Formula 1

Max Verstappen began his home Dutch Grand Prix weekend in familiar fashion, topping the times in Friday’s first practice at Zandvoort. The Red Bull double world champion and runaway series leader is on a quest to draw level with Sebastian Vettel’s record of nine straight wins and he was fastest by almost three hundredths of a second from Fernando Alonso’s upgraded Aston Martin. The

This weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix marks the return of Formula One action, and Max Verstappen has claimed that Red Bull and himself are both totally committed to “doing the same thing” in order to maintain their winning streaks. After a month-long summer break, F1 returns to action with the Dutch Grand Prix this weekend. The tight,

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur believes it would be “strange” to change the results of the 2008 world championship 15 years later. Former Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is taking legal action against Formula 1 bosses and is seeking compensation for the ‘crash-gate’ scandal. Massa’s lawyers claim he lost the title to Lewis Hamilton because Renault

Fernando Alonso is discussing perception and reality, the difference he sees between his wider public image and his assessment of himself. “This,” he says of Formula 1, “is a great show – inside, and off track as well. And you need to play a character, you know? Whatever is assigned to you. “You need to

Max Verstappen is toying with Formula 1 at the moment. The Dutchman won the Belgian Grand Prix for Red Bull at a canter from sixth on the grid while barely appearing to extend himself. When he wanted to overtake Sergio Perez for the lead, he lapped two seconds faster than his Red Bull team-mate at

Max Verstappen won the Belgian Grand Prix© AFP Max Verstappen reeled off his eighth successive win of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday with his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez in second. Verstappen also won Saturday’s sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps to maintain his relentless charge to a third Formula One world title.

Max Verstappen was in imperious form as he came from sixth on the grid to win the Belgian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver’s eighth consecutive victory in the final race before the summer break extended his championship lead to 125 points. Verstappen led Sergio Perez home to a Red Bull one-two but was in

4. His decision to dedicate his life to motorsport came out of the blue “We were invited by a friend to watch him racing in Formula 3, which is a junior series,” says Toto. “I ended up on the track and… walking onto the grid, this is where [I felt] this massive explosion within me

Drivers say the poor quality of Formula 1’s ‘extreme’ wet tyre is adding complications when starting races in bad visibility. They also backed the race officials’ call to delay the start of the Belgian Grand Prix sprint because of spray. But Max Verstappen, George Russell and Charles Leclerc all called for improvements to Pirelli’s wet

Max Verstappen increased his lead by a further eight points in the world championship with a calculated and convincing victory ahead of Australian rookie Oscar Piastri in Saturday’s rain-delayed sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull’s double defending world champion rode his luck when McLaren’s Piastri snatched the lead by making an early pit-stop

Max Verstappen caught and passed McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to win an incident-packed wet sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix. Piastri, who started second behind Verstappen, took the lead as a result of stopping for a change to intermediate tyres as soon as the race was started following five laps behind the safety car. Verstappen

Alain Prost says he hopes the major changes at Alpine will be an “electroshock” to a team suffering from too much corporate interference. The four-time champion made swingeing criticisms of the Renault-owned team in an interview with L’Equipe newspaper. Prost said history showed F1 teams needed “a simple structure detached from an industrial organisation chart”.

File image of Max Verstappen© AFP Max Verstappen took pole position for Red Bull in the sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday by a wafer thin margin from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri. The defending double world champion and runaway leader of this year’s title race wound up just 0.011seconds clear of the rookie

Max Verstappen pipped McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix sprint race by just 0.011 seconds. The world champion was the very last driver to cross the line on a drying track, the condition of which was improving consistently throughout the session. Nevertheless, Piastri’s performance continued the strong impression the Australian

Valtteri Bottas is travelling down the start-finish line at Interlagos, Brazil, at almost 200mph. It is pouring with rain and he can’t see a thing. Ahead of him and stranded on the left of the track is Kimi Raikkonen, who has lost control and crashed. Bottas gets closer and closer until he flies past the

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will start from pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix despite Max Verstappen having set the fastest time in qualifying on Friday. Double world champion Verstappen incurred a five-grid penalty for a change of gearbox on his Red Bull demoting him to sixth for Sunday’s race. Verstappen’s teammate Sergio Perez will start

Max Verstappen set the fastest time in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying but a grid penalty means Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will start from pole position. The Red Bull driver beat Leclerc by 0.820 seconds on a drying track but has a five-place grid drop for using too many gearbox components this season. Leclerc edged the second

Alpine will part ways with team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane after the Belgian Grand Prix. The latest in a series of management changes at the team come after a disappointing performance by the Renault-owned team this season so far. Alpine are also losing chief technical officer Pat Fry, who will start