10:21 AM ET Plenty of talking points emerged from Ferrari’s home defeat at Monza. ESPN’s F1 editor Laurence Edmondson, associate editor Nate Saunders and F1 writers Kate Walker and Maurice Hamilton offer their opinions below. Is Sebastian Vettel too accident-prone to win this year’s title? Vettel now trails Hamilton by 30 points in the race
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6:35 AM ET McLaren CEO Zak Brown insists he got the “guy we wanted” by signing 18-year-old Lando Norris over more experienced racing drivers who were also on the market for 2019. Norris will join Carlos Sainz at the team next year, replacing the current line-up of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne. The two signings
6:03 AM ET McLaren’s new recruit Lando Norris doubts he will be in a position to win races over the next two years and has played down comparisons with four-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. The 18-year-old will join the team as Carlos Sainz’s teammate next year, becoming the first British rookie to drive for McLaren
12:33 PM ET McLaren has signed Pat Fry to the role of engineering director, eight years after he left the team for Ferrari. Fry worked for McLaren between 1993 and 2010, when he made the switch to Maranello. At Ferrari he worked his way up to director of engineering before his departure in 2014. He
9:05 AM ET McLaren boss Zak Brown says he is working to ensure axed Formula One driver Stoffel Vandoorne has a seat on the grid next year and has suggested he could be a part of the team’s rumoured IndyCar project. McLaren’s decision to drop Stoffel Vandoorne for Lando Norris doesn’t come as a surprise,
4:50 AM ET Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has accused Valtteri Bottas of being a hesitant overtaker and said Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel would have got past him cleanly at the Italian Grand Prix. Verstappen and Bottas banged wheels in the latter part of the Monza race while fighting for the final spot on the
7:30 AM ET McLaren has confirmed British teenager Lando Norris will make the step up to a full Formula One race seat next year to partner Carlos Sainz. McLaren junior Lando Norris is looking like a very serious candidate for the vacant seat alongside Carlos Sainz in 2019. ESPN caught up with the young Englishman
9:49 AM ET Connor McDonagh 2016 Formula One champion Nico Rosberg has called on Sebastian Vettel to raise his game after the German lost even more ground to Lewis Hamilton in the race for the drivers’ title following the Italian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel claims his title rival Lewis Hamilton did not leave him enough
8:33 AM ET Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel is a man who knows a thing or two about making it in Formula One. Daniel Ricciardo’s shock switch to Renault and Fernando Alonso’s decision to quit Formula One at the end of 2018 have blown the F1 driver market wide open. Here’s how the driver market
1:14 PM ET MONZA, Italy — A look at the main talking points from the Italian Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton beat the Ferraris on home turf. A very Lewis weekend On the back foot: The Italian Grand Prix started with Thursday’s media session and the news Lewis Hamilton’s media sessions had been canceled. Mercedes