Valtteri Bottas was the Mercedes driver to beat in Friday's first practice for the Russian GP, two-tenths up on Lewis Hamilton. read more »

F1 will ditch its traditional four-day race weekend format for the Monaco Grand Prix from 2022, bringing the principality's race in line with every other grand prix... read more »

Earlier this month, it was confirmed that from next season it will be compulsory for teams to field rookie/young drivers on Fridays at grand prix weekends, although the exact... read more »

Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix will scrap its traditional rest day next year and hold practice on Friday like the other races on the calendar, according to the... read more »

Monaco has traditionally spread its race weekend over four days, holding the opening two practice sessions on Thursday before using Friday as a rest day for the F1 paddock.The... read more »

McLaren are fully behind the idea to create in-season sessions where it would be mandatory to run a young driver. read more »

Friday practices for young drivers are "coming in" says Ross Brawn, there are just a few details that still need to be ironed out. read more »

At Silverstone and Monza, the two venues that have hosted sprint qualifying races so far this year, Friday practice is reduced to just 60 minutes of running instead of the... read more »

The Australian ended a victory drought for McLaren that stretched back to 2012 as he led team-mate Lando Norris to grab a 1-2 finish at Monza last weekend.Speaking amid... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo was in a "pretty dark" place after being narrowly beaten by Lando Norris and Max Verstappen in Friday qualifying at Monza. read more »

Teams have long had the opportunity to run junior drivers on Fridays this year, but only a few have used it due to a lack track time now, with Williams and Alfa Romeo among the... read more »

F1 is holding three sprint qualifying trials this year, with two having already taken place at the British and Italian Grands Prix. A final one is set for Brazil later in the... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has indicated that he will return to Formula 1 action at the next event in Russia following his positive test for Covid-19. Raikkonen returned a positive test... read more »

Charles Leclerc has outlined that his display during the Italian Grand Prix was among his top five performances of his Formula 1 career. Leclerc qualified eighth on Friday but... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo said he had a feeling on Friday that something good would happen at the Italian GP, and it turned out to be a victory. read more »

Gasly qualified sixth on Friday at Monza, only to pick up front wing damage on the opening lap of the sprint race, causing him to crash at Curva Grande.With Gasly due to start... read more »

Verstappen will start Sunday's race from pole position because of sprint race winner Valtteri Bottas dropping to the rear of the field thanks to Mercedes giving him a... read more »

The Mercedes driver will not be officially credited with pole for the Monza event after the FIA decided that the accolade would usually go to the winner of F1 sprint events,... read more »

F1 staged its second sprint race on Saturday at Monza after debuting the 100km event at Silverstone back in July, setting the grid for the Sunday grand prix after holding... read more »

Max Verstappen says he is not anticipating an easy race win at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix from pole position. Verstappen qualified third on Friday but moved up to... read more »

After locking out the front row of the grid for the sprint race in qualifying on Friday, Mercedes continued to lead proceedings at Monza as it swept to the head of the field... read more »

Antonio Giovinazzi achieved his second consecutive Q3 appearance as he made it into the top ten at Monza on Friday afternoon. read more »

Qualifying and Friday? They still do not fit really together even if there were times when qualifying was split into two parts with the first session taking place on Friday. In... read more »

As the value of a slipstream is so high at the high-speed track, qualifying sessions at Monza have always been fraught as drivers battle for track position to get a tow from... read more »

Today's press conference with Franz Tost and Frederic Vasseur. read more »