Mother nature is threatening to interfere with this weekend's running of the Japanese grand prix. Already this week, reports had emerged that ash and smoke from the nearby Ontak...
Team boss Toto Wolff is not 100 per cent sure Mercedes will head into the 2015 season with an unchanged driver lineup. With Nico Rosberg already under contract into the longer t...
Simona de Silvestro's road to formula one appears to have ended. Until now, the 25-year-old female Swiss driver was a Sauber tester, testing one of the Hinwil based team's older...
Honda has apparently hit back at rumours its 2015 F1 programme is facing delays. Italy's Autosprint reported on Tuesday that, despite making an audacious bid to lure Fernando Al...
As is the case at Spa-Francorchamps, the drivers love the high-speed challenge of Suzuka Circuit. It's fast and narrow, and it punishes mistakes because there is very little run...
With five full races to spare, Mercedes this weekend has its first opportunity to wrap up the 2014 constructors' world championship. Utterly dominant this season, the German tea...
Jos Verstappen has moved to ease the pressure on his son's shoulders ahead of the Japanese grand prix weekend. The former F1 driver is already in Japan, where his newly seventee...
The fate of the German grand prix venue at the fabled Nurburgring is once again in serious doubt. Recently, we reported that after the embattled circuit was bought for a reporte...
The best way to make F1 cars harder to drive is to make them faster. That is the view of retired grand prix veteran David Coulthard, following reports the sport's governing FIA ...
Roberto Merhi will take part in his second official Formula 1 session with the team during Friday morning practice in Japan. Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson will race for Ca...
Two teams already have a "big head start" when it comes to the 2015 regulations, according to Force India technical boss Andy Green. With the shape of this year's nose designs r...
Lewis Hamilton: "Singapore was a good weekend for me. It's the first time in quite a few races that I've not had to fight through the pack to get a result which made life a lot ...
The high uncertainty surrounding Fernando Alonso's future could be connected with rumours emerging from the Honda camp. It is well known that the Japanese manufacturer, returnin...
Formula One's late-season long-haul run of events now takes the teams to the epic Suzuka circuit in Japan, where the two hardest tyres in the range will be in action: the P Zero...
F1's governing body has cleared the way for Max Verstappen to make history this week at Suzuka. Under existing rules, a hopeful rookie can qualify for the mandatory 'super licen...
An erupting volcano is threatening to affect this weekend's Japanese grand prix. On Saturday, Mount Ontake - located less than 200 kilometres from the Suzuka circuit - erupted, ...
The Japanese Grand Prix will be the next race in Asia for the Sauber F1 Team. In the land of the rising sun, the 15th round of the FIA Formula One World Championship will take p...
Ferrari. The word, or rather team that's on everyone's lips currently in the Formula 1 paddock. Their performance this season has been the worst on record since the early-to-mid...
The fate of three formula one teams continues to hang in the balance. The health of the sport's most financially struggling outfits has been under an intense spotlight since it ...
Carlos Sainz jr hopes a timely show of dominance can put him back in the spotlight after a challenging couple of months. The Spaniard put up an impressive double-victory in the ...
Ferrari has lost a legal battle with a disgruntled F1 engineer. For 2012, Briton Steve Clark joined the fabled Maranello team from Mercedes, where he was a highly respected seni...
Mercedes has revealed the cause of former championship leader Nico Rosberg's steering wheel failure in Singapore. The team said it carried out a "forensic analysis" of the probl...
Force India is the latest F1 team turning to Toyota's state-of-the-art wind tunnel in Cologne. It emerged in Singapore recently that Caterham is developing its 2015 car in the C...
In terms of speculation about his future, the last days have been arguably the most intense in Fernando Alonso's entire career. Throughout the world of respected, influential an...
Max Verstappen is clearing every hurdle as his fast-track to formula one leads to this weekend's Japanese grand prix. The Dutchman's ultimate seventeenth birthday present this w...
Sebastian Vettel: "Suzuka has been a very positive place for me in the past, I've won the race three times and I also won the World Championship there in 2011 which was a fantas...
The 'Fernando Alonso rumours' have dominated this week's F1 headlines. Many respected sources throughout the sport's international media landscape are now convinced that the Spa...
Paddy Lowe and Toto Wolff, the team bosses at dominant Mercedes, do not see eye-to-eye over the new radio clampdowns in formula one. Although a pre-race compromise with the FIA ...
Just two weeks before F1 action kicks off at Sochi, the sport's decision to press ahead with the inaugural Russian grand prix remains highly controversial. Despite the Ukraine c...
Cosworth could be eyeing a return to formula one, with the support of none other than Bernie Ecclestone. Although the expensive new engine rules and a lack of customers sent the...
Drivers are allowed to gamble on making a false start in formula one, the FIA's Charlie Whiting has confirmed. At Monza, some observers were both amazed and bemused when Lewis H...
Niki Lauda is the latest F1 figure to slam the new 'Formula E' series. The all-electric and nearly silent single seater series, promoted by Alejandro Agag and sanctioned by F1's...
Rubens Barrichello offered his services to F1's dominant team Mercedes at the recent Singapore grand prix. Just before Singapore, the championship leading team announced it had ...
Time is running short if formula one needs three-car teams to bolster dwindling grid numbers in 2015. That is the claim of Eric Boullier, boss of the McLaren team, presumably on...
One of the most successful Formula 1 outfits is seeking a return to the sport following a 22 year absence. The Brabham team had a 30 year stint in Formula 1, running from 196...
Fernando Alonso is the man on everybody's lips this week in the world of formula one. Musing the recent departure from the great but currently-troubled Ferrari of its long-term ...
Toto Wolff says F1's struggling teams would be the victims if a push to relax the engine development 'freeze' is successful. As Mercedes continues to utterly dominate in the fir...
Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez, and the Fernando Alonso-connected Flavio Briatore, have played down the latest explosive F1 rumours. Germany's Sport Bild claimed this week that B...
Ralf Schumacher is locked in a bitter dispute with his wife Cora, as the couple head towards divorce. The German-language magazine Closer reports that the 39-year-old younger...
Valentino Rossi, the MotoGP great, says he is still a big fan of formula one. In fact, the flamboyant 35-year-old nearly switched from two to four wheels in 2006 with a series o...
Jean-Eric Vergne hopes his impressive drive in Singapore will open a rival team's garage door for him in 2015. Dumped as a Red Bull-backed driver, the Frenchman will leave the e...
Caterham and Pirelli have denied reports the struggling Leafield based team could be left without tyres at the forthcoming Japanese grand prix. The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf ...
Ferrari could be set for yet another change right at the top of the Maranello marque. The departure of long-time president Luca di Montezemolo recently, with Fiat Chrysler chair...
Johnnie Walker parent Diageo declined to step up its deal with McLaren to title sponsorship. Days ago, we reported incorrectly that because Bernie Ecclestone had signed the whis...
Toto Wolff thinks Sunday's Singapore grand prix proved F1 needs to rethink its new clampdown on radio communications. Ultimately, a last-minute compromise meant only driver 'coa...
Rumours about Fernando Alonso's future at Ferrari are continuing to run wild in the days after the Singapore grand prix. Italy's respected La Gazzetta dello Sport claimed this w...
Korea is casting jealous eyes on the success of Singapore's city night race as it plans to return to the F1 calendar. South Korea's first foray, at the desolate, highly unpopula...
Le Mans stars Andre Lotterer and Mark Webber have made less than flattering comparisons between their sports car machines and the modern F1 racer. In their musings, today's form...
Red Bull has denied claims it sent illegal coded radio messages to Daniel Ricciardo during the Singapore grand prix. After the FIA's new communications clampdown took effect las...
Caterham could be left stranded without tyres ahead of the forthcoming Japanese grand prix, according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. The report said a source close to F1's...
Michael Schumacher's son is well on the road to formula one glory. As his famous father continued to recover from his skiing fall of last December, 15-year-old Mick Schumacher h...
Where before there was merely smoke, now there are the first obvious signs of fire. Fernando Alonso's future with Ferrari is almost certainly in serious doubt. Some Spanish medi...
Mercedes has acknowledged it needs to up its game in the reliability stakes following former championship leader Nico Rosberg's problems in Singapore. The German went into the n...
Even with much of the F1 world on the long-haul return to Europe, the silly season continued to churn on Monday after the Singapore grand prix. Fernando Alonso is still the main...
McLaren has pointed the finger at Red Bull for allegedly breaching the FIA's new clampdown on radio communications. Although the governing body intended to immediately impose a ...
Toto Wolff has declared Mercedes' obvious resistance to moves to relax F1's engine 'freeze'. The German marque has utterly dominated in 2014, producing a clearly superior turbo ...
Christian Horner has all but written off Daniel Ricciardo's chances of beating the Mercedes drivers to the 2014 title. Amid his impressive first campaign for Red Bull, Australia...
As was uttered by a paddock dweller in Singapore this weekend, "There's no smoke without fire". He was referring to the 'Fernando Alonso situation', as the Spaniard's future con...
McLaren has hit back at reports it is set to lose Johnnie Walker as a sponsor. The Mirror's Byron Young reported from Singapore on Sunday that, with Bernie Ecclestone securing t...
The FIA has backtracked over its total clampdown on "performance"-related radio communications in formula one. The earlier-announced comprehensive clampdown has been discussed a...
Bernie Ecclestone has admitted F1 could fill up a depleted grid next year with three-car top teams. Former Williams chairman Adam Parr set off alarm bells after the Italian gran...
Jean-Eric Vergne has been left alone to keep his motor racing career on track. After three seasons with the secondary team Toro Rosso, the Frenchman was overlooked by Red Bull l...
Kamui Kobayashi has admitted in Singapore that he may be left out of Caterham's plans for his home Japanese grand prix later this month. The Japanese, who is not substantially s...
Bernie Ecclestone has admitted his 'double points' innovation may be axed after the 2014 finale. This year, in a bid to keep the championship alive until the dying moment, F1 wi...
Fernando Alonso was "visibly upset" on Thursday as he angrily slammed the latest silly-season speculation about his future. That is the claim of Spain's EFE news agency, reporti...
As day turned to night in the floodlit Singapore paddock, the big talking point was the FIA's radio clampdown. Actually, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone claimed the credit. "I was ...
Mark Webber thinks "small, subtle details" are all that is holding back his former F1 colleagues Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen in 2014. Both champions have struggled this ...
Susie Wolff insists she is not disappointed she did not get promoted by Williams for the 2015 season. Along with fellow F1 tester Simona de Silvestro, who works for Sauber, the ...
Mercedes' title-warring teammates are the first F1 drivers to welcome the FIA's banning of "performance"-related radio communications. At a sponsor event in downtown Singapore, ...
A haze is hanging over Singapore's skies ahead of the highly popular night race. The city-state's environmental agency said air pollution has reached "unhealthy" levels in the p...
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