While the fast sections of the new Jeddah track are expected to favour Mercedes in the fight at the front, the characteristics looks set to blow wide open the battle for best... read more »

George Russell says it was a "big deal" that he beat an Alfa Romeo in Brazil as they are Williams' closest rival for P8. read more »

A good result in terms of the championship, given that we have doubled our lead over our closest rivals. read more »

Formula 1's closest battle is set to continue to at this weekend's Mexican Grand Prix but it is not between the leading two championship contenders.  read more »

Having both cars starting in the top 10, ahead of a number of our closest rivals, provides us with a few more options in our fight for points tomorrow and our battle for fifth... read more »

Following Nico Rosberg's shock retirement, Vettel led a resurgent Ferrari to become Hamilton's closest challenger in the 2017 and 2018 campaigns.Hamilton and Mercedes... read more »

Nikita Mazepin said team-mate Mick Schumacher is his 'closest friend' in F1, when he was asked about who he is closest with in the sport. read more »

Lewis Hamilton was again quickest in second practice for the Turkish Grand Prix with Charles Leclerc was his closest challenger on Friday afternoon. read more »

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen find themselves embroiled in one of the closest title fights in Formula 1 history heading into the final seven races of the season.  read more »

Nikita Mazepin revealed Haas had tried to play a "trick" on their closest rivals in free practice for the Russian Grand Prix - but it did not work. read more »

Alpine's Executive Director Marcin Budkowski believes the close fight between Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon highlights the strength of the team's line-up. Alonso... read more »

The Red Bull driver enjoyed a tow through the last sector to deliver a mighty 1m09.623s, which was the only lap to break the 1m10s barrier and he ran a full 0.556s clear at the... read more »

Join Fernando Alonso for a flying lap around Spa. This is the closest most of us will get to driving a Formula 1 car! For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Follow... read more »

With the 2021 driver championship shaping up to be a fight to the finish between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, we look back on some epic title battles that went down to... read more »

Max Verstappen claimed pole position for the Austrian GP after edging out surprise closest challenger Lando Norris in a thrilling climax to qualifying, with Mercedes forced to... read more »

Our long run pace seems quite competitive compared to our closest rivals. Where we did struggle a bit was with our qualifying pace, which it is not usually the case. read more »

The Thrustmaster Ferrari SF1000 Edition looks good even when its not being used! read more »

Sainz and Norris raced together at McLaren in 2019 and 2020, striking up one of the closest partnerships on the grid as they lifted the team to third place in the... read more »

With polesitter Charles Leclerc not starting the race, after the left-side driveshaft of his Ferrari (that he crashed in qualifying) failed on his installation lap, the door... read more »

Max Verstappen won the Monaco Grand Prix of 2021, making most of the opportunity after the pole sitter and Bottas, his closest challenger, retired from the race. Carlos Sainz... read more »

The situation surrounding drivers benefiting from causing red flags became a talking point at the Monaco Grand Prix after Charles Leclerc secured pole position when he crashed... read more »

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc secured pole position for his home Monaco GP despite dramatically crashing on his final lap, in an accident which prematurely ended the... read more »

As F1 heads to its blue riband event in Monaco, which has regularly been one of the most watched races on TV over recent years (not last season because it didn't take... read more »

The Ferrari driver emerged from the second free practice session at Barcelona as the closest challenger to Mercedes after a strong day's running in which he lapped just... read more »

The world champion topped second free practice for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, as main title rival Red Bull had a more tricky day around the Barcelona... read more »