Formula 1 McLaren hopes Ricciardo stays in F1, won’t pay him to not race McLaren is hopeful Daniel Ricciardo will still be on the Formula 1 grid in 2023 despite parting company with him early, and has ruled out their severance deal preventing him from racing elsewhere
Formula 1 Ricciardo agrees early McLaren exit, plans to stay in F1 McLaren and Daniel Ricciardo have reached an agreement to end his contract one year early, with McLaren expected to run Oscar Piastri in Formula 1 next season instead
Formula 1 How Williams’s car reset ‘sets a baseline’ for 2023 design There are early signs of progress at Williams with its 2022 Formula 1 car. The real test of its progress will be whether it can harness the potential of its upgrade package in the second half of this year and into 2023
Formula 1 Exactly how McLaren’s outdated F1 facilities hold it back McLaren’s not made any secret of the fact it’s currently at a facilities disadvantage to many of its Formula 1 rivals. Here are some examples of where its inadequate simulator and windtunnel tech is holding it back
Formula 1 ‘Not here to play silly buggers’ – Has Mercedes changed Russell? Lando Norris’s suggestion that George Russell wasn’t as much fun since joining Mercedes wasn’t the blunt dig it was widely interpreted as. But did Norris have a point?
Formula 1 The ‘distraction’ from Mercedes’ real F1 car concept progress As Mercedes has worked through improving its capricious 2022 Formula 1 car it has remained resolute that something pinpointed by many as a potential major flaw is merely a “distraction”
Formula 1 Our mid-season 2022 Formula 1 team grades Who’s excelled in the first half of the 2022 Formula 1 season and who’s wasted their potential? Here are our team-by-team report cards
Formula 1 Alpine’s true fighting weight can punish drivers who lack faith For all Alpine’s improvement in 2022, so far is it still from F1’s ‘big three’ that it’s easy to forget it’s a works team. But there are genuine signs of progress and cohesion. Now it needs those to come together to make those who’ve spurned it regret their choices
Formula 1 Why Red Bull upgrades can’t cure Verstappen’s main limitation Despite being 80 points clear in the championship, Max Verstappen is still not completely happy with the 2022 Red Bull. Here’s why and how the team hopes to make the RB18 more likeable for the 2021 Formula 1 champion
Formula 1 Albon’s rediscovered the spark that Red Bull snuffed out The version of Alex Albon seen at Red Bull was a poor imitation of the driver who shone so brightly at Toro Rosso early in 2019. But the Albon seen at Williams is much closer to the real deal
Formula 1 How Russell’s stopped ‘being taken for a ride’ at Mercedes George Russell has always openly acknowledged the biggest driving weakness of the early part of his Formula 1 career. And now he appears to have fixed it
Formula 1 The forgotten part of Ferrari’s failed F1 title bid Normally when you think ‘wasted 2022 Ferrari F1 title shot’, you think of Charles Leclerc’s plight. But you can make a growing case for Carlos Sainz too, and in adversity he’s shown his key trait again
Formula 1 More upgrades for Mercedes to end its ‘annoying’ 2022 trend Does Mercedes’ Hungarian GP pace mean it’s ready to challenge Red Bull and Ferrari? It doesn’t think so. But it does believe the W13 has too much promise to be written off in favour of focusing on 2023
Formula 1 Szafnauer thinks Alonso’s moving down the grid. Is he right? Otmar Szafnauer reckons Alpine will be ahead of Aston Martin for the duration of Fernando Alonso’s time there, but which of the two F1 teams is most likely to deliver on the promises they’ve laid out?
Formula 1 The painful deja vu undermining F1 2022’s early feel-good story Alfa Romeo’s 2022 F1 season has been much improved compared to recent campaigns, but the team has also been at far from the flawless standard it wants to maintain after the summer break
Formula 1 Alpine’s few Piastri F1 alternatives include a massive gamble If Alpine can’t have Fernando Alonso, Oscar Piastri or even Daniel Ricciardo for 2023, its list of alternatives gets complicated. The candidate who might be its best option comes with a lot of asterisks
Formula 1 Alpine willing to take Piastri to court for compensation Alpine suspects the fight over Oscar Piastri will go beyond Formula 1’s Contract Recognition Board to the High Court in the UK
Formula 1 Lack of Piastri ‘loyalty’ upsets Alpine more than Alonso exit Alpine isn’t happy to have lost Fernando Alonso, but it understands his motives. But in Oscar Piastri’s case, it doesn’t – and it is seething
Formula 1 Ferrari’s ‘no reason to change’ defiance misses the point Ferrari is defiant there’s no need for change despite its fading 2022 Formula 1 title bid. If there really is no reason to do so, there’s also no reason to think its mistakes will stop
Formula 1 F1’s porpoising fix comparable to halo, says one tech chief Changing the rules to make sure Formula 1 cars cannot suffer porpoising and bottoming out is similar in principle to introducing the halo, reckons McLaren technical director James Key
Formula 1 McLaren’s plan to replace Ricciardo with Piastri explained McLaren’s plan to replace Daniel Ricciardo with Oscar Piastri in Formula 1 next season now depends on two outstanding processes being completed. Scott Mitchell explains more
Formula 1 F1 teams await new rules they needed in April – or for 2024 Formula 1 teams are still awaiting a resolution over the FIA’s controversial floor rule changes for 2023, which they say ideally needed to either be committed to months ago or postponed until 2024
Formula 1 Leclerc needs this F1 break more than any of his peers Some time off F1 won’t magically mix Charles Leclerc’s tattered title hopes – but it will prevent the situation from spiralling
Formula 1 What Palou’s ‘opportunity to compete in F1’ really amounts to Representatives for Alex Palou responded to Ganassi’s lawsuit by declaring the IndyCar team was trying to keep its champion “from an opportunity to compete in F1”. Maybe it’s enough for Palou, but it’s not the kind of opportunity one might expect
Formula 1 Alpine’s logic for not offering Alonso what he wanted Alpine would’ve likely kept Fernando Alonso if it offered the F1 contract length he wanted. Here’s Alpine’s explanation for why it didn’t
Formula 1 Williams secures Albon, protecting itself amid Piastri fallout The Williams F1 team has re-signed Alex Albon on a multi-year deal, taking him off the market as a potential alternative to Oscar Piastri at Alpine
Formula 1 Alpine adamant it has legal right to Piastri – so what next? Alpine remains adamant it has a valid contract with Oscar Piastri and stands by its announcement of him as its 2023 Formula 1 driver
Formula 1 Alpine/Piastri row makes possible McLaren/Ricciardo split clear Alpine and Oscar Piastri are providing us with a front-row seat to a colossal Formula 1 contractual row, but there’s another party being unwillingly dragged out alongside it: McLaren
Formula 1 Piastri says Alpine announced him for 2023 against his will Oscar Piastri has rejected Alpine’s announcement he will be part of its Formula 1 line-up next year and says he has not signed a contract for 2023 and will not race for the team
Formula 1 Alpine’s Piastri 2023 news sparks more questions than answers Alpine has named its reserve driver Oscar Piastri as its replacement for Fernando Alonso in Formula 1 next season – but amazingly, it really doesn’t seem as straightforward as that
Formula 1 Piastri is Alpine’s 2023 pick but his camp ‘considering options’ Oscar Piastri is Alpine’s favoured choice to replace Fernando Alonso, but the F1 team has hinted at potential complications as the F2 champion’s management team “are considering their options”
Formula 1 Alonso said he hadn’t signed for Aston Martin – Alpine Alpine Formula 1 boss Otmar Szafnauer only learned Fernando Alonso had secretly agreed to join Aston Martin from the team’s announcement and claims Alonso had indicated an Alpine renewal was imminent
Formula 1 Verstappen’s best F1 win of 2022 shows why title is inevitable Hungary showed not just why Ferrari is losing in the 2022 Formula 1 title fight, but why the Max Verstappen/Red Bull juggernaut is winning it so handily
Formula 1 Four knock-on consequences of Alonso’s surprise Aston F1 move News of Fernando Alonso’s shock move to Aston Martin in 2023 is a grenade launched into the plans of various Formula 1 teams. Scott Mitchell explains the ramifications
Formula 1 How Aston Martin’s incredible Alonso swoop happened so quickly Sebastian Vettel told Aston Martin he was retiring from F1 on Wednesday and the team had signed Fernando Alonso five days later. So how did the team move so quickly? Scott Mitchell explains
Formula 1 Alonso to make shock switch to Aston Martin for 2023 F1 season Fernando Alonso will make a sensational switch to the Aston Martin Formula 1 team in place of Sebastian Vettel for 2023
Formula 1 Ferrari’s defence of tyre choice that killed Leclerc’s race Ferrari has defended the tyre choice that triggered Charles Leclerc’s slide from first to sixth in Hungarian Grand Prix and argued its key problem was a matter of performance not strategy
Formula 1 New F1 engine for Verstappen after qualifying problem Max Verstappen will use a new engine in Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix after the problem that wrecked his final lap in qualifying
Formula 1 ‘I don’t want another false dawn’ – is this Mercedes step real? Nothing has characterised the extremity of Mercedes’ fluctuating form in Formula 1 this season like George Russell’s shock Hungarian Grand Prix pole position. But is this a real breakthrough or a unique one-off?
Formula 1 What Red Bull’s Porsche coyness hints about its own F1 future There’s a clear gap between the firm details of the leaked document specifying Porsche’s planned buy-in to Red Bull’s Formula 1 operation and what the companies have said in response