1:38 PM ET ESPN staff Daniel Ricciardo has completed his first laps as a Renault Formula One driver after the French team managed to prepare its car in time for its planned filming day on Saturday. Renault left the build of the new R.S.19 late and was worried it would not have the car ready
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6:01 AM ET MARANELLO, Italy — The Auditorium Enzo Ferrari stands proudly on one side of Maranello’s central piazza. It’s not the prettiest building in Northern Italy — far from it — but its yellow stucco is immaculately maintained and free of the graffiti that plagues the surrounding streets. It is also a point of
12:26 PM ET ESPN staff Ferrari admits Sebastian Vettel will get priority treatment in the opening portion of the 2019 Formula One season if there are particular situations which require it. Ferrari was criticised for its application of team orders last year, having hesitated at several key moments — it dithered on ordering Kimi Raikkonen
7:29 AM ET A round-up and gallery of all the 2019 car launches ahead of the new season. Pre-season testing begins in Barcelona on February 18. View all the key dates of the upcoming season here. Yet to launch: Racing Point (Wednesday), McLaren (Thursday), Ferrari (Friday), Alfa Romeo (Monday). Mercedes Valtteri Bottas put the first
5:11 AM ET ESPN staff Ferrari has unveiled the car it hopes can halt Meredes’ recent dominance of Formula One and end its own decade-long wait for a championship. The Italian team took the covers off its new car, the SF90, at an event at its factory in Maranello, Italy, where new signing Charles Leclerc
1:25 PM ET MARANELLO, Italy — Kimi Raikkonen clocked up his first 100 kilometres in the new Alfa Romeo Formula One car on Thursday, after completing 33 laps of Ferrari’s Fiorano test track. The pre-season shakedown and filming day caught the residents of nearby Maranello by surprise, with the team hitting the track four days
3:00 PM ET WOKING, U.K — A lot has changed at McLaren in the 12 months between the unveiling of last year’s car and its predecessor, the MCL34. The most obvious was who wasn’t present at the launch, held at the team’s Woking headquarters on Thursday — Fernando Alonso was absent and in his place
7:15 AM ET ESPN staff McLaren has unveiled the car which will contend the 2019 Formula One season without Fernando Alonso at the helm. The British team has struggled in recent years and goes in to the new season with its least experienced driver line-up in recent memory — Spaniard Carlos Sainz will team up
10:50 AM ET ESPN staff Racing Point has launched its first car since officially changing the name of its team from Force India. Last year Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll led a consortium to save Force India from administration. Stroll’s son Lance has joined for 2019 from Williams and will partner Sergio Perez, who has been
7:22 AM ET ESPN staff Red Bull has offered the first glimpse of its 2019 F1 car, the RB15, in an eye-catching one-off livery. The car was launched in a striking dark blue and red livery, which the team confirmed was just for the RB15’s first shakedown at Silverstone on Wednesday. A more traditional Red