Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says he would have apologised had he been in Romain Grosjean’s position after the Spanish Grand Prix first-lap pile-up. Grosjean lost control of his Haas at Turn 3 on the opening lap at Barcelona and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin says a decision on whether to proceed with a Formula 1 engine for the 2021 regulations will be made within the next nine months. Company CEO Andy Palmer has made no secret of his enthusiasm for the 2021 F1 rules,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA president Jean Todt admits the current Formula 1 engine regulations went “a bit too far” in complexity, but says the 2021 rules will be a healthy “backwards” step. The FIA and F1 have worked together to formulate a revised version of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr expects qualifying in Monaco to be “absolute madness” thanks to the extra pace provided by Pirelli’s new hypersoft tyres. All teams have weighted their Monaco compound choices heavily towards the hypersoft, with Red Bull, Williams

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hockenheim is keen to continue hosting the German Grand Prix after its current contract runs out this year, but only with a new ‘risk-free’ Formula 1 deal. The track has suggested a form of revenue sharing, either with no sanctioning fee or

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams’s tough start to the 2018 Formula 1 season has led to repeated calls for Robert Kubica to be promoted to a race seat with the team, but would that change anything? The FW41 is the slowest car on average across the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will get his first taste of Formula 1 machinery when he takes part in a Red Bull-organised private test in Austria next month, Autosport has learned. Marquez’s Honda MotoGP team-mate Dani Pedrosa and nine-time motocross world champion Tony

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff admits he is “bloody worried” about his squad’s prospects in this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix after last season’s struggle. In 2017 Valtteri Bottas finished fourth in Monaco and Lewis Hamilton seventh, the eventual champion having

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas believes he has eliminated the disappointing weekends that spoiled his first season with the Mercedes Formula 1 team in 2017. The Finn has been far more consistent this year, although he is yet to win a race, logging second places

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest Motorsport Show asks whether Formula 1 should use drivers more when discussing rule changes and planning circuit layouts. Lewis Hamilton recently suggested drivers should be consulted over track designs in the wake of the first layout emerging for the proposed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes’ engine chief Andy Cowell believes there is no performance limit for it to reach despite its advantage in this set of regulations being eroded. F1’s V6 turbo-hybrid era is now in its fifth season, with Mercedes winning all eight drivers’ and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault chief technical officer Bob Bell believes overtaking-oriented Formula 1 aero rules set to be introduced in 2019 do not “do justice” to the research undertaken by teams. A number of regulation changes for 2019 were approved by the F1 commission at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has moved to the top of Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings following the Spanish Grand Prix. The two-time F1 world champion climbed two places thanks to his 8.6/10 score from our readers for his performance on home soil last

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll’s father Lawrence Stroll insists that the family still has faith in the Williams Formula 1 team despite the “rude awakening” of its poor start to 2018. Williams is last in the constructors’ championship and Stroll junior’s eighth place in the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says the lack of extra Renault engine modes for Formula 1 qualifying is putting Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen under “too much pressure” The team has not qualified higher than fourth so far in the 2018

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India has admitted it has missed its performance targets with its 2018 Formula 1 car, but continued to make progress during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend and post-race test. The team mounted numerous airflow sensors to the sidepod during free practice

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has called upon Formula 1’s tyre supplier to bring its softest compound to every grand prix. Pirelli’s new hypersoft tyre will make its debut at the next round, in Monaco, but Ricciardo believes that if it were

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas wants to avoid another one-year deal with Mercedes and firm up his Formula 1 future for “at least” the next two seasons. The Finnish driver won three races in 2017 after Mercedes signed him from Williams on a one-year deal

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Barcelona circuit has responded to criticism from the Spanish motorsport federation over the playing of the Catalan anthem during Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix last weekend. Both the Spanish and the Catalan anthems were played ahead of the start of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The “pressure” and “responsibility” of supplying Red Bull with a Formula 1 engine are key to Honda’s discussions with the team for next season. Honda motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto met with Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko in Spain last weekend as

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The speculation around Pirelli’s tyre changes for the Spanish Grand Prix is the subject of our latest Formula 1 video debate. Mercedes’ return to form at Barcelona – where Lewis Hamilton took a dominant victory from pole position – led to suggestions

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas ended the second day of the post-Spanish Grand Prix Formula 1 test at Barcelona fastest overall, with his lap of 1m16.904s set shortly before lunch. The Mercedes driver used supersoft Pirellis for his best time after he and Ferrari’s Antonio

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel believes Pirelli made “the correct call” in bringing thinner-tread tyres to last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, admitting Ferrari would have been “worse off” with the standard specification. After teams struggled with overheating on the resurfaced Barcelona track in the pre-season,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen ended the first day of the Barcelona Formula 1 test on top, pipping Renault’s Carlos Sainz Jr by 0.034 seconds. Verstappen used supersoft Pirellis to post his best time of 1m17.528s early in the final hour of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s halo-mounted mirrors courted fresh controversy at the Spanish Grand Prix last weekend, but this was just one of several new technical solutions introduced by the Formula 1 team. The legality of Ferrari’s wing mirrors was first put under the microscope in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The severity of Romain Grosjean’s penalty for causing a crash at the start of Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix is the subject of our latest video debate. The Haas driver picked up a three-place grid penalty for spinning across the track after

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda believes a “very frustrating” Spanish Grand Prix masked the progress it made with Toro Rosso after two troubled Formula 1 race weekends. Toro Rosso’s form dipped significantly in China and Azerbaijan after Pierre Gasly scored the best result of Honda’s return

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has explained why Ferrari’s “liberal” and “tenuous” interpretation of the Formula 1 rules around mounting mirrors on the halo has been banned after just one race. Ferrari became the first team to roll out mirrors attached to the cockpit protection

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has criticised Formula 1’s virtual safety car system, claiming it is open to abuse from drivers. Vettel finished fourth in the Spanish Grand Prix, having lost places to Valterri Bottas and Max Verstappen after making a pitstop under the VSC.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says he “fully understands” Ferrari’s unsuccessful decision to switch Sebastian Vettel to a two-stop strategy in the Spanish Grand Prix. Vettel had managed to pass Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas for second at the start, and