Formula 1

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 14, 2023, 09:23 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE — Max Verstappen has told Toto Wolff to focus on his own team after the Mercedes team principal labelled the Red Bull driver’s record of consecutive victories as “irrelevant”. Verstappen secured his 10th win

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 14, 2023, 11:23 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE — Sergio Perez has accepted an apology from Helmut Marko after the Red Bull motorsport consultant blamed the Mexican’s poor form this season on Perez’s ethnicity. “We know that he has problems in qualifying,

New Zealand’s Liam Lawson will continue to race for AlphaTauri in place of the injured Daniel Ricciardo at the Singapore Grand Prix. Ricciardo suffered a broken metacarpal in his left hand in a crash ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix, which also forced him to miss the Italian Grand Prix. Ricciardo will be present with

Sep 13, 2023, 05:02 AM ET McLaren has joined Williams in running a revised colour scheme for upcoming F1 races in Singapore and Japan. The British team has unveiled a predominantly black car with streaks of its standard papaya orange, a look it has dubbed Stealth Mode. It is McLaren’s third special livery of the

Max Verstappen’s third championship has been a matter of when, not if, for several months now, but he has to wait at least one race more until he wraps it up. The Dutchman’s win at the Italian Grand Prix was a record 10th in a row and it would be a brave bet against him

Sep 9, 2023, 08:18 AM ET Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko, one of the leading figures in the dominant Formula One team, apologised on Friday for blaming Mexican driver Sergio Perez’s fluctuating form on his ethnicity. The 80-year-old Austrian, a former racer who was a close friend of Red Bull’s late owner Dietrich Mateschitz,

All 10 Formula One teams spent within the budget cap for the 2022 season, the governing FIA announced on Tuesday. F1 teams were restricted to a budget of $135 million last year and each has been handed a certificate of compliance to say they operated within that figure. The audit of the 2022 cap was

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 3, 2023, 01:19 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 MONZA, Italy — Ferrari’s decision to let its drivers fight over third position at Monza was the team’s way of thanking its fans for their support this weekend, according to team principal Fred Vasseur. Carlos

MONZA, Italy — Max Verstappen’s record-breaking dominance has forced Red Bull to buy a new trophy cabinet for its F1 headquarters in the UK. Verstappen claimed an unprecedented 10th straight win at the Italian Grand Prix, moving clear of the 2013 tally of nine set by Sebastian Vettel in 2013. It was his 12th win

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 5, 2023, 05:58 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 MONZA, Italy — Although it wasn’t the dream result the tifosi had hoped for, Ferrari’s third and fourth-place finishes at the Italian Grand Prix represented a significant step forward compared to its performance at the