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How many aerodynamicists does it take to change lightbulb, one wonders as Ross Brawn tackles the "force field" that is preventing overtaking in F1.

After taking the F1 job Brawn hired a team of experts, including Pat Symonds and former Williams head of aerodynamics Jason Sommerville, to help the FIA shape the 2021 technical rules. Improving overtaking was not part of the remit when the current high-downforce rules were being formulated for 2017, and the consensus is that it has become even more difficult to follow another car ... Keep reading

Ross Brawn says Formula 1 has already made progress on finding solutions for its overtaking problem and addressing the "force field" that makes it hard for cars to race

Kimi Raikkonen's resurgent form in Formula 1 has been helped by Ferrari's decision not to pursue a complicated suspension set-up with its SF71H, suggests Motorsport TV's technical analyst Craig Scarborough

Sauber is pushing design boundaries as it attempts to catch its Formula 1 rivals in 2018 with evolutions of its "aggressive" new car concept

After a difficult 2017 with a tricky car and year-old Ferrari engine, Sauber is expecting a stronger grand prix season after overhauling its aerodynamic philosophy and marrying that to a latest-spec power unit.It has adopted some radical solutions in areas of its C37, and here Giorgio Piola and Matt Somerfield look at how Sauber is pushing the limits of the rules in its bid to make ... Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton’s significant leap in performance during Q3 in Melbourne put a sharp focus on the use of special engine modes by Mercedes on the laps that count.Although the Brackley-based team and Hamilton himself continued to downplay any talk about party modes, Red Bull remains adamant that the circumstances in Australia forced Mercedes to use its engine at its ultimate potential ... Keep reading

Red Bull has called for the FIA to end "party modes" on Formula 1 engines by ensuring drivers qualify and race with the same engine settings

Silverstone's Managing Director, Stuart Pringle, believes that lap times will improve by a second following resurfacing of track.

Hakkinen says Hamilton's Melbourne qualifying display was on a 'different level', lap times expected to be quicker at Silverstone, plus more.

Ex-Formula 1 driver Paul di Resta will make his Le Mans 24 Hours debut later this year with the United Autosports LMP2 team.

Follow the second race of the 2018 Formula 1 season across BBC Radio 5 live, the BBC Sport website and the app.

Silverstone bosses took the opportunity to renovate the entire 3.1-mile circuit after pressure from MotoGP promoter Dorna to make parts of it smoother to ride on.MotoGP riders have been pushing for certain circuits to be resurfaced to make them smoother to ride on, with Silverstone one of several F1 tracks in the firing line.Silverstone managing director Stuart Pringle explained that ... Keep reading

Formula 1 lap times at the British Grand Prix will be a second faster this year after Silverstone recently completed a full-circuit resurfacing project

Red Bull made a big push to prepare its 2018 Formula 1 car early as it bid to hit the ground running with its new RB14

  Although last year's RB13 ended the year strongly, the team readily admitted that its start to the campaign had not been as strong as it had hoped for.Its plight had not been helped by windtunnel correlation problems, but it also had not adopted the right development approach, so lost ground a ... Keep reading

Team boss Guenther Steiner has reacted to accusations that his team is benefitting from extra, illegal, input from Ferrari.

McLaren's relief at finally ditching Honda and moving on to papaya orange pastures new is palpable. Fernando Alonso was on typically bullish form in Australia, talking up his Formula 1 team training its laser focus on Red Bull, despite some obvious residual shortcomings with the MCL33, and a 1.3-second deficit to the fastest RB14 in qualifying.There's not too much to get excited about ... Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 team principal Gunther Steiner has hit back at suggestions the US-owned team is getting more technical support from Ferrari than the rules allow

Steiner says that those making allegations have no facts on which to base them, and that everything the team has done has been clear with the FIA. McLaren and Force India have both expressed suspicions about the team’s surge in form since last year, while conceding that there is no hard evidence of any wrongdoing.“Everybody is allowed to have an opinion,” said Steiner. “Some ... Keep reading

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Insisting that he is now fitter than "back in the day", Robert Kubica says his F1 race return dream is still very much alive.

Vandoorne wants to compete in the Bathurst 1000, Verne laughs at Hartley recall, plus more.

McLaren has admitted its pre-season reliability problems delayed the introduction of upgrades in the early stages of the Formula 1 season

Although McLaren did successfully run part of its planned upgrade package at the Australian Grand Prix which included new brake ducts and floor modifications, the significant bargeboard update was put back to next weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.If the Bahrain parts work as expected, this could give the McLaren-Renault MCL33 a boost of several tenths of a second per lap."We were ... Keep reading

Mercedes is confident that Lewis Hamilton's engine did not suffer any damage in his pursuit of Sebastian Vettel at the Australian Grand Prix, despite getting close to its temperature limits

Hamilton was forced to chase his Ferrari rival in the closing stages of the Melbourne race after Vettel's well-timed VSC pitstop meant he was able to retain the lead.Pushing hard and running behind Vettel meant that Hamilton's engine temperatures increased, and in the end he called off the battle in a bid to ensure that there was no risk to future reliability now drivers are only ... Keep reading

After Sauber impressed with their looks rather than speed in Australia, BBC Sport takes at look at some easy-on-the-eye backmarkers from years gone by.

Alfa Romeo's influence at Sauber is set to grow as the Formula 1 team evaluates extending its partnership with the Italian manufacturer on a technical level

After Honda decided to pull out out of F1 due to the global recession that shook the car industry, team principal Ross Brawn decided to buy out the outfit and run it under his own name.He managed to secure a supply of Mercedes engine and stunned the field at the season opening Australian Grand Prix, with Button and Rubens Barrichello locked out the front row.Button led every lap en ... Keep reading

Apart from minor branding on its sister manufacturer Ferrari, Alfa has not been involved in F1 since its works team project of 1979-85.The multi-year collaboration between Sauber and Alfa was announced last December with intentions beyond the significant branding the team's C37s are carrying this season.Sauber team principal Frederic Vasseur told Motorsport.com the technological ... Keep reading

One race into the season and teams' unrest mounts as Renault calls for a freeze on engine development.

Romain Grosjean's actions as he put his arms around his Haas mechanics to offer comfort after the double pitstop failure in the Australian Grand Prix captured the hearts of fans around the world.Those moments of emotion as the driver and team crew consoled each other at a table behind the Haas pits told their own story about the highs of lows of a Melbourne weekend – and epitomised ... Keep reading

Speaking at a press conference ahead of the 2018 Paris Formula E race, Vergne commented on the arrangement that led to Hartley racing full time for Toro Rosso eight years after he was dropped from the Red Bull junior scheme."It makes me laugh that Red Bull called on Hartley, given that he's the one they fired to give me his seat in World Series by Renault," said Vergne."I find this ... Keep reading

Ex-Formula 1 driver Jean-Eric Vergne says Brendon Hartley's call-up with Toro Rosso "makes me laugh" after the Kiwi had previously been dropped by Red Bull

Renault has called for a freeze on Formula 1 engine development during the 2019-2020 seasons before new regulations are introduced

The manufacturer believes that such a move would allow the four current suppliers to focus fully on preparing for the new regulations, and thus not hand an advantage to any new entrants who can devote all their resources to the 2021 projects.Renault customer Red Bull believes that a way should be found to equate engines for the last two years of the current formula, in order to ... Keep reading

The Finnish driver crashed heavily early in the final part of qualifying and could only recover to eighth from 15th on the grid on Sunday.Last season Bottas's campaign lost momentum as he started to struggle against teammate Lewis Hamilton and became distracted while trying to regain his form.Asked by Motorsport.com if he was happy with his mental process in dealing with his ... Keep reading

Santino Ferrucci will continue as a Haas' development driver in 2018.

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas believes his negative experiences in 2017 helped him avoid beating himself up too much during a troubled Australian Grand Prix weekend

Sebastian Vettel was first to admit the Ferrari Formula 1 team got lucky with its Australian Grand Prix victory, and that the SF71H is not where he wants it

But its race-winning start to the 2018 F1 season has given it a good platform on which to build and improve what is a quite different car from its predecessor.Here Giorgio Piola and Matt Somerfield look at the key areas where Maranello made significant change this winter in a bid to deliver a car that it hopes can bring home the world title. ... Keep reading

Haas boss Gunther Steiner rejects accusations that the team's car is an illegal copy of last year's Ferrari.

Haas boss Gunther Steiner rejects accusations that the team's car is an illegal copy of last year's Ferrari.

I worry for the British Formula 1 fan.This will be the last season when he or she will be able to watch races live on free-to-air TV before the sport disappears behind a paywall on Sky Sports in 2019, with only highlights plus the live British GP required to be on a free-to-air channel.Channel 4's three-year shared rights deal with Sky, to cover half the races live and the rest as ... Keep reading

In the wake of Haas' obvious step forward in Melbourne, rivals question the American outfit's relationship with Ferrari.

Hulkenberg finished seventh in the Australian Grand Prix, while Sainz claimed the final point in 10th, despite issues with his drinks bottle making his life difficult.Abiteboul acknowledged that having two cars consistently in the fight this season will make a big difference.He warned, however, that his drivers will have to stay on their game in a highly competitive field."It's good ... Keep reading

Schadenfreude is great fun if you aren't at the centre of it. After three years of McLaren blaming Honda for all its ills, many revelled in the once-great team's testing troubles. From the moment the wheels started to come off its pre-season, quite literally in the case of Fernando Alonso's incident on day one of running, the narrative turned. Suddenly it was McLaren being found out as ... Keep reading

As expected, Pirelli is taking its new hypersoft tyres to Monaco, the pink-banded tyre's second successive race.

Renault Formula 1 drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz Jr are now fighting in "the big boy league" and need to stay on their game, says team boss Cyril Abiteboul

While most are taking 7 sets of the supersofts to Bahrain, McLaren is taking 9 sets of the red-banded tyre.

McLaren has made the most aggressive tyre choice among the 10 Formula 1 teams for the upcoming Bahrain Grand Prix

Max Verstappen feels the Australian GP bored fans, Horner criticises Hamilton's 'party mode', plus more.

Force India and McLaren want the Haas Formula 1 team's technical relationship with Ferrari investigated after its "magic" Australian Grand Prix performance

Haas locked out the third row of the grid in qualifying for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and ran fourth and fifth ahead of Red Bull before pitstop mistakes condemned Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean to retirement.It triggered fresh questions over Haas's working relationship with Ferrari, which supplies the team with parts it does not need to build itself but also allows ... Keep reading

No other team has followed the route that Stoffel Vandoorne and Fernando Alonso have opted for, as midfield rivals Renault, Haas and Force India have instead gone for three sets of the red-walled tyre.The top three teams have made near identical choices, with seven supersofts each for both drivers at Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull Racing - as well as Williams, Toro Rosso and ... Keep reading

Juan Pablo Montoya is set to join former F1 rival Fernando Alonso on the Le Mans grid this year.

Prince Albert of Monaco, admits his fear that Sergio Marchionne might carry out his threat to take Ferrari out of F1.

Whereas Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton lost the race in 2017 thanks to an earlier-than-ideal pitstop – and Vettel’s ability to extend the first stint to take track position – this year the Virtual Safety Car intervened, which was the worst-case scenario for Mercedes in the strategy that it had adopted.Even then it would have been able to cope with the VSC, had the maths the team was working ... Keep reading

Hartley endured a difficult start to his 2018 campaign, as a first-lap lock-up on the run to Turn 1 effectively put paid to any chance of a decent result at the Australian Grand Prix.He ultimately ended up last of the classified finishers in a lapped 15th place, after a puncture led to a second stop, his prospects hampered further by being half a minute behind the field at the race ... Keep reading

Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley says his first Formula 1 race weekend using a Honda engine did not flag up any concerns over raceability or overtaking

Bottas started 15th after crashing in qualifying and taking a grid penalty and, helped by the retirement of the two Haas drivers and a well-timed pitstop, he moved up to eighth by the flag.While Bottas did make several passing moves at a track acknowledged to be among the most difficult to overtake on, Wolff agreed that it was harder to make progress than it might have been in the ... Keep reading

Melbourne's Albert Park Formula 1 layout should be reviewed in a bid to create more Australian Grand Prix overtaking opportunities, according to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner

Sunday's Australian Grand Prix produced just a handful of genuine overtakes, arguably the most spectacular of which came from Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo on Renault's Nico Hulkenberg early in the race.Conversely, Ricciardo's teammate Max Verstappen was bottled up behind Kevin Magnussen early on, before getting stuck in a train of cars led by Fernando Alonso after the restart.The ... Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton is already driving with Formula 1's new engine limit in mind and backed off in the Australian Grand Prix to protect his Mercedes power unit

Racing legend Mario Andretti believes F1 should have followed IndyCar's example in terms of aero.

So what does Bernie Ecclestone think of how Formula 1 has developed under the stewardship of Ross Brawn and his Liberty Media colleagues - and how is he dealing with life at what is for him, a leisurely pace?As we head into the second season without his colourful presence as the undisputed ruler of F1, Ecclestone has had time to reflect upon his new status and how the business he ... Keep reading

Sebastian Vettel refuses to revel in Lewis Hamilton's software misfortune, despite the Briton's goading the previous day.

Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff says Valtteri Bottas's struggle to make progress in the Australian Grand Prix reflects a "new world" for Formula 1

The four-time champion suffered from his engine overheating, the same problem that afflicted teammate Valtteri Bottas, while chasing eventual race winner Sebastian Vettel in Melbourne.Hamilton said he wanted to push to the end but did not because he was nervous as teams must now complete the season with just three engines, instead of four.“The engine was overheating, and I’ve got to ... Keep reading

The new engine regulations for 2021 are seen as the key to Liberty’s plans, along with moves to address spiralling costs and restrict spending.A basic outline of the engine format was unveiled last year, featuring no MGU-H and a move to standardised parts and limited areas for development.That philosophy was not well-received by Ferrari and Mercedes, triggering tensions between the ... Keep reading

Formula 1 chiefs will unveil full details of their blueprint for the future of the championship in a presentation to teams and engine manufacturers during the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend

Lewis Hamilton had the speed, Sebastian Vettel had the luck in Melbourne. With some help from the VSC, it was the Ferrari driver who took home the spoils – and an early lead in the points.How did it all go down? And how did Mercedes and Lewis get it so wrong?GP Gazette has got you covered. With all of the news and analysis from the Australian GP paddock, check out the first issue of ... Keep reading

Though the very nature of the Albert Park circuit means track changes are limited, officials are willing to consider practical suggestions in a bid to improve overtaking.

Ross Brawn laments lack of overtaking in Australia, Lance Stroll admits to Williams struggles, plus more.

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff gives the lowdown on the turn of events that saw Lewis Hamilton miss out on a certain win in Melbourne.

"We're not racing out there at the moment, we are surviving," admits Lance Stroll following lonely drive to fourteenth.

The German car manufacturer has joined Renault and Ferrari in opposing on cost grounds a bold shake-up to regulations that was proposed by F1 owners Liberty Media and the FIA last year.This stance prompted rivals to suggest that the manufacturers did not want anything to change because they were trying to protect their competitive advantage.Wolff has denied that is the case, though ... Keep reading

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insists the outfit is not trying to be opportunistic in pushing for what it wants in future Formula 1 engine rules

Lance Stroll says Williams is "surviving" rather than racing after a difficult start to the 2018 Formula 1 season in the Australian Grand Prix

Stroll came home 14th at Albert Park, second-to-last of the finishers, the final car on the lead lap, and behind Sauber rookie Charles Leclerc.The race was a continuation of a troubled weekend for Stroll, with ongoing balance and cooling issues limiting his running and leaving him less than comfortable in the car."We're not racing out there at the moment, we are surviving," said the ... Keep reading

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton beat the two Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Vettel by more than six tenths of a second in qualifying, which led Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo to declare the Mercedes was so good any top driver could take pole position in it.Mercedes' power unit has been more potent than its rivals, particularly in the final part of qualifying, ever since F1 adopted V6 ... Keep reading

Australian Grand Prix winner Sebastian Vettel believes Mercedes' Formula 1 engine's qualifying mode has less of an advantage over Ferrari's in 2018

Max Verstappen leads the criticism as season opener proves that inability to overtake remains one of F1's biggest problems.

Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes his team's 2018 Formula 1 car can only be judged on Daniel Ricciardo's fastest lap in the Australian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen fell behind the Haas of Kevin Magnussen at the start then spun after picking up diffuser damage early on, while Daniel Ricciardo spent most of his race in traffic on his way to finishing fourth from eighth on the grid.Ricciardo was stuck behind Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari in the second half of the race and backed off late on to have one final attack, then set the fastest ... Keep reading

As F1's new owners seek to expand the sport in their home country, American broadcaster ESPN drops the ball big time leaving race fans raging.

44 Lewis HamiltonMercedes F1 W09Start: 1stFinish: 2ndStrategy: 1 stop (ultrasoft/soft)Rating: 9Hamilton delivered a stunning pole lap, albeit inadvertently helped by Daniel Ricciardo backing him up on his second Q3 out-lap and aiding rear-tyre preparation.He would certainly have won without the team's VSC blunder, although he has to be marked down for minor errors in an admitte ... Keep reading

Damon Hill is embroiled in a twitter spat with Mercedes as he gets political.

A Honda engine failure in the 2018 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix was a "pain in the arse" given Toro Rosso's trouble-free testing, admitted Pierre Gasly

Honda's smooth first winter with Toro Rosso had been a stark contrast to the troubled build-ups to its three campaigns with McLaren.But Gasly dropped out just 13 laps into the Melbourne race with an MGU-H problem, and admitted it was unnerving given the new restriction of three power units per driver for the year."We're all quite disappointed because testing went so well, with no ... Keep reading

Buoyed by his fifth place finish in Melbourne, Fernando Alonso targets Red Bull.

Juan Manuel Fangio's famous adage about winning by the smallest possible margin has never been truer than in modern grand prix racing. And that's even though he never had to deal with the complex hybrid technology and component limits that force races to be stage-managed by driver and team for fear of consuming too much engine life - with consequences for results downstream - or fuel ... Keep reading

The Melbourne season opener had noticeably little in the way of not only completed overtakes but any wheel-to-wheel battles, with only five passes taking place after the first lap.A potential fight for victory fizzled out as Lewis Hamilton could not get close enough to challenge Sebastian Vettel, a theme common throughout ... Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen says he would have switched off the "completely worthless" 2018 Australian Grand Prix if he was watching the race as a fan

Wheel nuts deny Haas best ever finish, Red Bull say race pace can rival Ferrari's, race director explains Verstappen decision.

‘LUCKY’ VETTEL SAYS WORK TO DOSebastian Vettel got his season off to the perfect start with a slightly fortuitous victory in Australia that owed everything to the timing of a pit stop under virtual safety car conditions.Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes thought they had everything under control but when th ... Keep reading

Everything you need to know about the Rolex Australian Grand Prix... all the details, stats, pictures and quotes.

Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean were looking set to finish inside the top six in Melbourne, before a pair of "heartbreaking" unsafe pitstops put both cars out of the first F1 race of the season and cost Haas a €10,000 fine.Team principal Gunther Steiner said a lack of pitstop practice had likely contributed to the mechanics cross-threading wheelnuts at the stops, and insisted the ... Keep reading

The Haas Formula 1 team is planning extra pitstop practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix, after suggesting poor preparation contributed to the problems that ruined its race in Australia

PODIUM INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Mark Webber)Sebastian, 48th victory, 100th podium, a couple behind Alain Prost, so run us through it – what a race. Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, obviously pretty good. We got a bit lucky with the safety car but yeah, really enjoyed it. A great turnout today, you saw in the grandstands, I really enjoyed the lap back in. And for the race, I mean my start, I ... Keep reading

Fernando Alonso's fifth-place finish in what was McLaren's first race with Renault engines matched the best result the team had achieved in its three prior years with Honda.And with Stoffel Vandoorne adding two further points in ninth, the team's Melbourne haul was a marked improvement on McLaren's performance in last year's Australian Grand Prix, when Alonso retired and Vandoorne ... Keep reading

McLaren's strong showing in the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix was "a big contrast" to its initial struggles last year, according to the team's drivers

A malfunctioning drink system on his Renault left Carlos Sainz feeling queasy during today’s Grand Prix.

Haas' bid for Melbourne glory ended in tears today as "human error" cost the American team dear.

Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has explained why Max Verstappen was not penalised for passing Fernando Alonso under yellow flags during the Australian Grand Prix

The incident occurred on lap 26 when the virtual safety car came out due to Romain Grosjean's Haas being stranded on track.McLaren driver Alonso was leaving the pits when Verstappen swept past on the track to claim fifth place.The Red Bull pit wall realised that Alonso had reached the yellow flag first, albeit by a tiny margin, and asked race control about the incident.Although he ... Keep reading

A software glitch robbed Lewis Hamilton of almost certain victory in today's Australian Grand Prix.

Today's post-race press conference with Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen.

Vettel jumped from third to first in the 2018 Formula 1 season opener with a later pitstop taken while Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen lapped slowly during a virtual safety car period.During a VSC, drivers must keep above minimum sector times mandated via the FIA's control ECU. A pitstop under VSC conditions is less costly because the speed disparity between the pitlane limit and cars on ... Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton had the "extra tools" needed to keep clear of Sebastian Vettel had the Mercedes Formula 1 team not misjudged the gap it required during the Australian Grand Prix

A strong recovery from Daniel from P8 on the grid to P4 at a track that is incredibly difficult to pass on.

The balance of the whole race weekend is positive, especially considering the good progress we have made since Friday.

There is still a long way to go this season, but today we can be happy, knowing that each and everyone of us has done their very best.

It's a satisfying result, not perfect by any means, but it shows we're in line with our targets.

We knew we had some potential and further speed to unlock from the car today. We took every chance we could and both drivers drove superbly.

We expected of course a much better result, but for various reasons we couldn't get it together.

As much as you don't want to say it, it's racing. It happens, even though it shouldn't.

This was one that got away and it's a bitter pill for us all to swallow.

Ultimately we didn't have the pace this weekend. We will work hard to be stronger in Bahrain.

The behaviour of all three compounds - each used as race tyres - was definitely positive. Two cars even finished the race on a one-stop strategy.

That wasn't an afternoon to remember.

Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin blames sandwich bag for retirement, Fernando Alonso targets Red Bull, Carlos Sainz's dodgy stomach, plus more.

Lewis Hamilton said the battle to win a fifth world title would be "close" after he lost out to Sebastian Vettel in the Australian Grand Prix.

Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin reckons a rogue sandwich bag caused his early retirement from the 2018 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix

The Williams driver made it just five laps into his Formula 1 race debut before he speared down the run-off at Turn 13 after running out of brakes.Following post-race analysis of the potential cause of the early failure, Sirotkin is convinced that the issue stems from rubbish being sucked into the brake duct in the opening laps."You would not believe what happened – it was a plastic ... Keep reading

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Max Verstappen's spin during the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix was partly a consequence of damage he sustained while pursuing Kevin Magnussen

Verstappen made a strong initial getaway at the start of the race, but his line approaching the first corner was compromised by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and allowed Haas driver Magnussen to squeeze past around the outside into fourth.The Dutchman later spun at Turn 1 at the start of lap 10 and dropped to eighth, before finishing the race in sixth.Horner said Verstappen had damaged ... Keep reading

Mercedes driver Bottas started the race from 15th place on the grid after needing a new gearbox following his crash during the second segment of qualifying on Saturday.Although Mercedes appeared to have the fastest car in Melbourne, Bottas could not progress much, finishing down in eighth position, behind four Renault-powered cars.The Finn struggled to overtake his rivals and ... Keep reading

Valtteri Bottas believes a miscalculation in his Mercedes' cooling may have cost him a better result in Formula 1's season-opening Australian Grand Prix

Vettel and teammate Kimi Raikkonen had been unable to challenge Hamilton in Melbourne qualifying, both finishing almost seven tenths off the reigning champion,But a different strategy coupled with a fortuitously-timed virtual safety car interruption in the race allowed the German to jump from third to first in the order, and he duly held off Hamilton for victory.Vettel conceded after ... Keep reading