Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull will have a more conservative allocation of Pirelli’s softest-compound tyres than its Formula 1 rivals for the return of the French Grand Prix. Pirelli has made the ultrasoft, supersoft and soft tyres available for the Paul Ricard race, the first

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Motorcycle racer turned television presenter Guy Martin is to race against Jenson Button in the first Williams Formula 1 car Ayrton Senna tested, for a new Channel 4 show. Martin is to restore the Williams FW08C chassis in which Keke Rosberg won

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly believes having the new specification of the Honda power unit allowed him to finish three places higher in the Canadian Grand Prix. Honda brought an upgraded engine to Montreal, with Gasly using it throughout practice

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen’s return to form in the Canadian Grand Prix was characteristic of Lewis Hamilton trait of performing better when angry, reckons 2016 Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg. After a series of crashes in the opening phase of the season, Verstappen

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas says his “critical” fuel situation at the end of Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix led to Max Verstappen almost overtaking him at the finish line. While confusion caused by the chequered flag being waved early meant the race result was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brendon Hartley has been given a clean bill of health after being taken to hospital for tests following his huge crash on lap one of Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix. The Toro Rosso driver clashed with Lance Stroll through the fast Turn

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly will start the Canadian Grand Prix from the back row of the grid after taking a new Honda Formula 1 engine. The Frenchman suffered an issue with his new-specification engine in FP3, and with limited time to analyse

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says that the team’s qualifying strugle in Montreal was due to high downforce levels the team has had to run due to low-speed corners. Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne will start 14th and 15th in Canada, with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s lacklustre pace in qualifying for Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix was ‘bizarre’, according to Stoffel Vandoorne. Vandoorne and team-mate Fernando Alonso had been optimistic of a good showing in Montreal after showing some encouraging speed in Friday’s free practice sessions without

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly says his Canadian Grand Prix qualifying was “made tough” by him having to switch to an older-specification Honda power unit. The Japanese manufacturer introduced an upgraded engine in Montreal, which Gasly and team-mate Brendon Hartley agreed was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley say Honda’s upgraded Formula 1 engine provided a “very positive step” in Canada despite difficulties measuring performance relative to the Monaco Grand Prix. Honda’s latest specification is being scrutinised by Red Bull, which is monitoring

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean says he was surprised the marmot he hit in Canadian Grand Prix Formula 1 practice was not removed when first spotted on television earlier in the session. The Haas driver hit the animal at the end of the long straight

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen topped the first Formula 1 free practice session of the Canadian Grand prix weekend, as Lewis Hamilton prevented a Red Bull one-two. Verstappen moved to the top of the order for the first time with 30 minutes remaining in the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has revealed a new version of its Formula 1 halo mirrors ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, after it was forced to change its original concept. The manufacturer has been evaluating a change of mirror design since the FIA announced several

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One young engineering student was handed a once in a lifetime’s opportunity to kickstart his Formula 1 career during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. In the pitlane in front of the Renault garage, Carlos Sainz Jr revealed that student Chase Pelletier, 22,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jacques Villeneuve will drive his father’s 1978 Ferrari Formula 1 car at the head of the Canadian Grand Prix drivers’ parade to commemorate 40 years since Gilles’ maiden victory. The Ferrari 312 T3, which the 1997 world champion has driven once before

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 drivers and teams will have to be on the starting grid for 10 minutes longer from this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, following a change of procedure. Drivers often only appear on the grid a few minutes before they are forced

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has postponed the introduction of its new Formula 1 engine, after a last minute quality issue emerged on the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix.

 Mercedes had intended for its works team and customer outfits Force India and Williams to run

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lando Norris insists an approach from Toro Rosso to join its Formula 1 line-up will not distract him from his Formula 2 efforts or his role as McLaren’s reserve driver. It emerged on Wednesday that McLaren, which looks after Norris’s career, rejected

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has revealed its Formula 1 engine upgrade for the Canadian Grand Prix is centred around improvements to its internal combustion engine. The Japanese manufacturer has been expected to give partner Toro Rosso an update for the power-sensitive race, which Autosport reported

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams will run its respective Formula 1 reserve and young drivers Robert Kubica and Oliver Rowland at the two-day in-season test at the Hungaroring. Kubica was in contention for a Williams 2018 race seat during the off-season but was eventually given a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez drove a Formula 1 car for the first time at the Red Bull Ring on Tuesday. The Honda factory rider completed 43 laps behind the wheel of a 2012 Red Bull in Toro Rosso colours at a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams face having to split development programmes because rule tweaks, including those to help overtaking, for 2019 will have such a large impact on designs. Following a lack of overtaking at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, F1 chiefs and the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Adrian Newey has revealed Daniel Ricciardo will have to take grid penalties at Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix after the Australian suffered an MGU-K failure in Monaco. Ricciardo won last month’s Monaco Grand Prix despite the problem, but while some

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brendon Hartley says he needs to remind himself why he enjoys racing in Formula 1 sometimes, but believes the experience is similar to being in LMP1 with Porsche. Hartley won the Le Mans 24 Hours and two World Endurance Championship drivers’ titles

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A switch from 13-inch to 18-inch tyres is set be part of Formula 1’s 2021 rules package that is currently being formulated by a team of engineers under Ross Brawn. Pirelli has pushed for the change for several years and has demonstrated

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes Formula 1’s owner Liberty Media will find it increasingly difficult to maintain the level of income the championship has previously received from race sanction fees. Next year’s planned Miami Grand Prix will not be based on the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso and Honda added expectation “that should not have been there” early in its Formula 1 partnership when it finished fourth in Bahrain, Brendon Hartley believes. Pierre Gasly gave Honda its best result since it returned to F1 in 2015 when

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The complexity of Ferrari’s twin-battery arrangement in its Formula 1 engine’s energy recovery system was enough to bewilder even the FIA. Checks over the Ferrari system have been at the heart of intrigue in the F1 paddock over whether it is legal.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc says he will try not to listen too much to the “amazing” praise he has received by multiple Formula 1 world champions. Four-time champions Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton said the hype around the Formula 2 champion was justified in