In Shanghai on Sunday there were echoes of Malaysia in how Ferrari’s tyre usage applied pressure to Mercedes – but only faint ones. They were heard mainly when Lewis Hamilton…

When Ferrari watched both Mercedes head out in Q1 on option tyres, it began to believe for the first time that it might be able to win this race. That…

Fernando Alonso, on his return to F1, has immediately gone off-message regarding McLaren’s position on the cause of his testing accident at Barcelona in February that left him hospitalised with…

The Mercedes advantage is, if anything, bigger than ever. Lewis Hamilton’s pole was 1.61 per cent faster than the best non-Merc. The biggest advantage it had last year was 1.26…

Fernando Alonso will miss the Australian Grand Prix as a medical precaution following his being knocked unconscious in last week’s Barcelona testing accident. Although McLaren stresses that the various scans…

Fernando Alonso’s puzzling, hospitalising crash in the McLaren-Honda dominated the headlines from the final day of Barcelona testing. But amid that drama, a late lap by Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes strongly…

OK, so it looks like we are not going to get the mooted twin turbos or turbo V8s – but we will almost certainly be getting 1000bhp+ versions of the…

Four days of testing in Jerez last week will have told the teams a lot – but only about themselves. Relative to their opposition, they will know very little more…

In configuring the new MP4-30 more along the lines of Red Bull, new aero chief Peter Prodromou – ex of Red Bull – is attempting to drag McLaren back onto…

One of the real feel-good aspects of the 2015 season would be if the recently unveiled Lotus E23 turns out to be good car. With Mercedes ’15 power having replaced…

Every now and then a new driver arrives in F1 with a ‘buzz’ around him, the suggestion that he is something out of the ordinary. So it is with Max…

The Zen of standing trackside in solitude during an F1 practice session opens a window to the reality below the surface froth of a grand prix weekend. It’s out here…