11:33 AM ET McLaren’s new driver signing Carlos Sainz compared notes with former McLaren F1 driver Fernando Alonso after testing this year’s McLaren car. Sainz has joined the team following the departure of compatriot and good friend Alonso, who quit F1 at the end of the 2018 season following four unsuccessful seasons with McLaren. The

10:41 AM ET ESPN staff Christian Horner now rates Daniel Ricciardo as Formula One’s best overtaker but admits he once had his reservations about the Australian’s ability to go wheel to wheel with rivals. Ricciardo will move to Renault 2019 but in his five seasons with Red Bull has made decisive race-winning moves his trademark,

9:53 AM ET Lewis Hamilton looked forward to more success with Mercedes after collecting his fifth Formula One world champion’s trophy at the governing FIA’s gala awards on Friday. Britain’s most successful racing driver, and only the third man to win at least five titles, also won a media vote for personality of the year

7:18 AM ET Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul says there is no reason why his team should still be lagging behind Mercedes and Ferrari in terms of engine power next year. Renault has struggled to match the power output of its rivals since the start of turbo-hybrid era in 2014 and customer team Red Bull, which

4:15 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo admits the stressful process which led to him leaving Red Bull to join Renault for 2019 may have affected his preparation for some of the races leading up to the summer break. Ricciardo stunned the F1 community in August when he announced his decision to move to Renault, having spent

8:18 AM ET Formula One will use artificial intelligence to better explain racing to fans during broadcasts of events in 2019, using some data not available to the teams themselves. F1 has entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services to provide new graphics using its Sagemaker tool. Broadcasts used several new graphics in the

2:50 PM ET McLaren has confirmed it will use Chevrolet engines to power its Indianapolis 500 entry with Fernando Alonso next year. Fernando Alonso and Jimmie Johnson swapped rides for a day in Bahrain and quickly got the bug for each other’s vehicles. But will either man pursue it any further? Fernando Alonso is leaving

5:47 AM ET Formula One’s commercial boss Sean Bratches remains hopeful a new deal can be struck with Silverstone over the future of the British Grand Prix, but says a race on the streets of London remains the ideal scenario. The future of the British Grand Prix has been uncertain ever since Silverstone activated a

10:19 AM ET Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has admitted that his 2018 Formula One season was the most disappointing of his career. Bottas failed to score a victory all season while teammate Lewis Hamilton won the title with 11 wins from 21 races. Bottas came close to victories this year — not least in Russia

9:51 AM ET Canadian Formula 2 driver Nicholas Latifi will join Williams as a reserve driver in 2019. Latifi joins the team from Force India, where he held the role of test and reserve driver this year. In his new role with Williams he will take part in six Friday practice sessions, one pre-season test