Formula 1's mandatory two-week shutdown during August means a rare opportunity for time on the beach for the teams. But with the driver market about to kick itself open, you can guess what a lot of team bosses are thinking about while lying in their deckchairs.As it stands, three of...

Age and experience was a deciding factor in who won and lost the 101st Indy 500.In what was an odd but important precedent set on Sunday, the winner of the race, 40-year-old Takuma Sato, 42-year-old runner-up Helio Castroneves and two more over-40 drivers dominated the top six at the checkered...

Jenson Button admitted his Formula 1 rookie teammate Stoffel Vandoorne simply did a better job after being outqualified by Fernando Alonso's McLaren-Honda stand-in at the Bahrain Grand Prix.GP2 champion Vandoorne was 12th in Sakhir qualifying, 0.064 seconds and two places ahead of Button."He's done a good job. I haven't done...

Formula 1's 2016 tire rule tweaks became a missed opportunity because Pirelli did not sufficiently trust the teams, reckons Williams's chief technical officer Pat Symonds.Pirelli is introducing a fifth compound – the ultrasoft – and allowing teams to choose between three tire types at grands prix this season, but will...

Valtteri Bottas - 8th: I'm very happy to get my first points in Formula 1 today. The whole weekend has been good from setting up the car in practice through to the strategy and pitstops in the race. We managed the tyres well today and I had good feedback from...

Sebastian Vettel insists that he and Red Bull are nowhere near as dominant as Michael Schumacher and Ferrari were at the height of their powers in Formula 1.The German, who could win the world championship in Japan this weekend, believes the scale of his team's advantage is nowhere near as...

Felipe Massa would be a valuable asset for any team that employs him in 2014, according to Ferrari deputy chief designer Simone Resta.The 32-year-old is being dropped at the end of the year to make way for the return of old teammate Kimi Raikkonen but is determined to remain on...

Red Bull Racing is about to replace its "second" driver, and maybe Ferrari should do the same. Edd Straw explains how the formula for the perfect No. 2 driver has changed through the eras. Quiz the average Formula 1 team principal about their philosophy of driver pairings and you usually...

With Kimi Raikkonen no longer in the Red Bull running, his best alternative outside Lotus if a deal cannot be agreed appears to be a return to Ferrari. The Italian team, which Raikkonen drove for from 2007-'09, winning the title in his first season, could have a seat available if...