• Vettel and Leclerc leave Mercedes drivers in their early wake• Williams bring back Sir Patrick Head as engineering consultantIf there is to be a real fight at the front in Formula One this season Ferrari must square up at the Sakhir circuit and find …
Victory for Valtteri Bottas at the Australian GP left Sebastian Vettel in the shade as F1’s new regulations left the drivers cold in MelbourneAlready conspiracy theories abound that Mercedes had been involved in an elaborate plot to mask their true for…
On the eve of an incredible return to F1, the Williams driver explains how his difficult character helped him overcome the physical and mental effects of losing part of his armRobert Kubica is all too aware of the staggering odds he has defied in makin…
Ferrari lead the field, Red Bull-Honda are showing promise and the midfield scrap looks set to be even more hotly contestedThat Ferrari have a good, potentially great, car this year was clear by the end of the first day of testing when Sebastian Vettel…
• Williams finally get car on to track, two days late• Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari look very strongThe Williams deputy principal, Claire Williams, has said her team’s failure to run a car in Formula One testing for the opening two and half days was an …
Formula One has come out of hibernation with some teams looking in better shape than others and questions over marketing activitiesA few days ago a man called James Allison made Formula One feel like something other than a lost cause. In a short promot…
• ‘It is the mother of all messes,’ says Mercedes team principal• Blow for Williams as car will miss two full days testingToto Wolff has issued a strong warning of the dangers facing Formula One and the sport’s place in the UK because of Brexit, descri…
• BAT will promote its electronic smoking alternatives• Williams launches 2019 car in a different shade of blueBritish American Tobacco, which withdrew from Formula One in 2006, when tobacco advertising was banned from the sport, is to return in a “glo…
Lewis Hamilton has welcomed the remarkable return of Robert Kubica to Formula One racing. The 33-year-old has not taken part in a grand prix after suffering a serious injury eight years ago. The Polish driver joins as a Williams driver for next se…
Struggling team show determination to climb the F1 ladder with a 20-year-old driver who brings no cash but wads of talentLewis Hamilton’s extraordinary run of success may well reach a glorious finale in Austin on Sunday but at the other end of the grid…
Struggling team show determination to climb the F1 ladder with a 20-year-old driver who brings no cash but wads of talentLewis Hamilton’s extraordinary run of success may well reach a glorious finale in Austin on Sunday but at the other end of the grid…
Russell, 20, has impressed as the reserve driver at Mercedes‘It feels surreal that I will now be lining up on the grid’George Russell is to race for Williams next season after agreeing a multi-year deal with the Formula One team.Russell, 20, will follo…
• Claire Williams: ‘We felt collaboration is not right for us’• Team are bottom of constructors’ championship tableWilliams are to retain their independence rather than becoming a partner to a manufacturer in Formula One.The team are enduring one of th…
After a dramatic race Kimi Raikkonen’s wife has her say on Lewis Hamilton’s comments while Ferrari’s car handles the conditions and McLaren attempt to reverse their declineWhat had been a thrilling race to the end was still disappointing for Lewis Hami…
For a team once marked by such character, it is depressing to see Williams among the grid’s back markersA slow racing car never looks good, and the current Williams F1 machines resemble a pair of wounded white whales as they lumber round at the tail of…
Silverstone organisers quiet over the British Grand Prix’s future and Williams identify the root cause of their difficultiesLewis Hamilton’s dominant win from the front proved he and his car were the class of the field in Barcelona. There is no sense, …
The Australian showed touches of real quality to win in Shanghai but Max Verstappen is still making mistakesDaniel Ricciardo’s skill at overtaking was never in doubt but his remarkable performance in China was confirmation of just how far he is willing…
• Comments come as plans emerge for inaugural women-only series in 2019 • Wolff says event is ‘giving up on the mission’ of women competing in F1Toto Wolff, the Mercedes F1 executive director, believes a single-gender motor racing championship would “u…
• Williams technical officer insists the sport is hamstrung by financial disparity• ‘There are two completely different races going on,’ he saysThat both Formula One titles have already been decided should not detract from what is usually the glorious …
• Massa forced to withdraw before qualifying because of illness
• Di Resta’s last Formula One race was for Force India in 2013
The British driver Paul di Resta will replace Felipe Massa in the Williams for the Hungarian Grand Prix after the Brazilian had to withdraw because of sickness. It marks a return to Formula One for the Williams reserve driver whose last race was for Force India in Brazil in 2013.
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