Formula 1

Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is facing a claim of fraud over an alleged failure to declare £400 million ($477 million, 473 million euros) of overseas assets to the British government, prosecutors said on Monday. Andrew Penhale, Chief Crown Prosecutor, said: “The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) has reviewed a file of evidence from HMRC

IndyCar driver Colton Herta is to test for McLaren this week. The American, one of the most highly regarded drivers in the US-based single-seater series, is a potential candidate for a future McLaren seat. Herta, 22, will drive a 2021 McLaren at Portimao in Portugal – where grand prix were held in 2020 and 2021

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc held off world champion Max Verstappen to win the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday and reboot his world championship challenge. Lewis Hamilton took third ahead of his Mercedes teammate George Russell in cars that had both needed hefty repairs after crashes in Friday qualifying. This was Leclerc’s third win of the year

Posts on social media complained of sexist, racist and homophobic slurs at fans.© AFP Formula One says it is investigating reports of “unacceptable” harassment reported by some fans attending the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Posts on social media complained of sexist, racist and homophobic slurs at the sold out event at Spielberg’s Red Bull Ring.

Max Verstappen won the sprint at the Red Bull Ring circuit on Saturday to secure pole for the Austrian Grand Prix and extend his lead in the world championship. Starting from the front of the grid the world champion comfortably held off the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz to turn the air orange

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has “questioned the attitude” of fans who rejoiced when Lewis Hamilton and George Russell both crashed at Austria’s Red Bull Ring circuit on Friday. A loud cheer erupted when Hamilton hit a wall hard at turn seven in the top 10 qualifying shoot-out for Saturday’s Austrian Grand Prix sprint race.

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen pipped the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc to pole position at the Austrian Grand Prix with his final lap of qualifying. The world champion’s earlier fastest time had been beaten by Leclerc and his team-mate Carlos Sainz with their final laps but Verstappen snatched pole back. The Dutchman was just 0.029 seconds

Zhou Guanyu was on Thursday given the all clear to compete in this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix after remarkably escaping from his horror crash at Silverstone unharmed. Alfa Romeo’s Chinese rookie announced the good news on social media accompanied by a photo of him doing the thumbs up surrounded by the medical team from Formula

Getty Images Tom Cruise was at the British Grand Prix this weekend and the action on the track looked like something from one of his films. F1 driver Zhou Guanyu’s car flipped several times at almost 200mph and smashed into a grandstand barrier during the first lap at Silverstone. Incredibly, the Alfa Romeo driver survived

Zhou Guanyu said the halo safety device “saved me today” after he escaped uninjured from the horror multi-car smash at the start of Sunday’s British Grand Prix. Zhou’s Alfa Romeo was catapulted upside down, the Chinese rookie’s head saved by his car’s roll hoop-halo as it skidded off across a gravel trap and over tyre

George Russell says Formula 1 needs to learn lessons from the crash in which Zhou Guanyu’s Alfa Romeo vaulted a barrier at Silverstone. Zhou was stuck in the car for some time after the accident as rescue crews struggled to reach him in such an unusual position. Russell called the crash “an incredibly scary incident”

A beaming Carlos Sainz claimed his first Formula One victory in a spectacular triumph in the British Grand Prix on Sunday but his Ferrari team were still left facing questions. The 27-year-old Spaniard, starting from his maiden pole position on his 150th race, resisted a late-charging Sergio Perez of Red Bull, who recovered from 17th,

Lewis Hamilton says he disagrees with fans at the British Grand Prix booing his rival Max Verstappen, saying: “We’re better than that.” The Dutchman received jeers from a section of the crowd while he did his interview after qualifying second to Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz at Silverstone. Hamilton, who was booed by Verstappen fans during their

Carlos Sainz upstaged local hero Lewis Hamilton to top the times for Ferrari in Friday’s second practice at the British Grand Prix, outpacing his Mercedes rival by just over a tenth of a second on a wet and windy day. The Spaniard, recording his first session-topping time since the Australian Grand Prix in April, clocked

Lewis Hamilton has called for “older voices” with offensive views to be refused a platform on which to make comments. Mercedes driver Hamilton said: “Discrimination is not something we should be giving a platform. “We need people to be bringing people together.” He added: “We are all the same and the comments we are seeing

Three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet on Wednesday apologised “wholeheartedly” to Lewis Hamilton after using a racially offensive term to describe the Mercedes star. Hamilton said the “time has come for action” following Piquet’s remarks, while Formula One and motorsport’s governing body the FIA condemned the 69-year-old Brazilian. “I apologise wholeheartedly to anyone that

Formula 1 has condemned three-time world champion Nelson Piquet for using racially abusive language about Lewis Hamilton. The 69-year-old Brazilian, who won the world title in 1981, 83 and 87, used a racially offensive term in referring to Hamilton on a Brazilian podcast. An F1 statement said: “Discriminatory or racist language is unacceptable in any

Formula 1 has developed a synthetic sustainable fuel to be introduced in 2026 as part of its programme to be net-zero carbon by 2030. Synthetic fuels are manufactured by an industrial process and emit in their burning only the carbon that was taken out of the atmosphere to make them. The fuel can be used