Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has “softened” and got “calmer” with its Formula 1 junior programme in recent years, reckons its long-time driver Mark Webber. Though Webber’s junior career was not Red Bull supported, he joined its F1 team from Williams in 2007 and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A return to tyre competition in Formula 1 would push up costs and spread the field out, according to Pirelli racing manager Mario Isola. Pirelli has been F1’s sole tyre supplier since it returned to the championship in 2011 and has

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cosworth admits it is “unlikely” to return to Formula 1 as an independent engine supplier, and needs external backing to come back for the new post-2020 engine regulations. The British company is involved in the discussions for reshaping the engine rules

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren boss Zak Brown has compared Honda’s recent struggles in Formula 1 to the difficulties Jaguar faced during its failed F1 programme in the early 2000s. McLaren has split with Honda for the 2018 F1 season, after three disappointing years of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez says the pressure will be on his Force India team-mate Esteban Ocon in 2018 given the way he impressed in his first full Formula 1 campaign. Ocon, who joined Force India with just nine races of experience with Manor

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniil Kvyat will remain involved in Formula 1 as a Ferrari development driver in 2018. Kvyat had been looking to retain links with F1 after being dropped by Toro Rosso before the end of last season following some disappointing performances. He

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will focus on strict quality control of parts for its 2018 Formula 1 engine, as it bids to fix the unreliability that blighted its ’17 season. Renault-powered teams collected 320 engine-related grid penalties in 2017, with Red Bull boss Christian

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe says the team is wary of the threat McLaren will pose in 2018 after ditching Honda for Renault power in Formula 1. Though Williams finished fifth in the constructors’ championship for the second successive year, 26

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India is working on plans to bring its Formula 1 operation under one roof, following the most successful season in its history. The team finished fourth in the constructors’ championship for the second successive year in 2017, scoring a best-ever

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff says Pascal Wehrlein will stay within the Mercedes family despite appearing set to drop off the Formula 1 grid for 2018. Long-time Mercedes protege Wehrlein lost his Sauber seat to Formula 2 champion Charles Leclerc and is not in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says he felt “negative pressure” during his early years in Formula 1 with McLaren and Renault, and that joining Haas has helped rebuild his confidence. Magnussen began his F1 career with a podium finish for McLaren on his debut

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 plans to revamp the merchandise experience for fans this year, adopting the ‘souvenir tent’ concept that proved to be a flop in NASCAR. Back in 2015, NASCAR announced a 10-year agreement with merchandise experts Fanatics, who will be working

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault believes ousted driver Jolyon Palmer “deserves to be in a world class championship” despite losing his Formula 1 seat to Carlos Sainz Jr. Palmer was promoted to an F1 race seat after Renault’s takeover of Lotus at the end of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen’s race engineer David Greenwood has left Ferrari ahead of the 2018 Formula 1 season. Greenwood joined Ferrari for 2015, having held the role of chief engineer at Marussia, and has spent the last three seasons working with Raikkonen. He

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly says his Formula 1 break should encourage young drivers by showing it is not “all about money”. The 21-year-old Frenchman gets his first full F1 campaign with Red Bull’s junior outfit Toro Rosso this year. He

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes had to do more analysis than ever before to understand its “diva” 2017 Formula 1 car, and admits it was “pretty confused” amid early defeats to Ferrari. Though Mercedes ultimately claimed a fourth consecutive F1 championship double, it trailed Ferrari

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team is open to a future rebranding, but has nothing on the horizon in the manner of fellow Ferrari customer Sauber’s new Alfa Romeo deal. Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne had long mooted both bringing the Alfa name

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes Pirelli’s revised range of Formula 1 tyres for 2018 will prevent the “worst scenario” of one-stop grands prix. Pirelli’s decision to expand from five to seven compounds for 2018 has generated adverse reaction from

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Retired Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa says his former team Williams’s 2018 challenger looks “more aggressive” than its predecessor. Massa raced for Williams for the past four years, taking podiums in 2014 and ’15 before the team’s form declined and it

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Max Verstappen has “matured a lot” over the past year and now has more respect for his rivals. Ricciardo finished 32 points clear of Verstappen in the drivers’ standings in 2017, but

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Max Verstappen has “matured a lot” over the past year and now has more respect for his rivals. Ricciardo finished 32 points clear of Verstappen in the drivers’ standings in 2017, but

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India has named Nicholas Latifi as its reserve and test driver for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The 22-year-old will take part in young driver test sessions and “a number of Friday practice sessions” as part of the role. Latifi

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has reported an increase in its television and digital audience and significant social media growth during 2017 compared to the previous season. F1 said the cumulative audience, which is the aggregate of the average audience of all F1 programming

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon have matured enough to be allowed to race each other again in Formula 1, according to Force India’s chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer. Perez and Ocon were under team orders not to fight each other on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Nurburgring is in discussions with Formula 1 bosses regarding a return to the calendar in 2019. Ongoing financial challenges and a change of ownership has prevented the circuit from hosting F1 grands prix since 2013. But when Mirco Markfort took

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s final step back to becoming a Formula 1 world champion again will be the hardest, admits Sebastian Vettel. Though Ferrari made a huge improvement in 2017 to go from a winless ’16 F1 season to challenging Mercedes for the title,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mercedes Formula 1 team says its engine will always be pushed to the limit of reliability, even as rules on power unit use become more restrictive in 2018. Mercedes produced the most reliable engine in F1 in 2017, with world

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson says the “hype” surrounding his 2017 Sauber Formula 1 team-mate Pascal Wehrlein helped him, but that F1 still has not realised what he is really capable of. Though Wehrlein scored all five of Sauber’s 2017 points, the qualifying gap

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s outgoing Formula 1 project leader Yusuke Hasegawa believes the move to a three-engine limit in 2018 is “unreasonable”. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said it is “barking mad” to be cutting back on power unit usage given some

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 newcomer Pierre Gasly feels “way too many people” are critical of modern grand prix racing. The 2017 season featured F1’s first multi-team title fight since the switch to V6 hybrid engines in 2014, but the new higher-downforce cars were