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The Ferrari Driver Academy has been expanded for 2017, with New Zealander Marcus Armstrong and Brazilian Enzo Fittipaldi joining the group. Sixteen-year-old Armstrong made his single seater debut in 2016, making one-off ...

The decision that saw Esteban Ocon make the move to the Sahara Force India F1 Team for the 2017 Formula 1 season was made by those at the Silverstone-based team rather than within the Mercedes camp, says Head of Mercedes...

Toto Wolff believes his two young protégés are both deserving of their Formula 1 rides and have a great future ahead of them in the sport. The Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport saw both Pascal Wehrlein and Esteban Ocon ...

Three-time British Formula 1 world champion Sir Jackie Stewart says the 2016 season was 'not very interesting' bar Max Verstappen's accomplishments. Stewart claims the sport has very few personalities and therefore Verst...

XPBImages Esteban Ocon says being selected by Force India to race for the team in 2017 puts pressure on him to deliver for the team. Force India was left searching for a new driver in October after Nico Hulkenberg opted ...

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo believes his team have done a great job so far in managing the internal driver rivalry between him and team-mate Max Verstappen. Often when a team is fighting for race wins and has two capable...

Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne insists a budget cap in Formula 1 wouldn't work, despite Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost's recent comments suggesting it would be easy to police and must happen in the future. The FIA ...

– For almost two decades GPUpdate.net has kept the motorsport community updated with the latest news, photos and thoughts from the world of Formula 1 and beyond. But there is more than 'just' GPUpdate.net - we also hav...

XPBImages Three years to the day since Michael Schumacher's dramatic skiing accident, the seven-time world champion's health still remains in limbo, but his extraordinary contribution to the history of F1 permeates throu...

BBC Sport readers have voted for their greatest one-time F1 champion - and one man emerged as the clear winner.

Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alexander Wurz says increasing driver safety in Formula 1 would allow the sport to make the cars "way faster" and turn up the excitement factor. The Austrian says that he would wa...

XPBImages Daniel Ricciardo believes that as long as mutual respect prevails out on the race track between himself and Max Verstappen, Red Bull should have no problems handling the rivalry. Verstappen's rise to prominence...

The Manor Formula 1 team has earned the respect of its rivals, according to the outfit's racing director Dave Ryan.

©Twitter As he prepares to embark on his first full season of Formula 1 racing, McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne took a few pointers last week from fellow Belgian, the great Jacky Ickx. Times of changed obviously since the e...

XPBImages Pirelli's Paul Hembery says that Pirelli is working actively towards improving its wet weather tyre compounds for 2017. The Italian company is faced with multiple changes for next season following F1's massive ...

Well done Baku? The new addition to the calendar in 2016 proved the least popular race of the year among F1 Fanatic readers.

F1i sits down with Esteban Ocon to discuss a whirlwind 12 months which saw him start in DTM, make his F1 debut and secure a seat at Force India ©Wri2 2016 was a year that saw limited opportunities for rookie drivers. Jo...

Kevin Magnussen insists switching from Renault to Haas in 2017 will not result in a longer route for him to be able to fight for the Formula 1 title. The Dane turned down an offer to stay at the French squad in order to ...

Formula 1 legend Jackie Stewart reckons that Formula 1 is missing excitement but thinks racing prodigy Max Verstappen could reignite the sport. Stewart, who is a triple World Champion, said 2016 was a boring a year for F...

– Bernd Mayländer experienced one of his busiest races as the Safety Car driver towards the end of the 2016 season, in a Brazilian Grand Prix that was neutralised on five occasions, and featured two red flags. As the ...

Formula 1 legend Jackie Stewart reckons that Formula 1 is missing excitement but thinks racing prodigy Max Verstappen could reignite the sport... The post Stewart: Apart from Verstappen, F1 is boring appeared first on Pl...

©Amazon It's all just good banter of course but Jeremy Clarkson just reduced Kimi Raikkonen to a sloshed, staggering, boozy drunkard in a sequence of his programme, 'The Grand Tour'. The show airs on demand on Amazon an...