Formula 1

The uncertainty facing teams following the COVID-19 crisis is the “final wake-up call” for Formula 1 to become more sustainable, according to McLaren’s Andreas Seidl. F1 teams are currently in talks with the series bosses about actions to try and safeguard its future ahead of the anticipated economic impact the ongoing pandemic will have. Stakeholders

Formula 1’s hopes of getting its 2020 season underway this summer without trouble have been dealt a blow after Belgium’s decision to ban all mass gatherings until 31 August. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first nine grands prix of the 2020 Formula 1 season have already been either postponed or cancelled, with June’s French

Romain Grosjean says the Netflix Drive to Survive series helped showed Haas Formula 1 chief Gunther Steiner’s “surprising” leadership style that avoids any intra-team politics. The Haas team’s woes through the 2019 season were profiled in the second episode of the latest season of Drive to Survive as Grosjean and team-mate Kevin Magnussen struggled with

Formula 1 chiefs should “shake down” the sport’s financial model and slash the budget cap to $75 million amid the uncertainty caused by coronavirus, reckons FE boss Alejandro Agag. Ahead of talks later this week between F1, the FIA and teams about going further than a provisional plan to reduce the cost cap to $150

Formula 1’s ‘Project Pitlane’, which involves the joint efforts of all seven UK-based teams, will produce more than 20,000 ventilators and breathing aids to help the fight against coronavirus. With the assistance of the F1 organisation, the seven teams and their technology arms have worked collectively to respond to the British government’s request for assistance

Sebastian Vettel says winning a personal points battle with Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc matters much less to him than how successful Ferrari is against its rivals. On the back of Leclerc’s impressive first campaign at Maranello last year, in which he won two races and beat his four-time world champion team-mate in the standings,

The French Grand Prix has become the latest Formula 1 race to be thrown into doubt after the French government extended a ban on all mass-gatherings until mid-July. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the opening nine races of the 2020 F1 season to be called off, leaving the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard on

The intense run of races once the Formula 1 season eventually starts will hamper scope for development if teams are left on the back-foot, reckons Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur. The postponement of the Canadian GP amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic has delayed the start of the season further, with the French GP at Paul

McLaren’s Lando Norris says he will not “try and be someone I’m not” when Formula 1 racing resumes, after saying he was at times “too jokey” in his rookie season. Norris has quickly become known for his humour – particularly on social media, as well as in the grand prix paddock – alongside an apparently

The motorsport world has paid tribute to Formula 1 Sir Stirling Moss following his death at the age of 90 on Sunday. Moss was widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers never to win the F1 world championship, finishing as runner-up four times in a career spanning 1951 to 1961. Moss scored 16 victories

To celebrate the life of Sir Stirling Moss, we present this gallery covering his motorsport career – from early wins in sportscars, through his Formula 1 success and his later years. These images include the races Autosport ranked as his greatest drives, and have been selected with the help of several members of the Motorsport

Formula 1 boss Ross Brawn says the sport will need to find the right balance when judging when it’s safe to return to normality amid the coronavirus pandemic. Brawn suggested on Thursday that the season could start as early as July should the current virus situation have improved by then, and that if it does

Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says his team is still uneasy about Racing Point’s ‘pink Mercedes’, with a formal challenge on its legality still not out of the question. Racing Point caused a stir in pre-season testing when it revealed an RP20 design that was based on last year’s title-winning Mercedes W10. While the Silverstone-based

While Formula 1’s championship battle last year was not the closest in history, the season did produce a series of sensational races. The Italian Grand Prix, which has been re-run on F1’s channels today, was one such classic, as Charles Leclerc brilliantly held off Lewis Hamilton to claim an emotional win just a week after

Renault has put the majority of the Formula 1 staff at its Enstone factory on furlough in a bid to try to protect the team’s future in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. With all F1 teams facing cashflow problems because of the lack of racing, a number of outfits have already moved to make

Join Stuart Codling for the second Autosport Formula 1 Pub Quiz! To play along, get your pens and paper at the ready and don’t forget to write your answers in the comments too! There will be five rounds of 10 questions, ranging from simple to super hard (those should be the new tyre compounds!), designed

It is notoriously difficult to rank Formula 1 drivers. The difference in machinery, competitiveness of the era and context of the times makes direct comparison impossible. But it is possible to pick a selection of the best, each excelling in different ways at different times to illustrate the depth and range of talent that F1

FIA President Jean Todt says motorsport and Formula 1 is facing a new reality and requires a new approach as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking for the first time publicly about the crisis in an exclusive interview with Autosport, Todt says F1 costs were “still crazy” and will need to be slashed further

Lando Norris feels he has gained “respect” after completing his first Formula 1 season, and that this has led to McLaren listening to and relying more to his feedback. Norris finished 11th in the 2019 championship – his rookie campaign after a rapid rise through the junior ranks – as he and his team-mate Carlos

McLaren’s Zak Brown says a “couple of teams” are “playing with fire” by resisting a further Formula 1 cost cap reduction, and warned they could end up racing themselves. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, teams have provisionally agreed to lower the 2021 cost cap from $175m to $150m as part of a variety

Motorsport Heroes, the feature-length documentary available to watch on Motorsport.tv, follows the incredible racing careers of five icons of the sport. One of those heroes is 11-time Formula 1 race winner Felipe Massa, who charts the soaring highs and crushing lows of a career which saw him race for Sauber, Ferrari and Williams. From the

FIA president Jean Todt says he would “love” to release the details about the Ferrari engine controversy and the team’s sanction, but the Scuderia is stopping him from doing so. Speaking exclusively to Autosport for the first time since the row over the private agreement between the FIA and Ferrari erupted over a settlement regarding

Sebastian Vettel says Formula 1’s “ridiculous” amount of downforce at the moment still cannot make up for the current generation of cars being too heavy. F1’s car weight has shot up under the turbo hybrid era, with the arrival of the halo head safety device in 2018 also helping contribute to the cars now topping

The FIA has confirmed the mandatory shutdown for all Formula 1 teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been extended. After the opening eight races of the 2020 season were called off, F1 teams agreed last month to bring the usual August shutdown period forward to free up more time in the summer for races

The Canadian Grand Prix has officially joined the list of postponed 2020 Formula 1 races as the COVID-19 crisis continues to impact sport worldwide. Scheduled for 14 June, the Montreal event is the ninth to be lost thus far, leaving the French GP on 28 June on the bubble as the first race of this

Mercedes has revealed that its Formula 1 engine facility at Brixworth has been entirely repurposed for the production of breathing aids to assist COVID-19 patients. Members of Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrain worked with engineers from University College London to reverse engineer Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines that received approval for NHS usage last week.

Toto Wolff says he is committed to Mercedes in the “short term”, but expects to stay at the team amid speculation that he may join Aston Martin’s Formula 1 project. The Mercedes motorsport boss’s future has been the subject of intense speculation for months, with his current contract running out at the end of 2020.

Williams has confirmed it has placed a number of its Formula 1 staff on furlough as well as introducing pay cuts for its drivers and senior management members. As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact F1, teams are anticipating financial difficulties onset by a lack of revenue due to the cancelled races. McLaren was

McLaren Formula 1 CEO Zak Brown has cautioned that the series could lose as many as four teams if the coronavirus crisis “isn’t handled the right way”. With no races currently taking place until at least June, after the opening eight rounds were either cancelled or postponed, all teams are facing a financial squeeze. They

Formula 1 could impose an engine development freeze on the current powerunits as an emergency measure if there needs to be a further dramatic reduction in costs to save teams. With the coronavirus pandemic having a major financial impact on everyone involved in the series, discussions are already under way between the competitors, the FIA