Formula 1

After both of Friday’s free practice sessions for the Russian Grand Prix it was Mercedes who once again came out on top – but not without a few problems. Valtteri Bottas set the pace in both sessions, but he and team-mate Lewis Hamilton made errors during their running as they struggled for grip on the

Formula 2 championship leader Mick Schumacher says his father Michael once said “records are there to be broken”, as Lewis Hamilton closes in on the latter’s Formula 1 win record. Hamilton has enjoyed incredible success since his move to Mercedes in 2013 prior to the advent of the hybrid era the following year, winning 69

Lando Norris is conducting further testing with the McLaren Formula 1 team’s new nose in Sochi on Friday that may be run for the remainder of the weekend. The Woking-based outfit trialled the new design on Carlos Sainz Jr’s car on Friday in Mugello and has brought a further iteration to Russia. The revised design,

Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix at Sochi will take place this weekend, with 2020’s season now heading into its 10th round. Six-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton is on the precipice of matching Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of wins, and could score his 91st victory to equal the seven-time title winner. Meanwhile, departing Racing Point driver

Lewis Hamilton says he is yet to speak with the FIA over wearing a t-shirt paying tribute to Breonna Taylor at Mugello, but expects a ruling on Friday. During the anti-racism demonstration ahead of the Tuscan Grand Prix two weeks ago, Hamilton wrote a t-shirt carrying the message: “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.”

Formula 1 teams sharing windtunnels remains the “elephant in the room” when it comes to stopping outfits being fully independent right now, reckons Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul. As part of the fallout from the controversy over Racing Point copying last year’s Mercedes, governing body the FIA is set to change F1’s rule to prevent

Formula 1 team bosses have backed the idea of a rotating calendar in the future, so the schedule gets injected with fresh events each year. The 2020 schedule features a number of one-off events in light of the coronavirus pandemic in order to boost calendar numbers, with the likes of Mugello, Algarve and Imola all

Major change at the top of Formula 1 is incoming as Stefano Domenicali gears up to take over from Chase Carey as the series’ CEO. Domenicali is set to become only the third CEO of F1 in its 70-year history, following Carey and long-serving chief Bernie Ecclestone, and will take over the reins by the

Ex-Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali is set to become the new CEO of Formula 1, taking over from Chase Carey ahead of the 2021 season. Sources have confirmed to Autosport that Domenicali, 55, will step into Carey’s role by the end of the year. While a final agreement is still to be finalised with Domenicali

Formula 1 should consider adopting NASCAR’s ‘restart zone’ to avoid a repeat of the pile-up at Mugello that was triggered after a safety car period, reckons Haas boss Gunther Steiner. The recent Tuscan Grand Prix had to be red-flagged early on when a chain reaction crash at a safety car restart led to Carlos Sainz

Renault CEO Luca de Meo is installing a spirit inside the Formula 1 squad with similarities to the story behind the ‘Ford v Ferrari’ movie, reckons team boss Cyril Abiteboul. The ambitions of Ford in the 1960s, when the American company built the Ford GT40 to take on and eventually beat the then dominant Ferrari

Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul says the squad’s progress in Formula 1 this year explains just why he was so frustrated when Daniel Ricciardo first signed with McLaren. As part of the pre-season driver merry-go-round prompted by Ferrari not keeping Sebastian Vettel for 2021, Ricciardo was snapped up by McLaren as the replacement for the

Racing Point has appointed Jefferson Slack, the former marketing chief for basketball star Michael Jordan and CEO of Inter Milan, as its new commercial managing director. Slack is the latest big-name appointment at the Formula 1 team ahead of its rebrand as Aston Martin for 2021, when it will be joined by four-time world champion

The Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring is set to take place in front of 20,000 fans, with race organisers having been granted permission to open the doors to spectators. Local officials are happy that suitable safety measures, including contactless ticketing and social distancing, will allow the event to go ahead with a fairly sizeable

The Algarve circuit has said that ticket sales for the Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix have gone “crazy”, with 45,000 fans expected to attend each day of the event. Miguel Praia, the circuit’s event and commercial director, said that there had been huge interest ever since it became clear the GP would be open to

Formula 1’s bid to ensure it gets a full calendar of races slotted in amid the coronavirus pandemic has opened the door for a unique calendar this year. While regular venues like Monza, Silverstone and Spa have continued to hold races, so too are we seeing some firsts like Mugello or the return of old

Pierre Gasly thinks staying at AlphaTauri in the long term would not necessarily be a bad thing for his career, with the outfit having big ambitions to match Red Bull. The Frenchman has driven strongly this year, and took his maiden Formula 1 victory at the Italian Grand Prix earlier this month. That success prompted

When it emerged recently that McLaren was putting its iconic Formula 1 factory up for sale, it prompted some fears about whether or not the team faced fresh money concerns. After all, the impact of the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic had hit the McLaren group’s automotive and racing operations hard – prompting

Sebastian Vettel has revealed that the Ferrari F2004 is his favourite Formula 1 car – but when he tried to buy one for his collection it was “way too expensive.” The F2004 carried Michael Schumacher to his seventh and final World Championship in 2004, and the German won 13 of that season’s 18 races with

Pierre Gasly says the AlphaTauri team is “more motivated than ever” to improve its 2020 Formula 1 car following his shock victory in the Italian Grand Prix. Gasly’s triumph at Monza – the team’s second triumph in 12 years after Sebastian Vettel’s win at the same race in 2008 for what was then called Toro

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Ferrari is planning to bring some minor upgrades to the Russian Grand Prix, but the team does not believe they will cure any of the SF1000’s main issues. The Italian outfit is coming off the back of a disappointing run of races at Spa-Francorchamps, Monza and Mugello where it has struggled for competitiveness. As well

Carlos Sainz Jr says he has been left “a little angry” at the way Sergio Perez has had to make way at Racing Point for the incoming Sebastian Vettel. Although Perez had a long-term deal at Racing Point, the team activated an exit clause in the deal to allow it to cut the contract short

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Max Verstappen has to get any frustration “out of his system” after two disappointing races in Italy resulted in two retirements. Prior to the upcoming Russian GP in Sochi, Horner intends to discuss with his driver what Honda and the Milton Keynes team are doing to rectify the

McLaren says it has zero interest in an early swap of 2021 drivers for this season, because it thinks it benefits with its current line-up while other teams are “destabilised”. The Woking-based outfit was at the centre of the driver merry-go-round that was triggered by Ferrari electing not to extend Sebastian Vettel’s contract in to

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Alex Albon says he avoids reading the media because he doesn’t want to be distracted by speculation over his future with the team. Albon has been in the spotlight this season because he has struggled to match the pace of team-mate Max Verstappen in qualifying, although his race performances have

Mercedes believes the front brake fire experienced by Lewis Hamilton on the grid at Formula 1’s Tuscan Grand Prix was triggered by the limited cooling applied for Mugello. Mugello’s long straights, fast corners and lack of heavy braking zones means the venue requires less brake cooling than other venues, and so Mercedes ran its W11s

Nicholas Latifi doubts that Formula 1 would have avoided a repeat of the Tuscan Grand Prix restart pile-up even if the safety car lights had turned off earlier. The Mugello race had to be red flagged when a number of cars, including Latifi’s Williams, were eliminated after crashing into each at the first safety car

Racing Point says Lance Stroll’s Tuscan Grand Prix crash has left it in a battle to ensure that both cars can run its latest Formula 1 upgrade package in Russia. Stroll was the only driver to run with the extensive updates to the RP20 in Mugello last weekend, with Sergio Perez originally scheduled to also

Renault is in talks with the FIA to see if it can get permission to run Fernando Alonso in Formula 1’s post-season Abu Dhabi ‘young driver’ test, Autosport has learned. The increased competitiveness of Renault this year has led to growing interest from Alonso in the team’s progress, and a belief that his return next