Formula 1

Red Bull will replace French driver driver Pierre Gasly with Alexander Albon for the rest of the season. Thai Albon, 23, has been promoted from the team’s sister outfit, Toro Rosso, with Gasly going the other way. Gasly, 23, is sixth in the championship with 63 points. Team-mate Max Verstappen is third with 181. Red

Mexico will remain on the Formula 1 calendar for three more years after a deal was agreed to expand the schedule to a record 22 races next season. The race will change its name to the Mexico City Grand Prix from 2020. Mexico returned to the schedule in 2015 after 23 years but faced an

Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault during the 2017 season, is part of the BBC team and offers insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors Formula 1 is on a summer break after a hectic run of five races in seven weeks, so this seems like a good time

Lewis Hamilton is going to change his lifestyle during Formula 1’s summer break to ensure he comes back “recovered” for the rest of the season. The Mercedes driver, winner of eight out of 12 races this year, expects the last nine to be “much harder for us”. “In the past I went into the break

Red Bull say Pierre Gasly “desperately” needs to improve his performance in the second half of the season. The Frenchman finished sixth in Hungary on Sunday and was lapped by team-mate Max Verstappen, who finished second. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: “Pierre really needs to take some time out during the break, reflect,

Lewis Hamilton staged a thrilling fightback to catch and pass Max Verstappen for victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton’s eighth win of the season puts a headlock on the championship after a tense race-long battle between the drivers and their strategists at the Mercedes and Red Bull teams. Hamilton came very close to pulling

Mick Schumacher took his maiden Formula 2 victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. The 20-year-old’s win came at a track where his father Michael won four of his all-time record 91 grands prix. Schumacher started from pole position, earned by finishing eighth in Saturday’s ‘feature’ race, and fended off Japan’s Nobuharu Matsushita for

Max Verstappen is a matter-of-fact sort of guy, and it was in that vein that he treated his first Formula 1 pole position after a superb performance at the Hungarian Grand Prix. “I knew it was a matter of time,” the Red Bull driver said. “It has been a while but anyway to get it

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took his first Formula 1 pole position in a thrilling qualifying session at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Dutchman beat Valtteri Bottas’ Mercedes by 0.018 seconds, with Lewis Hamilton third and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel next. Verstappen was 0.9secs quicker than team-mate Pierre Gasly in sixth. And there were

Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly was fastest in an inconclusive, rain-affected second practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Frenchman headed team-mate Max Verstappen by 0.055 seconds and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes by 0.141secs. The times were set in a brief dry period early on but all three drivers were on different types of tyre. Toro Rosso’s

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton headed Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in a tight first practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton was 0.165 seconds ahead of the Dutchman. Vettel, who set his time with Ferrari’s latest aerodynamic upgrade, was just 0.001secs behind the Red Bull. Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly was fourth quickest, 0.449secs

Hungarian Grand Prix Venue: Hungaroring, Budapest Dates: 2-4 August Qualifying: 3 August 14:00 BST Race: 4 August 14:10 BST Coverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has rejected claims he is favourite for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix and a potential title contender. The Dutchman has won two of the

It was the race that had it all – spins, crashes, crazy weather and incredible results as Sunday’s German Grand Prix thrilled, amazed and excited us. That is now three epic races we have had in a row – Austria, Great Britain and Germany – so can Formula 1’s resurgence carry on this weekend for

Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault during the 2017 season, is part of the BBC team and offers insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors The German Grand Prix was a race for the ages, one of the most exciting Formula 1 events there has been, and it was

Daniil Kvyat says he feels like he has “lost the chains” of his difficult first period in Formula 1 with his podium in Sunday’s German Grand Prix. The Russian, 25, was sacked from the Red Bull programme at the end of 2017 but re-signed by junior team Toro Rosso this year. He said: “It was

The Austrian and British grands prix had produced the thrillers of the season so far, but the German Grand Prix brought the real madness. In true Germanic spirit, Hockenheim said ‘hold my beer’ and went one better, producing a spectacle on a saturated circuit. From the wet conditions that caused chaos from lights out, to

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took his second win of the year in a chaotic and incident-strewn German Grand Prix held in intermittent rain. The Dutchman led a topsy-turvy result in which Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel took second from last on the grid and Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat was third. Lewis Hamilton had a day to forget,

At one point on Saturday morning, Lewis Hamilton was not even sure he would be able to race in the German Grand Prix, so bad did he feel with an illness that has been bothering him this weekend at Hockenheim and which took a turn for the worse overnight. His Mercedes team had prepared the