[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admits his Formula 1 team is struggling with overheating tyres like last season, after Ferrari surprisingly locked out the front row for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton scored a comfortable pole position for the first F1

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says set-up tweaks to improve confidence in the front end of the Ferrari Formula 1 car was key to his ‘surprising’ pole position at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Vettel admitted after winning the season opener in Australia that his

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. In an effort to combat overheating issues, Pirelli will run a modified Formula 1 tyre at the Spanish, French and British Grand Prix, three races taking place on resurfaced tracks. For those events Pirelli will use tyres with a slightly thinner

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton is set for a five-place grid penalty at the Bahrain Grand Prix as the result of a gearbox change. The FIA revealed on Friday night that Hamilton’s car would be fitted with a new gearbox from Saturday’s final free

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes believes a budget cap of $150million is “not achievable” for Formula 1’s big teams, but Toto Wolff says the manufacturer is interested in finding compromises to control costs. F1 bosses presented their vision for the future to teams in Bahrain

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Liberty Media has unveiled a five-point plan for the future of Formula 1 after 2020, following a presentation to the teams at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The five key areas discussed were revenues, governance, sporting and technical regulations, power units and

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA will meet with technical directors from all F1 teams in Bahrain to discuss ways of urgently increasing overtaking opportunities for the 2019 season. The gathering is a direct response to the lack of passing moves seen in the Australian

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes believes Ferrari’s Formula 1 engine is now its equal with it in terms of power, according to Lewis Hamilton. Speaking on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel claimed Mercedes had a pace advantage of

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton’s warnings about his engine getting too hot during his pursuit of Sebastian Vettel at the Australian Grand Prix has highlighted how on the edge cooling requirements are in Formula 1. Teams well know that the less cooling required, the

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. This year’s Formula 1 eSports series will include an official entry from nine of the 10 world championship teams, with Ferrari the only outfit that will not participate. F1 launched its first eSports series last year and will continue to use

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The origin of Haas’s 2018 Formula 1 car came under fire during the Australian Grand Prix weekend, as critics queried the validity of its technical relationship with Ferrari. Force India and McLaren called for an investigation into the Haas-Ferrari collaboration to

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren racing director Eric Boullier believes Formula 1’s post-2020 technical regulations will need to include “enough restriction” to ensure a level playing field. The 1.732s that separated the quickest and the slowest team in the first qualifying segment for last weekend’s

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has explained how its Formula 1 engine’s different power modes work after it “proved a particularly hot topic” during the Australian Grand Prix weekend. Lewis Hamilton joked before the start of the season that the Mercedes engine’s qualifying specification “should

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s progress since its return to Formula 1 as a factory team has been “a remarkable turnaround”, according to Williams deputy principal Claire Williams. The French manufacturer took over the struggling Lotus outfit ahead of the 2016 season, and scored just

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The Sauber Formula 1 team has bolstered its technical department with the addition of former Toyota, Ferrari and Audi man Jan Monchaux as head of aerodynamics. The Franco-German studied at the French aeronautical and space institution Supaere and latterly Imperial College.

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Williams is in a “difficult phase” without an “easy solution” and should be braced for a difficult 2018 Formula 1 season, according to Motorsport.tv’s pundits. The British team failed to score a point in the Australian Grand Prix, with Sergey Sirotkin

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas’s attitude during his Formula 1 team’s dips in form has been crucial in keeping his drivers’ confidence up, according to Romain Grosjean. Haas made an instant impact in F1 when it scored points on its debut in 2016, but

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso believes McLaren can “forget” about its midfield rivals and target Red Bull over the coming Formula 1 races. Alonso finished fifth in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, splitting Red Bull duo Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen in McLaren’s first

[ad_1] Dallara has upped its game in Formula 1 with its work on Haas’s 2018 car, says the American team’s race driver Kevin Magnussen. The famed Formula 3 constructor has been Haas’s chassis and parts supplier since it entered F1 for the 2016. Dallara’s first season with Haas in 2016 was blighted by parts problems,

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo believes the width of modern Formula 1 cars plays a part in making overtaking more difficult. A noticeable drop in overtaking opportunities has been apparent since F1 shifted back to wider, high-downforce cars in 2017, and

[ad_1] Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly says Honda has a “big, big plan” for development in 2018 that is designed to “show everyone they can do proper engines” in Formula 1. Honda has now entered its fourth season of F1 under the current V6 hybrid turbo rules, but has yet to record a single result

[ad_1] Ross Brawn says Formula 1 has already made progress on finding solutions for its overtaking problem and addressing the “force field” that makes it hard for cars to race. After taking the F1 job Brawn hired a team of experts, including Pat Symonds and former Williams head of aerodynamics Jason Sommerville, to help the

[ad_1] Kimi Raikkonen’s resurgent form in Formula 1 has been helped by Ferrari’s decision not to pursue a complicated suspension set-up with its SF71H, suggests Motorsport TV’s technical analyst Craig Scarborough. The Finn enjoyed a strong start to the season in Australia, qualifying on the front row and being Lewis Hamilton’s main challenger for much

[ad_1] Red Bull has called for the FIA to end “party modes” on Formula 1 engines by ensuring drivers qualify and race with the same engine settings. Lewis Hamilton’s significant leap in performance during Q3 in Melbourne put a sharp focus on the use of special modes by Mercedes on the laps that count, although

[ad_1] Formula 1 lap times at the British Grand Prix will be a second faster this year after Silverstone recently completed a full-circuit resurfacing project. Silverstone bosses took the opportunity to renovate the entire 3.1-mile circuit after pressure from MotoGP promoter Dorna to make parts of it smoother to ride on. MotoGP riders have been

[ad_1] Red Bull made a big push to prepare its 2018 Formula 1 car early as it bid to hit the ground running with its new RB14. Although last year’s RB13 ended the F1 season strongly, the team readily admitted its start to the campaign was not as strong as hoped for. Windtunnel correlation problems

[ad_1] McLaren has admitted its pre-season reliability problems delayed the introduction of upgrades at the start of the Formula 1 season. Although McLaren did successfully run part of its planned update package at the Australian Grand Prix, which included new brake ducts and floor modifications, the significant bargeboard update was put back to next weekend’s

[ad_1] Sebastian Vettel may have won in Melbourne but the latest episode of The Autosport Podcast explains why signs from the race were ominous for the rest of Formula 1 2018. The reasons for Lewis Hamilton losing the Australian Grand Prix, a race he and Mercedes seemingly had in the bag, are delved into by

[ad_1] Mercedes is confident that Lewis Hamilton’s engine did not suffer any damage in his pursuit of Sebastian Vettel at the Australian Grand Prix, despite getting close to its temperature limits. Hamilton was forced to chase his Ferrari rival in the closing stages of the Melbourne race after Vettel’s well-timed pitstop while the race was

[ad_1] Mercedes has discovered a “bug” in the tool it uses for its Formula 1 virtual safety car calculations, after concluding its investigation into what went wrong at the Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton saw a potential victory in the season opener snatched from his grasp after rival Sebastian Vettel gained time pitting during a