Formula 1

Ocon has picked up points in four of the first five races of the year, leading Alpine’s charge by outscoring two-time world champion teammate Fernando Alonso 12-5 so far this season. The French driver’s displays have drawn praise from across the F1 paddock, and has helped spark an early start to talks over extending his

An unlikely sequence of events led Townsend Bell to sample a Jaguar Formula 1 car at Valencia in 2003. Runner-up to Scott Dixon in the 2000 Indy Lights championship, the Californian romped to the 2001 title and had made his top-flight debut in CART before the end of the year. A promising career lay ahead

Hamilton lost the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time this season after finishing seventh in Monaco last Sunday, while Verstappen claimed victory for Red Bull. The result came at the end of a week that had seen Hamilton say on Wednesday that Verstappen “feels perhaps he has a lot to prove”

Bernoldi is perhaps best remembered these days as the man Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz favoured when Peter Sauber decided instead to take a punt on Kimi Raikkonen. Mateschitz subsequently bought his man a seat at Arrows, and the Brazilian duly made his Grand Prix debut in Australia in 2001 on the very same day as

The team released a short video clip showing a mechanic working on the car in the Brackley factory on Tuesday morning, shortly after the transporters returned. The wheel became stuck after Bottas pitted during the race and the nut was stripped by the airgun, making it impossible to remove. Rather than work further on the

An exclusive and extraordinarily frank interview with Bottas is the cover feature of this month’s GP Racing magazine. In the latest edition of the Flat Chat podcast, GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher join host Stuart Codling to debate where Bottas’s career goes from here. Is it time for him to reconcile

Hamilton lost the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time this year after struggling to seventh place on Sunday in Monaco, dropping four points behind Red Bull rival Max Verstappen in the standings. Hamilton failed to feature with the frontrunners in either qualifying or the race, while an undercut strategy backfired and

Verstappen led from lights to flag in Monaco to secure his second win of the season and move into the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time, capitalising on a bad weekend for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes. After fending off Valtteri Bottas at the first corner, Verstappen rarely looked at risk of

On the first lap, Schumacher went down the inside of the Russian at the hairpin. The two drivers went round the corner side-by-side before the German emerged in front. Later, Schumacher had a fuel pressure issue that slowed him and obliged him to let Mazepin pass. They pair eventually finished 17th and 18th in a race of unusually low attrition.

The explosive nature of their rivalry caused great tensions within Mercedes as they fought for wins and titles in what was effectively an intra-team contest on the majority of weekends for three seasons. It occasionally spilled over on-track, notably with three on-track collisions – Belgium 2014, Spain 2016 and Austria 2016 – but there were

Leclerc scored pole position in Monaco on Saturday after topping qualifying, but a crash at the exit of Swimming Pool by the Ferrari driver prevented any drivers from improving on their final runs in Q3. A rule applied in American series such as IndyCar and IMSA sees any driver causing a red flag in qualifying

The Woking-based outfit was bracing itself for a tough time around the streets of Monte Carlo, but in the end its MCL35M was actually closer to Red Bull and Mercedes than at other tracks. Team principal Andreas Seidl was delighted with how things had panned out, with Norris finishing third, as McLaren continues to stake

Mosley, who started his motorsport career as a driver in the European Formula Two championship in 1968, was one of the four founding members of March in 1969 along with Robin Herd, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker. Despite a meagre budget, it won races across the motorsport spectrum from Formula 1 to the Indianapolis 500.

The Italian outfit returned to its Maranello base on Monday morning to undertake a detailed investigation in to what happened to Leclerc before the start. The team had given Leclerc’s car and gearbox the all-clear in the hours before the race, but a left-rear driveshaft hub failed during a pre-race reconnaissance lap. With no time

Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday that the team would be willing to take risks with Hamilton’s strategy after he only qualified seventh. Hamilton ran sixth in the opening stint after Charles Leclerc failed to start, and was brought into the pits at the end of Lap 29 to switch to the hard

On Saturday, Norris had qualified fifth, which became fourth on the grid when Ferrari’s polesitter Charles Leclerc failed to make the start. Norris chased after the remaining Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr in the first stint, but then started to fade in the second stint on hard tyres. Due to Valtteri Bottas retiring following a

Hamilton endured a difficult Monaco Grand Prix weekend that saw him qualify seventh on Saturday, finishing almost three-quarters of a second off the pole position time. The race proved to be a struggle for Hamilton as a decision to pit early to try and get the undercut not only failed to get him past Pierre

Monaco F1 rookie Schumacher crashed at Casino Square in the closing stages of final practice on Saturday, wrecking the left-hand side of his Haas VF-21 car. The damage meant Schumacher could not take part in qualifying, leaving him last on the grid for Sunday’s race. It sparked concerns that Haas may be forced into a

Leclerc scored Ferrari’s first pole position for 18 months after topping qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday. But the session ended under a red flag after Leclerc crashed at the exit of Swimming Pool, preventing any other cars from improving their lap times and inadvertently giving him pole. Leclerc admitted after the session

F1 championship leader Hamilton slumped to his worst qualifying result in almost three years on Saturday in Monaco, finishing seventh after lapping almost three-quarters of a second off the pole position time. Team-mate Valtteri Bottas was able to qualifying third for Mercedes, while Hamilton’s primary title rival, Max Verstappen, took second on the grid. Hamilton

Following his graduation from F2 to F1 with Haas for 2021, Mazepin has finished as the slowest driver to set a time in qualifying at every race, and as the last classified driver in the three races he has finished. But Mazepin was able to lead Haas’s efforts through practice on Thursday in Monaco, finishing

Earlier this month Reutemann was admitted to the intensive care unit of a local hospital in his hometown of Santa Fe after suffering a digestive haemorrhage. Four days later doctors decided to transfer him via helicopter to a different facility in Rosario, 170 kilometres down the road, due to new episodes of internal bleeding. Following

Despite sitting out most of Thursday morning’s first free practice session with gearbox issues, Charles Leclerc topped the second session at the Monaco Grand Prix, holding off Carlos Sainz for a Ferrari 1-2. Observers expected Ferrari to be strong in Monaco as its SF21 proved to be very competitive through Barcelona’s slow final sector at

Ferrari turned heads with its performance on Thursday in Monaco as Leclerc headed up a 1-2 finish in FP2, edging out team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr by one-tenth of a second. It marked Ferrari’s first 1-2 in any race weekend session since second practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2019, and spoiled the expected dominance

After missing the majority of the opening practice session due to a gearbox problem, Leclerc stormed back in FP2 to top the times with a 1m11.684s on a late soft tyre run, to edge out Sainz by 0.112s after the Spanish driver had held the provisional top spot. While the Ferrari 1-2 came as a

Vettel was heard on team radio during second practice for the Monaco Grand Prix reporting that he was struggling to see out of one of his eyes. “It feels like my eye is bleeding,” Vettel told his engineer before being instructed to pit, only for him to opt to continue. “It’s alright, I’ll carry on,”

The Japanese rookie had to apologise to his AlphaTauri team in Barcelona after suggesting in a television interview that he may not be getting identical machinery to teammate Pierre Gasly. His comments came after a shock Q1 exit in the Spanish Grand Prix, where he also let rip on team radio about his car as

Verstappen and Hamilton have gone wheel-to-wheel in all four races so far this year, including two close battles heading into the opening corner at Imola and Barcelona. On both occasions, Verstappen made a lunge on Hamilton and aggressively took the position, with Hamilton saying after the race in Barcelona that he “made sure” to leave

Bottas is currently in his fifth season racing for Mercedes in F1, having routinely agreed one-year contract extensions with the team, the most recent of which expires at the end of the 2021 campaign. Mercedes is set to be a focal point of the driver market silly season for next year as both Bottas and

Norris, 21, made his F1 debut with McLaren in 2019, and has since scored two podium finishes for the team, the most recent coming at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in April. The British youngster’s McLaren contract was due to expire at the end of the year, but the team announced on Wednesday ahead of