Formula 1 How Tsunoda overcame his F1 confidence crisis Now in his second Formula 1 season, Yuki Tsunoda believes he’s “much more in control” than as an AlphaTauri rookie in 2021 – a campaign that was derailed by a confidence crisis
Formula 1 F1 reveals its plan for major 2026 chassis rule changes The FIA has revealed its preliminary objectives for Formula 1’s 2026 chassis regulations, which will be introduced alongside the next-generation power unit
Formula 1 Two moments cost Bottas an Imola F1 podium shot Valtteri Bottas gave the Sauber-run Alfa Romeo its best Formula 1 result since 2019 by finishing fifth at Imola, but could he have been on the podium? Edd Straw assesses the factors that support and count against that hypothesis
Formula 1 Did stray ‘tube’ in pitlane cause Ocon’s penalty? Esteban Ocon’s Imola unsafe release penalty for hindering Lewis Hamilton looked a slam dunk – but was there a mitigating AlphaTauri factor?
Formula 1 Why Vettel’s eighth place at Imola was “like a victory” Given how uncompetitive Aston Martin’s AMR22 has been at the start of the 2022 Formula 1 season, it’s little surprise Sebastian Vettel described his eighth place in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as “like a victory”
Formula 1 Edd Straw’s 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix F1 driver ratings The sprint race format gave drivers more opportunities to slip up over Formula 1’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend, but two of them ended up just a half-mark away from the maximum score in Edd Straw’s ratings
Formula 1 Russell had back and chest pains from Imola porpoising The level of porpoising Formula 1 drivers are currently dealing with is “not sustainable” according to Mercedes’ George Russell, who experienced “almost like chest pains” from the bouncing at Imola
Formula 1 Wolff explains his ‘undriveable’ car apology to Hamilton Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff has explained his apology to seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton for his “undriveable” car after he finished 14th at Imola
Formula 1 Why McLaren’s ‘nice surprise’ got even better at Imola A pair of top-six finishes in the Imola F1 sprint marked another high point in McLaren’s sooner-than-expected 2022 resurgence
Formula 1 Williams gaining ‘quite a lot’ from reduced F1 livery Williams is gaining a “significant” benefit from having reduced the amount of paint on its Formula 1 car as part of its ongoing efforts to lower the weight of its car
Formula 1 What Mercedes can salvage from ‘complete write-off’ Imola weekend Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has declared the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend “a complete write-off” despite being hopeful of the team scoring points in the race at Imola
Formula 1 The Alpine upgrade Alonso’s running ‘blind’ at Imola The sprint format and unusual weather conditions at Imola mean Fernando Alonso is flying ‘blind’ with Alpine’s new floor
Formula 1 Albon’s Imola qualifying wheel explosion explained Williams put Alex Albon’s dramatic Imola qualifying brake fire down to an “incorrect switch position”. What did that mean exactly, why did it happen and why did it lead to a wheelrim exploding? Edd Straw found out
Formula 1 Why Aston is more limited by porpoising than even Mercedes Aston Martin F1 driver Lance Stroll believes the AMR22 is suffering more from porpoising than even Mercedes despite it being less visible
Formula 1 How F1 sprints are – and aren’t – changing for 2022 Formula 1 holds its first sprint race of 2022 at Imola this weekend. There are some significant changes from the 2021 trial, but also a lot more that F1 wanted to do
Formula 1 How McLaren started the B-team trend it’s now fighting McLaren has been a vocal critic of the increasing prevalence of technical alliances between Formula 1 teams in recent years. There’s an irony to that as, although its current management structure has few links to the past, it’s a trend it helped start
Formula 1 What will decide whether Alonso stays in F1 into his mid-40s Fernando Alonso said in the build-up to the Australian Grand Prix that he expects to race in Formula 1 for another “two or three more years”. Alpine might not have been anticipating that when it signed him
Formula 1 Why Ferrari didn’t race its first upgrade of the F1 season Ferrari brought its first update of the Formula 1 season to the Australian Grand Prix, trialling a modified diffuser on Charles Leclerc’s car during Friday practice. But it didn’t ever plan to race it
Formula 1 Aston Martin repairs may take up F1 development capacity Aston Martin’s four crashes during the Australian Grand Prix weekend are going to have implications for its 2022 Formula 1 development programme
Formula 1 How ‘grafting’ Russell is impressing Mercedes George Russell’s become a full-time Mercedes Formula 1 driver just as the team nosedived. But looking at the elements of the job he can actually control, life at Mercedes has started well
Formula 1 ‘Funny decisions’: Why Stroll/Bottas verdict pleased neither Lance Stroll doesn’t think he should’ve been penalised for weaving in front of Valtteri Bottas – while Bottas’s Alfa team thinks Stroll should’ve been penalised twice
Formula 1 The full story of Albon’s against-all-odds Melbourne point Their Australian GP predictions left Alex Albon and his Williams team ‘a bit sad’. So they rolled the dice
Formula 1 Edd Straw’s 2022 Australian Grand Prix F1 driver ratings A host of self-inflicted disasters mean a lot of low scores as Edd Straw rates all 20 Formula 1 drivers’ Australian Grand Prix performances
Formula 1 What’s gone wrong for the underdog heroes of F1 2022 so far Haas and Alfa Romeo have been the underdog heroes of the 2022 Formula 1 season so far, but it’s all gone wrong for them at the Australian Grand Prix
Formula 1 Why Mercedes can’t handle porpoising like Ferrari Porpoising is visable on both the Mercedes and Ferrari this year. But why does it negatively impact Mercedes so much more? Edd Straw investigates…
Formula 1 Verstappen’s not enjoying qualifying in the 2022 Red Bull Max Verstappen says that set-up struggles have made Formula 1 qualifying “not very enjoyable” this season, describing his Australian Grand Prix weekend so far as “terrible” after losing out on pole position to Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc by 0.286s
Formula 1 Red Bull makes major change to its F1 engineering line-up Red Bull’s Formula 1 head of race engineering Guillaume ‘Rocky’ Rocquelin will move into a new role working with the team’s roster of young drivers after the Australian Grand Prix
Formula 1 F1 cuts Melbourne DRS zones from four to three Formula 1 has dropped the fourth DRS zone on the high-speed run to Turn 9 “for safety reasons” for the rest of the Australian Grand Prix weekend
Formula 1 Wolff leads new calls for F1 team partnership rules ‘reform’ As Haas thrives and personnel switch between teams amid the budget cap, there’s fresh scrutiny on rules over alliances, with Mercedes, McLaren and Alpine arguing Formula 1 needs to tighten up
Formula 1 Mercedes’ latest F1 porpoising woe ‘most severe’ yet George Russell described the porpoising of the Mercedes W13 on the run to Turn 9 during Friday practice for Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix as “the most severe I’ve experienced”, with he and team-mate Lewis Hamilton frustrated that set-up changes didn’t impact car performance
Formula 1 Vettel was ‘definitely’ too ill to race in opening grands prix Sebastian Vettel says it would not have been possible for him to race in the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix and that it was “definitely the right decision” to miss the first two Formula 1 races of the season
Formula 1 ‘Jinxed’ but very fast – Haas’s bizarre Australian GP history Haas has a remarkable record of two sixth places and six retirements in its eight starts across four Australian GPs. Edd Straw explains the team’s bizarre history in Melbourne
Formula 1 F1 stars Alonso and Perez drive an Australian Supercar Formula 1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Sergio Perez sampled an Australian Supercar for the first time at Albert Park on Thursday
Formula 1 Melbourne track and DRS tweaks could make cars ‘quite loose’ Haas driver Kevin Magnussen expects Formula 1 cars to be “quite loose” when running with the DRS open in the new zone through the flat-out left-hand kink on the run to Turn 9 in Melbourne
Formula 1 No spare Haas F1 chassis in Melbourne after Schumacher crash The Haas Formula 1 team will not have a spare chassis for the Australian Grand Prix following Mick Schumacher’s Saudi Arabia qualifying crash
Formula 1 Alpine hopes to be ‘easily underweight’ by mid-season Alpine hopes to be at to the minimum weight with its 2022 Formula 1 car before the end of May and “easily underweight” by the middle of the year
Formula 1 F1’s expansion exposes its flawed ‘positive messaging’ defence Opinion: Formula 1’s strategy of deflecting criticism about where it races it to talk up the benefits it can bring to those territories, but that one-size-fits-all defence is too hit and hope, and only a vague admission that it doesn’t like some aspects of the places it sometimes visits
Formula 1 How unprecedented four DRS zones will impact F1’s Australian GP Four DRS zones in Australia may seem a bizarre choice after how the 2022 season started, but Melbourne is a very different type of F1 circuit
Formula 1 Steiner: F1 car upgrades can be ‘overrated’ While Haas is back to developing its F1 car after hitting pause in 2021, Guenther Steiner warns that upgrades are “a bit overrated sometimes”
Formula 1 Perez is doing the job Red Bull asked – and making a 2023 case A single fourth-place finish may be less than Sergio Perez would have wanted from the first two races of the 2022 Formula 1 season, but his performances in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were just what Red Bull wants from him
