Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll wants his new Williams Formula 1 team-mate to be a “team player“, but has no preference on who it is. Williams insists no decision has been made on who will replace Felipe Massa for 2018, with Robert Kubica the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says that criticisms voiced by his team against Formula 1’s owners are motivated simply by a desire to ensure the championship becomes better. Differences of opinion have emerged between Mercedes and Liberty Media over engine rules

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jean Todt will be unchallenged in next month’s FIA presidential election, meaning he is now guaranteed to stay on board for a third term in the role. The Frenchman announced back in May that he intended to stand for another four-year

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India’s COO Otmar Szafnauer has questioned the push Formula 1 engine standardisation in 2021 by warning against ideas to “dumb down” the power unit. The proposed rules package is aimed at bringing engines closer together, by introducing standard parts and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren will make a 25-year-old Dutch karting champion an official simulator driver after he won the first edition of the Formula 1 team’s World’s Fastest Gamer eSports competition. Rudy van Buren beat his compatriot Freek Schothorst in the final round of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber is poised to reveal its 2018 line-up at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as rumours swirl it could bring the Alfa Romeo name back to Formula 1 with Ferrari. With Sauber keen to forge closer ties with Ferrari, it has

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says that his reputation as a ‘bad boy’ among Formula 1 drivers has become a joke within the Haas team. Magnussen’s aggressive tactics on track have caused controversy at times this year, and he famously told Nico Hulkenberg to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has returned Manor Racing’s entry fee for the 2017 Formula 1 season as a “gesture of goodwill” towards the debts of the now defunct outfit. Manor paid the fee of $522,322 (£394,741), which including the additional $6,194 (£4,681) for

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner hopes engine supplier Renault does not have a “Scrapheap Challenge” task on its hands in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. With the 2017 F1 season nearing its end, and Renault’s factory focus on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. With Lando Norris confirmed as McLaren’s 2018 Formula 1 reserve driver and George Russell potentially in line for a similar role with Force India, Britain’s future F1 prospects look good. Norris’s new role came after he won the European Formula 3

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Zandvoort could realistically host a Formula 1 race from 2020, according to one of the Dutch circuit’s co-owners. A feasibility study into the former Dutch Grand Prix venue hosting F1 again was completed last week on behalf of the track and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says his Brazilian Grand Prix charge has underlined to him that ‘flawed’ Formula 1 regulations are hampering overtaking. Hamilton started from the pitlane and finished fourth at Interlagos, making 10 passing moves along the way. But he believes that

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda feels its Formula 1 engine is approaching a “decent level” after an “encouraging performance” in the Brazilian Grand Prix, where Fernando Alonso criticised the manufacturer again. McLaren-Honda driver Alonso qualified an impressive seventh and finished eighth to score points in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton has revealed he told Formula 1 title rival Sebastian Vettel not to “disrespect” him again after their clash under the safety car during June’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. In an exclusive interview with Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap, Hamilton explained what

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s controversial plans to change engine regulations for 2021, and also address costs, are to attract new teams, according to F1 CEO Chase Carey. Proposals for simpler engines with more standardisation drew criticism from Ferrari and Mercedes when they were

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has derailed Red Bull’s latest attempt to abandon Formula 1’s switch to three engines per year in 2018, despite growing unease about the implications of the rule change. With F1 already under fire for the wave of grid penalties that

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche will maintain a contractual relationship with Brendon Hartley even after he moves into Formula 1 with Toro Rosso full-time in 2018. Hartley has been a Porsche LMP1 driver in the World Endurance Championship since 2014, winning the drivers’ title on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli is developing a new wet Formula 1 tyre it will need to lobby the FIA to introduce next season as it will not be homologated in time for the opening grand prix. F1‘s tyre supplier held two dedicated wet tests

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes’ George Russell believes he is ready to race in Formula 1 in 2018, as he prepares to combine a Formula 2 campaign with a Force India reserve driver role. The GP3 champion took part in a grand prix weekend for

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso has announced that Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasly will continue to race for the team in Formula 1 in 2018. The team has ended the year with Hartley and Gasly as its drivers after starting the season with Carlos

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Schumacher has been voted the greatest Ferrari driver of all-time in a reader poll conducted by F1 Racing magazine, topping the list ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and Gilles Villeneuve. To celebrate 70 years of Ferrari, F1 Racing asked its readers

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams has revealed that Lance Stroll was hampered in Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix by a lack of engine power, after being forced to revert to an older-specification Mercedes unit. Stroll struggled at Interlagos and finished last as team-mate Felipe Massa

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Franz Tost says he felt he had to defend his Toro Rosso Formula 1 team against Renault criticism during the row that broke out over the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend. In Brazil Renault suggested the way Toro Rosso operated its power

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s strategy of taking penalty hits in recent races by stockpiling Honda Formula 1 engines paid off for Fernando Alonso in Brazil, according to the team’s racing director Eric Boullier. McLaren targeted the final two grands prix of the year as

Force India is closing on a deal to make Mercedes protege George Russell its reserve driver for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The newly-crowed GP3 champion made his F1 grand prix weekend debut in Friday’s opening practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix when he drove Sergio Perez’s Force India. He completed 29 laps and

Ferrari has pushed on with developments of its 2017 Formula 1 car in recent races, with changes to the floor and front wing phased in. In this latest animation produced by Motorsport.tv, we explain the changes and how the Ferrari SF70H has improved. The modifications include changes to the front wing endplate detail, designed to

With the championship already decided there was a certain sense of ‘nothing to lose’ about the decision-making running through the penultimate race of the Formula 1 season in Brazil. The combination of the tyre choices and the conditions at Interlagos meant that this looked like it could be a race with few strategic variations and

Formula 1 switching to three engines per season in 2018 “sucks”, says world champion Lewis Hamilton. Next year the power unit limit drops from four to three for the full 21 grand prix season, with some elements – the MGU-K, control electronics and energy store – restricted to two per year. Hamilton said he has

Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli and McLaren have decided to cancel their planned Interlagos test due to safety concerns at the Brazilian Grand Prix venue. The two-day test, aimed at completing Pirelli’s evaluation work on its 2018 tyres, was scheduled to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday with McLaren drivers Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris.

Sao Paulo’s mayor says the city government is responsible for public safety and believes the Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix venue’s sale will improve security after a spate of attacks. A car driven by Pirelli tyre fitters was targeted on Sunday evening, less than 48 hours after Mercedes F1 personnel escaped uninjured following a gunpoint