9:53 AM ET Formula One drivers can help steer the sport away from a “moral vacuum” by speaking out at season-opening races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, human rights campaigners said on Tuesday. Paul Scriven, a member of Britain’s House of Lords, told a news conference organised by the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and

9:41 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain – After three days of testing in Bahrain, Formula One is just seven days away from the first race of the new season on March 5. The single preseason test ran remarkably smoothly for the vast majority of teams, but it was clear by the evening of the final day

Feb 24, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain — McLaren looks set for another tough start to a Formula One season after missing car development targets over the winter. McLaren started 2022 on the back foot after encountering brake issues in the Bahrain preseason test and has had a quiet start to the same test this year, which

Feb 25, 2023 Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc topped the morning timesheets on the final day of Formula One’s preseason test in Bahrain on Saturday but said Red Bull remained the team to beat. The Monegasque lapped the Sakhir circuit with a fastest time of 1:31.024 seconds on the Pirelli C4 tyres, 0.418 quicker than Mercedes’ George

Feb 26, 2023 SAKHIR, Bahrain – Twelve months on from splitting with a title sponsor and driver on the eve of a new season, Guenther Steiner said Haas enjoyed its most seamless test since it arrived in Formula One. Last year Haas’ preseason included splitting with Russian title sponsor Uralkali and driver Nikita Mazepin, leading

Feb 26, 2023 Brazilian Felipe Drugovich will make his Formula One race debut in next weekend’s Bahrain season-opener if Lance Stroll cannot return in time from a cycling injury, Aston Martin said on Sunday. The team said they would give the 24-year-old Canadian, son of the team’s billionaire owner Lawrence, every chance to race. “Should

Feb 23, 2023 Ferrari have moved their Formula One head of strategy Inaki Rueda out of the line of fire with Ravin Jain taking the high-pressure role on the pit wall for the season starting in Bahrain next week. A team spokesperson said Jain, an Oxford physics graduate who joined the team in 2016, would

2:46 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack would not rule out the possibility of Sebastian Vettel making a remarkable comeback to replace the injured Lance Stroll at the opening race of the Formula One season in Bahrain next week, but said their favoured plan was still to have Stroll in

6:34 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc set the fastest time of preseason testing so far after clocking a 1:31.024 on the final morning of running at the Bahrain International Circuit on Saturday. The Ferrari driver used the C4 tyre compound — the second softest in Pirelli’s range — to lower the

11:06 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain – Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich looks increasingly likely to race in place of the injured Lance Stroll at the Bahrain Grand Prix on March 5. Drugovich, one of the team’s reserve drivers, opened Aston Martin’s preseason test schedule on Thursday following the news that Stroll had injured himself in