Formula 1

4:21 AM ET Formula One champions Mercedes are going through an “exercise in humility” after years of success but they will be stronger for it, team boss Toto Wolff said after more pain in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Mercedes’ seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton finished 10th, the last of the points-paying positions, after failing to

4:46 PM ET JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — For two consecutive days Formula One cars lapped Jeddah’s Corniche Circuit against the backdrop of a cloud of black smoke on the city’s skyline. The smoke was a result of a missile attack on an oil depot six miles to the east of the track that occurred 20

11:03 AM ET Lewis Hamilton’s crucial missed pit-stop in the closing stages of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix came about due to a confusing situation on track, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said. Hamilton was seemingly presented a golden opportunity to stop on Lap 37 under a Virtual Safety Car, which results in a much smaller

7:00 AM ET AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly scored his first points of the Formula One season through gritted teeth at Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The Frenchman, who finished eighth for the Red Bull-owned team after retiring his car in Bahrain the previous weekend, said the closing laps in Jeddah had been an agonising experience.

5:44 PM ET Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc provided a great on-track spectacle at Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, but the headlines generated off track this week will rightly continue to hang over this event for a long while to come. It was a strange F1 race weekend, with the 48 hours before the race

Reigning Formula One champion Max Verstappen overtook Charles Leclerc in a thrilling late battle to win the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.  After several back and forth attempts in another thrilling series of wheel-to-wheel moves, Verstappen got past Leclerc with four laps remaining and made the move stick.  Just as they did at the Bahrain Grand

4:46 AM ET JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s minister of sport, Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al-Faisal, said his country would not have hesitated in cancelling this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix if it felt there was a genuine security threat to the event. Formula One’s 20 drivers came close to boycotting the race in

7:06 PM ET JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Leading Formula One drivers have made clear that they want to revisit the topic of Formula One’s presence in Saudi Arabia once Sunday’s race in the country is over. On Friday night, all 20 F1 drivers were on the brink of boycotting this year’s race after a missile

9:56 AM ET JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said it would have been wrong for Formula One’s drivers to boycott Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and leave the country in response to a missile attack 10 km from the circuit on Friday. On Friday evening, F1’s 20 drivers held a four-hour

5:57 AM ET Formula One’s drivers opted against boycotting the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix because government ministers assured them security measures were being “elevated to the maximum”, according to the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA). F1’s 20 drivers held a remarkable four hour meeting on Friday evening as they resisted F1’s calls to race on