3:23 AM ET Lewis Hamilton needs a quicker car to take the fight to Formula One leaders Red Bull but the seven times world champion’s Mercedes team made clear on Sunday that no developments were planned. As Red Bull celebrated a fourth straight win on Sunday to stretch their leads in both championships, with Max

4:18 AM ET Chinese driver Guanyu Zhou will make his Formula One practice debut with Alpine in Austria this weekend, the Renault-owned team said on Monday. The Shanghai-born 22-year-old will take double world champion Fernando Alonso’s car for the opening hour-long Friday session. Zhou is the team’s test driver and is currently leading the Formula

5:04 AM ET Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton can expect some performance upgrades to his car this season despite Mercedes boss Toto Wolff saying at the weekend that development had stopped. Technical head James Allison told Formula One’s ‘F1 Nation’ podcast there were still a few things working their way along the pipeline. “We

9:02 AM ET A “wacky” car setup approach may have backfired on Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in Sunday’s Styrian Grand Prix, according to the Formula One team’s head of trackside operations, Andrew Shovlin. Seven-time world champion Hamilton finished second to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at Austria’s Red Bull Ring as Mercedes suffered a fourth successive

Jun 26, 2021 SPIELBERG, Austria — Valtteri Bottas believes his three-place grid penalty for spinning in the pit lane during practice for the Austrian Grand Prix was too harsh and suspects complaints from rival teams led to the decision. Bottas finished second in qualifying on Saturday but will drop to fifth on the grid for

Jun 26, 2021 Red Bull simply have the quicker car at the moment, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said at the Styrian Grand Prix on Saturday after his Formula One champions missed out on pole position for the fourth race in a row. Red Bull have taken the last two poles, after a double for Ferrari’s

9:27 AM ET On the face of it, things don’t look good for Lewis Hamilton’s title challenge after eight rounds of the 2021 season. Red Bull has emerged with the faster car of the top two teams after winning the last four races, while Mercedes, which has not won a race since the Spanish Grand

Jun 26, 2021 Britain’s Alice Powell won the W Series season-opener in Austria on Saturday and compatriot Sarah Moore celebrated an LGBTQ+ first as the all-female championship began a new link-up with Formula One. The series, which hopes to help a female driver graduate to the Formula One grid for the first time since 1976,

5:27 AM ET Formula One race director Michael Masi warned championship leaders Red Bull on Sunday that any repeat of Max Verstappen’s finish line victory tyre burnout at the Styrian Grand Prix would not be tolerated. The 23-year-old Dutch driver slowed by his team’s pitwall as he took the chequered flag at Austria’s Red Bull

1:57 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Had it not been for a Pirelli tyre failure at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix