Lewis Hamilton may not have been as dominant in Melbourne as first thought. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport reports that a detailed investigation by Mercedes showed that it got i...
Daniel Ricciardo has admitted Red Bull's engine is not its only problem in 2015. In and after Australia, the former champion team took its long-time partner Renault to task, wit...
Adding a customer or two to its roster would not speed up Honda's F1 programme. That is the claim of Yasuhisa Arai, who was asked if the fact Honda is working exclusively for Mc...
Nico Rosberg's mind is on the other side of the world as he also concentrates on his job this weekend in Malaysia. Back at his home in Monaco, where he has lived almost his enti...
Lewis Hamilton has now scribbled his name on a new contract beyond 2015, according to a Spanish newspaper. After the reigning world champion said he hopes the deal is "done" thi...
Lazarus have confirmed that Swiss driver Zoel Amberg will race with them in GP2 Series this season alongside Nathanaël Berthon. Rookie Amberg was born in Stans, in the canto...
By the sound of it, Manor appears on course to hit the track this weekend for the first time in 2015. The former Marussia team tried the patience of the FIA and Bernie Eccleston...
Sebastian Vettel has turned down Nico Rosberg's invitation to attend his engineering briefing in Malaysia. In Australia, the rival Germans exchanged verbal blows in the press co...
Daniel Ricciardo has dismissed as "frustration" the unseemly spat between Red Bull and its works engine partner Renault. After Melbourne, it became clear that while Ferrari has ...
Valtteri Bottas says modifications have been made to his car ahead of the Malaysian grand prix. The Finn got clearance from FIA doctors on Thursday to return for Williams this w...
Fernando Alonso on Thursday said he crashed in Barcelona last month because his steering "locked". The news has thickened the already convoluted plot even more, after weeks of r...
Max Mosley has told those complaining about the F1 rules to "live with it". As Red Bull protests bitterly about Mercedes' domination amid arguably overly-complex and foolhardy r...
Manor has been told it must fire its engines this weekend in Malaysia. In Australia, where the former Marussia team stayed in the pits all weekend, suspicions arose that Manor n...
Force India has become the next F1 team to court controversy with its signing of a 'development driver'. Lotus has faced criticism of trading credibility for money, as it unveil...
Williams Martini Racing is pleased to announce Adrian Sutil as its official Reserve Driver for the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship season. Adrian made his Formula One d...
Red Bull could be ramping up efforts to go it alone in formula one as an engine manufacturer. In the days between Australia and Malaysia, open war broke out between the energy d...
Sepang International Circuit hosts the Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap with Lewis Hamilton onboard around that track. ...
Williams on Thursday confirmed Valtteri Bottas' return to action in Malaysia. The Finn sat out the Melbourne season opener with a torn disc in his lower back, but has since been...
Fernando Alonso has been declared fit to return to the cockpit of his McLaren-Honda this weekend. The Spaniard had already been given the green light prior to travelling to Mala...
Hockenheim and Bernie Ecclestone on Wednesday denied responsibility for the demise of the historic German grand prix. The Nurburgring was scheduled to host this year's July 19 r...
After a successful season opener in Melbourne, the Sauber F1 Team and its drivers Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr are looking forward to the Malaysian Grand Prix. The second rou...
Renault has continued to hit back amid suggestions its turbo V6 'power unit' is the only reason for Red Bull's 2015 struggle. The French marque's F1 chief Cyril Abiteboul on Tue...
Lotus is once again taking criticism after naming another 'development driver'. A month ago, the Enstone team signed up Carmen Jorda, a 26-year-old female driver, to attend race...
A trio of former F1 drivers are hoping the 2015 season opener was just a blip. In Australia, Sauber battled for survival in court with Giedo van der Garde while Manor never left...
China has bought F1's official tyre supplier Pirelli. State-owned China National Chemical, or Chem China, has secured control of the Milan-based company valued at over EUR 7 bil...
Fernando Alonso has admitted he is expecting a "tough weekend" in Malaysia. The Spaniard is undoubtedly right. As he watched the season opener on TV from his home in Dubai almos...
The end of Lewis Hamilton's protracted negotiations with Mercedes over a new deal beyond 2015 may finally be close. The reigning world champion has conducted his own talks with ...
Renault's relationship with works team Red Bull continues to crumble. Cyril Abiteboul, chief of the French carmaker's F1 engine programme, on Tuesday accused Red Bull technical ...
Lewis Hamilton: "Australia was a great way to start. To pick up where we left off last year was awesome. But if 2014 showed anything, it's that putting together a whole season i...
Mika Hakkinen says he was disappointed with the performance of his countryman Kimi Raikkonen in Australia. When he retired at the end of 2001, Hakkinen recommended McLaren sign ...
A silver lining for struggling McLaren-Honda could be the cornering ability of the new MP4-30 car. After Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen qualified dead last in Melbourne, some...
Valtteri Bottas' manager on Tuesday said he expects the Finn to return to action this weekend in Malaysia. After sitting out Melbourne with his injured lower back and recovering...
Max Verstappen says he jumped at the chance to become F1's youngest-ever race driver for fear his career would otherwise stall. The 17-year-old, whose meteoric rise from karts t...
Hoping to race this weekend is Valtteri Bottas, who sat out Melbourne with a torn disc in his lower back. "After such a frustrating Sunday in Australia," the Finn said in a stat...
As F1 speeds towards its next battleground, the debate about the very future of the sport will also resume in Malaysia. After the Melbourne opener, Red Bull furiously slammed th...
As the F1 circus touches down in Malaysia, it is possible this week's race will be the seventeenth and last at Sepang. Early this year, Malaysian race officials travelled to Lon...
Lotus F1 Team is pleased to announce Adderly Fong as a Development Driver for 2015. Fong will undergo a driver development programme as well as contributing to the team's simula...
F1 looks to be heading into its first wet race of the season. The current weekend forecast for Sepang indicates a high probability of rain and afternoon storms, even though the ...
The cause of Fernando Alonso's mysterious Barcelona testing crash may now be clearer. Until now, McLaren-Honda has insisted the incident that sidelined its star driver for more ...
Kuala Lumpur's Sepang International Circuit was first in the spate of modern tracks in emerging markets for Formula One. The likes of Bahrain, China, Singapore, South Korea and ...
A McLaren statement: "McLaren-Honda is pleased to announce that, subject to a successful final FIA medical assessment this Thursday 26th March at the Sepang International Circui...
Niki Lauda has described the official demise of Mercedes' home race this year as "sad". The F1 legend and Mercedes team chairman confirmed reports that the German carmaker made ...
Monisha Kaltenborn has broken her silence on the Giedo van der Garde affair, admitting she made "mistakes". The storm surrounding Sauber's Indian-born Austrian boss and co-owner...
Fernando Alonso's Barcelona testing crash has cost insurers EUR 1.8 million so far. That is the claim of Italy's specialist La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, who said the Spani...
A new controversy surrounding F1's fuel-flow rules could be brewing. A year has now passed since Daniel Ricciardo was disqualified from the 2014 season opener when his Red Bull-...
F1 is simply adjusting to the new "global trend" of younger athletes. That is the claim of Max Verstappen, who in Melbourne shattered the old record to become the youngest race ...
Valtteri Bottas is "impatient" to return to the cockpit of his Williams this weekend in Malaysia. That is the news of the Finn's manager Didier Coton, after his 25-year-old char...
Mercedes offered to help keep the German grand prix alive in 2015. On Friday, the FIA revealed that it has removed the scheduled July 19 date from this year's calendar because B...
Fernando Alonso on Sunday was cleared by FIA-appointed doctors to travel to the scene of this weekend's Malaysian grand prix. The Spaniard's visit to Cambridge University to sit...
Ferrari is moving house. Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper reports that, in the week after cementing its new form in Australia as the second force behind Mercedes, the fabled ...
Mercedes' engine advantage is locked in for the long haul, Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko insists. Renault-powered Red Bull is arguing stridently for a change of regulations ...
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has backed Honda to succeed in formula one. Riding for the Japanese marque's official factory team Repsol-Honda, the 22-year-old Spaniard h...
Formula one did not present the best image of itself as the 2015 season opened in Australia. That is the view of several experts and insiders, following Sauber's courtroom battl...
Valtteri Bottas' manager has admitted he is not sure the Williams driver will return to action next weekend in Malaysia. "I am well informed about it," said former double world ...
Rubens Barrichello claims his former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher should actually be just a six-time world champion. The pair were teammates at Ferrari between 2000 and 2...
Toro Rosso's cars could turn yellow, Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko has admitted. As he criticises engine partner Renault for its retrograde step in 2015, Marko has also conf...
Germany's other F1 circuit has joined Hockenheim in pulling out of the running to host the scheduled July 19 race. Earlier this week, Hockenheim chief Georg Seiler told Bild new...
Renault has revealed it took an unusually-aggressive approach to the 2015 season opener, at works partner Red Bull's behest. Amid Red Bull's disastrous start to the new world ch...
Fernando Alonso will undergo medical tests conducted by the FIA on Sunday. The broadcaster Sky Italia said the Spaniard needs the governing body's green-light in order to return...
Kamui Kobayashi's manager has played down reports the Japanese driver is on the verge of a return to F1. Chikara Funada, who handles the former Toyota, Sauber and Caterham drive...
Manor boss John Booth says the team would not have been resurrected without Jules Bianchi. Frenchman Bianchi, critically injured in an horror crash whilst driving for Manor's fo...
Lewis Hamilton has had contact with Ferrari, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has admitted. Paddock rumours in Australia suggested that, as he conducts his own negotiations for a n...
Valtteri Bottas is recovering from his back injury in Indonesia, the Williams team has confirmed. The Finn had to sit out the Melbourne season opener last Sunday after suffering...
Williams has become the next team to back F1's current regulations. After Mercedes' dominance of the Melbourne opener, Red Bull was so critical of the new-in-2014 turbo V6 formu...
Mercedes could have a race on its hands in 2015. After Melbourne, Christian Horner claimed the advantage now wielded by the silver team is bigger than at any time during Red Bul...
A Sauber statement: "Many of you read today's statement on Giedo van der Garde's Facebook page. So have we and we were, indeed, rather surprised. We don't know about Giedo's int...
Jann Mardenborough is confirmed as the third and final driver in Carlin’s 2015 GP3 line-up. The Nissan driver who is already a race winner in the series, joins the reigning c...
Eric Boullier thinks it is "possible" McLaren-Honda might be in a position to win grands prix later in 2015. His comments follow reports elsewhere the team boss warned it might ...
The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce Singapore Airlines as Official Airline Partner. Singapore Airlines is the most awarded airline worldwide, and was the first carrier wor...
F1's radio clampdown will not be ramped up in 2015. Last year, the FIA introduced a ban on so-called 'driver coaching' instructions, but intended to ramp it up even further for ...
Local time
Local time
