Formula 1 is seeing large swings in performance at the start of the 2019 season, according to Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff. Mercedes had a great start to the se...
Kimi Raikkonen says that Formula 1 is becoming "more of a hobby" and has made the sport "more fun again" for him. The Iceman joined Alfa Romeo fo...
For the extra story 'Veto 1' we go back to the end of 1985. We pick up the story during the Grand Prix of South Africa, the race that many drivers wanted to boycott. For...
Saturday marked qualifying day for the teams and drivers, with Valtteri Bottas storming to his seventh pole position in Formula 1. Below, you can see our updated gallery ...
Lando Norris says that McLaren's qualifying result in Shanghai paints a truer picture of where the team is in the pecking order. After Q3 appearances in Australia and Bahra...
Honda has confirmed that it will fit Alexander Albon's Toro Rosso with a new engine for the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. Albon's STR14 sustained heavy damage when he c...
Pierre Gasly took his best qualifying result of the season in China but admits that he is still not happy with his driving inside the Red Bull RB15. The Frenchman is set to sta...
Elio de Angelis was a unique charismatic person who was highly respected in the Formula 1 world. He was a very good man, a man with a very artistic talent, known for his very po...
Valtteri Bottas admits that he feels lucky to walk away from qualifying in China after a "super close" qualifying session. The Finn got the better of teammate Lewis H...
Sebastian Vettel has defended his overtaking manoeuvre on Max Verstappen at the Turn 14 hairpin during qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix. As the pack prepared for their fin...
Max Verstappen was left unhappy after qualifying as he missed out on setting a final hot lap in Q3. The Dutchman was passed by a number of cars in the final corners of the circ...
Valtteri Bottas has taken pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix, beating teammate Lewis Hamilton to the top spot by just 0.023s. The Finn takes his seventh career pole posit...
Toro Rosso has confirmed that Alexander Albon will not compete in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix. Towards the end of the final practice session, the Thai-British driver ...
Valtteri Bottas has ended the final practice session on top of the timesheets, beating Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel by less than four-tenths of a second. On his final qualify...
The iconic Autodromo Nazionale Monza circuit is €60 million short of its proposed €100 million renovations ahead of its centenary in 2022. The circuit has called on th...
Technical Analysis: The Lotus 97T During the 1985 season Ayrton drove the Lotus 97T. The car was developed by Gérard Ducarouge and Martin Ogilvie. The 97T was a further ...
Mercedes was instructed by the FIA to modify its front wing after it was deemed illegal on Thursday during a technical directive. The FIA discovered a problem with a rewor...
Charles Leclerc admits that he's surprised by the pace that Red Bull displayed during the opening day of running in China. Max Verstappen ended the session third place, two...
Robert Kubica says that the Williams FW42, which has so far been a handful in 2019, "feels a bit different" in China. Williams has emerged as the grid's backmarke...
The first half of the 1985 season can be summarized as follows: qualifying masterclass, driving at the head of the race and unreliability. According to the experts, Ayrton was t...
Kevin Magnussen is still struggling to find pace in the Pirelli tyres after the opening day of practice in China. Magnussen's race in Bahrain two weeks ago was problematic,...
The first day of on-track action from Shanghai kicked off on Friday, with Ferrari and Mercedes topping the two sessions respectively. Below, you can take a look at all our pictu...
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto admits that it could prioritise Charles Leclerc over Sebastian Vettel in 2019 if the 21-year-old continues to out-perform his teammate. Le...
Valtteri Bottas has topped the second practice session in China, finishing just ahead of Sebastian Vettel on the time sheets. The Finn set his fastest lap on the soft tyre...
Honda has been pushed to make changes to Daniil Kvyat's power unit in China after it discovered an anomaly in the data after the first free practice session. Kvyat ended th...
Honda has enjoyed reasonable results so far in 2018 but still sees a big gap to Mercedes and Ferrari, according to its F1 technical director Toyoharu Tanabe. Honda se...
Ferrari and Renault have fitted new power unit components for this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. After fears that his engine would be damaged after his issues in Bahrain, F...
Sebastian Vettel has topped the opening practice session from China, beating Lewis Hamilton to the top spot. The German's fastest lap was a 1:33.911 on the medium compound&...
Daniel Ricciardo says that Renault has accepted that it is trying to do too much over the course of a Grand Prix weekend. The Australian has had a tough start ...
Charles Leclerc has defended his decision to overtake Sebastian Vettel for the lead of the Bahrain Grand Prix two weeks ago, despite being told to stay behind. The Monega...
The 2019 Formula 1 season makes its way to Shanghai, China for the 3rd round of the world championship. The weekend also marks the 1000th Grand Prix event, with celebrations an...
Ayrton had to deal with an incredible amount of bad luck during the first half of the 1985 season. In the previous edition, we published an interview in which Murray W...
Thursday marks media day on a Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend, and as the on-track action kicks off tomorrow, you can take a look at all the snaps from the first day of the weekend...
Renault has confirmed the China's Ye Yifei has joined its junior academy for the 2019 season. Yifei is the second Chinese driver that has joined the programme in 2019, as c...
Sebastian Vettel believes that Red Bull will be closer to the front than what they were in Bahrain. The energy drink squad couldn't keep up with Mercedes and Ferrari at the...
Renault will introduce a brand new specification of its MGU-K this weekend at the Chinese Grand Prix. The update comes after a series of reliability concerns for the manufactur...
Some drivers find their first victory as the most special. Ayrton scored his first victory in Portugal. Almost 34 years ago, he was the first to pass under the black and...
Lando Norris believes that McLaren's strong point lies in its ability to extract everything it can from its race car. After a tough start to the year in Melbourne that saw ...
George Russell says that his recent run with Mercedes in Bahrain has shown what Williams needs to work towards. The Briton tested the W10 on the second day of Bahrain testing, ...
Who'll rise up to the challenge at the front? Bahrain truly saw the birth of a future star. While Charles Leclerc has impressed numerous times over the course of his junior...
After his excellent debut year with Toleman, Ayrton's career gained momentum. Many teams were hunting for his signature after the Monaco Grand Prix, in which we paid extensi...
2016 Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg is confident that Sebastian Vettel will pull himself out of his current form and return to winning ways soon. Vettel has not won a Gr...
The Chinese Grand Prix will host the third round of the 2019 Formula 1 championship, which is also the 1000th F1 Grand Prix. Below are all the statistics you need for the upcomi...
During his first year in Formula 1, Ayrton was confronted with a world champion as a teammate. In 1975, Johnny Cecotto, in the 350cc two-wheelers, became a nineteen-year-old dri...
Lando Norris hopes that he will be involved in more on-track battles in China after he fought his way up the field in Bahrain two weeks ago. The Briton will take part in his th...
During the 1984 season, Ayrton drove his debut year with two different Toleman cars. The TG183 had shown potential in 1983 by finishing its last four Grands Prix in the points. ...
Charles Leclerc's brother Arthur Leclerc has signed with the Sauber Junior Team and will race in the German Formula 4 championship this year. The Monegasque racer competed ...
Daniel Ricciardo is confident that Renault has a lot of pace, but it is up to him to extract the speed from the car. The Australian has had a tough start to the 2019 season wit...
Red Bull's Pierre Gasly is looking to improve at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix, after poor results in the first two rounds saw him score only four points as opposed ...
Ayrton would only finish in three races during the season. The Canadian Grand Prix at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit saw him finished seventh. The following two Grands Prix were ...
Williams' George Russell insists that the team must avoid any drastic changes that may be implemented in the hope of turning around the team after a dismal start to its 2019...
According to Nico Hulkenberg, Renault has "similar problems" with their 2019 car's characteristics as those they suffered from in 2018. Hulkenberg has ...
When Ayrton took his first podium, opinions about the course of the race were different. Many people thought afterwards that there was another reason why the race was flagged of...
Racing Point will use Mercedes' wind tunnel to develop its 2020 car, and is set to start working in it later this year. Mercedes, who supplies engines to Racing Point, is b...
Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost admits that Alexander Albon has surprised the team with his technical feedback in his rookie season. The Thai-British has had a strong...
A plan to bring back heavily degrading tyres in 2020 is now set to be scrapped, according to Pirelli. In recent years, Pirelli has built tyres that allow drivers to ...
Of course, we can't ignore Ayrton's absolute breakthrough in Formula 1 in our report. It is well known that the Monaco Grand Prix in 1984 was the Brazilian's first &...
Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner believes the F1 stewards keep making mistakes with their decisions after they ruled against the Haas team during last weekend's race ...
McLaren CEO, Zac Brown says that he does not believe that the British team will be challenging Red Bull for positions this season. Although their performance at Bahrai...
The history of Ayrton and Toleman began in 1983 at a humid circuit in England. At the Silverstone Circuit, Ayrton drove the Toleman Hart for the first time. In part 11 - Ay...
Robert Kubica says that the problems that Williams is facing in 2019 are less complicated than those it suffered from last season. Williams has found itself as the grid's b...
Gil de Ferran says that the changes that McLaren has made to its senior staff is making a major difference for the Woking squad so far in 2019. McLaren has enjoyed a posit...
Kimi Raikkonen believes that the current V6 hybrid engines feel like the V8 engines that Formula 1 used from 2006 to 2013. In 2014, F1 introduced a brand new design that relies...
After his successful test with Williams in July 1983, Ayrton received several offers. The Brazilian would get the chance to test for McLaren after his British Formula 3 sea...
Pierre Gasly says that he needs a better direction in terms of set-up from his new Red Bull team after a disappointing start to the season. This bad start has been blamed on th...
The first test in the Williams FW08C Ford Cosworth DFV The Brazilian television station Globo made a report of this first test. It took place in Donington on July 19, 1983...
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas is concerned that the team will lose out to rivals Ferrari at the next two races in China and Azerbaijan thanks to their gains in straight lin...
Otmar Szafnauer, the team principal and chief executive officer for Racing Point says that bringing in Lance Stroll to race alongside Sergio Perez has been good for the team. H...
As a former competitor of Ayrton Senna in the 1983 British Formula 3 Championship and teammate of Martin Brundle at Eddie Jordan Racing, Allen Berg knew the battle for the title...
Ferrari has confirmed the cause of Charles Leclerc's power unit problem at the Bahrain Grand Prix, adding that it will be available for use in China next weekend. Leclerc w...
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