Mercedes will be the first team to test an old car to give both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas time behind the wheel ahead of Formula 1’s delayed season start next month.The opening race of the 2020 season is scheduled to take place in Austria on July 5, with another...

Mercedes technical director James Allison estimates the sidepod changes between Mercedes' 2017 and 2018 cars is worth around a quarter of a second.The W09 – the first car Allison has been heavily involved in after joining Mercedes earlier last year – features tighter aerodynamic packaging around the sidepod to the...

Lewis Hamilton was quickest on the final day of the first test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as McLaren finally showed both pace and reliability.Sharing the W09 with teammate Valtteri Bottas – who drove during the morning session – Hamilton was 0.521s clear of the rest of the field as...

Watch as Valtteri Bottas takes the Halo-fitted Mercedes W09 out for a test run.

Mercedes has unveiled the car with which it will attempt to defend both Formula 1 championships during a filming day at Silverstone.While small issues kept the W09 in the garage for much of the morning, Valtteri Bottas put the first miles on the new car at the home of the...

Toto Wolff would cut off the mandatory Halo with a chainsaw given the chance.Mercedes launched the W09 on Thursday at Silverstone, the sixth team to unveil its car which features the Halo after the FIA forced through the cockpit protection device on safety grounds. Despite the concept originally being suggested...

Toto Wolff says Mercedes has been focusing on retaining some of the aspects of last year's "diva" when developing its 2018 car.Under new aerodynamic regulations last year, Mercedes produced a quick but unstable car that was not easy to get performance out of on certain circuits. With Wolff having labeled...

Ferrari has confirmed to RACER that Charles Leclerc will drive for Ferrari during the post-race test following the Hungarian Grand Prix in two weeks’ time, after the 18-year-old Ferrari driver tweeted the news yesterday.Leclerc has been dominating the FIA Formula 2 championship this season, securing pole position at all six...