Formula 1 Latest London GP talk continues an irritating F1 ‘tradition’ The all too familiar talk of a Formula 1 race in London has resurfaced. Edd Straw examines the latest claims
Formula 1 Remember – race one usually doesn’t reflect the F1 season to come Max Verstappen and Red Bull strolling to Bahrain GP victory made it easy to fear the 2023 season is doomed to go by without much intrigue. But F1, for all its history of dominance, usually doesn’t work that way
Formula 1 Video: Every F1 team’s 2023 strength and weakness With one F1 2023 GP, on a fairly varied track, now in the books, here is the early picture of where each team has (and hasn’t) excelled
Formula 1 Mercedes hints at imminent ‘visible changes’ to 2023 F1 car “Visible changes” to Mercedes’ 2023 Formula 1 car are likely within the next few grands prix, but the mooted “bigger departures and more radical changes” remain some way off
Formula 1 What Hamilton saying Mercedes ‘didn’t listen’ to him means It’s not hard to see why Lewis Hamilton’s suggestion Mercedes “didn’t listen” to his complaints about its 2022 F1 car will prompt questions about his future. But it doesn’t mean there’s a game-changing element to those comments
Formula 1 Alfa’s Alpine-foiling tactic was impressively ruthless Alfa Romeo started 2023 how it ended 2022 – with clever tactics to prevent a Formula 1 rival from scoring extra points
Formula 1 Mercedes deficit may have ‘tripled’ – could Aston be its saviour? Mercedes’ deficit to Red Bull hasn’t stayed as it was at the end of the 2022 Formula 1 season – it’s up to three times as bad. Does a team that it shares parts with offer some solace?
Formula 1 Edd Straw’s 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix F1 driver rankings A new Formula 1 season has started and there’s a new way we are assessing the 20 drivers – ranking their weekend performances from best to worst, starting with yesterday’s Bahrain Grand Prix
Formula 1 ‘A second off’ – Leclerc despondent at poor Ferrari pace and DNF A failure coupled with being “very far” on pace anyway meant Charles Leclerc was in no mood for finding positives in Ferrari’s Bahrain GP
Formula 1 Mercedes’ Bahrain GP silver linings amid F1 car concept gloom Mercedes’ startling F1 car concept admission suggests a bleak outlook – and rightly so. But its Bahrain GP weekend hasn’t been all bad
Formula 1 Mercedes concedes it was wrong to keep 2022 car concept this year Toto Wolff’s conclusion after Mercedes qualified sixth and seventh for the Bahrain Grand Prix was emphatic – and damning of its chances. He conceded it was a mistake to remain with fundamentally the same car concept that it struggled with last year
Formula 1 Vowles sets out criteria in Williams F1 tech chief search Williams is looking to recruit a new technical director with Formula 1 experience, although team principal James Vowles is open to hiring a newcomer to the role. Vowles said during pre-season testing that recruiting a technical director and head of aero following the respective departures of Francoi
Formula 1 ‘Unprecedented talent’ – Why Alonso and Aston expected this step Existing ‘Team Silverstone’ talent and massive investment means Aston Martin’s 2023 rise is no surprise for the team or newcomer Fernando Alonso
Formula 1 The battle to avoid being last in F1 has taken a twist Rather than Williams being cut adrift at the back of the Formula 1 field, it appears to be in a three-team fight at the Bahrain Grand Prix – and a team that starred on Friday is in its sights for Sunday. And things are looking up (slightly) at McLaren
Formula 1 Verstappen looks vulnerable but his main rivals look worse Max Verstappen’s latest Formula 1 title defence got off to a slightly shaky start in Bahrain Grand Prix Friday practice. But can anyone actually take advantage if his problems continue?
Formula 1 Nine things we learned from F1 2023’s first proper day After an unspectacular pre-season test threw up little in the way of curious storylines, the first proper day of Formula 1 2023 was much more interesting – and featured some surprising strugglers
Formula 1 Trackside verdict: Every 2023 F1 car’s first qualifying simulation Our F1 journalists Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm were trackside for the entire FP2 session – this is their impressions of each 2023 Formula 1 car from what they saw
Formula 1 Why F2/F3’s new sustainable fuel is ‘more extreme’ than F1’s Formula 2 and Formula 3 will take the first major step in Formula 1’s plan to have 100% sustainable, synthetic fuels in Bahrain this weekend with the competitive debut of the new Aramco-supplied spec fuels
Formula 1 Norris: McLaren waiting for upgrades a top team should start with McLaren will debut a new package at the end of April in Baku that will bring the team to the level it should have started the season with, according to Lando Norris who is hoping the upgrade will put McLaren’s long-term F1 recovery back on track
Formula 1 Why the team that was slowest in F1 testing is so optimistic In F1 testing, Alpine was at the bottom in peak laptimes and near the bottom in mileage. Yet the team is clearly optimistic – and convincingly so
Formula 1 Alfa Romeo’s biggest F1 problem is 50% solved for 2023 Even when Alfa Romeo was a bona fide front-of-the-midfield force in 2022, there was one an instability impeding its performance. But this year’s C43 Formula 1 car looks confidence-inspiring
Formula 1 How fate of F1 change Hamilton calls ‘dangerous’ will be decided A significant Formula 1 rule change planned for 2024 that Lewis Hamilton recently called “dangerous” and “pointless” now hangs in the balance. This is how its fate will be decided
Formula 1 AlphaTauri move closer to Red Bull a can of worms F1 can’t open The prospect of having AlphaTauri join Red Bull in the UK is logical – but it’s one Red Bull shouldn’t pursue, or F1 should pump the brakes on if it does
Formula 1 Ranking the 10 F1 teams after 2023 pre-season testing With Formula 1’s sole 2023 pre-season test complete, here’s the pecking order heading into the Bahrain Grand Prix
Formula 1 Our trackside judgement on every 2023 F1 car in testing Laptimes can mislead you in Formula 1 pre-season testing so one thing we like to trust is the behaviour of the car on track. Here’s our assessment of each 2023 F1 car’s handling from three days of trackside observations at Sakhir
Formula 1 10 things we learned from 2023 pre-season F1 testing A clear favourite and a team that looks like it might really burst out of the midfield are the headline takeaways from three days of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain
Formula 1 How Mercedes managed to make its 2023 F1 front wing legal The distinctive 2022 Mercedes Formula 1 front wing endplate design was made illegal over the winter. Yet Mercedes has managed to create a similar effect on its new F1 car with a clever interpretation of the modified rules
Formula 1 Trackside verdict: The 2023 F1 cars’ early traits At two of Bahrain’s most challenging corners, our writers got an early glimpse of how F1’s various 2023 cars are treating their drivers
Formula 1 Red Bull’s biggest 2023 F1 car design change explained We take a closer look at the major design development Red Bull had kept hidden away until the start of F1 testing
Formula 1 What to watch out for in F1 pre-season testing For only the second time, Formula 1 pre-season testing is limited to just three days of running. Take a look at the themes to keep an eye on in Bahrain
Formula 1 What can be done about F1’s ‘unfair’ testing allocation Some drivers are unhappy about getting fewer than two days of proper Formula 1 pre-season running. Here are a couple of potential solutions
Formula 1 Has Aston Martin secured its own Adrian Newey? By grabbing Dan Fallows from Red Bull, Aston Martin has secured someone who’s been a key part of a title-winning team and worked with Formula 1’s resident design genius Adrian Newey for a very long time. What Newey magic will Fallows bring?
Formula 1 Claire Williams is back at Williams – but not the F1 team Former deputy Formula 1 team principal Claire Williams is back working for Williams – but not within its F1 team. Edd Straw explains more
Formula 1 What Tsunoda must improve so AlphaTauri doesn’t miss Gasly Yuki Tsunoda: an F1 driver of genuine ability, but one who’s struggled to show it consistently. He arguably has the most at stake of anyone on the 2023 grid now there’s a lead-driver opening at AlphaTauri
Formula 1 How Alpine’s changed its F1 car design for 2023 While Alpine’s 2023 Formula 1 car has a lot in common with its predecessor, there are also some striking changes. Here’s what we’ve learned about the A523 design so far
Formula 1 The Red Bull mistake Gasly can’t afford to make at Alpine Pierre Gasly has his biggest chance to shine since his ill-fated half-season stint with Red Bull’s senior team – now he must prove he won’t make the same mistake that contributed to his Red Bull failure
Formula 1 Pirelli’s new-for-2023 sixth F1 tyre compound explained F1 tyre supplier Pirelli has expanded its compound range to six for the upcoming 2023 season. Here’s why it now goes from C0 to C5
Formula 1 Aston Martin’s long-time tech chief moves to non-F1 role Long-time Aston Martin technical chief Andrew Green has moved away from the Formula 1 team to a new role in the wider company
Formula 1 Norris interview: How he became the driver that buried Ricciardo Edd Straw sat down with Lando Norris to find out how the McLaren ace evolved into a driver capable of dominating an eight-time grand prix winner
Formula 1 First hints of Haas’s ‘massive rework’ and what’s planned The first real images of Haas’s VF-23 2023 Formula 1 car give an indication of what the team’s self-described “massive rework” of its 2022 design has prioritised – and a little hint of what Ferrari might do with its design too
