6:16 AM ET Red Bull team boss Christian Horner believes Daniel Ricciardo’s decision to switch to Renault next year was partly influenced by the growing strength of current teammate Max Verstappen. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has ruled out signing Fernando Alonso as Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement on the grounds that the two-time world champion
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5:11 AM ET Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has ruled out signing Fernando Alonso as Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement on the grounds that the two-time world champion has caused “chaos” wherever he has driven. A mixture of mechanical gremlins, unreliable Renault engines and driver errors has seen Red Bull fail to maximize their opportunities in
8:13 AM ET Romain Grosjean is confident he still has the potential to stay in F1 for several years to come and is hopeful he will one day get an opportunity to win races before he retires. The Haas driver is out of contract at the end of this year and his position at the
6:32 AM ET Mercedes technical director James Allison believes there are clear areas where Ferrari has the edge over his team and vice-a-versa this season. After surprise victories in Germany and Hungary, Mercedes entered F1’s summer break leading both drivers’ and constructors’ championships. Over the course of the year there have been track layouts that
7:38 AM ET Mercedes has become the latest Formula One team to launch its own Esports team ahead of this year’s official F1 Esports Series. The world champions have recruited the inaugural F1 Esports Series champion Brendon Leigh, alongside fellow gamers Harry Jacks, Patryk Krutyi and Dani Bereznay, who was selected by the team at
2:27 PM ET The Force India Formula One team has been rescued from administration by a consortium of investors led by Lawrence Stroll, the father of Williams driver Lance Stroll. The news emerged on Tuesday evening after administrators weighed up a series of offers for the business. The team had faced the threat of a
9:06 AM ET Connor McDonagh Lewis Hamilton believes Mercedes has performed better as a team compared to Ferrari in the first half of the 2018 Formula One season. Team boss Toto Wolff has urged Mercedes to match Ferrari’s recent gains in engine performance, and says he is not willing to accept that the Italian manufacturer
7:37 AM ET Connor McDonagh Jamie Chadwick became the first woman to win a British Formula 3 race on Sunday by claiming victory at Brands Hatch. Starting from fourth on the grid, Chadwick made a strong start gaining two places and quickly settled into second place. The Briton stayed behind Singapore’s Pavan Ravishankar for the
9:34 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 the time, it seemed barely credible. Fifty years on, the story of Jackie Stewart’s win on the Nürburgring Nordschleife defies belief.
5:29 AM ET Connor McDonagh McLaren junior Lando Norris admits his future is still uncertain and will likely remain so until Fernando Alonso reveals his plans for 2019. Norris currently sits second overall in Formula One’s feeder series Formula 2 and is widely tipped as one of the sport’s leading stars of the future. McLaren’s