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
Honda: from ‘GP2 engine’ to Q3 contender?
Fernando Alonso’s twilight years haven’t delivered any memorable results, but his insistence to not go quietly into the night is at least ensuring he isn’t being forgotten at the back of the grid. Read More
Why Red Bull is hot for Honda
Red Bull Racing announcing that it’s leaving Renault on the eve of the French company’s first home grand prix in a decade speaks volumes about their terminal partnership, but there’s more beneath the spiteful surface than might first meet the eye. Read More
Honda’s judgement day
The Canadian Grand Prix is worth the usual 25 points for the winning driver and team, but performances across the weekend will have a significant effect on the results of seasons to come. Read More
F1 2018 preseason testing: what we’ve learnt
Formula One’s so-called ‘winter world championship’ is over, beginning the countdown the first test that really matters: round one, the Australian Grand Prix. Read More
Is Honda on the cusp of its redemption story?
If you’d been asked ahead of last week’s first preseason test which team was most likely to be afflicted by an engine-related “£2 problem which cost us a lot of track time”, you’d almost certainly have provided Toro Rosso-Honda as the prime candidate. Read More
A failed coup: the constructors stories of 2017
By design the 2017 season and its new regulations was supposed to end Mercedes’s three-year reign atop the sport, but by the year’s end both Lewis Hamilton and the Silver Arrows had claimed their fourth respective titles. Read More
Is Red Bull Racing ready for a works deal?
What should have been a win-win scenario for Red Bull and Honda has turned desperately bittersweet after a series of escalating team and engine announcements at the Singapore Grand Prix. Read More
How it happened: F1’s night of unsurprising announcements
After weeks of speculation, McLaren, Honda, Renault and Toro Rosso announced their complicated web of trades to ensure all four companies would be something close to happy in the 2018 season. Read More
McLaren’s multi-million-dollar gamble
“You have no chance of winning the world championship if you are not receiving the best engines from whoever is manufacturing your engines,” Ron Dennis said in 2014 on the eve of his team’s partnership with Honda. Read More