1:11 PM ET LE CASTELLET, France — Lewis Hamilton will find out on Friday whether Mercedes is able to deliver its latest specification of engine at this weekend’s French Grand Prix. The upgrade was originally planned for the Canadian Grand Prix but was delayed after dyno testing threw up some reliability concerns back at the
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12:53 PM ET LE CASTELLET, France — Sebastian Vettel is expecting Mercedes to be a serious threat at the French Grand Prix regardless of whether it is able to run its latest engine upgrade. Mercedes made a last-minute decision not to introduce its planned engine upgrade ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix due to reliability
12:14 PM ET LE CASTELLET, France — Daniel Ricciardo says he is not aware of a big-money offer to join McLaren next year, but admits he is still weighing up his options for 2019. A report in Sports Bild ahead of this weekend’s French Grand Prix quoted Ricciardo’s Red Bull boss Helmut Marko saying McLaren
8:56 AM ET LE CASTELLET, France — Max Verstappen insists he has no concerns about Red Bull’s decision to join forces with Honda in Formula One next season. On the face of it, a switch from the third most competitive engine of the turbo-hybrid era to the least competitive engine doesn’t sound great. But Red
7:25 AM ET McLaren’s senior management is confident the team has the right people in place to help turn its fortunes around in 2018. McLaren’s switch to Renault power has not achieved the step up the grid the team predicted at the start of the season. While it is in a much healthier position in
7:38 AM ET The future of the Belgian Grand Prix has been secured until the end of 2021 after F1 signed a new contract with Spa Grand Prix. The race takes place on one of the calendar’s most fearsome and impressive circuits — Spa-Francorchamps — and its current contract was due to expire after this
4:58 AM ET Haas boss Guenther Steiner expects the team to get back to its early-season form at the French Grand Prix this weekend. Haas established itself as ‘best of the rest’ on raw pace in the opening rounds, but failed to capitalise and convert that performance into the points it deserved. The team has
10:32 AM ET Twelve years after it first supplied Red Bull with engines, Renault believes the time will be right to split with the championship-winning Formula One team at the end of the year. Red Bull has signed a new two-year contract with Honda from 2019 that will bring an end to a successful but
9:27 PM ET On the face of it, a switch from the third most competitive engine of the turbo-hybrid era to the least competitive engine doesn’t sound great. But Red Bull’s decision to use Honda power from 2019 is all about the future and not the past. A fragile relationship with Renault gave little hope
5:00 AM ET Honda says Red Bull will not receive works-team preference over Toro Rosso next year but admits it feels “huge pressure and responsibility” supplying engines to one of the sports top teams. Red Bull will use Honda engines from the start of next season after agreeing a new two-year deal with the Japanese