Formula 1

George Russell won the short race after passing Max Verstappen, who struggled with his medium tyres compared to the Briton’s softs. Russell and Lewis Hamilton will start from the front row on Sunday, with Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez immediately behind. Although Mercedes showed great pace in the sprint, trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin cautioned

Norris stayed away from the track on Thursday after experiencing a bout of food poisoning, and the team had Nyck de Vries waiting on standby. However, Norris was able to drive on Friday, and took an encouraging fourth place in qualifying. In Saturday’s sprint, he slipped back to seventh, but he achieved the team’s target

Gasly was among six drivers summoned after the 24-lap sprint race that set the final starting grid for the Brazilian Grand Prix for various incidents. Gasly was alleged to have driven too slowly during his reconnaissance laps to the grid, not meeting the maximum time set by race director Niels Wittich in his event notes.

Perez was fastest in FP1, held on Friday morning, while Ocon set the pace in Saturday’s FP2, which was run after the eventful qualifying session topped by Haas driver Kevin Magnussen but ahead of the sprint race. Brazilian Grand Prix FP1 results: Perez fastest from Leclerc What happened in Brazilian GP Free Practice 1? Perez set the

The two teams have been discussing Piastri’s contractual situation since he was announced as a 2023 McLaren driver in the summer. Given the animosity surrounding Piastri’s move to the Woking outfit, Alpine initially appeared reluctant to do anything that might help him get a head start with his new team, with discussions dragging on for

The Haas driver scored his and the team’s maiden F1 pole after being the first on the track in Q3 as the rain intensified, before George Russell’s off triggered a red flag which meant nobody could set a time before the track got too wet.  As a result, Magnussen’s opening effort in the top 10

Ricciardo struggled with form from the start of the season, and in August agreed a deal to end his McLaren contract a year early, making way for 2021 FIA Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri to take his seat. Ricciardo said that Vettel, who will retire from F1 at the end of 2022, gave him welcome

The Australian is set to be absent from the F1 grid for the first time in over a decade next season with his spot at McLaren going to countryman Oscar Piastri. He is likely to land a top reserve driver role for 2023, having already been linked to both Mercedes and Red Bull Racing, and

FTX is facing bankruptcy if it cannot raise billions of dollars to get itself out of a liquidity crisis that erupted at its affiliated Alameda Research company this week. An initial plan for it to be rescued by rival exchange Binance, which is a sponsor of the Alpine team, collapsed after just 24 hours amid

Some of Formula 1’s greatest performances have come in the rain, so we’ve decided to pick out the best 10. In the latest episode of our top 10 series, Autosport chief editor Kevin Turner compares the likes of Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – and allows only one entry per driver. Want to

Hamilton has worked with Bonnington, known as Bono, since joining Mercedes in 2013, with one of the hallmarks of their time together being Bonnington’s call of “it’s hammer time” to Hamilton over the radio. It serves as a reference to the catchphrase in MC Hammer’s 1990 song “U Can’t Touch This” and to Hamilton’s three-letter

Mauro Forghieri’s stint with Ferrari as technical director and both chassis and engine designer lasted from 1959 to 1987, and he is credited by the team with an involvement in 54 grand prix wins and nine world championships.  The fact that he survived for nearly three decades in an organisation noted for internal turmoil and

While grand prix racing looks set to abandon a push to reduce tyre warming temperatures for next year as a precursor to the blanket ban, there remains every intention to remove the heating aids from the start of 2024. Such attempts to ban tyre blankets, motivated on cost and sustainability grounds, have been made in

The Frenchman is leaving the Faenza-based squad at the end of the season to join Alpine for 2023, and is being replaced by rookie Nyck de Vries. PLUS: Why Red Bull freedom and an Alpine switch can define Gasly’s F1 career But having built up a good friendship with Tsunoda during their two years together, he

Following months of speculation, it was announced shortly before the recent Mexican Grand Prix that Audi had chosen Sauber as its partner for when the German car manufacturer enters F1’s new engine rules era. Sauber has had works partnerships in the past – most famously with BMW from 2006 to 2009 – and current team

For the third time this season, F1 will run its sprint race format and schedule, which puts qualifying on Friday afternoon to make room for the sprint race on Saturday afternoon in the usual qualifying slot. The Interlagos circuit becomes the first venue to host two sprint weekends, having done the same in 2021, as

Ricciardo has confirmed he will not be racing in F1 next year after losing his McLaren seat, but the eight-time grand prix winner remains focused on staying in the paddock by taking up a reserve role. Ricciardo has been linked with possible reserve roles at Red Bull and Mercedes since his exit from McLaren was

The German manufacturer has endured a tricky season with the W13, which suffered a lot early on from excessive bouncing. It took several months for Mercedes to understand the factors that were at play and implement car tweaks that have helped Lewis Hamilton and George Russell make progress over the second half of the campaign.

Vettel is set to retire from F1 at the end of the current campaign, which concludes after this month’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. There, should he take part in this weekend’s main race at Interlagos after its sprint event, Vettel will make his 299th and last F1 grand prix start. After his decision to retire

At August’s Belgian Grand Prix Audi officially confirmed it would join forces with Sauber as its power unit manufacturer in 2026, when a new engine formula will kick in. After Alfa Romeo’s sponsorship deal with the Hinwil team lapses at the end of 2023, it is expected Audi will gradually start ramping up its involvement

Ahead of the United Sates Grand Prix, Norris revealed in an interview with German publication Auto Motor und Sport that he had spoken to Red Bull ahead of signing his latest McLaren deal. Back in February, Norris put pen to paper on a new long-term contract with McLaren that will keep him with the team

In stark contrast to last year’s final lap thriller in Abu Dhabi, Max Verstappen clinched the 2022 world championship at Suzuka with four rounds still to run, while his Red Bull team secured the constructors’ version at the next race in the USA. Domenicali says that there’s still plenty of interest in the remaining races of

You won’t need reminding what happened at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Max Verstappen claimed his first world drivers’ championship. But it’s not the first year the title has been decided at Yas Marina. Sebastian Vettel has clinched one of his four world championships in Abu Dhabi, with Mercedes drivers Hamilton and Rosberg

While the Italian squad started the 2022 season as the team to beat, it eventually lost out to the fast-recovering Red Bull team, which has claimed both the drivers’ and constructors’ championship titles. More recently, Mercedes has emerged as Red Bull’s main threat at some races, with Ferrari’s F1-75 particularly lacking performance last time out

Haas is currently weighing up its driver options for the second seat in 2023, with it believed to be a straight call between retaining Mick Schumacher or going for the more experienced Hulkenberg. The choice of Hulkenberg is intriguing because he and Magnussen, who is under contract for 2023, have had their moments of controversy

However, the change was not as dramatic as in previous quarters because income in the latter part of 2021 was not impacted as dramatically by the pandemic, as last year race attendances began to return to normal levels and the lucrative Paddock Club got back up to speed. Overall F1 revenue rose from $668m in

Red Bull’s breach of the cost cap limit in 2021 triggered a major controversy within F1 recently, with opinions divided in the paddock about how extreme the sanctions taken again it should be. In the end, the Milton Keynes-based outfit was handed a $7 million fine and had its aero development allowance cut back by

Mark Webber was one of Formula 1’s frontrunners during Red Bull’s purple patch, having impressed at Minardi, Jaguar and Williams. The Australian, who started 215 world championship grands prix, scored nine victories, 13 poles and 19 fastest laps before retiring from F1 at the end of 2013. He then went on to score success with

Max Verstappen’s Formula 1 career has been littered with record after record, most of which have been related to his age: youngest this, youngest that. But by claiming the record for the most victories in a single season with his 14th win of the year in Mexico last weekend, Verstappen offered another reminder – if

Ferrari clearly lost form last weekend as the Italian team made compromises to ensure reliability at the high altitude track, leaving Mercedes clear to take the fight to Red Bull. However, while altitude is still an issue in Brazil it is not as extreme, and in addition the lower downforce levels won’t favour the W13