Formula 1 Twelve drivers deemed to have caused Mugello restart pile-up The Tuscan Grand Prix stewards have issued a warning to 12 Formula 1 drivers over the crash that wiped out four cars at a safety car restart
Formula 1 Magnussen, Kvyat accused of rule breach over restart pile-up Kevin Magnussen has been summoned to the stewards for allegedly breaching F1’s restart rules, in relation to the huge Mugello restart crash
Formula 1 Wolff slams bid to ‘design freak results’ and ‘random’ GPs Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff is adamant the championship should not be “designing freak results” and remains against the prospect of “random” reverse-grid races, which could be introduced in 2021
Formula 1 Hamilton’s forensic response to being ‘miles’ off at Mugello Lewis Hamilton felt Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas was “miles ahead” before qualifying at Mugello. Scott Mitchell takes an in-depth look at how Hamilton turned it ahead and took pole
Formula 1 Why F1’s Monza winner was Mugello’s chief quali victim Pierre Gasly blamed misjudgements on car set-up and energy deployment for being knocked out Q1 six days after scoring his first Formula 1 victory
Formula 1 New F1 squads must now pay existing teams $200m to enter Any new team wanting to enter Formula 1 must pay $200million shared across the 10 existing entrants under new commercial terms within the Concorde Agreement
Formula 1 New Alfa/Ferrari deal close, more collaboration advantageous An extension of Alfa Romeo’s Formula 1 commitment with Sauber and its Ferrari collaboration is in advanced discussions with a deal “close” to being signed, says Frederic Vasseur
Formula 1 Google Earth, guesswork and GTs: How F1 prepared for Mugello Having not visited Mugello since 2012, and never raced there, the F1 teams have varying ways of preparing for this weekend’s unknowns. Scott Mitchell investigates
Formula 1 Hamilton thrilled Vettel can ‘steer’ a team like Aston Lewis Hamilton says he is “really pleased” with Sebastian Vettel’s move to the Aston Martin Formula 1 team next season and backed him to “steer” a team with great potential
Formula 1 How Perez learned he’d lost his seat and what he makes of it Sergio Perez says he only found out yesterday he will leave the Racing Point Formula 1 team at the end of 2020, having been led to believe he would not be replaced.
Formula 1 The major Vettel doubt that will define his Aston era ‘Vettel can’t race’ has become a common refrain. Fair or not, tackling it is going to be essential if Sebastian Vettel is to make a success of his Aston Martin move
Formula 1 Vettel joins Aston Martin for 2021 F1 season Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel will headline Aston Martin’s works Formula 1 team in 2021, when he replaces outgoing Racing Point driver Sergio Perez
Formula 1 Perez is right to feel ‘hurt’ – he doesn’t deserve this Sergio Perez says it “hurts” to be leaving Racing Point, and it’s hard to see his exit as anything other than a huge shame
Formula 1 Why ‘Alpine’ can succeed where Renault failed in F1 Though Renault has not accomplished what it set out to in F1 in 2016-20, there are good foundations for ‘Alpine’ to benefit from
Formula 1 How Hamilton won the hardest seven points of his season Lewis Hamilton’s 2020 has included everything from crushing wins to victories on three wheels. But the seven points he earned in the Italian Grand Prix may just have been the most difficult yet this year
Formula 1 Bottas: ‘Disturbance’ making starts ‘not representative’ Valtteri Bottas says his race-defining bad start in the Italian Grand Prix was down to his reaction to the lights, and reckons “some disturbance” is hurting him more than his launches
Formula 1 FIA clarifies four points of contention over closed pitlane F1 race director Michael Masi has clarified four points of contention over the closed pitlane that caught out Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in the Italian Grand Prix
Formula 1 Why even Hamilton is in awe of Gasly’s rise, fall and revival Pierre Gasly’s Formula 1 redemption story is so captivating that even Lewis Hamilton, who had to lose the Italian Grand Prix for Gasly to win it, is among his admirers
Formula 1 Vettel ‘never had a brake failure like that before’ Sebastian Vettel says he has never suffered a brake failure like the one that ended his Italian Grand Prix and was part of the “worst conclusion” to Ferrari’s miserable weekend
Formula 1 Racing Point withdraws appeal over brake duct penalty Racing Point has withdrawn its appeal of the stewards’ decision regarding its Formula 1 car’s brake ducts, having initially pledged to launch a strong defence
Formula 1 Wolff spoke to Horner about Hamilton favouritism accusation Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says he spoke to his Red Bull counterpart Christian Horner about his suggestion Lewis Hamilton is receiving preferential treatment
Formula 1 Why engine mode ‘lobbying’ has backfired for Mercedes rivals For Mercedes’ rivals, its negligible time loss in qualifying and likely gains in race trim are a pitiful return from the new engine mode technical directive
Formula 1 Verstappen: Monza shows 2020 Red Bull ‘just not very fast’ Red Bull’s big Italian GP qualifying gap to Mercedes was not about a power deficit or engine modes but the RB16 being “just not very fast”, Max Verstappen says
Formula 1 Horner says Mercedes favours Hamilton, counters Renault dig Red Bull team boss Christian Horner says Mercedes is favouring Lewis Hamilton over Valtteri Bottas to support the Briton’s bid for a record-equalling seventh Formula 1 title
Formula 1 Sainz rejects Brawn’s claim he’s doubting Ferrari move Carlos Sainz Jr has rejected Ross Brawn’s suggestion he is getting nervous about joining Ferrari given the team’s Formula 1 slump and says he’d accept the offer “100 times again”
Formula 1 Everything you need to know about F1’s party mode ban The special engine mode ban coming into force at Monza is a rare major in-season rule change. Scott Mitchell explains how the new guidelines will work in qualifying and races
Formula 1 Williams family to leave team and F1 after Italian GP The Williams family will leave Formula 1 after the Italian Grand Prix, with Frank and Claire Williams stepping down from their leadership roles to give the team’s new owners a “fresh start”
Formula 1 Why should the latest ‘punch’ floor Hamilton and Mercedes? None of the potential disruptions to Mercedes’ hybrid-era F1 dominance have had anything close to a lasting effect. So why should the ‘party mode’ ban at Monza be any different?
Formula 1 Inside the lap that ‘scared’ Ricciardo and defied Abiteboul Daniel Ricciardo’s fastest lap on the final lap of the Belgian Grand Prix “probably scared me more” than qualifying, and was against the wishes of Renault Formula 1 team boss Cyril Abiteboul
Formula 1 Ferrari engine saga still has ‘sour taste’ despite 2020 slump Ferrari’s Formula 1 rivals still feel the engine saga of 2019 has left a “sour taste” despite the team’s slump in form this season triggered by rule clarifications from the FIA
Formula 1 Sainz ruled out of Belgian GP by pre-race engine issue Carlos Sainz Jr is out of the Belgian Grand Prix after his McLaren McL35 developed an issue with the Renault power unit and suffered an exhaust failure while on a reconnaissance lap to the grid
Formula 1 A forensic analysis of Ferrari’s fall from pole to Class C A Ferrari pole position at Spa-Francorchamps by an enormous margin in 2019 turned into a brush with total embarrassment in 2020.
Formula 1 Wolff: Ferrari suffering from decisions by ‘certain members’ Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff believes Ferrari is suffering due to the actions of “certain members” after the Italian team slumped to its worst qualifying of the season in Belgium.
Formula 1 What we’ve learned about ‘the dawn of Williams’s new era’ The Belgian Grand Prix weekend is offering the first indications of what the Williams Formula 1 team’s future will be like under its new Dorilton Capital ownership
Formula 1 What F1 expects from Bahrain’s 53-second lap and 87-lap race F1 has “done a lot of simulation” before committing to the Bahrain Outer layout, and expects a “different” but “pretty exciting” race
Formula 1 FIA intervenes to cut F1 downforce further in name of safety Safety concerns have moved the FIA to intervene and further cut the downforce produced by Formula 1 cars for 2021, to assist Pirelli with the anomaly of limited tyre development
Formula 1 AlphaTauri 2021 contender Tsunoda to get first F1 test Yuki Tsunoda will test for AlphaTauri later this year and is a serious contender for a 2021 seat. Scott Mitchell explains why the young Japanese driver’s F1 stock is rising
Formula 1 Bahrain will use ‘almost oval’ track for second F1 race Formula 1 will use Bahrain’s ‘Outer’ circuit for the Sakhir Grand Prix and create the rare spectacle of a qualifying lap that takes under 60 seconds
Formula 1 Why Verstappen’s not telling ‘fairytales’ – or expecting one Max Verstappen will not tell “fairytales” about his Belgian Grand Prix prospects and his realism extends to his Formula 1 title hopes which aren’t how they seem “on paper”
Formula 1 The contrasting conducts in F1’s most drawn-out driver saga The saga of whether Sebastian Vettel will join the Aston Martin Formula 1 team for 2021 and nudge Sergio Perez or Lance Stroll out rolls on – and the current Racing Point drivers are handling that situation very differently