Brendon Hartley will make his Formula 1 debut for Toro Rosso at the United States Grand Prix at Austin, as predicted by Autosport. The New Zealander has been drafted in as replacement for Frenchman Pierre Gasly, who will be competing in the Super Formula finale in Japan instead. Hartley has fallen off the F1 radar

Mercedes has continued to push to introduce upgrades to the 2017 Formula 1 championship-leading F1 W08 in recent races. In this latest video from Motorsport.tv’s weekly programme The Flying Lap, Peter Windsor and Craig Scarborough look at the changes in detail with the help of the latest 3D animation. “Mercedes have gone through a stepped

Red Bull boss Christian Horner has backed calls for the FIA to get tougher on oil burn, and believes the activity makes a mockery of Formula 1’s environmentally-friendly push. Oil burn has been an issue all season, and the FIA has been working hard to clamp down on teams being able to get a power

Brendon Hartley is the leading contender to drive for the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team in the United States Grand Prix, with Sebastien Buemi the back-up option, Autosport has learned. Toro Rosso needs to fill the seat alongside Daniil Kvyat at Austin after it was agreed Pierre Gasly would return to Super Formula to contest

F1 Racing magazine has launched its online voting to decide the winners of its annual Formula 1 awards, and you can have your say on each category. Last year nearly 100,000 fans took part in the vote to decide the winners across nine categories. Cast your vote in the 2017 F1 Racing Awards Anyone can

Robert Kubica has completed a one-day test in a 2014-spec Williams at Silverstone as the Formula 1 team evaluates his potential for a 2018 race seat. The Pole is pushing for a return to F1 six-and-a-half years after he suffered serious injuries in a rallying crash. However, he faces competition for the Williams seat alongside

The Ferrari Formula 1 team has drafted in Maria Mendoza from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to reorganise its quality control department. Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne has said his team paid the price for “ignoring” quality control with its technical director Mattia Binotto confirming changes were being made to the department. Sebastian Vettel’s title hopes appear dashed

Codemasters has announced its major F1 2017 game update that will feature the latest car designs and liveries among the changes introduced. F1’s official game usually launches with the in-game cars based on how they appeared for the first race of the season, but the frantic rate of development between the teams means the look

Formula 1 world championship rivals Mercedes and Ferrari have opted for marginally different choices for the United States Grand Prix. Pirelli has made the soft, super-soft and ultra-soft tyres available for the Austin race, which is one step softer than last year. While Mercedes and Ferrari have chosen seven sets of the ultra-soft tyre for

Mid-season driver changes for Toro Rosso and Renault can boost the Haas Formula 1 team’s chances of a strong constructors’ championship finish, says its team principal Gunther Steiner. Haas is locked in a tight battle for fifth in the standings, with Renault one point behind, Toro Rosso nine clear and Williams a further 14 ahead

Red Bull thinks that the combination of Suzuka’s layout and the 2017-spec Formula 1 cars exposed its lack of a ‘magic’ engine mode from Renault more than usual. The Milton Keynes-based team was surprised to be one second off the pace of Mercedes in the fight for grid positions, before Max Verstappen went on to

The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast looks back at the Japanese Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton moved to the brink of a fourth Formula 1 title. Edd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell and podcast returnee Andrew van de Burgt to discuss Ferrari’s latest failure, and the end of Sebastian Vettel’s realistic world championship

Red Bull is determined to extend its contracts with both Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen until the end of 2020, amid ongoing speculation about their future in Formula 1. F1 teams are bracing themselves for a potentially big shake up in the driver market at the end of next year, with a number of top

Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost insists it is too early to assume that Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat will form the team’s Formula 1 line-up in 2018. Gasly made his grand prix debut with the team in Malaysia, standing in for Kvyat, and the Faenza squad announced over the Japanese GP weekend that the

Romain Grosjean sparked a debate in the Japanese Grand Prix Formula 1 drivers’ briefing by querying Lewis Hamilton taking his seatbelts off while celebrating race wins, it has emerged. Hamilton clearly undid his belts to celebrate winning the Singapore Grand Prix, and admitted he had done so on numerous occasions beforehand. In a video of

Honda says its priority is for Pierre Gasly to race in the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, even if that means it will sacrifice the chance to win the Super Formula title. Gasly, the 2016 GP2 champion, replaced Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso for Malaysia and Japan but says it remains unclear if he

Pierre Gasly says he hasn’t been told if he will race for Toro Rosso in the United States Grand Prix, despite the Formula 1 team announcing he would. On Saturday night Toro Rosso said Daniil Kvyat would be recalled for Austin, replacing the Renault-bound Carlos Sainz Jr, alongside Gasly. It would mean Gasly missing the

The FIA has been urged by McLaren to get tougher in stopping teams from burning oil in Formula 1 next year, amid suspicions some are still gaining from the practice. Although motor racing’s governing body has begun a clampdown on the activity, with teams restricted on the amount that can be burned, there remain big

Mercedes believes that cooler temperatures in Japan, allied to changes made to its car ahead of the Formula 1 weekend, were key to it recovering from its Malaysia “disaster”. Just a week on from the German car manufacturer chasing answers for its lack of pace at Sepang, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas led the way

Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for Formula 1’s Japanese Grand Prix with a dominant qualifying performance, leading a Mercedes one-two, while title rival Sebastian Vettel was third-fastest. Hamilton was quickest in all phases of the session, as he claimed his first pole at the Suzuka and smashed Michael Schumacher’s qualifying lap record from 2006. The

Ferrari’s Formula 1 turbocharger problems ruined Sebastian Vettel’s qualifying and prevented Kimi Raikkonen from starting last weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix. In this latest video from weekly programme The Flying Lap, Craig Scarborough explains the cause of the turbo problems that had such a big impact on the Sepang weekend. Ferrari also introduced an upgrade package

Formula 1 bosses are in talks with officials in Vietnam about holding a race in the future. Earlier this year, former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone said he could have done a deal with Vietnam but turned the chance down as he felt there were enough races in Asia. But F1 commercial chief Sean Bratches has

Formula 1 is planning to introduce biometric gloves from next season in a bid to help medical personnel better assess the physical condition of a driver after accidents. The new technology features a 3mm thick sensor and it will monitor a driver’s pulse rate and the amount of oxygen in the blood. In the future,

Renault has promised its teams it is working hard to produce a “magic” Formula 1 engine mode for 2018, in a bid to take the fight to Mercedes and Ferrari in qualifying. Although the French manufacturer’s power unit is proving to be a match for rival engines in the races, it is still lacking at

Haas driver Kevin Magnussen says the fact that he has not been penalised for his driving by Formula 1 stewards means he has no need to change his aggressive style. Magnussen has been involved in incidents with other drivers this season – notably at the Hungaroring, where he was involved in a spat with Renault’s

The Mercedes F1 team generated an astonishing turnover of £289million in 2016, and its parent company only had to pump in around 10% of that figure – less than £30m. While they don’t include the costs of the HPP powertrain division in Brixworth, the numbers suggest that F1 is a bargain for Mercedes in terms

Promoting Pierre Gasly to a Formula 1 race seat shows Red Bull has “balls” compared to the likes of Mercedes and Ferrari, says its motorsport advisor Helmut Marko. Reigning GP2 champion Gasly became the latest product of the Red Bull driver development system to reach an F1 seat when he replaced fellow graduate Daniil Kvyat

Pierre Gasly says he would choose racing in Formula 1’s United States GP over going for the Super Formula title in its season finale on the same weekend. Gasly, the reigning GP2 champion, replaced Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso for the Malaysian Grand Prix and finished 14th on his F1 debut. He will keep the

Sebastian Vettel looks set to avoid a gearbox penalty this weekend, after analysis by Ferrari showed his current one was not damaged in his crash with Lance Stroll in Malaysia. Vettel had feared a five-place grid drop for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, after he collided with Stroll on the slow down lap at Sepang.

Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne says changes are being made to the Formula 1 team to combat the “ugly” reliability problems that marred its Malaysian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel had to start last at Sepang after engine problems affected his Saturday, while Kimi Raikkonen was unable to take up his second place on the grid due