His team-mate Sergio Perez led from pole position, running medium tyres like the majority of the field, while Verstappen started ninth on hards after his qualifying woes... read more »

The Dutchman won from ninth on the grid, after losing out on a shot to set a qualifying time on Saturday after botching his first run, and was denied a further chance by... read more »

Esteban Ocon was first on track and first to set a lap, posting a 1m31.125s on the medium compound which proved to be enough for an early edge over Lewis Hamilton on softs.The... read more »

Kevin Magnussen led the pack around at the start of the early running on the medium and hard tyres - the Dane therefore establishing the first place benchmark at 1m36.852s... read more »

Alongside Haas' Nico Hulkenberg, Alpine driver Ocon had completed the entire race on the hard tyre, hoping for a late red flag to give him a free, mandatory swap to a... read more »

In the end the team had nothing to gain by so doing and the anomaly in the regulations is set to be addressed before the next sprint event in Austria.McLaren could potentially... read more »

We now have a much better, in-depth understanding of the soft and medium compounds' behaviour in race conditions and that will allow us to define the best possible... read more »

As revealed by Autosport a loophole has emerged in the new sprint format regulations regarding the usage of tyres in the shootout.Drivers are obliged to use one set of new... read more »

The rule in question relates to tyre usage for the three-part Saturday shootout session that determines the grid for the sprint later in the day.The intent of the rule is that... read more »

Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali says prospective new F1 teams must bring value to the championship in the medium to long term, as the deadline looms for formal... read more »

A one-stopper remains the optimal strategy, with medium-hard being theoretically fastest and soft-hard slightly slower. read more »

Verstappen led the pack out of the pits at the start of FP2, but it was Carlos Sainz who logged the first time to set the first place benchmark, the Spaniard putting in a... read more »

Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso led the way before rain influenced proceedings in second practice for Formula 1's Australian Grand Prix. The second one-hour session... read more »

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc both lost ground to rivals ahead on the hards - having started on the medium and soft respectively - on their way to distant sixth and seventh... read more »

Mercedes has explained why it didn't swap its drivers after the Safety Car restart during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. On lap 18, both George Russell and Lewis Hamilton... read more »

Pirelli has revealed their expected strategies for the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and with the likes of Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc set to start the race out of... read more »

The constantly evolving track conditions and improvements to the setup that teams will make in FP3 suggest that a one-stop strategy using medium and soft is most likely for the... read more »

Mercedes have brought a new medium downforce rear wing to the F1 season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.  read more »

Rivals and pundits who crunched the numbers after the three days of running at Sakhir reckon it might be so.The car looked good from the start, but it was a race distance... read more »

The Silverstone-based squad stood out on the grid this year for the way that it frequently went in to grand prix races with no new medium and hard compound tyres left.That was... read more »

Max Verstappen says that Red Bull faces a tall task if it wishes to carry its on-track form in 2022 over to next year. The Dutchman dominated Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix... read more »

There is an estimated gap of 0.3s per lap between both the hard and medium compounds and the medium and soft compounds respectively. read more »

Aston Martin duo Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll opened the final practice session of 2022 on a toasty Yas Marina Circuit, with conditions not entirely representative of this... read more »

Lewis Hamilton took fourth in FP2, where all the regular 2022 drivers were at the wheels of their machines after seven made way for seven young or reserve drivers in FP1.For... read more »

The incident happened on the first flying lap after a safety car period triggered by a clash between Kevin Magnussen and Daniel Ricciardo just after the original start. Norris... read more »