Retired world champion Nico Rosberg has moved to defuse a Formula One spat after his former Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton suggested the German had become "irrelevant".
Rosberg, who hung up his helmet days after winning the 2016 title, told (...)
Lewis Hamilton emphasized his loyalty to Mercedes on Thursday while leaving open the possibility that he might one day be tempted to race for Formula One glamor team Ferrari if circumstances change.
The five-times world champion has a contract with (...)
Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says the Italian team's latest race winner Charles Leclerc reminds him of the Niki Lauda of the 1970s.
The 21-year-old Monegasque took his first Formula One victory in Belgium last weekend, also becoming (...)
Eliud Kipchoge ran the quickest recorded marathon Saturday, crossing the line at the Monza Formula One track in two hours and 25 seconds but missing out on an ambitious attempt to break the two-hour barrier.
The 32-year-old's time smashed the (...)
Nike's "Breaking-2" attempt in Italy this weekend might not produce a sub-two-hour marathon, but it will probably lead to a world best time, three exercise physiology experts have told Reuters.
Assuming conditions are conducive to fast running — (...)
The outcome of this year's drivers world championship may be decided by the capricious nature of Mercedes' clutches unless the team finds a reliable solution to its ongoing poor starts.
That was the unwanted scenario in prospect for both title (...)
Canadian teenager Lance Stroll has emerged as a frontrunner to replace Felipe Massa at the Williams Formula One team next season after the Brazilian announced his retirement last week.
Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 world champion who was the last (...)
The long-awaited sale of Formula One to an American media group is to be completed next week, according to media reports Sunday.
The well-sourced German magazine Auto Motor und Sport said that the sport's veteran commercial ring-master Bernie (...)
Lewis Hamilton, once the young sensation of Formula One, is starting to feel his age as a new generation of drivers sweeps into the sport and old hands like Jenson Button and Felipe Massa head for the exit.
"For me, it is like 'Shoot — he was a part (...)
Nico Rosberg won the Italian Grand Prix virtually unchallenged Sunday after Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton wasted pole position with a poor start.
Hamilton got off the line at the same time as the other cars but immediately fell behind, dropping (...)
Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne will replace Jenson Button in McLaren's race driver lineup next year with the 2009 Formula One world champion still available if needed and under contract for 2018, the team said Saturday.
Vandoorne is to partner Spain's (...)
Lewis Hamilton drew level with legendary racing drivers Juan Manuel Fangio and Ayrton Senna in the record books Saturday when he flew to pole ahead of Nico Rosberg for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
The championship leader and defending three-time (...)
Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton heads to this weekend's Italian Grand Prix knowing that a hat trick of successive wins at Monza will put him in charge of the title race after one of the most rollercoaster seasons of his career.
The Briton (...)
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel could be just one race away from becoming Formula One's youngest double world champion after winning Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
There are several ways in which the 24-year-old German (born July 3, 1987) can win his (...)
Rubens Barrichello picked up his second win in three races to lead a Brawn GP 1-2 at the Italian Grand Prix Sunday.
Barrichello and teammate Jenson Button both passed the top three thanks to one-stop strategies to lead the sweep at the Monza (...)
Force India's Adrian Sutil lapped quickest in free practice for the Italian Grand Prix Friday while former teammate Giancarlo Fisichella was slowest on his first day as a Ferrari driver.
Sutil, who has yet to score a point this season, lapped the (...)
Fernando Alonso was struggling to understand why his Renault team was being investigated for allegedly ordering former teammate Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash at last year's Singapore Grand Prix to help him to victory.
Alonso won last season's first (...)
Sebastian Vettel became the youngest driver to win a Formula One race at the Italian Grand Prix and was immediately faced with comparisons to another iconic German driver.
The 21-year-old Vettel edged McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen by 12.5 seconds in (...)
Germany's Sebastian Vettel stunned Formula One as the sport's youngest race winner at the age of 21 on Sunday with victory for tiny Toro Rosso at their home Italian Grand Prix.
Vettel, also the youngest driver to start a Grand Prix from pole (...)
Germany's Sebastian Vettel seized his and Toro Rosso's first Formula One pole position on Saturday in an astonishing Italian Grand Prix qualifying that wrong-footed the title favorites.
With the rain teeming down and visibility limited at the (...)
Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen celebrated the extension of his Ferrari contract with the quickest lap in free practice for the team's home Italian Grand Prix on Friday.
The Finn, without a win since the end of April and with no points (...)
Formula One drivers will seek a clarification of the rules before Sunday's Italian Grand Prix after stewards stripped Lewis Hamilton of victory in Belgium last weekend for cutting a chicane.
“In the drivers' briefing Friday we will try and get (...)
