F1

Max Verstappen is a veteran. Having karted competitively since before he was five, and at an international level from the age of 12, he was a world champion by 15.…

There are obvious parallels between Ferrari’s 2014 season and that of 1991. In both cases the team boss left part-way through the year and was replaced by a man who…

Walter Wolf wouldn’t enjoy running a Formula 1 team in 2014. We know this because we asked him. Yes, Motor Sport has tracked down one of the most elusive and rarely interviewed…

Hamilton vs Rosberg, the Mercedes dominance, the brilliance of Daniel Ricciardo and the financial crisis that Formula 1 is facing – just some of the topics that the podcast team discuss…

By Lee McKenzie I'm writing this from a packed F1 flight that has found its way to Frankfurt instead of London. It has taken nine hours to not get to…

A few days before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix I asked someone at Mercedes-Benz which one of its drivers the team most wanted to win the world championship. “Lewis” came…

Everyone is familiar with the excellent record Roger Penske’s racing team has accumulated over almost 50 years. Since Roger founded his team in 1966 what is now known as Team…

The release 2: Lewis Hamilton kept on his helmet for a while in the green room behind the podium, just while he gathered himself together. Sitting in solitude for a…

The haves and have-lots are playing high-stakes poker with the sport we love. Its soul long since sold, the devilment now lies in Formula 1’s financial detail: an apparent streamlining…

European Grand Prix, Valencia, June 25-27 2010 This column tends to thrive on the distant past, with occasional glimpses at its recent counterpart – and this week’s shots come from…

“We’re the best, right? Formula 1 is the best, and we don’t need anything in it that isn’t the best… “People going on about only 19 or 20 cars in…

By Lee McKenzie Formula 1 is in a strange place just now. We are heading into the most exciting race weekend for several years after one of the most exciting…

There’s little doubt in most of our minds, is there not, that the ‘60s produced the greatest generation of racing drivers we’ve ever had the pleasure to see in action.…

Nico Rosberg this time prevailed over Mercedes team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton in the way he’d conspicuously failed to do last week in Austin. But it was oh-so-close, never…

It was the kind of invitation you don’t receive too often, a chance to wander unchallenged into a contemporary Formula 1 pit and inspect the merchandise. Some teams have security…

There was a time when the Brazilian Grand Prix habitually featured as a beginning rather than an end and for a time was held in Rio rather than São Paulo.…

By Lee McKenzie Eighteen cars on the grid was a strange sight in Austin, although in some respects qualifying seemed better with a smaller field. The four cars eliminated in…