Formula 1 F1 teams await new rules they needed in April – or for 2024 Formula 1 teams are still awaiting a resolution over the FIA’s controversial floor rule changes for 2023, which they say ideally needed to either be committed to months ago or postponed until 2024
Formula 1 Leclerc needs this F1 break more than any of his peers Some time off F1 won’t magically mix Charles Leclerc’s tattered title hopes – but it will prevent the situation from spiralling
Formula 1 What Palou’s ‘opportunity to compete in F1’ really amounts to Representatives for Alex Palou responded to Ganassi’s lawsuit by declaring the IndyCar team was trying to keep its champion “from an opportunity to compete in F1”. Maybe it’s enough for Palou, but it’s not the kind of opportunity one might expect
Formula 1 Alpine’s logic for not offering Alonso what he wanted Alpine would’ve likely kept Fernando Alonso if it offered the F1 contract length he wanted. Here’s Alpine’s explanation for why it didn’t
Formula 1 Williams secures Albon, protecting itself amid Piastri fallout The Williams F1 team has re-signed Alex Albon on a multi-year deal, taking him off the market as a potential alternative to Oscar Piastri at Alpine
Formula 1 Alpine adamant it has legal right to Piastri – so what next? Alpine remains adamant it has a valid contract with Oscar Piastri and stands by its announcement of him as its 2023 Formula 1 driver
Formula 1 Alpine/Piastri row makes possible McLaren/Ricciardo split clear Alpine and Oscar Piastri are providing us with a front-row seat to a colossal Formula 1 contractual row, but there’s another party being unwillingly dragged out alongside it: McLaren
Formula 1 Piastri says Alpine announced him for 2023 against his will Oscar Piastri has rejected Alpine’s announcement he will be part of its Formula 1 line-up next year and says he has not signed a contract for 2023 and will not race for the team
Formula 1 Alpine’s Piastri 2023 news sparks more questions than answers Alpine has named its reserve driver Oscar Piastri as its replacement for Fernando Alonso in Formula 1 next season – but amazingly, it really doesn’t seem as straightforward as that
Formula 1 Piastri is Alpine’s 2023 pick but his camp ‘considering options’ Oscar Piastri is Alpine’s favoured choice to replace Fernando Alonso, but the F1 team has hinted at potential complications as the F2 champion’s management team “are considering their options”
Formula 1 Alonso said he hadn’t signed for Aston Martin – Alpine Alpine Formula 1 boss Otmar Szafnauer only learned Fernando Alonso had secretly agreed to join Aston Martin from the team’s announcement and claims Alonso had indicated an Alpine renewal was imminent
Formula 1 Verstappen’s best F1 win of 2022 shows why title is inevitable Hungary showed not just why Ferrari is losing in the 2022 Formula 1 title fight, but why the Max Verstappen/Red Bull juggernaut is winning it so handily
Formula 1 Four knock-on consequences of Alonso’s surprise Aston F1 move News of Fernando Alonso’s shock move to Aston Martin in 2023 is a grenade launched into the plans of various Formula 1 teams. Scott Mitchell explains the ramifications
Formula 1 How Aston Martin’s incredible Alonso swoop happened so quickly Sebastian Vettel told Aston Martin he was retiring from F1 on Wednesday and the team had signed Fernando Alonso five days later. So how did the team move so quickly? Scott Mitchell explains
Formula 1 Alonso to make shock switch to Aston Martin for 2023 F1 season Fernando Alonso will make a sensational switch to the Aston Martin Formula 1 team in place of Sebastian Vettel for 2023
Formula 1 Ferrari’s defence of tyre choice that killed Leclerc’s race Ferrari has defended the tyre choice that triggered Charles Leclerc’s slide from first to sixth in Hungarian Grand Prix and argued its key problem was a matter of performance not strategy
Formula 1 New F1 engine for Verstappen after qualifying problem Max Verstappen will use a new engine in Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix after the problem that wrecked his final lap in qualifying
Formula 1 ‘I don’t want another false dawn’ – is this Mercedes step real? Nothing has characterised the extremity of Mercedes’ fluctuating form in Formula 1 this season like George Russell’s shock Hungarian Grand Prix pole position. But is this a real breakthrough or a unique one-off?
Formula 1 What Red Bull’s Porsche coyness hints about its own F1 future There’s a clear gap between the firm details of the leaked document specifying Porsche’s planned buy-in to Red Bull’s Formula 1 operation and what the companies have said in response
Formula 1 F1 launches unified ‘Drive It Out’ campaign against abuse Formula 1 has launched a unified campaign called ‘Drive It Out’ in response to increasing incidents of abuse online and at events
Formula 1 Low-key track debut for Haas’s major F1 upgrade is misleading Haas’ long-awaited sole 2022 Formula 1 upgrade may not have visibly propelled the team forward after the package’s debut at the Hungarian GP. But the early signs from the upgrade leave Haas with plenty of reasons to be optimistic
Formula 1 Mercedes needs to ‘undo’ experiments gone wrong in Hungary Mercedes will seek to “undo” the effects of a range of experiments it conducted during a difficult Friday of practice at Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix
Formula 1 Alfa Romeo’s ‘bet’ on Sauber and a unique F1 deal has paid off Sauber and Alfa Romeo’s unique Formula 1 arrangement looks safe for another year. It lacks long-term security – but that doesn’t bother either party
Formula 1 Vettel felt distracted after ‘years’ of considering retirement Sebastian Vettel says the thought of retiring from Formula 1 has been with him for so long that it has probably “distracted me at times”
Formula 1 Porsche’s Red Bull F1 deal plans were revealed by mistake The document that revealed Porsche’s plan to buy 50% of Red Bull’s Formula 1 operation alongside a joint engine programme was made public by mistake
Formula 1 Hamilton: Vettel ‘one of few’ who made my F1 career less lonely Lewis Hamilton says his former Formula 1 title rival Sebastian Vettel “stood by me through a lot of things” and made time in F1 less lonely, in the wake of the news Vettel will leave F1 at the end of 2022
Formula 1 Vettel’s pick for Aston seat – and where other F1 drivers stand Retiring Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel has indicated that his preference would be for Mick Schumacher to take his seat for 2023
Formula 1 Vettel explains F1 retirement reasons in heartfelt statement Sebastian Vettel is retiring from Formula 1 at the end of the season because it is no longer compatible with how he wants to live his life
Formula 1 Vettel stuns F1 by announcing retirement after 2022 season Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel will call time on his grand prix career at the end of the 2022 season
Formula 1 Ferrari: ‘No reason not to win 10 races’ and save title bid A poor conversion rate has left Ferrari closer to Mercedes in the F1 constructors’ points than Red Bull, but team boss Mattia Binotto insists there’s “no reason” why it can’t win all 10 remaining races and save its championship hopes
Formula 1 The evidence Hamilton will stay in F1 longer than we thought Lewis Hamilton isn’t winning right now, and the vibe around his longer-term future in F1 has changed. But not the way you’d expect
Formula 1 Why F1 2022’s worst driver can ‘properly’ start his season now Nichloas Latifi is the only full-time driver on the 2022 Formula 1 grid who’s yet to score a point. After an “extremely weird” start to the season, he can at least now give a truer account of himself
Formula 1 Crash takes crazy Leclerc/Verstappen swing to over 100 points Charles Leclerc’s crash in the French Grand Prix means errors and problems at Ferrari have now swung the 2022 Formula 1 title race more than 100 points in Max Verstappen’s favour
Formula 1 Unusual Wolff message was to break Russell out of ‘upset loop’ Toto Wolff’s radio messages to George Russell during F1’s French GP were to break the Mercedes driver from a “loop of being upset”
Formula 1 What went on in the Stroll/Vettel last-lap near-miss Sebastian Vettel implied he was brake-tested by Lance Stroll exiting the final corner on the last lap of the French Grand Prix, something his Aston Martin Formula 1 team-mate denied
Formula 1 Leclerc French GP throttle conspiracy theories debunked Charles Leclerc’s brief reference to a problem with the throttle in his Ferrari Formula 1 car led to wild and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about his French Grand Prix crash
Formula 1 Ferrari strategy ‘not a disaster like people say’ – Sainz Carlos Sainz believes Ferrari gets an unfair share of criticism for strategic decisions that other teams would avoid if they made
Formula 1 Leclerc: I wouldn’t deserve F1 title if my errors persist Charles Leclerc has taken full blame for crashing out of the lead of the French Grand Prix, saying further such errors would mean he would deserve to lose the Formula 1 title to chief rival Max Verstappen
Formula 1 Vettel: 1922 car run shows F1 ‘so slow’ on fuel tech Sebastian Vettel wonders why F1 is “so slow” at switching to fully sustainable fuels after driving a 1922 Aston Martin grand prix car using ‘zero CO2’ fuel
Formula 1 McLaren’s pace has worried Alonso and surprised Norris McLaren’s Mercedes-splitting pace in French Grand Prix qualifying left the team’s main Formula 1 rival Fernando Alonso worried, while Lando Norris admitted his fifth-place start surprised himself
