Formula 1

Vettel an 'amazing' Mercedes option - but what’s really going on?

Sebastian Vettel has teased the prospect of an F1 comeback as a replacement for Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, a move heartily endorsed by Hamilton himself - but it's one that's desperately unlikely to happen

Formula 1

F1 drivers divided over Alonso penalty: Who's on which side?

Fernando Alonso’s 20-second penalty for driving in a “potentially dangerous” manner was a big talking point in the Suzuka paddock on Thursday ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, with opinion on whether it was justified split among rivals

Formula 1

Was F1's early 2024 overachiever hiding behind an excuse?

Is a Formula 1 team that's exceeding expectations only doing so because they were artificially low to begin with?

Formula 1

Podcast: What shock exit means for McLaren's F1 rebuild plans

McLaren's shock technical departure and Formula 1 teams' upgrade expectations for this weekend's Japanese GP top the bill in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast

MotoGP

Marquez destroying rivals on the same bike - what's happened to them?

Of the 69 laps completed in MotoGP so far, Marc Marquez has been the top GP23 bike rider for 66 of them. What has happened to his Ducati rivals on the same machinery?

Formula 1

Gary Anderson: How Williams could've prevented its chassis drama

Ex-Formula 1 technical director Gary Anderson analyses Williams's explanation for its Melbourne chassis drama, explains how it could have been avoided and how the broken chassis will be repaired

Formula E

Shock test hints at Porsche Formula E line-up change

Porsche has begun to look into a possible change in its driver line-up for the next Formula E season after recently testing Abt Cupra driver Nico Mueller

MotoGP

What we learned about F1 owner's plans for MotoGP

Street circuits, making riders work harder, conquering America? Simon Patterson looks at Liberty Media's goals and objectives for MotoGP

Formula 1

McLaren's big ex-Ferrari F1 hire out after three months

One of McLaren's major 2024 Formula 1 technical signings from Ferrari, David Sanchez, has already departed the team just three months into starting his role

MotoGP

Honda's Marquez replacement is utterly invisible so far

Luca Marini wasn't signed to match what the rider he's replaced, Marc Marquez, meant to Honda. Nor to drag instant results out of the bike - certainly not this version of it. But he's not having the start to the MotoGP season that either he or Honda will have hoped for

Formula 1

Is Mercedes on a Williams-style F1 decline?

Mercedes is enduring a third straight miserable start to an F1 season. How significant a dent does that put into hopes that it can turn things around? And are things so bad that a fall from grace akin to Williams's in the 1990s is out of the question?

Formula E

Impossible achieved: How successful was Formula E's Tokyo debut?

Formula E's Tokyo race was a decade in the making, but it's finally happened. How successful was it? How likely is a second edition? And what needs to change? Sam Smith assesses the series' maiden race in the world's biggest metropolis