Oscar Piastri admits that the opening laps of the Abu Dhabi GP were "pretty miserable" as he was sent tumbling down the order. At the start he was knocked into a spin by Max Verstappen, and then as he tried to recover he hit the Williams of Franco Colapinto, and...
Fred Vasseur says he's "proud of the step" made by Ferrari in 2024 but stresses that the team still has to improve in every area heading into next season. The Maranello outfit finished just 14 points adrift of McLaren after a season that saw Charles Leclerc and Carlos...
Carlos Sainz admitted he had "mixed feelings" after earning second place in the Abu Dhabi GP while Ferrari just missed out on the constructors' title. Sainz and team mate Charles Leclerc made the podium, but victory for Lando Norris ensured that McLaren held on to its...
Lando Norris admitted that the thought the World Championship was “not looking as likely" after team mate Oscar Piastri was nudged into a spin by Max Verstappen on the first lap in Abu Dhabi. The incident left Norris on his own out front with no margin for error while...
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella admits that losing the 2010 World Championship at the final round in Abu Dhabi was the “most painful day” of his career – and helped him became the leader he is today. Stella was Fernando Alonso’s engineer at Ferrari at the time,...
Charles Leclerc says he “believes in miracles” and is motivated to “do something very special” after a disastrous qualifying session in Abu Dhabi. Leclerc had a 10-place penalty for taking a new battery and then lost his best lap to a track limits offence in Q2,...
Lewis Hamilton was left frustrated in qualifying in Abu Dhabi after a stray plastic bollard became stuck under his car for the last part of his final lap in Q1. Hamilton hit it after it was dislodged by Kevin Magnussen, who had cut across the inside of a corner in an...
Veteran former Ferrari Formula 1 race engineer Dave Greenwood is to officially take up a fulltime role as Alpine's racing director in January. Greenwood has latterly been working for Hitech as the right hand man of boss Oliver Oakes, and he has been overseeing the F2...
Veteran race engineer Mark Slade has left the Haas Formula 1 team on the eve of Kevin Magnussen’s final race in Abu Dhabi. Slade was still looking after Magnussen last weekend in Qatar, but he is not at the Yas Circuit, and is understood to have cut his ties with the...
Former F1 boss Chase Carey is back in the paddock in Abu Dhabi this weekend having been appointed a director of Liberty Media. Carey was chairman of F1 from 2016 to 2022, and served as CEO from 2017 to 2021, before Stefano Domenicali took the reins. He was responsible...
Red Bull boss Christian Horner admits that extending Sergio Perez’s deal for two years early in the season “obviously didn’t work.” Perez’s new contract was announced on June 4 after a run of podiums early in the season, but immediately after a first lap accident in...
Lando Norris says he’s moved on from his contentious yellow flag penalty in Qatar – but he fears that could yet be a “bad consequence” if McLaren misses out on the Formula 1 constructors’ title due to the lost points. Norris was given a 10 second stop and go penalty...
Lewis Hamilton admits that news of his departure for Ferrari coming so early “was straining” on his relationship with Mercedes. He added that while he knew it wouldn’t be easy dealing with everyone knowing that he was leaving proved more difficult than he had...
Toto Wolff has slammed Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner in the wake of the escalation of the war of words between their drivers, George Russell and Max Verstappen. Wolff was left fuming in Qatar after Horner suggested that Russell had been "quite hysterical" in...
Max Verstappen says he has no regrets on any comments he made either to George Russell directly or to the media in the wake of the FIA stewards' hearing in Qatar. He also accused the Mercedes driver of "lying" in the stewards' hearing that led to him being sanctioned....
George Russell has fought back in a war of words with Max Verstappen – and explained how the Dutchman threatened to put "my f**king head in the wall" at the start of the Qatar GP. Verstappen made the threat at the pair left the stewards' room on the Saturday evening...
