Formula 1 ‘Drag, instability, no confidence’ – why Mercedes is lost again Mercedes’ huge deficit in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying was a rude awakening after its Hungary pole with George Russell, and led team principal Toto Wolff to declare there was ‘not one positive’ about how the W13 is performing
Formula 1 Horner: F1 needs plan to avoid another ‘massive’ engine disparity With new engine manufacturers entering in 2026, Christian Horner says F1 must be ready to act if there’s a risk of a 2014-like disparity
Formula 1 ‘McLaren failed to extract his potential’ – Vettel on Ricciardo Four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel thinks McLaren should bear the brunt of the blame for not extracting former Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo’s full potential during his time there
Formula 1 How the Audi F1 engine project will work Audi’s new F1 engine project, which is running at its ‘Competence Center Motorsport’ facility, already has more than 100 staff working on it – a number that’s expected to rise to around 300 once its recruitment drive is complete
Formula 1 Ricciardo: F1 sabbatical possible, no interest in other series Daniel Ricciardo is open to the possibility of taking a Formula 1 sabbatical in 2023 if he cannot find the right deal after his McLaren contract comes to an early end. McLaren and Ricciardo agreed a termination of the deal that was intended to cover 2023, with his departure announced yesterday. Ricc
Formula 1 The key role Vettel played in Aston landing Alonso Sebastian Vettel played an important role in making it possible for Aston Martin to sign Fernando Alonso or 2023, both through the timing of his Formula 1 retirement decision and his contribution to the team
Formula 1 10 times F1 drivers didn’t see out their contracts How much does a Formula 1 contract really mean? Not a lot, if either the driver or team is determined not to honour it. Here are 10 of F1’s most memorable early splits
Formula 1 McLaren hopes Ricciardo stays in F1, won’t pay him to not race McLaren is hopeful Daniel Ricciardo will still be on the Formula 1 grid in 2023 despite parting company with him early, and has ruled out their severance deal preventing him from racing elsewhere
Formula 1 The old-school F1 pain Leclerc is battling The disparity between Charles Leclerc’s number of Formula 1 pole positions and number of grand prix wins is so stark it feels like something from a bygone era. But he’d do well to heed a lesson from someone with even worse statistics
Formula 1 What looming blanket ban means for F1 It’s been suggested for years, and it nearly made it into the rules once before. But finally, in 2024, Formula 1 is banning tyre warmers. Edd Straw looks at the impact it will have and how Pirelli is preparing
Formula 1 A form turnaround that can reshape F1 2022’s lead fight The intra-team battle at Ferrari was very one-sided in the first half of the 2022 Formula 1 season. But Carlos Sainz has transformed himself since then
Formula 1 Driver farce has overshadowed real progress at Alpine The mess around Fernando Alonso and (potentially) Oscar Piastri’s Alpine exits makes it look like a team in crisis. Which is ironic, as on track and behind the scenes it’s finally on the up
Formula 1 How Ricciardo dug himself out of his first big F1 hole Daniel Ricciardo’s current struggle at McLaren isn’t the first occasion in his Formula 1 career he’s been floundering at a critical time. But when it happened before, he turned things around spectacularly
Formula 1 We pick the weirdest car designs in Formula 1 history Walrus noses, twin tusks, X-wings, zero sidepods, double wings and a seagull landing on the nose tip – there have been some truly bizarre Formula 1 designs over the years. And the worse the car has looked, the slower it’s usually gone
Formula 1 The five best drives of the 2022 F1 season so far The first half of the 2022 Formula 1 season featured 260 individual race drives – all of which got a mark out of 10 in our driver ratings. Here’s Edd Straw’s pick of the best five drives so far this year, and only one of them resulted in a victory
Formula 1 Is Bottas a better driver at Alfa Romeo than at Mercedes? Valtteri Bottas is unquestionably happier at Alfa Romeo than he was at Mercedes, but is he performing at a higher level too?
Formula 1 Our mid-season 2022 Formula 1 team grades Who’s excelled in the first half of the 2022 Formula 1 season and who’s wasted their potential? Here are our team-by-team report cards
Formula 1 How F1 rules are being tightened due to Zhou’s horrific crash The FIA has announced changes to Formula 1’s technical regulations for 2023 in response to the roll hoop breaking on Zhou Guanyu’s Alfa Romeo in his British Grand Prix crash
Formula 1 What Alfa Romeo’s 32 new partners says about F1 Team-specific excellence or a sign of burgeoning series popularity? The Race takes a look at what Alfa Romeo’s 32 new partners say about Formula 1’s popularity
Formula 1 Edd Straw’s 2022 mid-season F1 driver ratings With the Formula 1 summer break in full swing, Edd Straw has averaged out his driver ratings from the 13 races so far to rank the 21 drivers who’ve raced in 2022 from worst to first
Formula 1 Why Formula E’s new world champion fell flat in F1 Stoffel Vandoorne was always touted as a future world champion. The fact that he’s achieved that in Formula E and not F1 might not be the future he once foresaw, but it still makes him an enormously successful driver
Formula 1 Why a slumping F1 team is so certain it’s about to recover AlphaTauri has gone from regularly upstaging the likes of Ferrari in 2021 to Q1 exits and long point-less runs in 2022. But it expects to be much stronger after the summer break, and there’s logic behind that hope
Formula 1 Ricciardo needs more than a ‘natural reset’ to revive form Whether or not he ends up with a place at McLaren for 2023, Daniel Ricciardo still has a job to do in the second half of the F1 season. Given how the last 18 months have played out, though, it’s going to take more than just a break to change his form
Formula 1 F1 teams need to stop taking needless driver contract risks Alpine isn’t the first Formula 1 team to get caught out in the driver market and it won’t be the last. But it’s baffling when a team is lax about ensuring it has the best quality possible, writes Edd Straw
Formula 1 How Aston Martin proved its clever F1 rear wing was legal The elaborate rear-wing endplate design Aston Martin introduced at the Hungarian Grand Prix proved to be one of the most eye-catching innovations of the 2022 Formula 1 season. It quickly became clear it was legal, but will it stay that way? And if so, will others rush to copy it?
Formula 1 An F1 2022 struggler has a sudden lifeline – but how big is it? Williams looked certain to dispense with Nicholas Latifi for 2023 a few weeks ago, but improved form plus driver market developments elsewhere might have helped his cause
Formula 1 Alpine may need Ocon to lead. Is he up to it? As Alpine scrambles to secure a team-mate to Esteban Ocon for after Fernando Alonso’s exit, Ocon himself should be preparing to lead the team
Formula 1 Is Alpine’s old $25million man now its best-value fallback? If Alpine loses its fight for Oscar Piastri, a return for Daniel Ricciardo – its big-money mega-signing in its Renault days – is surely likely. Would that be wise?
Formula 1 Edd Straw’s 2022 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix driver ratings There were outstanding efforts behind the lap for pole position and the driver to victory in the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix, but neither of the drivers behind those scored highest in Edd Straw’s ratings
Formula 1 Alpine thought it could treat Alonso as Piastri’s seat-warmer Fernando Alonso and Alpine both said a 2023 Formula 1 deal could be done in 10 minutes. But instead Alonso’s off to Aston Martin. Edd Straw explains the impasse that allowed this to happen
Formula 1 The first cautious start of Verstappen’s F1 career? When a Formula 1 race is won from 10th on the grid, you might expect the tale to begin with an elbows-out first-lap charge. But Max Verstappen’s Hungarian Grand Prix approach was the opposite
Formula 1 Leclerc: Ferrari ‘needs to get better’ at executing F1 weekends Charles Leclerc says Ferrari must be “better at putting a weekend together” and needs to take “another step” if it wants to challenge for the Formula 1 world championships after an erroneous strategy at the Hungarian Grand Prix
Formula 1 Russell has already proved he can be an F1 winner Normally you might wonder whether a first-time Formula 1 polesitter could handle the pressure of that situation. George Russell’s already had a rehearsal for it – in which he thrived
Formula 1 Williams escapes with fine for unusual F1 tyre rule breach Williams escaped with only a €1,000 fine for running Alex Albon on a set of tyres he should not have been using during Formula 1 qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix thanks to the FIA stewards accepting that what the team described as a “typo” led to the error
Formula 1 F1’s track limits tools not good enough, say Perez and Gasly Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly have hit out at the FIA’s monitoring of Formula 1 track limits after Hungarian GP qualifying
Formula 1 Horner: 2023 F1 changes risk ‘wacky aeroelastic concepts’ Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has warned the FIA’s mooted Formula 1 floor regulations for 2023 could lead to teams “chasing wacky aeroelastic concepts”
Formula 1 What’s actually going on with Alonso’s F1 contract talks Fernando Alonso reckons it should only take “10 minutes” to sort his new Alpine Formula 1 contract. This is why it hasn’t – yet
Formula 1 Where does McLaren really stand after sensational Friday? McLaren was second only to Ferrari in Hungarian Grand Prix Friday practice. Deceptive fluke before a return to the midfield, precursor to a shock pole bid, or somewhere in between?
Formula 1 Steiner’s defiant response to Haas’s Ferrari copying claims Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has defended the similarities between its upgraded Formula 1 car and the Ferrari F1-75, arguing it would be “stupid” for the team to go in any other development direction.
Formula 1 The early favourite among the candidates to replace Vettel Sebastian Vettel’s decision to retire from Formula 1 won’t have come out of the blue to Aston Martin given it has long been a possibility. But it does leave the team in need of a new driver for 2023
