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F1 Paddock Notebook - Chinese GP Thursday
– Pirelli has brought an unusual staggered tyre selection to China, bringing the ultrasoft, soft and medium compounds, skipping the supersoft. Esteban Ocon believes that will create a great deal of strategy drama and even more overtaking than in Bahrain.

F1 Bahrain GP - Driver Ratings
Looking back on the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend and the second race of the new Formula 1 season, Crash.net F1 Editor Luke Smith puts together his driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - 7

F1 Paddock Notebook - Bahrain GP Saturday
Recapping all the additional stories and nuggets of news on a busy day in Bahrain, Crash.net F1 Editor Luke Smith brings you his Paddock Notebook.

F1 Qualifying Analysis: How Toro Rosso surprised everyone - including itself
Pierre Gasly may have joked on Thursday that he wouldn't be shaving his beard until the end of the Formula 1 season in the hope it would bring him good luck, yet after his display in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix, you wouldn't blame him for thinking it had worked.

Technical: Is Haas just a copycat of Ferrari?
Of all the teams to cause a Formula 1 controversy, who would have thought it would be Haas? That’s because their technical relationship with Ferrari was always going to come into question should their performance levels increase as has been clear at the start of the 2018 campaign.

F1 Paddock Notebook - Bahrain GP Friday
- The big talking point today was F1’s bosses meeting with team representatives to outline the future of the sport post-2020, with a press release from Liberty following not long after its conclusion.

Kate Walker: Are F1’s proposals a statement of intent or just ‘life goals’?
Shortly after the official press release outlining Formula 1’s aims for the future of the sport was published, a spoof wish list started doing the rounds online: “More noise; more overtaking; more exciting; more cake; more money; more sunshine; more mascots…”

F1 Paddock Notebook - Bahrain GP Thursday
Ahead of what looks set to be an important weekend for Formula 1’s future as Liberty unveils its post-2020 plan to teams, Crash.net F1 Editor Luke Smith brings you his notebook from Thursday in Bahrain.

F1 on a tightrope ahead of crunch meeting in Bahrain
Liberty Media will further outline what Formula 1’s post-2020 world will look like in a meeting with teams on Friday in Bahrain Grand Prix that looks set to be decisive in the defining future of the sport.

10: Sacha Fenestraz
Sacha Fenestraz's dominant Formula Renault 2.0 title led to an early European Formula 3 debut with Carlin ahead of his maiden full campaign.

9: Marcus Armstrong
Marcus Armstrong steps up to the European Formula 3 stage this year after sealing the Italian F4 championship

8: Enaam Ahmed
The latest in an influx of rising British talent turned heads in 2017 with a dominant title-winning campaign in British F3.

7: Mick Schumacher
Son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher heads into 2018 with new pressure on his shoulders

6: Daniel Ticktum
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

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

4: Nirei Fukuzumi
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

3: Jack Aitken
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

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

10 single-seater stars to watch in 2018
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.

F1 Australian GP - Driver Ratings
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

F1 Race Analysis: How a perfect storm led to Ferrari victory in Australia
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

F1 Paddock Notebook - Australian GP Sunday
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.

Technical: Who's winning the early F1 development war?
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.