Sebastian Vettel says F1 must be "patient" with its return to racing despite admitting it is "painful" not to be competing.  read more »

Formula 1's teams have been urged to brace themselves in order to get through a "painful" period and make the sport much stronger. read more »

Claire Williams sees the new F1 season as a chance for a fresh start following its painful 2019. read more »

Sirotkin finds it hard to accept that his Formula 1 dream might be over read more »

Ex-Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin says he's found it hard to accept his Formula 1 dream is probably gone "forever", and reckons the loss of his seat is... read more »

Ex-F1 driver David Coulthard says he found watching Williams' struggles throughout the 2019 season "a bit painful".  read more »

Valtteri Bottas says his retirement from the Brazilian Grand Prix and subsequent grid drop would have been "more painful" had he still been in F1 title contention. read more »

Mercedes technical director James Allison says Formula 1 teams are into the "fun" bit of the championship's 2021 rule changes are a negotiating period that got a... read more »

Mercedes technical director James Allison says teams are now tackling the "fun" parts of the 2021 regulations after months of "painful" talks. read more »

Team principal Andreas Seidl says the McLaren Formula 1 team has to understand why it suddenly lost pace on the hard tyre during a "painful" Mexican Grand Prix read more »

McLaren will once again run Mercedes engines in its Formula 1 cars in 2021, after a forgettable period in which its gamble on Honda failed, and the quality of its cars were... read more »

Lewis Hamilton believes he could have "easily won" the Singapore GP if Mercedes took a "risk" with their strategy - and has suggested that the in-form... read more »

Lewis Hamilton expressed his gratitude to Mercedes after getting him ready for qualifying in Belgium after his heavy FP3 crash. read more »

Max Verstappen considers the gap between Red Bull and Ferrari during the qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix to be 'paniful' as the Scuderia powered to a... read more »

Max Verstappen believes Red Bull is moving away from "quite painful" performances at power-sensitive Formula 1 tracks, while Honda's negative feeling towards... read more »

Lewis Hamilton thought he had the 2019 German Grand Prix "under control" until he glanced the barrier mid-race; his race "fell apart from there" as he came... read more »

Shock for Mercedes, but delight for their competitors: the Anglo-German outfit played only second fiddle to Ferrari and Red Bull in the Austrian Grand Prix after scoring eight... read more »

Mercedes has revealed the cooling problems that made its Austrian Grand Prix "painful" were a legacy of the fundamental design of its Formula 1 car being too... read more »

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says it was "painful" to see Valtteri Bottas's and Lewis Hamilton's cars handicapped by cooling issues in the... read more »

McLaren's Carlos Sainz Jr. says his quick short run pace makes his grid penalty more painful as he'll start from the back of the grid for the Austrian Grand Prix. read more »

McLaren's pace makes penalty 'more painful' - Carlos Sainz read more »

Beating George Russell for the first time this season, Robert Kubica says his French GP was "less painful" than expected. read more »

Romain Grosjean says he feels like he is in the 'Olympics' of bad luck in Formula 1 at the moment and it is starting to get "fucking painful" read more »

Helmut Marko says the death of his "constant companion" three-time Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda is made "all the more painful" by their close friendship read more »

Charles Leclerc's F1 rivals have sympathised with the youngster following his "painful" session-ending Azerbaijan GP qualifying crash. read more »