skiing accident in December 2013,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says he pushed “everyone” at Toro Rosso and Honda to avoid having to take a new Formula 1 engine and subsequent grid penalty for his home grand prix. Gasly suffered a problem with his upgraded Honda engine in Canadian GP

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli has announced that the hypersoft tyre will now be in play at the Russian GP, having already confirmed that it will return for Singapore. The hypersoft will be joined in Sochi by the ultrasoft and soft, with the supersoft missing from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean has described Haas’s Canadian Grand Prix update package as the best one the team has produced during its time in Formula 1. The American squad brought a significant set of upgrades to Montreal, although an engine problem for Grosjean at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has revealed that the state of Formula 1 will be a bigger factor in determining his future than the form of his McLaren team. The two-time F1 world champion retired from a second successive race in Canada last weekend as

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes says it ran its Formula 1 engines as hard in the Canadian Grand Prix as it did at the start of their seven-race cycle at the Australian Grand Prix. Mercedes was the only manufacturer to have run the same engines in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel’s third win of the Formula 1 season came on a track that many, including Mercedes, expected to better suit Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Hamilton’s run of three straight wins in Montreal came to an end though, despite Vettel starting

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn has apologised for the “grief” model Winnie Harlow received after waving the chequered flag early in the Canadian Grand Prix. Last Sunday Harlow became the latest VIP to be invited to wave the flag at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says Brendon Hartley’s huge first-lap crash in the Canadian Grand Prix will have no impact on the Toro Rosso driver’s Formula 1 future. Hartley was sent airborne and into the barriers after trying to pass Lance