Formula 1

Charles Leclerc led Carlos Sainz in a Ferrari front-row lock-out at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix. The Ferrari drivers jumped ahead of Red Bull’s Verstappen as the world champion’s final run fell apart on the circuit around the Hard Rock stadium. The Dutchman made an error at Turn Five, running wide, swearing on the radio

George Russell was fastest in Friday practice at the Miami Grand Prix in Mercedes’ most competitive showing by far this season. Russell was 0.106 seconds quicker than Ferrari’s title leader Charles Leclerc, whose rival Max Verstappen suffered reliability problems for Red Bull. Verstappen failed to set a time while team-mate Sergio Perez was third, ahead

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc set the pace in first practice at the Miami Grand Prix as Mercedes showed signs of increasing competitiveness. Leclerc was fastest by 0.071 seconds, with Mercedes’ George Russell second, an unfamiliar place for the world champions in a difficult start to 2022. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, Leclerc’s title rival, was third, 0.179secs

Lewis Hamilton has called on Formula 1’s governing body the FIA to back down in its strict approach to drivers wearing jewellery in their cars. Race director Niels Wittich reiterated before the inaugural Miami Grand Prix it is prohibited to wear body piercings or neck chains in competition. Hamilton described the new focus on the

The Formula 1 roadshow has well and truly landed in Miami. Making its debut on the calendar for the 2022 season, this weekend’s grand prix is set in the Hard Rock Stadium complex – home to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins – and looks set to be the biggest and boldest event the sport has ever

Tony Brooks, one of the defining Formula 1 drivers of the 1950s, has died aged 90, his daughter Giulia announced on Tuesday. The Briton won six grands prix and narrowly missed out on the world championship in 1959. After Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari and Stirling Moss, Brooks was the most successful driver of his

The Alpine Formula 1 team has recruited female racing driver Alice Powell for a role in its development programme. Powell, 29, who races in the female-only W Series, has been named talent identification and development mentor for Alpine’s driver academy. She will act as a mentor to up-and-coming drivers, especially female racers, with racing and

German car companies Audi and Porsche have decided to enter Formula 1, the boss of their parent group Volkswagen said on Monday. VW chief executive Herbert Diess said discussions about F1 at board level had created divisions within the group. He said Audi and Porsche bosses, whose brands are VW’s biggest income generators, argued entering

Both Formula 1 race directors have tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of next weekend’s Miami Grand Prix. According to US immigration rules, Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas would be unable to travel to the race if they do not return a negative test in time. The FIA says it will not “disclose medical information regarding

Mercedes are aiming to have upgrades that they hope will begin to solve the car problems that have afflicted them this year at the next race in Miami. Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said the new parts would “hopefully indicate whether we are moving in the right direction”. Mercedes, constructors’ champions for the past eight

Getty Images Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has won a battle to chop down a “beautiful” tree at his £18m London mansion despite neighbours’ objections. Residents told Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) Council that Hamilton would be “destroying nature” if he cut down a sugarplum tree outside his home. A report by Hamilton’s

A plan to double the number of Formula 1 ‘sprint’ events next season is being held up by governing body the FIA. The teams unanimously backed a proposal from commercial rights holder F1 to hold six sprint events next year at Tuesday’s meeting of the F1 Commission. But the FIA said in a statement that

Have Formula 1’s new rules worked so far this year? McLaren driver Lando Norris certainly thinks so. “It’s 100% better,” Norris said after finishing third in Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. “It’s what they intended to do and the reasons for the changes are working. I think you have been seeing better races this year

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff described their car as “undriveable” and said that Lewis Hamilton “deserves better from us” after the seven-time world champion could only finish 13th in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Wolff apologised to Hamilton on team radio at the end of the race. Team-mate George Russell did manage to finish fourth

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dominated a wet-dry Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to revive his title hopes as rival Charles Leclerc threw away third place with a costly error. The Ferrari driver was pushing to try to pass Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez after a late pit stop when he lost control at the Variante Alta chicane

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen caught and passed Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with two laps to go to win the sprint race at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The result gives the world champion pole position for the start of the main race on Sunday, and reduces his deficit in the championship to 45 points. Verstappen started

Mercedes driver George Russell emerged fastest from the final practice session at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who starts Saturday’s sprint race from pole position ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, was seventh fastest. Russell headed Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. Practice was run in dry

Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to pole position in an incident-packed qualifying session at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. There were five red flags in a rain-affected session and Verstappen ended up 0.8 seconds quicker than Leclerc. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton qualified only 11th and 13th before the rain came down in Mercedes’ least