Formula 1

2:45 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Sergio Perez says a technical issue affecting the brake balance on his car was to blame for his early exit in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver ran wide at Turn 3 after locking up under braking on his first flying lap in qualifying. The

12:55 AM ET The feeling may not be mutual but former Formula One racing director Michael Masi is open to meeting with Mercedes more than a year after losing his job over the controversial 2021 title-decider in Abu Dhabi. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton missed what would have been a record eighth title after Masi changed

12:52 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Red Bull reserve driver Daniel Ricciardo is just “10 minutes away from being ready” for a return to a Formula One cockpit, says team boss Christian Horner. Ricciardo completed a move back to Red Bull this past offseason — albeit in a third driver capacity — after former team

1:11 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Max Verstappen said he felt physically limited in the cockpit of his Red Bull Formula One car during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend as he struggled to recover from a virus. The illness meant the world champion arrived a day late at the event, missing his usual Thursday

9:20 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The FIA has clarified the rules around penalties being served at pit stops so as to avoid a repeat of the confusion over Fernando Alonso’s podium finish in Saudi Arabia. Alonso finished third on track in Saudi Arabia, but received a 10-second penalty after the podium ceremony — demoting

4:28 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Just three months in to his first year away from the Formula One grid, Daniel Ricciardo is already eyeing a return to a race drive next season. When McLaren decided to replace Ricciardo with Oscar Piastri at the end of the 2022 season, the 33-year-old Australian was left with

6:36 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has praised Brazilian authorities for handing three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet a large fine for using racist and anti-gay language in comments about the Mercedes driver. A Brazilian court last week ordered Piquet to pay 5 million Brazilian reals ($953,050) in “moral damages” for remarks about Hamilton in interviews

5:24 AM ET Former British American Racing (BAR) founder Craig Pollock has confirmed he is looking to enter Formula One with a 50 percent male, 50 percent female team called Formula Equal. Pollock has submitted an expression of interest to racing’s governing body, the FIA, who opened up the process for finding an 11th F1

2:46 AM ET Former Formula One world champion Jenson Button said that he suffered heat exhaustion and nearly retired from the race before finishing 18th at his NASCAR debut in Texas on Sunday. The 43-year-old Briton, who won the F1 world championship in 2009, said he feared fainting while driving his Ford Mustang during the

5:19 AM ET Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay $953,050 (5 million Brazilian Reals) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court ruled on Friday. In an interview in November 2021, Piquet used a racial slur referring to the seven-time world champion, when commenting