Formula 1

Lewis Hamilton moved to the brink of a seventh world title with victory in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. A one-two for Mercedes with Valtteri Bottas second sealed a record seventh consecutive constructors’ championship. In the drivers’ title chase, Hamilton is 85 points clear of Bottas, who was promoted to second when Red Bull’s Max

Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton to pole position for only the fourth time in 13 attempts this year on Saturday on Formula 1’s return to Italy’s magnificent Imola circuit. In theory, on a track on which most of the drivers expect overtaking to be particularly difficult, that should give the Finn a good chance of

Valtteri Bottas beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position with his last lap of qualifying at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The Finn was 0.097 seconds quicker than Hamilton, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen third nearly 0.5secs behind. Alpha Tauri’s Pierre Gasly was a surprise fourth, ahead of Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo and Red Bull’s

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has apologised for using offensive language over the team radio at the Portuguese Grand Prix. The Dutchman directed words regarded as offensive about disabled people at Racing Point’s Lance Stroll after the two crashed. Verstappen shrugged it off, but has now issued a public apology before this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand

Racing Point have had seven people test positive for Covid-19 during the 2020 Formula 1 season, team principal Otmar Szafnauer has confirmed. Sergio Perez missed two races at Silverstone and team-mate Lance Stroll was absent through illness in Germany, with him later testing positive for coronavirus, while co-owner Lawrence Stroll has done likewise. Perez said

Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi will remain at the Alfa Romeo team for the third consecutive year in 2021. Raikkonen, who at 41 this year broke the record for number of Grand Prix starts, will be going into his 19th season in F1. Giovinazzi did enough this season to convince Ferrari, who control one of

The Alfa Romeo name will remain in Formula 1 next season after the Italian car company extended its deal with the Sauber team by one year. Alfa has had a commercial arrangement with the Swiss team since 2018, when the famous brand returned to F1 for the first time since 1987. The team have not

The Italian government has banned spectators from attending this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at the historic Imola track. Imola had hoped to allow 13,000 spectators into the track on Saturday and Sunday but the rise of coronavirus cases across Italy has forced a U-turn. The government has banned crowds at events among a raft

Pierre Gasly will stay with the Alpha Tauri team in Formula 1 next year. The Frenchman, 24, will be entering his third full year with Red Bull’s second team after an impressive 2020, in which he took his maiden grand prix win. Gasly has excelled for the team that used to be called Toro Rosso

Saudi Arabia is set to make its debut on the Formula 1 calendar next year. A race on a street circuit in Jeddah is the penultimate event on a draft calendar that has been shown to teams. Jeddah will hold the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix while a new purpose-built track at Qiddiyah is completed, which

Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault during the 2017 season, is part of the BBC team and offers insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors. Lewis Hamilton broke Michael Schumacher’s all-time Formula 1 win record in emphatic style at the Portuguese Grand Prix, with the biggest winning margin seen

McLaren’s Lando Norris has issued a public apology after he played down Lewis Hamilton’s record 92nd win at the Portuguese Grand Prix. Norris also used an expletive to describe Racing Point’s Lance Stroll after they crashed in the race. He said he was “stupid and careless” and “haven’t shown the respect I should have to

Lewis Hamilton says Extreme E can be an “alternative” to traditional motorsport and lets him “merge a love for motor racing with a love for the planet”. The series will see all-electric SUVs racing across five remote territories to raise awareness of climate issues. “In life we all need to take responsibility for the planet,”

Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard tells BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Lewis Hamilton should be knighted after he surpassed Michael Schumacher’s all-time Formula 1 win record. Hamilton broke the all-time F1 record for wins at the Portuguese Grand Prix, taking his 92nd career victory, and is likely to win his seventh world championship within

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has “no concern” about Lewis Hamilton re-signing to stay with the team next season. Hamilton is out of contract at the end of the year and has yet to start talks with Wolff over a new deal. Wolff told BBC Radio 4: “If an asteroid hits the world, anything

Lewis Hamilton passed Valtteri Bottas to take a commanding victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix and break Formula 1’s all-time win record. Hamilton dropped to third in a manic first two laps, which ended with McLaren’s Carlos Sainz in the lead, but fought back to crush his team-mate’s hopes. After both Mercedes passed Sainz, Hamilton

More often than not, Lewis Hamilton out-drives Valtteri Bottas. This time, he out-thought him. But the result was the same. Hamilton took his ninth pole position in 12 races this year at the Portuguese Grand Prix. His Mercedes team-mate was left ruing his error in making the wrong decision on the strategy call inside the

Lewis Hamilton snatched pole position for the Portuguese Grand Prix from team-mate Valtteri Bottas in a thrilling end to an unusual qualifying. Hamilton and Bottas ran theoretically slower medium tyres to set their times and a key strategy call by the Briton could have made the difference. Hamilton chose to do two hot laps at