Formula 1

5:39 AM ET Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has said his Mercedes team did not listen to him in developing their 2023 Formula One car. The Briton told reporters last week that Mercedes were on the wrong track before he finished fifth in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix opener. “Last year, there were things I told

5:53 AM ET It took just one qualifying session of the 2023 season for Toto Wolff’s worst fears about Mercedes’ new Formula One car to be confirmed. George Russell’s best lap time was 0.632s off Max Verstappen’s pole position lap time — a huge gap as big as the one that it faced after the

4:52 AM ET Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll detailed on Tuesday his successful battle to be fit for the start of the Formula One season with broken wrists after a cycle accident and said his doctors feared initially he would miss the opening races. The Canadian finished sixth in Sunday’s Bahrain opener despite injuries that

Mar 4, 2023 ESPN and Reuters Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll qualified eighth for Sunday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and then revealed he had broken a big toe as well as both wrists in a cycling accident two weeks ago. The 24-year-old Canadian said the last week had been “pretty insane”. “If someone had offered me

4:50 AM ET There’s no better time to make sweeping statements about a new Formula One season than the days after the first race. Mercedes’ George Russell himself made a pretty big one on Sunday evening, and the scale of Red Bull’s win made it easy to cast some pretty big judgements about the year

7:51 AM ET Reliability was not the top concern for new Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur before the start of the Formula One season but Sunday’s opening race in Bahrain sent it back up the list of priorities. Charles Leclerc, who led a Ferrari one-two from pole at Sakhir last year, lost power and retired 17

9:04 AM ET In the hours after Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix some of Max Verstappen’s rivals seemed ready to hand him this year’s title with 22 races still to run. The Red Bull driver won the opening race of the season by 11 seconds from his teammate Sergio Perez and by a massive 38 seconds

3:24 AM ET Red Bull boss Christian Horner praised Aston Martin’s remarkable climb up the Formula One order this year, saying that it is a compliment to how close the team’s design looks to his own. Fernando Alonso’s podium finish in Bahrain confirmed the huge steps forward made by Aston Martin, who finished seventh last

Mar 5, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain — George Russell offered a bleak assessment about the 2023 Formula One season, predicting Max Verstappen‘s easy win in Bahrain will be the norm this year. Max Verstappen scored a dominant victory at the first race as Mercedes and Ferrari, the only other two teams to win a race in

Mar 5, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain — Mercedes boss Toto Wolff described his team’s result at the Bahrain Grand Prix as “one of the worst days in racing” after Lewis Hamilton finished 50 seconds adrift of race winner Max Verstappen. Red Bull barely pushed the limit of its two cars on the way to a dominant