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In the round-up: F1 gives "no consideration" to drivers from other series - Bourdais • Sirotkin on 'one-year-plus' deal at Williams

Williams Martini Racing‘s 2018 driver line-up can deliver good results, despite their inexperience, according to 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell. Mansell's former team recently announced that 22 year-old Sergey Sirot...

Cosworth has held discussions with Aston Martin about a potential Formula 1 engine project. It's understood that both parties are keeping a close eye on discussions surrounding F1's 2021 engine rules, with Cosworth keen ...

Renault Sport F1 Team boss Cyril Abiteboul has praised his outfit's driver development programme, suggesting its influence helped secure seats for Sergey Sirotkin and Robert Kubica at Williams Martini Racing in 2018. Wil...

Double world rally champion Carlos Sainz clinched his second Dakar Rally title in Argentina on Saturday. Sainz first won the race in 2010 with Volkswagen. This time it was the Peugeot works team's third win in a row - bu...

Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its 2018 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted. At the championship's halfway point, Haas sat seventh in the constructors'...

The Formula 1 Strategy Group has rejected a call to set a minimum 'gardening leave' requirement on FIA or FOM staff moving to take up a team-based role. The matter arose because of Renault's decision last year to hire fo...

Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its '18 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted

Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has admitted that there is a downside to the team relying on rookie drivers. Lance Stroll made his Formula 1 début with the team in 2017 and took several races to get up to sp...

With rookie Sergey Sirotkin joining Williams in 2018, Lance Stroll becomes team leader in only his second Formula 1 season. His most vocal critic has been Jacques Villeneuve, but are his disparaging remarks really justif...

Lando Norris says he is not paying much attention to comparisons between himself and Lewis Hamilton as he continues to forge a path towards Formula 1. Norris, 18, will race in Formula 2 next year after winning four junio...

Nigel Mansell is most famous for winning the 1992 Formula 1 world championship, but in retirement he has also mastered magic

Does it seem an age since the last Formula 1 Grand Prix in November? Can't wait until the lights go out in Australia 62 days time? Then you are not alone! And it's not just fans who can't wait for the new season to get s...

The Formula 1 Strategy Group has at last come up with a sensible solution to the problem of a driver's weight with a ballasted minimum weight of 80kg. This is something I have been advocating for years because it just is...

The 2018 F1 grid has been filled. Which team has the strongest driver line-up for the year ahead - and who has the weakest?

The Formula 1 Strategy Group has at last come up with a sensible solution to the problem of a driver's weight with a ballasted minimum weight of 80kg

At a time many fear for the direction Formula One is heading, one of the agreements reached at this week's meeting of the Strategy Group appears to encapsulate much of what is wrong with Formula One at present. Last year...

An all-star line-up of petrol heads gathered for a quiet dinner evening in Kitzbuhel this weekend, with one exclusive guest - or was he the host? - likely garnering the assembly's attention. We won't belittle our F1i rea...

For many years, such were the weight limit rules that most drivers resembled jockeys, while taller, heavier drivers were clearly compromised. While this effectively disappeared with the introduction of the hybrid formula...

Ross Brawn insists the 2021 engine regulations need to be cheaper and noisier than the current specification, and they should allow any independent manufacturer to be able to come in as a supplier. Brawn, brought in by L...

Nico Rosberg is hoping that 'one day' he'll again be friends with Lewis Hamilton after their relationship deteriorated during their final season together at Mercedes. Once again involved in an all-Mercedes battle for the...

Nico Rosberg is hoping that "one day" he'll again be friends with Lewis Hamilton after their relationship deteriorated during their final season together at Mercedes. The post Rosberg hopes to revive Hamilton friendship ...