Will Power paid tribute to Penske teammate and rival Simon Pagenaud after finishing championship runner-up to the Frenchman in the season finale at Sonoma on Sunday."When it's your year to win a championship, it's your year," he said. "It was just Simon's year, through and through. Everything fell well for...

Jolyon Palmer described his first Formula 1 race on home soil as "really painful" after spending much of the British Grand Prix at the back before retiring.The Renault driver was running 17th during the early phase on intermediates but his race unraveled when an error at his pit stop for...

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel will serve a second successive five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change at the British Grand Prix.Vettel sustained a problem with the gearbox at the end of final practice at Silverstone, issuing a message over the radio in which he said: "OK, I think...

A bump on the Austin Formula 1 track triggered the gearbox damper failures that forced Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa out of the United States Grand Prix.Bottas had also changed his gearbox between qualifying and the race because of a damper problem, retired on lap five at Circuit...

Williams performance chief Rob Smedley says his Formula 1 team's focus group dedicated to understanding why it struggles in wet conditions is paying dividends.The team has generally been the third-fastest F1 car this term in dry conditions but struggled to maintain that form when it rains. Smedley revealed earlier this...

Jenson Button has conceded the McLaren-Honda partnership's lack of results this Formula 1 season is now starting to hurt.With Button and teammate Fernando Alonso both retiring from the Singapore Grand Prix with gearbox issues, McLaren has now recorded four double retirements in a single F1 campaign for the first time...

Jenson Button has called Pastor Maldonado's driving "very strange" in the moments that led to their collision in the Singapore Grand Prix.The McLaren driver suffered a broken front wing when he ran into the back of Maldonado's Lotus on the exit of Turn 17. The incident was investigated by the...

Jenson Button declared himself "proud" of McLaren-Honda's breakthrough points-scoring Monaco Grand Prix, and hopes it will be a "steppingstone" to bigger results in Formula 1.The Briton was disappointed not to make Q3 on Saturday, qualifying 12th, but he eventually finished a comfortable eighth, and he said while points were the...

Daniil Kvyat was unable to start last Sunday's Australian Grand Prix because a lack of oil pressure caused the gearbox to overheat, according to the Red Bull Formula 1 team.Kvyat, who joined Red Bull this season from Toro Rosso, stopped on track after being unable to select a gear on...

Related StoriesJenson Button said there was reason to be happy with his fourth place on the grid for the Russian Grand Prix after McLaren's final practice nightmares.The 2009 Formula 1 champion had been bullish about his Sochi prospects following a good run on Friday, but it all went wrong on...