F1 Features

Daniel Ticktum's single-seater racing career was almost over before it had even started after a crazy day at Silverstone in 2015 during his British F4 days

Callum Ilott Briton bounced back from the disappointment of being dropped by the Red Bull junior programme in some style last season

Nirei Fukuzumi graduates to F2 with Arden after finishing third in the GP3 standings behind ART team-mates George Russell and Jack Aitken in 2018

Aiming to stop George Russell in F2 in 2018 is fellow Brit Jack Aitken after narrowly missing out on the GP3 Series title last year

2018 promises to be a huge season for the Mercedes F1 junior.

A name that looks destined to be on the F1 grid in the not-too-distant future...

With the junior single-seater season set to kick-off with F2 in Bahrain this weekend, Lewis Larkam picks out 10 rising junior talents who look set to make their mark in 2018.

Looking back on the Australian Grand Prix weekend and the start of the new Formula 1 season, Crash.net F1 Editor Luke Smith puts together his driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes:  9

When I filed my race report for the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix, I used the phrase “Ferrari nails its strategy” in the headline , which resulted in a bit of push-bac

Tidying up all the odds and ends following race day in Melbourne and the start of the new season, Crash.net F1 Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

The opening race of the new season is the first time we get to explore what the Formula 1 teams have got up to over the winter period with their cars.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

- Lewis Hamilton’s pole position time of 1:21.164 broke his own previous track record at Albert Park in Melbourne that stood from F1 last year. Hamilton’s 2018 pole time was more than a second faster than his 2017 effort.

- Daniel Ricciardo’s rotten luck on home soil continued as he was hit with a three-place grid penalty for failing to slow down enough under the red flag in FP2.

Mercedes’ display through pre-season testing may have left an ominous feeling in some corners about the level of competition we would see through the 2018 Formula 1 season, yet a glimmer of hope appeared to come through during Friday’s practice running in Australia.

Formula 1 is back. The F1 circus has landed in Melbourne’s Albert Park, and it is the happiest weekend of the entire season. For now, with testing but a distant memory and qualifying yet to come, every driver is a potential race winner, and every car a potential championship victor.

In a new feature for Crash.net, Formula 1 editor Luke Smith brings you his ‘Paddock Notebook’ at the end of the opening day of media commitments at Albert Park ahead of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix.

2018 will set the tone for how the final few years of Fernando Alonso's F1 career will play out with McLaren.

Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari F1 future has become a yearly talking point as the driver market shapes up.

Entering his fifth full season in F1, Marcus Ericsson will want to end his points drought dating back to 2015.

Nico Hulkenberg has long been tipped as one of F1's up-and-comers, but needs to deliver on-track this year with Renault.

Valtteri Bottas may have impressed through his first season with Mercedes in 2018, but with a volatile driver market on the cards, he needs to fight for his place with the team.

The start of the new season brings plenty of pressure to the F1 field, but which drivers are facing make or break campaigns in 2018?

Sauber has recovered from a couple of difficult years to now sign a new partnership with Alfa Romeo, paving the way for a better future.