Formula 1

Williams boss James Vowles says the team is “nowhere near” parting company with Logan Sargeant, who the team wants to keep in the car for 2024. Sargeant has struggled in his rookie season and a string of costly crashes over the past few races has ramped up pressure on the Floridian. The American’s place at

Sep 28, 2023, 08:56 AM ET New Zealand-based Rodin Cars said on Thursday its bid to enter Formula One as an 11th team and with a female driver had been rejected and it expected Andretti Global to be the only successful applicant. Rodin’s Australian founder David Dicker said in a statement the company had proposed

Red Bull design legend Adrian Newey says he does have some regrets at never working at Ferrari or with F1 greats like Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. Newey has been at Red Bull since 2006 and has played a key role in each of the team’s six constructors’ championships, the most recent of which it

Sep 27, 2023, 08:45 AM ET Former champion Nyck de Vries will return to the all-electric Formula E series with Mahindra next season after a failed move to Formula One, the Indian-owned team said on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Dutch driver started 10 grands prix with Red Bull-owned AlphaTauri without scoring a point this season before

Aston Martin’s Jess Hawkins became the first woman in nearly five years to drive a contemporary Formula One car at an event in Budapest last week. Stunt driver Hawkins, who is signed to the team in a ambassadorial capacity, drove 26 laps in the team’s 2023 car at the Hungaroring circuit which hosts the Hungarian

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 25, 2023, 04:27 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SUZUKA, Japan — When one driver dominates a season in the way Max Verstappen has dominated 2023, it’s easy to gloss over exceptional performances. The feat of winning race after race becomes difficult to contextualise,

Lewis Hamilton believes Mercedes needs the best six months of car development it has ever produced to have any hope of stopping Red Bull’s dominance in 2024. Red Bull secured a second straight constructors’ title at the Japanese Grand Prix to cap what has been a record-breaking season. The team has only failed to win

Max Verstappen’s “mighty” pole position lap at the Japanese Grand Prix was one of Formula One’s best, Red Bull boss Christian Horner said. After Red Bull’s unbeaten season came to an end last week at the Singapore Grand Prix, Verstappen resumed business as normal at Suzuka. The Dutch driver was in a world of his

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 24, 2023, 06:12 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SUZUKA, Japan — Christian Horner has said he doubts Red Bull will ever be able to repeat the success it has had this season after his team won the constructors’ championship at the Japanese Grand

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorSep 24, 2023, 04:54 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SUZUKA, Japan — Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc thought he was on his way to a podium at the Japanese Grand Prix after mistaking Sergio Perez’s retiring Red Bull for that of race-winner Max Verstappen. Leclerc,