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

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fans have been given the chance to design Valtteri Bottas’s crash helmet for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Mercedes team said the winning design, which will be selected by Bottas personally, will be used for the “majority” of grands prix

Mercedes will back Lewis Hamilton in the 2018 Formula 1 championship fight, according to his former title rival Felipe Massa. Hamilton clinched his fourth world championship last year, fending off Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel with Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas 58 points adrift. Mercedes operates a policy of letting its drivers race, but Massa, who was narrowly

Esteban Ocon says Mercedes is happy with the progress he made during his first full year in Formula 1 with Force India. Ocon, who was voted number five in Autosport’s team principals’ top 10 drivers poll, finished eighth in the standings, one place and 13 points behind team-mate Sergio Perez. The Mercedes junior saw the

Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Renault admits it “played with fire” by chasing extra performance from its 2017 Formula 1 engine through the season, at the expense of reliability. Red Bull won three races with Renault power in 2017, but all three Renault-engined F1 teams suffered persistent

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams performance chief Rob Smedley says Felipe Massa could not have ended his Formula 1 career any better than with his two strong races in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Massa enjoyed tussles with his former Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso in both

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari had a disastrous start to the 1.6-litre V6 turbo era in 2014, but hit back the following season with Sebastian Vettel winning three races in the Ferrari SF15-T. Born into Ferrari’s latest era of revolving-door management and patchy performance, the

Lewis Hamilton says a winter meeting with Toto Wolff ahead of the 2017 Formula 1 season was “really important” to reset their relationship following Nico Rosberg’s departure from Mercedes. Internal relations became highly strained as Hamilton’s F1 title battles with Rosberg from 2014-16 became affected by various controversies relating to on-track collisions, off-track behaviour and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Schumacher had spent four seasons with Ferrari when he finally won his first Formula 1 drivers’ title for the team in the F1-2000. This was the car that started five years of supremacy for Ferrari, which won the drivers’ and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its ’18 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted. At the championship’s halfway point, Haas sat seventh in the constructors’ standings – four points behind

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda will have its current Formula 1 engine available as a back-up if there are problems with its 2018 specification. Honda completed a major revamp of its engine design over the 2016-17 winter, but a problem with the oil system put

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen upped his game during the 2017 Formula 1 season, particularly in qualifying, according to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. Verstappen finished 32 points adrift of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in 2017, but scored more wins (2-1) and had the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Ferrari 641 was not only arguably one of the most beautiful Ferrari Formula 1 cars, but it also came so close to taking Alain Prost to the world championship. During McLaren-Honda’s dominant seasons from 1988-1991, no car pushed it harder

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton expects title rival Sebastian Vettel to return “all guns blazing” in 2018, having learned from his major errors during their 2017 championship battle. Vettel led the points standings for 12 straight races at the start

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari lost one legend after the 1977 season when Niki Lauda left for Brabham, but gained a new one for the following year in Gilles Villeneuve. Driving the Ferrari 312T3, Villeneuve won his first grand prix on home soil in Canada