Disappointed Renault accepts work needed to clear F1 midfield read more »

Haas expects F1 front-runners to increase gap to midfield read more »

Hopes of F1's midfield bridging the gap to the 'big three' front-running teams in 2019 are already fading. read more »

Racing in F1's closely-contested midfield, Lance Stroll throughly enjoyed the "wheel-to-wheel" racing as he scored his first points for Racing Point in Australia. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo will need to develop a "harder skin" and "more patience" if he wants to triumph in this year's midfield battle, says Cyril Abiteboul. read more »

Lance Stroll and Racing Point used a long first stint to their advantage at the Australian Grand Prix to take ninth position. read more »

Mercedes kicked off the 2019 Formula 1 season with a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix, but it was Valtteri Bottas rather than a troubled Lewis Hamilton that took... read more »

Kevin Magnussen sees Haas' qualifying performance in Australia as the US squad proving "clearly" it has established itself at the front of the F1 midfield. read more »

The first answers about the F1 2019 pecking order are in, and Mercedes was in a league of its own at the front of the pack. As our experts Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell explain... read more »

Today's sessions have again highlighted how very tight the midfield pack is, with small differences in lap time having quite big effects on final positions. read more »

Alfa Romeo team boss Fred Vasseur thinks Formula 1's top three teams will rapidly pull clear of the midfield again, despite the gap appearing to have closed over the winter read more »

Kimi Raikkonen says that Formula 1's midfield is "too tight" for any accurate projections to be made over Alfa Romeo's position. read more »

Toro Rosso team boss, Franz Tost, believes that F1 bosses should use the midfield battle as their template for the sport from 2021. read more »

Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost has urged Formula 1 to base its future on midfield teams, which Racing Point driver Sergio Perez expects to produce a "crazy" fight this season read more »

Nico Hülkenberg focusses on the start of the season with Renault at the Australian Grand Prix this weekend, and believes the midfield will be competitive once more in 2019. read more »

Lewis Hamilton believes Formula 1's frontrunners only have half-a-second's advantage over the midfield, and thinks the leading teams from that group could achieve... read more »

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has ordered extra pit-stop practice during pre-season in a bid to avoid a repeat of the double DNF which marred their Australian Grand Prix... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen: Nothing is guaranteed in close midfield read more »

Kevin Magnussen has admitted that he expects an even more "intense" midfield battle in the 2019 Formula 1 season, following on from a closely fought 2018 campaign in... read more »

Fernando Alonso has confirmed he would say yes to a Formula 1 comeback if offered a leading drive. Clearly disillusioned with perpetual life in the midfield, the two-time... read more »

Fernando Alonso impressed by Ferrari and reckons F1's midfield will be even closer in 2019.  read more »

Lewis Hamilton reckons Formula 1's midfield has closed the gap to the top three teams, saying they are "within half a second or maybe less". read more »

Could we see the midfield teams in Formula 1 cause more of a headache for the front-runners in 2019? read more »

Daniel Ricciardo says it is almost impossible to tell where Renault stands in the 2019 F1 pecking order after pre-season testing.  read more »

Every Formula 1 team set its fastest time of pre-season on the penultimate day of the final test, with Ferrari making a bold statement out front. But Charles Leclerc's... read more »