Formula 1

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button surprised everyone yesterday by snatching pole from the grasp of Ferrari at basically the last moment. Can the team convert yesterday's success into victory today? Also Felipe Massa had his best qualifying perf...

Qualifying for the 2012 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix at Monza began today. McLaren qualified a surprise front row. Fernando Alonso had been fastest in Q1 and Q2, but something must have gone wrong with his car in Q3. He lost about a second in lap ...

The latest man linked to Felipe Massa's spot at Ferrari is Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg.  "Yes, it is good and positive press if you are linked to a team like that, but now we have to race again. The attraction is that ever...

Ross Brawn thinks that the engine building teams will have an advantage during the shift to 1.6-liter turbo V6 engines in 2014. There are only three confirmed engine manufacturers so far: Renault, Ferrari and Mercedes. Only two of those teams have...

It looks like the future of Formula 1 will likely include closed cockpits for safety reasons. This discussion has heated up again following Fernando Alonso's close call in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix. Romain Grosjean's Lotus nearly lan...

The first Formula 1 race since the break began today. It is Jenson Button’s first pole in 63 races. It didn’t take long for the action to start. Kamui Kobayashi’s car was smoking at the starting line. It appeared that his bra...

And we are back. I hope everyone has had a good, month-long break from Formula 1. The summer break is over, and we have nine more grand prixs in the next 13 weeks.  There was rain yesterday for practice, but it was sunny for qualifying to...

This weekend at Spa-Francorcamps Michael Schumacher will start the 300th Grand Prix of his career, and it is apt that it should take place at Spa, where it all began for the 43 year old German driver. The seven-time world Champion has an affin...

Spa Francorchamps has also been named by Michael Schumacher as one of his favourite venues of the calendar in Formula One. Spa has been a kind of lucky charm for Schumacher. He drove his first ever Grand Prix there, he took there his first ever F1...

Pirelli is bringing its hardest tire compounds to the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa this weekend, which it says will allow drivers to push harder. The harder tires degrade more slowly than softer compounds, which should make tire strategy less of an i...