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
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
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
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
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
“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
With little fanfare McLaren released a press statement naming one of its drivers for the 2018 season — it just wasn’t the one people wanted to hear about. Read More
McLaren was in the middle of a race this weekend, but it wasn’t the Canadian Grand Prix. Read More
Honda has been all the rage this season — or perhaps a source of rage if you work for McLaren — thanks to the company’s inexplicable leap backwards in performance ahead of a season in which podiums were pencilled. Read More
In a fascinating development for Formula One, Fernando Alonso, one of its biggest stars, will contest the world-famous Indianapolis 500 — at the expense of the world-famous Monaco Grand Prix. Read More
Fernando Alonso has denied he’s considering leaving McLaren before the end of the season in the face of the team’s persistent lack of competitiveness. Read More