Paddy Lowe has described the two-second gap between Williams and the front of the field as "exciting" as he looks to move the team closer to race wins.The former Mercedes executive director (technical) joined Williams at the start of this season and as a result has gone from fighting for...

Sergey Sirotkin says his focus is more on winning the GP2 Series title than his new Renault Formula 1 test role in 2016.The sometime Sauber F1 protege has taken reigning GP2 champion Stoffel Vandoorne's vacant seat at benchmark team ART Grand Prix this year, having finished third in the standings...

Fernando Alonso feels McLaren-Honda is finally in a position to target points at every Formula 1 grand prix this season following the team's Russian Grand Prix display.For only the second time since McLaren and engine manufacturer Honda were reunited at the start of last season, the team managed to get...

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says 'conspiracy theorists' accusing his team of deliberately hampering Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton to favour Nico Rosberg are 'lunatics."While Rosberg has had a serene start to the 2016 F1 season, winning the first four grands prix and establishing a 43-point championship lead, Hamilton...

Haas Formula 1 driver Esteban Gutierrez says he feels "very bad" about triggering the Russian Grand Prix first-lap crash that ended Nico Hulkenberg and Rio Haryanto's races.Gutierrez ran into Hulkenberg heading into Turn 2 at Sochi, with the Force India then collecting Haryanto's Manor and Marcus Ericsson's Sauber.Related StoriesWhile Gutierrez...

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has switched Lewis Hamilton to the engine it brought to Russia as a spare having been rebuilt following the Chinese Grand Prix qualifying failure.Reigning world champion Hamilton encountered an identical MGU-H problem to the one that affected him at Shanghai when he headed out on...

Daniel Ricciardo says his vision during his Russian Grand Prix trial of Red Bull's aeroscreen Formula 1 cockpit protection system was "fine."Ricciardo turned a single installation lap with the device fitted during first practice, following Ferrari's trial of a halo during F1 pre-season testing. Just as Kimi Raikkonen said the...

Nico Rosberg continued his imperious Formula 1 form by topping the opening free practice session for the Russian Grand Prix.The Mercedes driver outpaced team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.722 seconds, a surprisingly large advantage given both ran similar programmes using the same Pirelli tyre compounds.The session also featured the track debut...

Red Bull's Formula 1 cockpit canopy design has broken cover in the pitlane ahead of its trial run in Russian Grand Prix free practice.The design, which Red Bull is calling the "aeroscreen," has been fitted to Daniel Ricciardo's RB12 in its garage on Thursday in preparation for its track debut...

Red Bull may try its Formula 1 cockpit protection device at some point over the Russian Grand Prix weekend, according to team principal Christian Horner.The team has developed a system it believes is a far more elegant solution, and more in keeping with F1, than the halo device seen on...