Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso has revealed the first image of the Honda-powered car with which it will compete in the 2018 Formula 1 season. The STR13, which was set to be revealed to the public next Monday on the first morning of pre-season

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica says he was “almost convinced” he would be on the Formula 1 grid at next month’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The Pole had pushed for a race seat at Williams alongside Lance Stroll but lost out to rookie Sergey

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India will join Toro Rosso in unveiling its 2018 Formula 1 car in the Barcelona pitlane next Monday morning immediately prior to the start of testing, Autosport has learned. The team will use all four of its drivers at the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault believes that only a “fresh approach” will produce the reliability steps it needs to move forward in the 2018 Formula 1 season. Although Renault was encouraged by its improved speed last year, when it often proved to be fourth-quickest, it

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has appointed Jack Aitken to the role of third and reserve driver for the 2018 Formula 1 campaign. Aitken, a member of the Renault Sport Academy, completed his second year in GP3 last season. He finished second overall, behind ART

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull says its plans for Formula 1 pre-season testing remain on course, despite Daniel Ricciardo slightly damaging its new RB14 in a filming day crash at Silverstone on Monday. Ricciardo was giving the team’s striking-looking 2018 design its first run

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The McLaren Formula 1 team has given its strongest indication yet that it will return to a more traditional orange livery in 2018 with a teaser video released on Monday. A fictional night security guard enters the team’s Woking factory to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams has named the McLaren Formula 1 team’s former head of aerodynamics Doug McKiernan as its chief engineer, a role the team describes as a “new project-focused position”. McKiernan will report to chief technical officer Paddy Lowe, with whom he previously

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo has given Red Bull’s new 2018 Formula 1 car its first shakedown run, during a filming day at Silverstone on Monday. Despite bad weather at the British track, Ricciardo was able to help his team become the first to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas says Formula 1 teams have contacted his outfit with interest in purchasing Haas Automation equipment. Haas currently supplies rival NASCAR teams alongside his Stewart-Haas operation with his company’s equipment and hoped to use his F1 entry as a vehicle

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo believes he needs to get better at driving through problems in the 2018 Formula 1 season rather than trying to perfect his set-ups. Though Ricciardo outscored team-mate Max Verstappen last year, the Dutchman had the stronger qualifying

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas says the halo on the new Mercedes Formula 1 car did not hinder him during a full race distance in the simulator. The Mercedes driver told the latest episode of Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap that he did not notice

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes is taking McLaren and Renault “seriously” as potential Formula 1 title rivals as well as Ferrari and Red Bull, says team boss Toto Wolff. Ferrari was Mercedes’ main rival on its way to a fourth straight F1 championship double last

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Whether the new Williams Formula 1 car can arrest the decline the famous team has gone through since its 2014 high is the subject of the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. With a bold new concept and more aggressive aerodynamics,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nicholas Latifi will drive in Canadian Grand Prix first practice and at the first Formula 1 pre-season test as part of his Force India reserve and test driver role. The Montreal Friday running, which will be the first time the 22-year-old

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has successfully fired up its new Renault-powered MCL33 for the first time at its Woking factory. Following a switch from Honda engines, McLaren had to play catch up late last year to accommodate the new concept of power unit in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas says his Formula 1 team was too far adrift of Ferrari last season and is targeting a one-second improvement in 2018. The American team’s form fluctuated dramatically in 2017 and it ultimately finished eighth in the constructors’ championship. Haas

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams insisted calling anyone in Formula 1 a “pay driver” is unfair, as she defended the team’s 2018 pairing Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin. The decision to pick Formula 2 graduate Sirotkin over Robert Kubica as

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica will drive in three Formula 1 first practice sessions this year, including Spain and Austria, as part of his reserve and development role with Williams. The Pole had pushed for a race seat alongside Lance Stroll but lost out

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe says his team is targeting a “step change” in performance against Formula 1’s biggest squad with its 2018 car the FW41. Images of Williams’s 2018 F1 challenger, the first designed under the complete influence of ex-Mercedes

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren executive director Zak Brown says his team is on course to add more sponsors to its new-look car before the start of the new Formula 1 season. Having recently confirmed a major new partnership with computer company Dell, Brown expects

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas has become the first team to reveal images of its 2018 Formula 1 car, with renderings of the VF-18 released on Wednesday. The Ferrari powered car is an evolution of last year’s VF-17, with the most visible differences being the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber can emulate Force India’s Formula 1 giantkilling now it has more Ferrari support, but needs three-to-five years to get there reckons team principal Frederic Vasseur. While Force India has held fourth in F1’s constructors’ championship for the past two seasons

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s behind-the-scenes Amazon documentary would have fallen flat if the Formula 1 team had censored some of its more controversial moments, reckons executive director Zak Brown. Amazon’s four-part Grand Prix Driver series, which was released last week, follows the McLaren team’s

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo is confident Red Bull has got itself where it needs to be to fight with Formula 1 favourites Mercedes and Ferrari regularly this season. After the Milton Keynes-based outfit made good progress with its car throughout last season after

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas has moved to clarify his Formula 1 team’s position on signing an American driver in the future following comments made by team principal Gunther Steiner. Steiner told Autosport Haas wanted to place an American driver in one of its

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast tackles the controversial question of whether the introduction of the halo will ruin Formula 1 With the first of the 2018 F1 cars launching this week, fan criticism is expected to ramp up over

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has announced it will reveal its new Formula 1 car for the 2018 season next Monday. In a tweet from its official account, Red Bull said that the RB14 would be revealed on February 19 – although no further

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will begin McLaren’s Formula 1 pre-season testing programme when he drives the MCL33 on day one at Barcelona. The Spaniard, who was limited to just 29 laps on day one last year because of an oil leak, will be

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault expects its chassis’ performance deficit is too “substantial” to beat its Formula 1 customer teams Red Bull and McLaren this season, but wants to match them by 2019. The French manufacturer improved from ninth to sixth in the F1 constructors’