8:10 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live At a time when the subject of one driver coming into physical contract with another is in the news, it is coincidentally
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8:09 AM ET Five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton says he will have to up his game next year in order to hold off the threat from the next generation of Formula One talent. Lewis Hamilton has moved to clarify comments he made about Formula One’s push to race in countries with a limited wealth and
6:48 AM ET The head of Renault’s racing programme, Jerome Stoll, is due to be replaced by Thierry Koskas on January 1, 2019, as the French manufacturer continues its pursuit of a Formula One title. Stoll, who is set to retire at the end of 2018, became the president of Renault Sport Racing in 2016
4:29 AM ET Sauber will give Colombian Tatiana Calderon her second Formula One test outing in a 2013 car at Ferrari’s Fiorano circuit this weekend, the Swiss-based team said on Thursday. The Colombia native became the first Latin American woman to pilot a Formula One car, completing 23 laps at a Alfa Romeo Sauber promotional
8:18 AM ET Fernando Alonso and McLaren’s 2019 Indy 500 bid will be overseen by former Force India deputy team boss Bob Fernley. Last weekend McLaren announced its return to the famous oval race with Alonso, who attempted to win it in 2017. The Spaniard is leaving F1 at the end of the current season
8:13 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has moved to explain comments he made about Formula One’s push to race in countries with a limited wealth and racing heritage. Hamilton, who last month secured his fifth world championship, has spoken out against certain aspects of F1’s push to add races to the calendar, questioning recently whether the
5:25 AM ET Mercedes could not have claimed five Formula One constructors’ championships in a row if it were not for Lewis Hamilton, according to team boss Toto Wolff. After securing his fifth constructors’ title as team principal of Mercedes on Sunday, Toto Wolff has labelled his team’s 2018 campaign as its toughest yet. The
12:08 PM ET Carlos Sainz has denied the suggestion that a 2019 move to Red Bull was blocked by Max Verstappen. Sainz was a Red Bull junior until earlier this year and at one point had seemed to be the next in line for a step up to the main team whenever a seat became
9:32 AM ET Pierre Gasly says he refused Toro Rosso’s request to let teammate Brendon Hartley pass him during the Brazilian Grand Prix because they were not racing for points. Late in the race, Hartley closed in on 11th-placed Gasly having benefited from a different strategy and a later pit stop for fresh tyres. Hartley
5:14 AM ET Understandable but not justifiable — that was the view of Formula One’s motorsport managing director, Ross Brawn, after watching the altercation between Max Verstappen and Esteban Ocon after Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Verstappen’s anger was triggered by Ocon taking him out of the lead of the race and, once the chequered flag