8:07 AM ET Jacques Villeneuve, the last driver to win a world championship with Williams, believes his former team is “dead” after its recent struggles. Williams currently sits at the bottom of the constructors’ championship, 12 points adrift of its nearest rival Sauber. A steady slump in form has seen the former championship-winning team slip
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5:06 AM ET Haas team principal Guenther Steiner is concerned by the amount of points his team has thrown away this season, warning his drivers that losing points through mistakes is not acceptable. The American team is currently fifth in the constructors’ standings, but has failed to score points at four rounds this season and
5:59 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo says he is closing in on a new Red Bull contract now that it has become clear Mercedes and Ferrari will not offer him a deal for 2019. After spending all of his F1 career to date under the Red Bull driver programme, Ricciardo is out of contract at the
May 9, 2018 IMOLA, Italy – It’s a muggy afternoon in early May and the air is thick with the fluffy white seeds from poplar trees. Flurries of the cotton-like substance float through the gates of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Northern Italy and clump together in the shadow of the circuit’s iconic
Jul 12, 2018 Mercedes has announced a restructuring of its technical team ahead of 2019, which will see Aldo Costa step back from his role as Mercedes’ engineering director. When Mercedes needed a driver for a demonstration run at Imola, one man got the nod over both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Costa, who joined
7:45 AM ET Robert Kubica has revealed he had a deal signed to drive for Ferrari in 2012 before he suffered life-changing injuries in a rally accident in 2011. After seven years away from F1, the Polish driver has returned to the paddock as a test driver with Williams this year and still harbours ambitions
11:53 AM ET Circuit of the Americas owner Bobby Epstein expects to continue hosting the U.S. Grand Prix beyond its current deal despite the imminent arrival of a Miami street race. The Austin circuit has hosted F1 since 2012 but next year looks likely to share a space on the calendar with another U.S. race
8:33 AM ET After F1’s historic triple header and entertaining, championship-altering contests in Austria and Great Britain, ESPN’s F1 editors Laurence Edmondson and Nate Saunders, and columnists Maurice Hamilton and Kate Walker, weigh in on the biggest talking points after 10 races of the 2018 season. Does Haas need to replace Romain Grosjean? MH: He’s
5:05 AM ET Red Bull boss Christian Horner reckons Ferrari’s engine has replaced Mercedes as the benchmark engine in Formula One. Mercedes has owned the class-leading engine since the introduction of V6 power units in 2014. Ferrari fought Mercedes for the championship until the final stages of last season but has launched a stronger title
9:01 AM ET A round-up of the best radio soundbites from the British Grand Prix, where Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel ended Lewis Hamilton’s run of home victories. “Let’s try to be aggressive. Plan B is the only way to get ahead of him.”“Understood Kimi, we are trying, but the 10-second penalty is an issue…” Kimi