Formula 1

Reverse-grid races would reduce Formula 1 to a wrestling-style “show”, Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says. Wolff said: “We should not be designing freak results where it is almost impossible to overtake just because we believe the pecking order should be different. “This is a meritocracy, it is a sport where best man and

Valtteri Bottas must be starting to wonder what he has to do to beat Lewis Hamilton at all this year. Bottas has not won a race since the opening grand prix of the season. And the last time he started ahead of his Mercedes team-mate in qualifying was at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at

Lewis Hamilton took his seventh pole position in nine races this season at the first Tuscan Grand Prix. The world champion beat Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by just 0.059 seconds on Formula 1’s first competitive experience of the spectacular Mugello circuit. Red Bull locked out the second row, Max Verstappen ahead of Alex Albon. And

Valtteri Bottas headed Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in Friday practice at the Tuscan Grand Prix as Lando Norris crashed his McLaren. Norris put a wheel in the gravel on the exit of Turn Three, Poggio Secco, and spun into the wall. He was unhurt but the incident ended his session. Bottas was 0.207 seconds ahead

Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas was fastest from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in first practice at the Tuscan Grand Prix. The Finn was 0.048 seconds quicker than Verstappen around the spectacular and rapid Mugello circuit, which is hosting a grand prix for the first time. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was third, 0.307secs off the pace, with Lewis

Sebastian Vettel has made the “ideal” choice in moving to Aston Martin next season, says Lewis Hamilton. Vettel’s move to the team currently known as Racing Point was announced on Thursday, one day after current driver Sergio Perez said he was leaving. Hamilton said: “I was really pleased to hear it, the team has new

Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel is to join the renamed Aston Martin team in Formula 1 next year. Aston Martin said signing Vettel was “a clear statement of the team’s ambition” to establish themselves at the front. Vettel replaces Sergio Perez, who announced he was leaving on Wednesday. More to follow.

Sergio Perez will leave Racing Point at the end of the season, paving the way for four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel to join from Ferrari. Vettel’s arrival has not been confirmed but it is known that Racing Point, which will become Aston Martin in 2021, has offered him a contract. Perez, 30, had

Ferrari’s cars will race in a special one-off livery at this weekend’s Tuscan Grand Prix, the team’s 1,000th Formula 1 world championship race. The cars will be dark red, which the team say is a reproduction of the first Ferrari F1 car, the 125 F1 from 1950. Drivers Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel will wear

Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault during the 2017 season, is part of the BBC team and offers insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors. It’s about time Formula 1 had a good race and a new winner, and Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix delivered both, through a set of

Simon Roberts has been appointed acting team principal at Williams following the decision of the family who founded the team to step down. The 57-year-old joined Williams in May as managing director from McLaren, where he had spent 17 years. Roberts will run Williams while new owners Dorilton Capital, an investment group who bought the

Lewis Hamilton says he feels “proud” of his decision to enter his own team into the new ‘climate-aware’ Extreme E racing series – the first step on a journey in which he could achieve real change beyond motorsport. Hamilton has a lot of pride. And rightly so. But, on the face of it, this could

By Matt WarwickBBC Sport Last updated on 57 minutes ago57 minutes ago.From the section Motorsport Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will enter a team in the new Extreme E racing series. Briton Hamilton, 35, said the new climate-aware sport, which is scheduled to begin in January 2021, appealed “because of its environmental focus”.

Formula 1 will revive plans to introduce reverse-grid sprint races in place of qualifying. Mercedes blocked plans to trial the idea this season – but Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix has given F1 fresh impetus. Two safety cars, a penalty for Lewis Hamilton and a race stoppage at Monza mixed up the field and led to

Lewis Hamilton says he considers himself responsible for the penalty that cost him victory in the Italian Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver pitted for fresh tyres when the pit lane was closed, a fact neither he nor the team noticed. He said: “Nobody’s happy. We all have to hold one another accountable. I definitely hold

Team boss Toto Wolff says he will stay with Mercedes next year – but that the role he will play has not been decided. Wolff has led the team to become the most successful in F1 history – winning both drivers’ and constructors’ titles for six successive seasons – but his contract runs out this

Racing Point have withdrawn their appeal against their punishment in Formula 1’s “copying” row. The team were docked 15 points and fined 400,000 euros (£356,000) for illegally copying Mercedes’ 2019 brake ducts for use on their car this season. Team owner Lawrence Stroll had said the accusations were “completely unacceptable and not true”. But a

Pierre Gasly took a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull’s Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history. Lewis Hamilton was dominating until he was penalised for being called into the pit lane for a stop when it was closed. Two safety cars in quick succession