Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault driver Carlos Sainz Jr feels like he has not “really started testing” halfway into Formula 1’s 2018 pre-season running at Barcelona. Sainz logged 151 laps during the first week of testing, which was disrupted by rain and snow. Though already

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Whenever Formula 1 introduces new regulations, the first year throws up some fascinating divergence before design trends emerge – as is happening for 2018. Teams have had a full season to see what the rest of the pitlane was doing then

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has commissioned leading Hollywood composer Brian Tyler to write new official theme music for the championship. Tyler, who attended last year’s United States Grand Prix at Austin, revealed the nature of his latest job on social media. “What an

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 10 Formula 1 teams collectively received $47million less than the previous year during the first season of Liberty ownership. Though the downward trend in F1 income had been known for some time, publication of the F1 Group’s fourth quarter results

Pirelli has finalised its Formula 1 tyre testing programme for the coming season, with all 10 teams contributing to the development of its 2019 slicks. The schedule includes sessions that take place on the Tuesday and Wednesday immediately after the Chinese, Spanish, British, Japanese and Mexican Grands Prix. The post-Brazilian Grand Prix test has been

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Barcelona this week hosted the first of only two four-day Formula 1 pre-season tests before the opening round in Melbourne on March 25 – but it was far from productive. The weather ensured even less testing time than usual for the

Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says the 2018 Mercedes Formula 1 car “definitely” feels faster than its predecessor after topping the final day of the first pre-season test. The reigning F1 champion recorded a best time of 1m19.333s – the quickest of the week –

Max Verstappen says he can already feel a “big difference” with Red Bull’s 2018 Formula 1 car, even though he has yet to unleash its full potential. Having started pre-season testing last year on the back foot, Red Bull has been more encouraged by its start this time around after Daniel Ricciardo topped the opening

Renault driver Nico Hulkenberg set the pace on a rain-affected final morning of the first week of Formula 1 pre-season testing at Barcelona. After Wednesday’s running was written off by snow and persistent rain, conditions on Thursday morning were initially little better. But the higher temperatures at least meant some teams attempted meaningful runs on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gary Anderson explains why Formula 1 teams made a mistake by not running more at Barcelona on Wednesday in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. With just 17 laps completed during a snow and rain-hit third day of the first

Ferrari says there was “no point” in trying to do any running on the snow and rain-affected third day of Formula 1 testing at Barcelona. Only five teams ventured out onto the track at all on Thursday, in a session that was delayed by three hours due to snow. Even once the snow cleared the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas says he will not ‘waste energy’ on playing mind games with Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton in 2018. Nico Rosberg has admitted that he adopted a strategy of trying to get under Hamilton’s skin when they were Mercedes

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast cuts through the cold of Barcelona to decipher the stories behind the times at the Barcelona Formula 1 test. Technical expert Gary Anderson joins Lawrence Barretto and Edd Straw to explain why the conditions

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he chose to “sacrifice” driving on day two of Formula 1 pre-season testing as avoiding a driver change saved Mercedes about an hour of running time. Bitterly cold weather at Barcelona has reduced the amount of running F1

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says he will give Red Bull a May deadline for a decision over its 2019 engine supply, respecting the FIA regulation on the subject. Red Bull’s current contract with Renault only covers the 2018 season,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gary Anderson reviews the opening day of the first Barcelona Formula 1 test of 2018 in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. Recorded after a long day at the circuit, during which Anderson was able to watch trackside and speak

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams have held talks about extending the first pre-season test by an extra day as bad weather is predicted at Barcelona for the middle of the week. Cool temperatures and rain on Monday afternoon meant limited running in the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India technical director Andrew Green says Formula 1’s halo created “huge” extra costs for his team, because it meant last year’s chassis could not be carried over to 2018. Force India usually tries to minimise expense through a set of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Technical expert Gary Anderson evaluates the latest 2018 Formula 1 cars to be released by Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. With Ferrari and Mercedes continuing to diverge on car concept, the question of which

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will not unleash the full potential of its Formula 1 engine for the 2018 season’s early grands prix because it wants to take a zero risk approach to reliability. With Renault well aware that the three-engine limit means any early

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says Robert Kubica understands Formula 1 is “every man for himself” and they will have a good relationship at Williams in 2018. Kubica appeared to be on the brink of a Williams race seat – almost seven years after

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren driver Fernando Alonso says “there should not be any debate” about the halo cockpit protection device introduced for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The halo, which was pushed through by the FIA on safety grounds, has been widely criticised, with

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault says it has yet to show what its 2018 Formula 1 car really looks like, explaining that images released this week were primarily aimed at showing off its new livery. The French manufacturer prompted intrigue after renderings of its new

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has told McLaren Formula 1 fans that “good times are coming” after he drove the MCL33 for the first time at the Navarra circuit in Spain. McLaren’s 2018 challenger was revealed online early on Friday before it took to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean says the Haas Formula 1 team aims to be “within a second” of the pacesetting car in next week’s opening pre-season test at Barcelona. The American outfit, which is preparing for its third season in grand prix racing, was

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has moved to remove doubts about Formula 1 customer teams having engine performance parity with their works counterparts. A new instruction has been issued insisting that all engines from a manufacturer are capable of being operated in the same

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s Renault-powered 2018 Formula 1 car has run on track for the first time ahead of pre-season testing. The McLaren MCL33 was revealed online early on Friday morning and the team is using one of its filming days to shake the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes revealed its new W09 Formula 1 car on Thursday as it bids to secure a fifth-consecutive sweep of the drivers’ and constructors’ titles in 2018. In this video, James Allen is joined at Silverstone by Autosport Grand Prix Editor Ben

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Renault Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer will be part of the BBC’s Formula 1 radio coverage this season. Palmer will join Jennie Gow and Jack Nicholls in the BBC 5 Live F1 commentary team for the 2018 campaign, and feature on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ 2018 W09 Formula 1 car features design changes to resolve its predecessor’s ‘diva’ behaviour and to make it work for both him and team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The F1 world champion said both drivers had significant input in