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11:21 AM ET For a short time during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Christian Horner was sure Daniel Ricciardo was about to repeat his heroics from China earlier this year and charge through the field for victory. Ricciardo appeared to be on the best strategy after the pit-stop window, having stretched out his opening stint
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11:44 AM ET Connor McDonagh Toro Rosso has announced Thai-British driver Alexander Albon will drive for the team alongside Daniil Kvyat in 2019. Albon spent 2018 competing in Formula 2, eventually ending the year third overall behind George Russell and Lando Norris — both of whom have earned F1 promotions to Williams and McLaren respectively.
Aryton Senna’s MP4-4 is tested at Silverstone prior to its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
1:23 PM ET MANAMA, Bahrain — Fernando Alonso was genuinely impressed by the performance of seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson when the two drivers swapped rides at the Bahrain International Circuit on Monday. Fernando Alonso is leaving F1 with just two world titles to his name and he only has himself to blame. Ahead of
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Alvaro Bautista will rejoin Ducati’s factory MotoGP line-up for this week’s two-day Jerez test. Bautista has moved across to Ducati’s World Superbike project after losing his seat with the satellite Nieto Ducati team in MotoGP, getting his first experience of the marque’s new Panigale V4 R at Jerez on Monday. He previously made a lone
Neil Oatley remembers the MP4-4 – one of the most dominant F1 cars of all time. The machine behind Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in their legendary 1988 season.
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso have had the first chance to try each other’s cars out during the ‘JJxALO’ car swap in Bahrain. After Alonso prompted an early change to the day’s programme when he asked for a brief run in the 2013 Mercedes-powered MP4-28 in the morning,
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Formula 1 world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have swapped crash helmets to show their respect for each other at the end of the 2018 season. The Mercedes and Ferrari drivers have battled for the last two world titles, with Hamilton coming out on top both times. Following the Abu Dhabi F1 season finale
It’s been 22 years since McLaren and Honda last raced together, forming a near-unbeatable partnership that dominated Formula 1 in the 1980s and ’90s. The racing landscape may have changed immeasurably since the days of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, but there are still clear links that bind the two manufacturers together. Take a close
Alexander Albon is expected to be announced as a 2019 Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver in the coming days, having completed extracting himself from his Nissan Formula E deal. Albon was a Formula 2 title contender this season, although he slipped from second to third in the F2 points behind Lando Norris after Sunday’s finale
The crumbling kerb that did not “look very Formula 1 standard” in Abu Dhabi last weekend was caused by the concrete being pulled off by the thick paint on top. In Friday practice the long 50cm-high sausage kerb added to the outside of the penultimate corner to help police track limits started to “fall apart”,
Fernando Alonso was “very impressed” with NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson’s performance in a Formula 1 car in their drive swap test in Bahrain. Two-time F1 world champion Alonso sampled Johnson’s NASCAR Chevrolet, as the seven-time Cup champion drove a 2013 McLaren MP4-28 with a Mercedes V8 engine. GALLERY: Alonso and Johnson swap cars Alonso initially
Toro Rosso-Honda has announced that Alexander Albon will be Daniil Kvyat’s 2019 team-mate, filling what was effectively the final vacancy on next year’s Formula 1 grid. The news means 19 of the 20 seats have been revealed, with the official announcement of Lance Stroll’s move to Racing Point Force India the only anomaly. Albon had
5:07 AM ET ABU DHABI — In many ways, Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix felt like the end of an era. Up and down the grid there were a number of significant departures and farewells, all of which will give the sport a different feel when it reconvenes after the winter for pre-season testing next
7:11 AM ET Connor McDonagh Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has stressed the importance of getting Valtteri Bottas “back to a good place” after he endured another difficult weekend at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. As the curtain falls on the 2018 Formula One season, Laurence Edmondson asks if final race of the season marks the
6:47 AM ET Connor McDonagh 2018 title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have taken the opportunity to swap their Formula One helmets as a mark of ”respect” following the conclusion of the season in Abu Dhabi. Hamilton and Vettel have fought each other for the drivers’ title in the last two seasons, with the
Mercedes could have given itself an edge over its rivals for this week’s Formula 1 tyre test in Abu Dhabi with the clever use of sensors. This week’s two-day run at the Yas Marina Circuit is aimed at giving teams the chance to test F1’s 2019 tyre construction and compounds. In a bid to stop
Fernando Alonso made a surprise return to the cockpit of a Formula 1 car in Bahrain on Monday – just 17 hours on from his emotional farewell in Abu Dhabi. The double world champion had waved goodbye to his career as an official F1 driver – at least for now – at Yas Marina on
Lewis Hamilton ended his title-winning Formula 1 season by dominating the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which featured a dramatic first-lap crash for Nico Hulkenberg. Hamilton ran the longest second stint of any driver after pitting under an early virtual safety car period, but he remained comfortably clear of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to the end. Max
Daniel Ricciardo says his alternative strategy that allowed him to lead part of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix left him “out of reach” in the lead battle at the end. The Red Bull driver led 17 laps during the middle phase of the race, as he stayed out longer than the other frontrunning cars. While
Nico Hulkenberg says he couldn’t see Romain Grosjean as they clashed on the opening lap of the Abu Dhabi race, which sent the Renault Formula 1 driver into his spectacular accident. The duo were fighting over seventh place as they approached the Turn 8/9 chicane at the end of the Yas Marina circuit’s main straight.
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says recording videos with film star Will Smith “completely changed” his pre-race pattern and added to an “unconventional” Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. Smith was a guest of Hamilton’s Mercedes team this weekend and the duo recorded a light-hearted video in the build-up to the race where Hamilton was
Max Verstappen says oil from Pierre Gasly’s failing Honda Formula 1 engine left him with a “horrible” lack of vision in the closing laps of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver, whose team switches from Renault to Honda power for next year, was behind his 2019 team-mate Gasly’s Toro Rosso as it
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas says his Abu Dhabi Grand Prix performance mirrored his 2018 Formula 1 season as a whole, as it started off promisingly before “everything turned to shit”. The Finn shared the front row with team-mate Lewis Hamilton, and kept second place behind the world champion at the start of the race. But
FIA race director Charlie Whiting says Nico Hulkenberg’s halo did not compromise the Renault Formula 1 driver’s extraction following his first lap crash in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hulkenberg’s came to rest upside down, leaning against the barrier at the outside of the Turn 8/9 chicane, after he was sent into a series of
The FIA stewards at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix were “surprised” by Fernando Alonso’s repeated corner cutting in the closing stages, according to Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting. Alonso received three consecutive five-second time penalties for leaving the track and gaining an advantage in the closing laps of his last F1 start. Alonso was