Formula 1

Mick Schumacher is to be the Mercedes reserve driver in 2023. The German, son of seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, lost his race seat for 2023 when the Haas team dropped him in favour of veteran Nico Hulkenberg. Schumacher’s Mercedes role will see him work in the team’s simulator and be ready to stand in should

Saudi Arabia looks set to host the opening race of the 2024 Formula 1 season, in a change from previous plans for it to be held in Australia. The news emerged in a statement from the Victorian state government announcing a two-year contract extension for the Australian Grand Prix until 2037. The statement said Melbourne’s

Ferrari have named Frederic Vasseur as their team principal. The Frenchman, 54, the current boss of the Alfa Romeo/Sauber team, will replace Mattia Binotto on 9 January. Ferrari said last month that 53-year-old Binotto, who has been with the team since 1995, had resigned. Andreas Seidl, 46, has left his role as McLaren team principal

Andreas Seidl is to leave his position as McLaren team principal to head up Audi’s nascent Formula 1 programme at the Alfa Romeo/Sauber team. The 46-year-old German will be replaced at McLaren by Italian Andrea Stella, executive racing director since 2019. McLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown described Stella as “highly talented, experienced and

Chief executive officer and team principal Jost Capito is to leave Williams after two years in charge. The 64-year-old former car industry executive joined the team in December 2020, months after it was bought by investment group Dorilton Capital. Frenchman Francois-Xavier Demaison, who was brought in as Williams’ technical director by Capito in early 2021,

By James Burridge & Pete Cooper BBC News, East The team principal of the Red Bull Formula 1 team Christian Horner said the whole of the car would be built in Milton Keynes by 2026. At the moment only the chassis is built at the factory, with its engines produced by Honda. The Japanese company

Formula 1 will continue to race in the Netherlands until at least 2025 after the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort signed an extended contract. The deal adds races in 2024 and 2025 to the initial three years agreed with F1. The event has proved a hit with fans supporting Red Bull’s Max Verstappen since it

The Grands Prix in Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Qatar, the USA and Brazil are the six races Formula 1 has chosen to host ‘sprint’ events in 2023. The list was agreed after analysis of which tracks would be best suited and discussions of commercial terms with the race organisers. The number of sprint events is doubling

Former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean will return to racing in Europe next year with Lamborghini in sports car racing. The Frenchman, 36, has competed in America’s IndyCar series since escaping from a huge fire following a crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix. Grosjean will race at Le Mans 2024 for Lamborghini’s elite class

Former Formula 1 driver Patrick Tambay has died aged 73. The Frenchman, whose teams included McLaren, Ferrari and Renault, won two grands prix in a career of 114 race starts stretching from 1977 to 1986. Tambay, who had been suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, was most famous for his association with Ferrari. He was a leading

Next year’s Chinese Grand Prix has been cancelled by Formula 1 because of “ongoing difficulties” with Covid. The Shanghai race was due to return in April for the first time since 2019. Protests have been held in China in recent days over its ‘zero Covid’ policies, which include regular lockdowns and isolation imposed on infected

Spanish IndyCar driver Alex Palou will be one of McLaren’s Formula 1 reserve drivers in 2023. The 25-year-old will be McLaren’s reserve at all grands prix that do not clash with his commitments in IndyCar, where Palou races for the Ganassi team. Palou, who won the 2021 IndyCar title, this year drove for McLaren in

Mattia Binotto is to leave his position as Ferrari team principal at the end of the year. A statement from Ferrari on Tuesday said the 53-year-old had resigned from his role and that the process to identify a replacement was “underway”. Binotto, who has been with Ferrari since 1995, said: “With the regret that this

Fernando Alonso was “very impressive” on his first outing for Aston Martin, team principal Mike Krack says. The two-time champion, 41, had a day’s testing for Aston Martin in Abu Dhabi last week to prepare for his move from Alpine for the start of next season. Krack said Alonso was immediately fast, adding “the efficiency

Formula 1’s governing body is to split with its interim secretary general Shaila-Ann Rao less than six months after appointing her. An FIA statement said Rao had joined to assist new president Mohammed Ben Sulayem in his “transition period”. It said she was leaving because “this period is now coming to an end”. Sources close

Daniel Ricciardo has rejoined Red Bull as third driver for the 2023 season. He will assist Red Bull with testing and simulation work as well as commercial activities, the team said. Ricciardo said he was “truly excited” to be returning to the team for whom he won seven grands prix between 2014 and 2018, before

Formula 1 should change its driver qualification system to make it easier for IndyCar drivers to join the grid, says McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown. Red Bull were prevented from signing American Colton Herta for 2023 because he did not have sufficient points under governing body the FIA’s ‘super-licence’ system. Brown said the super-licence “around

China’s return to the Formula 1 schedule will be cancelled next year as a result of the country’s Covid policies, BBC Sport has learned. Formula 1 has not visited China since 2019, but was due to return for the fourth race in 2023 on 16 April. China’s zero-Covid policy has led F1 to conclude the