Mercedes deflects Lewis Hamilton's assertion he was solely to blame for his poor start in the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka. read more »

A dejected Lewis Hamilton has refused to blame his disastrous Japanese GP start on difficult track position, admitting he made the mistake. read more »

Lewis Hamilton says the damp patch where he lined up on the starting grid was not to blame for his poor start, rather he "made a mistake." read more »

Poor Lewis Hamilton. It's one thing to lose what looks like being a guaranteed race win when you have yourself to blame -- making a mistake and putting it in the wall, or... read more »

Sebastian Vettel apologises to Nico Rosberg for spinning him at the start of the Malaysian GP... but suggests Max Verstappen had blame too. read more »

New parts in Renault's Formula 1 fuel system were behind Kevin Magnussen's fire in first practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix read more »

Renault have cited a fuel leak from a breather as the cause of the fire that kept Kevin Magnussen out of Friday's first practice at Sepang. read more »

Nico Hulkenberg says Carlos Sainz is not to blame for a first lap incident that saw the German crash out of the Singapore Grand Prix. The Force India driver rocketed off the... read more »

MARINA BAY, Singapore -- Kimi Raikkonen says his Ferrari's lack of "overall grip" was to blame for the 0.956s gap to Nico Rosberg's Mercedes on pole... read more »

McLaren's Jenson Button accepted responsibility for dropping out in Q2 after he clipped the wall during qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix. Button… read more »

Poor starts, embarrassing nicknames and some sarcastic laughter ... it can only be the Monza edition of Radio Ga Ga "Don't worry about the start, it was my... read more »

Lewis Hamilton has been told by his Mercedes team he wasn't to blame for the poor start from pole position which cost him victory of the Italian GP. read more »

There is no blame game: we will come together, analyse everything, learn our lessons and keep on improving. read more »

Toto Wolff says Mercedes will carry out a full investigation into its start clutch procedure back at its Brackley factory read more »

Lewis Hamilton says he is baffled by the poor start that wrecked his Italian Grand Prix and only accepted the blame initially to reassure his Mercedes Formula 1 team read more »

Sebastian Vettel has admitted that he was to blame for last week's first corner clash in Belgium. read more »

Toto Wolff believes high tyre pressures at the Belgian Grand Prix prevented Mercedes extracting the true potential of its car's downforce package, but says he is... read more »

Unsurprisingly, Max Verstappen and his Ferrari rivals see the Spa incident(s) a little differently. read more »

Max Verstappen says Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel did not leave him enough room at the first corner of the Belgian Grand Prix and used the incident to defend moves he... read more »

Max Verstappen has again received criticism for his racing tactics, particularly the aggressive way the young Dutchman is defending his position. The 18-year old however... read more »

Red Bull's Max Verstappen insists the Ferraris were to blame for the contact at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix as they kept squeezing me read more »

Fernando Alonso has refused to blame Sebastian Vettel for failing to make it into Q3, saying he simply was not quicker than 14th during qualifying at Hockenheim. After being... read more »

Force India has accepted the blame for the "miscommunication" that led to Sergio Perez's bungled second pitstop during the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix read more »

Marcus Ericsson has refused to blame the rain for his qualifying crash in Hungary, conceding that the conditions were the same for everyone... read more »

Lewis Hamilton has laid the blame on the new kerbs for his FP2 crash and has questioned the track changes after feeling it has lost character read more »