If you race enough, you will eventually find yourself racing in the rain. But with a little knowledge, the art of rain racing can quickly turn into a scienceIndeed, it was a stunning 2018 National Championship Runoffs at Sonoma Raceway, with racers witnessing only the lightest of drizzles. But in...

Sebastian Vettel will not blame a member of his Ferrari team for the qualifying error that has left him eighth on the grid at the Japanese Grand Prix.Ferrari opted to start Q3 on intermediate tires after a rain shower at the end of Q2 had prevented drivers from improving their...

Pirelli racing director Mario Isola met with Formula 1 drivers at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to discuss how to improve its wet tires.The performance of the wet Pirelli was criticized by several drivers after the rain-hit Brazilian Grand Prix earlier this month, and Isola attended the Friday drivers' briefing...

Intermediate tires could be dropped from Michelin's MotoGP range next year, after just one season.Michelin introduced intermediates alongside slick and wet offerings when it returned to MotoGP as the control tire supplier for 2016. However, they have been used fleetingly and essentially only once in a race, the German Grand...

Marc Marquez says that he gambled on his ultimately successful early switch to slick tires in MotoGP's German Grand Prix because of his Turn 8 off that dropped him down the order.The championship leader took a dominant victory at the Sachsenring after being the first of the major contenders to...

Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff said he was pleased with how the team reacted to changing conditions in the British Grand Prix following its slip-up in Monaco.Lewis Hamilton was cruising to the checkered flag in Monte Carlo when his team blundered by calling the Briton in for fresh...

Nico Rosberg thought Mercedes Formula 1 teammate Lewis Hamilton had made the wrong decision pitting for intermediate tires before any of the other frontrunners in the British Grand Prix.The German dropped to fourth at the start and spent the first half of the race stuck behind the two Williams drivers,...

Leading Formula 1 drivers have asked the FIA to consider a wet-weather tire rethink as they believe the current Pirelli specification is encouraging them to take risks on intermediates instead. World champion Sebastian Vettel spoke out about the wet tires' performance in a drivers' meeting during the Russian Grand Prix...

McLaren racing director Eric Boullier has vowed to improve the way his Formula 1 team makes strategic decisions, following the blunder that cost Jenson Button in the Hungarian Grand Prix.Button finished 10th at the Hungaroring, but he was up to second after the first round of pit stops thanks to...

Jenson Button reckons a lack of running on the intermediate tire during Friday's practice sessions lead to his low starting position for the Brazilian Grand Prix.He managed to post a competitive lap time during the first segment of qualifying " less than a second off the ultimate pace " when...