McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris only rates the start of his rookie season a “six out of 10” despite claiming his team’s best result across the first three races. Norris qualified in the top 10 on his grand prix debut in Australia and followed that up with his first points finish in Bahrain, where

Carlos Sainz Jr says McLaren’s straightline speed has been “one of the best things” about the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Sainz has switched to McLaren from the Renault works team but is continuing for a third straight season using the French manufacturer’s engines, because McLaren is a customer. Renault’s reliability remains dubious

The proposed Miami Grand Prix Formula 1 race looks set to switch location and layout. Plans to run the proposed race around Biscayne Boulevard and Bayfront Park in the city’s downtown area appear to have been scrapped in favour of a new venue adjacent to the Miami Dolphins stadium, according to the group led by

Ferrari and Mercedes have already developed their cars extensively just three races into an already intriguing 2019 Formula 1 season. Mercedes brought a huge number of updates to the second pre-season test which gave it a massive boost to start the season in Australia, while Ferrari has confirmed it will bring significant improvements to its

Everybody at Williams is a victim during the Formula 1 team’s struggles, not just the drivers, says Robert Kubica. Williams slipped to the back of the grid in 2018 and has started 2019 with an even less competitive car, leaving Kubica and rookie team-mate George Russell detached at the back of the grid. The team’s

Honda will introduce its first upgraded engine of the 2019 Formula 1 season at this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, following the discovery of a quality control problem. The Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly, and the two Toro Rossos, will have use of a new combustion engine in Baku. Honda has described the

F1 2019 is just over a month away from launching on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC and Codemasters has begun teasing the key features for the newest Formula 1 game. Last year’s game had career mode enhancements and a wealth of classic cars as the headline-grabbing features. But what would be the perfect set

Formula 1 track designer Tilke has revealed what the new Vietnam Grand Prix track will be like from the cockpit with the release of an onboard simulator lap. The build of the new 5.565km (3.46-mile) street circuit in the suburbs of Hanoi is ongoing and the footage from Tilke’s own simulation data has offered a

The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast examines Ferrari’s team orders problem after Charles Leclerc’s strong start to the Formula 1 season threatened Sebastian Vettel’s supremacy within the team. Special guest Michael Lamonato from The F1 Strategy Report Podcast joins Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to analyse how serious Ferrari’s problem is and also its

Haas Formula 1 team boss Gunther Steiner says he is preparing for “disappointment” at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as the Baku track characteristics are worse for the car than recent venues. The American-owned outfit is struggling this year with its VF-19 that cannot get enough heat into its tyres – and is especially vulnerable on

George Russell believes driving at 98% rather than at his maximum potential could help extract more performance out of his Williams Formula 1 car. Russell has impressed in his first three grands prix of the year against team-mate Robert Kubica as both drivers attempt to get on top of a challenging and underperforming car. But

Carlos Sainz Jr says McLaren’s incoming managing director Andreas Seidl has made a “very good” first impression and is “impatient” to start working at the Formula 1 team. McLaren has recruited the ex-Porcsche LMP1 boss to complete the management overhaul it hopes will lead it to the front of the F1 grid again. Seidl will

Robert Kubica believes Williams’s slump to the back of the Formula 1 grid is not a “one-man issue”, even though chief technical officer Paddy Lowe is leaving the team. Lowe joined Williams from Mercedes early in 2017 but the two cars designed and built under his technical leadership have been the slowest on the grid.

Antonio Giovinazzi says his experienced Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team-mate Kimi Raikkonen reminds him of his own final season in European Formula 3 in 2015. Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion, joined Alfa Romeo from Ferrari on a two-year deal, and is currently contesting his 17th season in grand prix racing, while Giovinazzi’s prior F1 record

George Russell says it is understandable under-pressure Red Bull juniors drive at “120%” given the programme’s “cut-throat” history, but believes fellow Formula 1 rookie Alex Albon can thrive this year. Red Bull dropped Albon in 2012 but managed to extract the British-born Thai from a Nissan Formula E contract last year so it could re-hire

Ferrari must ensure its Formula 1 team boss Mattia Binotto is not overwhelmed by his responsibilities and consider recruiting a secondary figure to help deal with politics, says Gerhard Berger. Binotto was previously Ferrari’s technical director but replaced Maurizio Arrivabene as team head at the start of this year. Ferrari was seen as the benchmark

Autosport readers have their own say in our Formula 1 driver ratings after each race, and so far in 2019 it’s not looking good for Sebastian Vettel and Pierre Gasly. While Lewis Hamilton took the lead from Valtteri Bottas in both the actual F1 world championship and the Autosport readers’ table following the Chinese Grand

Daniel Ricciardo believes short-term judgements on Formula 1 drivers’ form are like questioning the quality of a footballer on a brief goalless streak. A combination of terrible luck during his final season with Red Bull and his new Renault team’s lack of competitiveness means it is almost one year since Ricciardo scored a podium in

Pierre Gasly’s efforts to show more speed at Red Bull are being hindered by his style not totally suiting the team’s 2019 Formula 1 car, says boss Christian Horner. Toro Rosso graduate Gasly has had a difficult start to the F1 season, but managed to score his best result of the season with sixth place

The Williams Formula 1 team must outdevelop its rivals at “double or triple the rate” to make up for its current disadvantage, George Russell believes. Williams’s drivers Russell and Robert Kubica have qualified and finished at the back of the pack so far this season, well adrift of the other nine teams except when rivals

Former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger believes Ferrari is wrong to favour Sebastian Vettel over Charles Leclerc so early in the 2019 season. Team boss Mattia Binotto has made it clear since testing that Vettel would have priority in any “50/50” situation because his experience as a four-time world champion means that Vettel is the

Max Verstappen hopes Red Bull will be ready to challenge Formula 1 rivals Mercedes and Ferrari at all tracks from the halfway point of the 2019 season. Red Bull’s start to the season was made challenging by an inability to fully understand its chassis after Pierre Gasly’s pre-season crash and has admitted engine partner Honda

Sebastian Vettel believes Ferrari faces a vital few weeks in which it must establish how to develop its car over the middle part of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Ferrari emerged from pre-season testing with an apparent edge over Mercedes but has been muted in the first three grands prix, while its rival has claimed

Mercedes has revealed that original idea for the stacked pitstop for Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton in the Chinese Grand Prix came from its Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff. A strategy headache had been caused by Red Bull pitting Max Verstappen for the second time and raising the possibility of Verstappen undercutting the leading cars.

Lewis Hamilton believes Ferrari is yet to achieve its “full potential” at any point so far in the 2019 Formula 1 season. Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas outpaced the Ferraris throughout the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, making Mercedes the first team to start a season with three one-two finishes since Williams in 1992. The world

Ferrari hopes Alfa Romeo will switch to new control electronics as soon as possible following the failures that have hit Charles Leclerc and Antonio Giovinazzi in successive Formula 1 races. Leclerc lost a certain victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix on only his second start for Ferrari when a short circuit within an injection system

Three races into the Formula 1 season, and it’s three Mercedes one-twos so far after the champion team triumphed again in the Chinese Grand Prix. Given that Mercedes had anticipated that Ferrari’s straightline speed advantage would give it the edge at Shanghai, that result was again unexpected – and came amid fresh controversy over Ferrari’s

Formula 1 is holding exploratory talks with government officials from six Chinese cities over the prospect of adding a street race to the calendar. F1 owner Liberty Media has ambitions to add another F1 race in China to complement the current race at Shanghai. Speaking at last weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, commercial chief Sean Bratches

Mercedes may have sealed a one-two victory in Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix, but there was plenty of intrigue over its front wing update. Before the new design could hit the track, the FIA asked for it to be changed and even Red Bull and Williams were affected by the decision. Technical expert Jake Boxall-Legge

Ferrari’s Chinese Grand Prix team orders failed to stop Mercedes claiming a third-straight one-two finish, and sparked debate about how it is handling new recruit Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel. Two weeks after Leclerc was robbed of Bahrain GP victory, in China he was ordered to let Vettel past early on. That forced Ferrari to