Formula 1

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

7:32 AM ET Toto Wolff thinks Mercedes has missed the straightforward approach of former non-executive chairman Niki Lauda, especially during the struggles of the last year and a half. Three-time champion Lauda was an integral part of the dominant Mercedes team up until his death in 2019. Lauda was frequently at races in that role

9:45 AM ET McLaren have announced the departure of technical director James Key as part of a design team overhaul that will see the leadership of its technical department split between three people. The news follows a disappointing start to McLaren’s 2023 campaign, with the team failing to score a point in the opening two

6:45 AM ET Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said his team are “changing things” in a bid to improve their position ahead of the Australian Grand Prix on April 2. Speaking to reporters at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, team principal Wolff said he would have no shame if the revamped car ended up resembling a

5:33 AM ET Max Verstappen stayed top of the Formula One world championship in Saudi Arabia on Sunday but said he was still unhappy at having to settle for second in the race behind Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez. The Dutch driver paid the price for a drive-shaft failure in Saturday’s qualifying that left him