12:52 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Red Bull reserve driver Daniel Ricciardo is just “10 minutes away from being ready” for a return to a Formula One cockpit, says team boss Christian Horner. Ricciardo completed a move back to Red Bull this past offseason — albeit in a third driver capacity — after former team

Mar 30, 2023 MELBOURNE, Australia — Carlos Sainz says Ferrari is currently experiencing one of its toughest moments since he joined the team in 2021. Sainz finished fourth and sixth at the opening two rounds of the season, while teammate Charles Leclerc retired from the Bahrain Grand Prix and was seventh in Saudi Arabia after

Mar 30, 2023 Lewis Hamilton will only leave Mercedes if he feels he has nothing left to give them but would rather see out his “last days” with the Formula One team, the seven-time world champion said on Thursday. Hamilton is out of contract at the end of the year and speculation about his future

4:28 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Just three months in to his first year away from the Formula One grid, Daniel Ricciardo is already eyeing a return to a race drive next season. When McLaren decided to replace Ricciardo with Oscar Piastri at the end of the 2022 season, the 33-year-old Australian was left with

10:17 PM ET McLaren is planning a major car upgrade before Formula One’s summer break, which team principal Andrea Stella says could be compared to a B-spec version of the MCL60. McLaren failed to score a point at the opening two rounds of the 2023 season after admitting it had failed to hit its aerodynamic

1:11 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Max Verstappen said he felt physically limited in the cockpit of his Red Bull Formula One car during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend as he struggled to recover from a virus. The illness meant the world champion arrived a day late at the event, missing his usual Thursday

5:24 AM ET Former British American Racing (BAR) founder Craig Pollock has confirmed he is looking to enter Formula One with a 50 percent male, 50 percent female team called Formula Equal. Pollock has submitted an expression of interest to racing’s governing body, the FIA, who opened up the process for finding an 11th F1

2:46 AM ET Former Formula One world champion Jenson Button said that he suffered heat exhaustion and nearly retired from the race before finishing 18th at his NASCAR debut in Texas on Sunday. The 43-year-old Briton, who won the F1 world championship in 2009, said he feared fainting while driving his Ford Mustang during the

5:19 AM ET Brazil’s triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay $953,050 (5 million Brazilian Reals) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court ruled on Friday. In an interview in November 2021, Piquet used a racial slur referring to the seven-time world champion, when commenting

7:32 AM ET Toto Wolff said Mercedes has missed the straightforward approach of former non-executive chairman Niki Lauda, especially during the struggles of the last year and a half. Three-time champion Lauda was an integral part of the dominant Mercedes team up until his death in 2019. Lauda was frequently at races in that role