Mercedes has made light of the video of team chief and CEO Toto Wolff that went viral after the Australian Grand Prix.Wolff was spotted scooting through the paddock at Albert Park, Melbourne. As he misjudged the height of an archway, he clipped his head, quickly styled it out and turned towards where he knew cameras would be pointing at him while he laughed it off.The footage quickly went […]

Ayao Komatsu has urged against any "knee-jerk" changes being made to the F1 regulations without sufficient data being gathered first […]

Toto Wolff insists that where the W17 is beating its rivals is not so much on the straights but in corners […]

As Formula 1’s most experienced driver in history, Fernando Alonso has seen it all. Racing for a backmarking minnow at Minardi, championship success and Crashgate controversy at Renault, a deleterious team-mate rivalry at McLaren and unsuccessful title bids at Ferrari.The veteran’s second stint at McLaren featured a disastrous rekindling of the team’s legendary partnership with Honda […]

Formula 1 is set to cancel April's races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia due to the ongoing Iran war, sources confirmed to ESPN […]

Jacques Villeneuve believes Formula 1’s new era already produced a “good race” in Melbourne, despite criticism from drivers […]

Contrary to media reports, Flavio Briatore claims it is Mercedes, not Toto Wolff, that is looking to buy a stake in Alpine […]

Toto Wolff admits Kimi Antonelli has the raw speed to fight George Russell — but says a title battle in 2026 would still be “early days” […]

As is normal at the start of a technical rules cycle, one key aspect has to be taken into account: the new power units are incredibly complex and the strategies for using them are not straightforward. Experience is built over time, and even during a race weekend variables can emerge that change the overall picture and provide a different perspective.That is also what happened to Charles […]

The Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix are set to be cancelled due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East […]

Haas boss Ayao Komatsu called on Formula 1 to make a decision regarding its forthcoming Middle Eastern rounds within the next week amid the ongoing conflict. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are due to respectively host rounds four and five of the 2026 F1 campaign on 12 and 19 April, but that is currently in doubt due to the Iran war. Iran has been engaged in conflict with the United States and […]

Sprint qualifying at Shanghai shows us the best of this new generation of F1 cars […]

Formula 1 is set to cancel the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix by the end of this weekend due to ongoing Middle East conflict; watch the Chinese GP Sprint live on Sky Sports F1 at 3am on Saturday, followed by full qualifying at 7am […]

George Russell said he was thankful those around him on the sprint grid have Mercedes engines after Ferrari got the jump on him […]

Two team principals with history, a minority stake, multiple bidders, and a governance question without a proper answer - here's what the race for the future of the Alpine Formula 1 team actually looks like […]

For any other Formula 1 team, having both cars qualify over four seconds off pole position for the season opener would be shaming. But for Cadillac, simply being there at all was an achievement – as a team set up from scratch, and which only had its entry guaranteed 12 months ago, it has faced headwinds both political and practical.Ultimately, though, Cadillac isn't on the grid to make up […]

Today's Team Representatives press conference with Flavio Briatore, Jonathan Wheatley and Laurent Mekies […]

Lewis Hamilton was left baffled by a surprise message from former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond during an event with Shell ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend.While standing on stage in front of a crowd of fans, the seven-time champion was shown the message from the Briton."Lewis, the folks at Shell Helix have asked me to send you a message, rather thoughtfully. Obviously, they'll […]

Both Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc noted a Ferrari straight-line deficit compared to its Mercedes counterpart in China […]

A fuel pump issue prevented Sergio Perez from partaking in Chinese Grand Prix sprint qualifying, with the Cadillac driver lamenting a problem the nascent Formula 1 team has had for “far too long”.Perez’ free practice running was hampered by a fuel system problem in Melbourne, with similar trouble taking team-mate Valtteri Bottas out of the Australian Grand Prix.Perez covered just 13 […]

In the aftermath of George Russell securing pole position for the sprint race in China by 0.289s from Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli, and a substantial 0.621s from third-placed Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has moved to quell talk of a schism with its customer teams.After qualifying for last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, when Mercedes finally showed its hand […]

Red Bull is playing catch up at the start of F1 2026 […]

Guy Martin will take part in a Honda S2000R race in April […]

Lewis Hamilton has said Ferrari's gap to Mercedes is mainly due to a deficit in power unit performance after he qualified fourth for Saturday's Chinese Grand Prix sprint race […]

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton was left bemused by a "very strange" message from former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond at the Chinese GP […]

Mercedes dominated qualifying for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix […]

The first sprint qualifying of Formula 1’s new 2026 era has given us a new picture of the pecking order […]

Williams driver Alex Albon said it was 'back to the drawing board' after both he and team-mate Carlos Sainz were among the slowest drivers […]

Ferrari’s ground-breaking Formula 1 rear wing, which rotates 180 degrees, returned at the Chinese Grand Prix – but the experiment was short-lived.The wing, which was first seen in action during pre-season testing, was trialled by both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in the only free practice session of the Shanghai weekend. This featured a spin from Hamilton, when the wing closed coming […]

Former Formula 1 driver and Sky Sports Germany presenter Ralf Schumacher has argued that Red Bull is now paying the price for having lost several key people in recent years, as he questioned whether its sister team Racing Bulls had done a better job over the winter break.The Milton Keynes outfit has seen a lot of change recently, with several key personnel leaving the team. Included among […]

As George Russell takes F1 sprint pole in China, Mark Hughes wonders whether Mercedes a bigger advantage than we're seeing, and if Red Bull finally has a solution to a long-standing problem […]

Christian Horner's interest in buying into Alpine's Formula 1 team has been complicated by Mercedes also lodging a bid of its own […]

“We need to survive on reliability,” warns Fernando Alonso as Aston Martin faces engine limits […]

Ferrari has parked its radical upside-down rear wing for the rest of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, after a debut Lewis Hamilton described as a “little bit premature” […]

Our priority now is to have a clean sprint race and then see what progress we can make ahead of qualifying […]

As happened last year and as expected, some graining appeared on the front-left tyre, which is the most stressed by Shanghai's corners, and to a lesser extent on the front-right […]

George Russell and Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli will line-up on the front row of the grid for the first F1 sprint race of 2026 […]

Kimi Antonelli and Pierre Gasly face no further action over separate incidents of alleged impeding during qualifying […]

Mercedes' George Russell held an advantage of well over half a second to the next quickest Formula 1 team - the McLaren of Lando Norris - in sprint qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix.This continued the Silver Arrows' bright start to the 2026 season, following on from its 1-2 finish in the Melbourne season opener. Although it was understood before the season that Mercedes was likely to […]

Toto Wolff has revealed McLaren made ‘very different’ gear ratio choices as Mercedes customers search for power unit answers […]

Max Verstappen was left frustrated after qualifying eighth for Saturdays Sprint in Shanghai as Red Bull were left a long way off pole-sitter George Russell; watch the Chinese GP Sprint live on Sky Sports F1 at 3am on Saturday, followed by full qualifying at 7am […]

We've been doing a lot of work on starts and formation lap energy management over the last few days so tomorrow is a good opportunity to put that into practice […]

We're not currently in the point-scoring positions, but the focus now is on preparing for the Sprint, which could be an eventful session […]

Exclusive: F1's Bahrain and Saudi GPs are set to be cancelled this weekend due to the war in Iran […]

Red Bull apologised to Max Verstappen after a torrid sprint qualifying in China […]

The FIA has confirmed that no further action is being taken against Kimi Antonelli, after he allegedly impeded Lando Norris during SQ2 […]

It's the first Sprint of the year, and we expected a huge challenge, but we've really stepped up operationally compared to Melbourne […]

Lando Norris has helped Kimi Antonelli keep his second place on the grid for F1's China sprint race […]

Charles Leclerc was frustrated to fall to sixth on the grid in qualifying for the sprint race after suffering an unexplained drop in power […]

Our set up for sprint qualifying didn't play out as we would have wanted it to […]

Max Verstappen described his whole Friday as a "disaster" after he qualified eighth for the sprint race of the Chinese Grand Prix […]

Fernando Alonso has seen enough difficult F1 seasons to know there are no shortcuts for Aston Martin, but he hasn't lost hope […]

For some teams, China sprint qualifying was a very different story to Australia a week ago. We pick the stars and flops […]

We found a lot more performance and good learnings from Australia that we carried over into this weekend […]

1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve shared his verdict on the new regulations of the series ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.The 2026 season welcomed a new wave of regulations to F1, which feature major changes, including a power unit with an almost 50:50 split between internal combustion and electric power, active aerodynamics, overtake mode, and smaller, lighter cars. The […]

It was pleasing to see that we made some progress between Free Practice 1 and Sprint Qualifying […]