Formula 1

With no motorsport for the foreseeable future, Formula 1 fans need to look elsewhere to feed their racing addiction over the coming months. Fortunately there are a plethora of motorsport books out there going back well over half a century covering the lives of the paddock’s brightest stars. From Virginia Williams’ insight into the fortunes

Daniel Ricciardo says the cancellation of the Monaco Grand Prix “hurt” as the reality of the delayed start to the Formula 1 season begins to set in. The opening eight races of the 2020 season have all been called off as a result of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, with the events in Australia and Monaco

Charles Leclerc doubts Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel will be destabilised by his expiring Ferrari contract through 2020, expecting the German to be “very strong”. Leclerc managed to beat Vettel in their first season together at Ferrari in 2019, scoring his first two F1 victories in Belgium and Italy en route to fourth place in

Formula 1’s stable rules for 2020 were expected to lead to design convergence between the top teams, but there has still been room for divergence among their respective suspension designs. The arrangements that Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull have produced, particularly with the placement of their steering assemblies, suspension arms and heave dampers all show

The McLaren Formula 1 team staff that had been quarantined in Melbourne due to coronavirus concerns since the aborted 2020 Australian Grand Prix will return to the UK this week. McLaren pulled out of the Melbourne event, which was ultimately cancelled, after one of its team staff tested positive for COVID-19 the night before the

Coronavirus might mean uncertain times for Formula 1 with the world’s sport postponed indefinitely, but there is still plenty of ways for fans to get a regular motorsport fix. In the last 10 years alone a wide range of F1-based documentaries have hit the market and now is the perfect time to capitalise on the

McLaren has confirmed that it will continue with plans to switch to Mercedes power units for 2021, despite chassis designs being frozen for the next Formula 1 season. Within the current storm of the coronavirus pandemic, the much-vaunted technical changes for the 2021 F1 season have been delayed by a year in response to the

Formula 1 boss Chase Carey expects the 2020 season to consist of “15-18 races” once it gets underway, and will likely extend past its original November 29 end date. The current F1 campaign came under further delay on Monday due to the coronavirus pandemic, after June’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix was formally postponed – an expected

The Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix has formally been postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Baku City Circuit has announced. The Baku street event, scheduled for 7 June, becomes the eighth grand prix to be lost from the 2020 calendar as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. It joins Australia, Bahrain, Vietnam,

Lando Norris is planning to use a one-off helmet at every Formula 1 race this season after the FIA lifted the ban on design changes for 2020. Drivers were previously only permitted two substantial design changes per season, only for F1’s governing body to announce last week it had removed the ruling. Norris has taken

The start of the 2020 Formula 1 season looks set for an extended delay with Baku expected to announce on Monday that it is postponing its grand prix. The coronavirus pandemic has already forced F1 to call off the first seven grands prix of the year, but there had been some hope that the event

Max Verstappen is pleased Zandvoort has managed to retain its old-school track characteristics despite undergoing renovations for the revival of the Dutch Grand Prix. An extensive upgrade was completed at Zandvoort ahead of the planned return of Formula 1 on May 3, only for the coronavirus epidemic to force the postponement of the race. Renovations

Max Verstappen says he won’t be participating in Formula 1’s Virtual Grand Prix series, which starts with the Bahrain event on Sunday. In a bid to fill the void left by the coronavirus-postponed races, F1 announced on Friday it had set up an Esports series to replace those lost races featuring a mix of current

Formula 1’s re-running of the full 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix has given us the chance to look back on one of the most exciting grands prix of recent years. Here, we reflect on how the main players reacted to a spectacular race, where Lewis Hamilton’s brilliant charge to victory around Interlagos set up the prospect

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he is healthy and training hard while in self-isolation despite participating in an event after which other VIP guests tested positive for COVID-19. Hamilton was one of many celebrities who attended the WE Day UK event at London’s SSE Arena in Wembley on 4 March, before he travelled

The 2020 Formula 1 season may be delayed for some time owing to the coronavirus outbreak, but pre-season testing at Barcelona offered some insight into how it may play out. Although it is impossible to truly predict the order of the teams from testing programs, certain teams and drivers looked distinctly stronger than others –

Work on the Monaco Formula 1 circuit is still going ahead in case May’s race can take place, despite a local ban halting public construction coming into force this week. State-backed projects are to be put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, but an exception has been made for work on Quai des Etats-Unis

Formula 1 is to run a series of Esports Virtual Grands Prix this year, featuring a number of the current drivers, in place of the upcoming postponed races. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 season has been put on indefinite hold after the Australian and Monaco Grands Prix were cancelled, while the races

Formula 1 has postponed the Dutch and Spanish Grands Prix due to coronavirus, while Monaco has been cancelled, with the season only resuming when “it is safe to do so”. With the impact of the virus outbreak expected to last for months, F1 chiefs confirmed on Thursday that the start of the season will be

Chase Carey says Formula 1 is “fully committed to launching a 2020 season as soon as possible”, and confirms teams won’t have to formally approve any changes to the calendar. The calendar was one of the main subjects on the agenda in a phone conference on Thursday involving Carey, Ross Brawn and all 10 team

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto says his team will back a move to delay Formula 1’s 2021 rules package for a year, insisting now is not the time to be ‘selfish’. Earlier this week, nine of the current 10 outfits gave their support to a radical plan to hold back on the 2021 rules package

McLaren has confirmed that the seven Formula 1 team personnel who were given coronavirus tests while in quarantine in Australia have been given the all-clear. In the wake of a McLaren staff member being confirmed as having contracted the virus, the outfit withdrew from the season opening grand prix in Melbourne last weekend. A further

Formula 1 has agreed to bring forward the summer shutdown in a bid to help free up the August break in case racing can resume. With the current grand prix season on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, F1’s chiefs are looking at the possibility of holding some races in August in a bid to

Mercedes has backed away from its involvement with the group of teams complaining about the FIA’s secret agreement with Ferrari over its 2019 Formula 1 engine, Autosport has learned. In the wake of motor racing’s governing body announcing that it had reached a private settlement with Ferrari over suspicions its engine was illegal, all the

Carlos Sainz has offered “big hugs” to his McLaren Formula 1 team members stuck in quarantine in Melbourne following last weekend’s cancelled Australian Grand Prix. The Spaniard’s McLaren team was at the centre of a coronavirus scare in Melbourne last weekend when a team member was found to have contracted it. That prompted the outfit

Renault has not ruled out Sebastian Vettel as a 2021 Formula 1 option if it loses Daniel Ricciardo, but suggests its preference would be to go for a youngster instead. The French car manufacturer’s contract with Ricciardo runs out at the end of this year, and the Australian has already been strongly linked with a

McLaren racing director Andrea Stella and other key figures from the team are voluntarily remaining in Melbourne for the next two weeks in support of colleagues in quarantine for coronavirus. After a McLaren team member was confirmed as having contracted the virus, another 14 members of the squad were put into self isolation as a

A member of Pirelli’s Formula 1 operations has tested positive for coronavirus following tests conducted by Australian authorities. In the wake of the Australian Grand Prix being cancelled following a McLaren team member testing positive for COVID-19, several other staff members from the paddock were put in to self-isolation after displaying symptoms of the virus.

Red Bull was poised to protest Mercedes at the Australian Grand Prix if it had run with its Dual Axis Steering (DAS) system, Autosport has learned. Mercedes caused a stir at pre-season testing when it unleashed the concept that alters the toe angle of the front wheels through drivers pushing and pulling the steering wheel,

Haas Formula 1 team boss Guenther Steiner says it was “normal” that there were clashing views among the teams when cancellation of the Australian GP was first discussed. Team bosses met with Ross Brawn on Thursday evening in Melbourne shortly after McLaren had confirmed that it was withdrawing from the race, due to one of