Formula 1

Aston Martin protested against the qualifying result in Shanghai after Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz rejoined Q2 after spinning off the track. Sainz was stationary for 77 seconds after tapping the wall coming out of the final corner, but the Spaniard managed to get going again and advanced to Q3 at the expense of Aston driver Lance

The German had emerged as one of the key targets for Audi, which is gearing up with its current Sauber partner for its official F1 entry as a works team from 2026. Autosport revealed earlier this week that Audi had been eager to make an early move on getting its driver plans in place, with

F1 has changed its points system several times over the years, with the first structure used in 1950 looking very different to what it is now.  There is even another change on the cards for the 2025 season and a decision over if to introduce it or not will be made later this year –

Newey has decided to leave Red Bull after a two-decade stint as the team’s stalwart designer, playing an instrumental role in designing the cars that propelled Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen to a total of seven drivers’ world championships and six constructors’ titles for Red Bull. The news of Newey’s impending departure was first reported

The German manufacturer has endured a challenging start to the 2024 campaign, with its W15 showing flashes of speed but struggling to deliver consistency through race weekends. Lewis Hamilton and George Russell have battled a ‘knife-edge’ feeling at times, as Mercedes has failed to nail a set-up that exploits the potential that it believes is

In Saturday’s sprint race, Alonso was given a 10-second penalty for a glancing collision with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz towards the end of the race, which resulted in Alonso retiring with a puncture. The next day Stroll received a similar penalty for crashing into the back of RB’s Daniel Ricciardo under safety car conditions, which caused

Under a mid-race safety car, Aston Martin driver Stroll clattered into the back of Ricciardo at the hairpin, which forced the Australian to retire with car damage. Ricciardo was furious with Stroll’s refusal to take blame for the incident, while the Canadian labelled his penalty a “joke”. But amid a tough a thus far point-less

Magnussen was handed a 10-second time penalty for hitting RB rival Yuki Tsunoda during the restart of the race following the first safety car period. As they exited Turn 6, Magnussen appeared to suffer a snap of oversteer and hit the right rear tyre of Tsunoda’s car, sending the Japanese driver into a spin. The

Ferrari has been the 2024 season’s second-best team so far, but didn’t live up to those expectations at last weekend’s Shanghai event. Having had at least one driver on the podium across the first four races, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz only qualified sixth and seventh respectively, six-tenths off Max Verstappen. The pair managed to

McLaren’s Lando Norris started on pole for Saturday morning’s 19-lap sprint race but after going off at the start he fell down to seventh. That became sixth at the chequered flag due to Fernando Alonso’s retirement, finishing in front of team-mate Oscar Piastri but behind both Ferraris. Its race pace relative to the Scuderia seemed

Norris took pole for the sprint and while he went off at the start and struggled with tyre wear throughout the 19-lap event, the Briton did excel in Sunday’s grand prix. Aided by the timing of a mid-race safety car for him to bolt on hard tyres, Norris comfortably held off the Red Bull of

Formula 1 finally headed back to China after the COVID-19 pandemic, where home hero Zhou Guanyu was cheered on passionately – moving the Sauber driver and 2004 Fernando Alonso fan considerably. Zhou was granted a post-race celebration on the grid behind the podium-sharing Red Bull drivers – Lando Norris absent from the initial congratulatory shots

Leclerc and Sainz lined up sixth and seventh respectively, but both lost positions to Mercedes driver George Russell and Haas man Nico Hulkenberg as they crossed paths in Shanghai’s first corner complex. Sainz was pushed wide in Turn 2 by an understeering Leclerc, who visibly struggled to get his tyres up to temperature, further illustrated

The RB driver was penalised having been found guilty of overtaking Haas racer Nico Hulkenberg under safety car conditions on lap 28 at the Shanghai International Circuit. Ricciardo, who has also been handed two penalty points for the offence, had been hit by Lance Stroll at the previous safety car restart, sustaining heavy damage through

Stroll hit Ricciardo under the safety car as the field bunched up in the penultimate corner for a lap 27 restart. The stewards wholly blamed Stroll for not taking more care to avoid the contact and handed him a 10-second penalty and two penalty points, which Stroll felt was “a joke”. His team boss Krack

With the field bunching up before the hairpin as the race was restarted on Lap 27, Stroll went into the back of Ricciardo, lifting the RB car up in the air and causing terminal damage to the Australian’s car. Ricciardo was pushed into McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, who also sustained damage that compromised the rest

The talks will take place when teams join the FIA and F1 management for a gathering of the regular F1 Commission in Geneva and via video conference, as they debate a range of topics relating to technical and sporting matters. One item that has been given prominence on the F1 Commission agenda, which has been

The Australian had come into the Chinese Grand Prix off the back of a difficult start to the season, where he had been struggling for pace against team-mate Yuki Tsunoda and facing questions over his future. With no obvious explanation for his difficulties, the team believed a well-timed change of chassis for this weekend would

Perez enjoyed a solid start to the year with three podiums in four races, all runner-up spots to Verstappen. Those performances have strengthened his position within the team as it is weighing up whether to renew the Mexican’s expiring contract or bring in new blood for 2025 and beyond, with plenty of free agents on

Norris had started from the front after a brilliant showing in Friday’s wet qualifying session, but it all went wrong at Turn 1 of the sprint race after he came off worse in a side-by-side tussle with Lewis Hamilton. Having lost ground away from the grid, he found himself on the dirt on the outside

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AGS Formule 1, which now runs a driving school and experience events, has launched the F1 ’90s Time Attack Mediterranean Challenge for F1 cars built between 1986 and 2000 and 1985-2000 Formula 3000 machinery. Four rounds are planned, starting this weekend at the Historic French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard. The entry for Ricard includes

While teams are often reluctant to introduce major development packages for sprint race weekends, because of limited track running, it does not prevent them seeking gains in other ways. And interestingly, in the team submissions lodged with the FIA for this weekend’s race in Shanghai, three outfits have made revisions to the area surrounding the

The German manufacturer has endured a bruising start to the 2024 season, with it yet to finish on the podium and currently lying in fourth in the constructors’ championship – just one point ahead of Aston Martin. But while on paper its situation does not look promising, Russell thinks that Mercedes’ fate has been exacerbated

Sainz and his management have been engaged in discussions with every F1 team that has an opening for next season when he will be replaced at Ferrari by Lewis Hamilton. Until Fernando Alonso re-signed with Aston Martin last week, this left Sainz weighing up possible options at eight squads, as previously only Ferrari and McLaren

The Thai driver and team-mate Logan Sargeant have faced a challenging start to the season with Williams having been without a spare chassis and not being flush with replacement parts. With Sargeant having been forced to sit out the Australian Grand Prix because of the need for his team-mate to take his car, and the

Five years is an awful long time in Formula 1 and it feels even longer given the global pandemic that interrupted F1’s visits to Shanghai. The last time F1 travelled to China, Max Verstappen had only won five races and RB was still racing as Toro Rosso rather than its previous name AlphaTauri. In the

Verstappen won 19 of the 22 races on the F1 calendar in 2023, and secured last year’s drivers’ championship in early October after finishing second in the Qatar sprint race. His achievements over the past three seasons in F1 have thus ensured his place on this year’s Time 100 list, which includes world leaders, writers,

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From 2026 Honda will move its works engine deal to Aston Martin, ending its successful association with Red Bull. Following Honda’s initial decision to withdraw from F1, which led to Red Bull deciding to take its engines in-house and link up with Ford for 2026, the Japanese brand was forced to seek a new works