Formula 1

Following years of discussions about getting a race in Miami, F1 chiefs announced on Sunday that a 10-year deal had been signed for a grand prix to be held around the city’s famous Hard Rock Stadium. While no firm date has yet been set for the inaugural event in 2022, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has

After finishing ninth in final practice on Saturday morning at Imola, Alonso struggled throughout qualifying, scraping through Q1 before propping up the timesheets in Q2. In his second qualifying session since returning to F1 after a two-year absence, Alonso finished four-tenths off a Q3 berth, setting an identical lap time to Williams’ Nicholas Latifi. Alpine

The 23-year-old Briton, who will start 12th on the grid at Imola, was switching to his Mercedes power unit’s push mode in Q1 when he got sideways and ran across the gravel. He was trying to leave the change to the last possible moment in order to gain the maximum benefit over his flying lap.

Perez bounced back from a difficult Friday that saw him crash into Esteban Ocon in FP1 and struggle to feature with the frontrunners in FP2 by qualifying second at Imola. It marked Perez’s best-ever F1 qualifying result, beating his previous best starting position of third, as he fell just 0.035 seconds shy of pole-sitter Lewis

Bottas topped both Friday practice sessions at Imola for Mercedes ahead of his team-mate Hamilton, as main Formula 1 world titles Red Bull struggled at the Italian circuit. In the first session Sergio Perez clashed with Esteban Ocon in a session hit by technical issues that impacted both TV coverage, radio and data communications, with

McLaren was able to retain its position as the midfield leader from 2020 during the opening race weekend in Bahrain last month as Norris finished fourth, only trailing Mercedes and Red Bull cars. But Friday’s practice running at Imola saw Ferrari take a big step forward compared to its showing in Bahrain as Charles Leclerc

Just three weeks on from Mazepin’s first-lap exit at the Bahrain GP, the young Russian endured a difficult first practice at Imola as he spun on his installation lap and then crashed at the end of FP1. Having had a run of incidents throughout the F1 season opening weekend, Mazepin’s error-strewn start to his grand

Despite Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, Mercedes thinks it is behind rival Red Bull in pace terms, and knows it needs to make improvements to its W12 in order to continue its unbeaten run of titles in the turbo hybrid era. Balance issues, and a particularly tricky rear end hampered both

The event, scheduled for the 12-13 June weekend after the Azerbaijan GP as the second part of a flyaway double-header, has been in doubt for some time. Turkey, which held a race at short notice in 2020 and is conveniently located on the freight route home from Azerbaijan, is waiting in reserve as a replacement.

Formula 1 teams are no stranger to using cutting edge technology in their bid to find an advantage over rivals. In recent years, there has been a slow march forward in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as teams increasingly lean on computers to make sense of the masses of data

The Australian joined the Woking-based team at the start of this year, as he bids to help the outfit get back to winning ways. But beyond the F1 ambitions, McLaren’s involvement in IndyCar, plus CEO Zak Brown’s association with Supercars, has teed up a good chance of some running outside of grand prix cars. Brown

On paper, the result of the season opener in Bahrain may have done little to suggest Mercedes’ Formula 1 domination could be nearing an end in 2021. But amid the disappointment felt on the Red Bull pit wall in the aftermath of Max Verstappen’s defeat to Lewis Hamilton, there was an underlying optimism that this

Renault rebranded its works F1 team under the Alpine brand for 2021 as part of the ‘Renaulution’ within the company that was instigated by new CEO Luca de Meo following his takeover last summer. But Renault is not currently supplying any other F1 teams with power units after its customer McLaren contract ended last year,

Every year, the Belgian Grand Prix provides racing fans with the ultimate motorsport spectacle. Both drivers and fans alike will mark the date on their calendar as Formula 1 returns from the summer break in style. It’s an event that F1’s hardcore fans will endeavour to make at least once. The chance to see the

Following an action-packed opener in Bahrain, the F1 paddock has returned to Europe to get the campaign rolling again by heading back to Imola – which made its return to the F1 calendar last year for the first time since 2006. Lewis Hamilton leads the early F1 world drivers’ championship standings thanks to his dramatic

For the first time in the turbo hybrid era, a team other than Mercedes has started a campaign with the fastest package – as Verstappen’s Red Bull squad led the way in the Bahrain season opener last month. Verstappen took pole for the event, but lost victory to Lewis Hamilton after Mercedes’ aggressive strategy calls

F1 is bracing itself for a rules revolution in 2022, with the sport switching to all-new ground effect cars that it hopes will improve the racing. The extent of the changes for next season means teams cannot afford to fall behind in early development. That is because the biggest performance steps will be found during

But, have we seen enough evidence from just the first race to judge who’s on the right track and who’ll have to think again? On one side, we have the conventional thinkers who have taken the new rules at complete face value when it comes to dealing with the lost floor section. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo,

The French car manufacturer endured a tough season opener in Bahrain, with neither Fernando Alonso nor Esteban Ocon managing to finish in the points. Alonso’s hopes were wrecked in the race by overheating brakes, triggered by a sandwich wrapper getting caught in the car, while Ocon was left on the backfoot by poorly timed yellow

Although Leclerc and Vettel had some famous clashes on the track, the pair did actually work well together during their two seasons as team-mates at Ferrari. Reflecting on their partnership and what he would miss about Vettel, Leclerc has said that it was the German’s intelligent approach to the job that stood out for him.

The pace shown by F1’s top two teams at the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix left Mercedes in no doubt that its form had been hit by new rules introduced this year. In particular, it believes that changes to the floor aimed at cutting downforce have hurt lowrake cars like its own and Aston Martin

Schumacher and Haas team-mate Nikita Mazepin propped up the timesheets during qualifying for the Bahrain season-opener two weeks ago, finishing 19th and 20th respectively. Haas opted against significant development for the VF-21 car, treating 2021 as a transition year in order to place focus on the new regulations coming in 2022. Schumacher finished eight-tenths of

Alpine failed to score any points in its first grand prix since the rebrand of Renault’s works operation as it failed to take the fight to its upper-midfield rivals from 2020. Esteban Ocon spent the majority of the race outside of the points after dropping out in Q1 and was hit by Sebastian Vettel in

After a difficult 2020 campaign where Ferrari finished sixth overall, the team appeared to make some good progress in the season-opening Bahrain GP, with both Sainz and Leclerc finishing in the points. Leclerc has already made reference to Ferrari shaking off the “strange” atmosphere that dogged it at the start of last year and in an exclusive interview

Albon was dropped by the senior Red Bull outfit over the winter for failing to consistently match team-mate Max Verstappen in 2020, with ex-Racing Point driver Sergio Perez hired as his replacement. Unlike his predecessors Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly, who were placed at the then-Toro Rosso team following their demotions from Red Bull Racing,

The McLaren driver believes the championship needs to reconsider its attitude to crashes, feeling that too much effort is made in glorifying accidents rather than focusing on F1’s other elements. Last year, Ricciardo spoke to F1 chiefs to voice his displeasure at the way that they had repeatedly played repeats of Romain Grosjean’s fiery accident

If successful, it would lead to a memorandum of understanding between the city, the Miami Dophins organisation and F1 to hold the race on a purpose-built circuit around the Hard Rock Stadium, home of the Dolphins NFL team. Miami Gardens is a city 16 miles north of Miami, and its council will vote next Wednesday

As part of a push by the FIA to slow cars down for this year, a number of changes were made to the regulations to cut downforce. A section of floor has been removed ahead of the rear wheels, plus new restrictions have been imposed on brake ducts and diffuser dimensions. With downforce cut by

Gasly and AlphaTauri starred in qualifying for F1’s season opener, with the Frenchman starting fifth behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and ahead of McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris. Gasly’s rookie team-mate Yuki Tsunoda also showed flashes of speed but missed out on a Q3 spot. AlphaTauri’s qualifying pace has given Gasly confidence that the

In an exclusive interview with Autosport, Verstappen discussed his rivalry with the seven-time world champion, which has taken on a new dimension at the start of the 2021 season as the Dutchman’s Red Bull team has begun a campaign with the fastest car for the first time in the turbo hybrid era. This led to