The F1 questions in need of answers in 2019
Even in a sport as relentlessly in motion as Formula One, the Christmas break presents an opportunity for reflection and a chance to re-set goals ahead of a new season. Read More
F1 2018 review: the drivers
A Formula One season is never bereft of stories, and 2018 delivered its fair share of driver narratives. Read More
F1 2018 review: the constructors
The weekend’s FIA prizegiving gala marked the official end of the 2018 racing season, and with it the formal crowning of Mercedes as the Formula One constructors world champion for the fifth year in succession. Read More
Is F1 too focused on perfection?
Formula One in 2018 didn’t deliver quite the result it promised in the first half of the season, but the lack of closeness in the final points tallies belies a year far from bereft of action or interest. Read More
Ricciardo farewells Red Bull Racing, but what’s next?
Daniel Ricciardo attended an emotional final day of formal Red Bull Racing duties at the weekend, and while it was an opportunity to reflect on the good times he’s shared with the race-winning team, focus now shifts to the question of what the Australian’s future holds in the Formula One midfield. Read More
Why Abu Dhabi should have Hamilton’s foes fearful
Though both championships were done and dusted before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, you’d be wrong to think the final round of the season was a superfluous afterthought in another year of triumph for Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton. Read More
F1’s fairytale Kubica comeback comes true
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is supposed to be two-time champion Fernando Alonso’s farewell to Formula One. The only problem is no-one’s talking about him. Read More
Why Valtteri Bottas’s days are numbered
When newly minted champion Nico Rosberg vacated Formula One at the end of his title-winning 2016 season he handed Valtteri Bottas the second-biggest prize of the season — a seat at dominant constructors champion Mercedes. Read More
How Ferrari lost the constructors championship
It’s hard not to think 2018 was supposed to be Ferrari’s year, yet motorsport’s most famous team has walked away from the season empty-handed yet again. Read More
How Mercedes made itself unstoppable
It’s tempting to let Mercedes’s fifth consecutive constructors championship victory at the weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix slip under the radar as a post-script to Lewis Hamilton’s triumph two weeks earlier, but it would be wrong to assume the feat is less deserving of acclaim. Read More