2018

McLaren has announced it will enter the 103rd Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with Fernando Alonso as the Spaniard looks to complete the final leg of the 'triple crown of motorsport'.

Marcus Ericsson hailed Sauber’s “great performance” after recording his best Formula 1 qualifying result in Brazil on Saturday as he looks to “show what the team is missing” ahead of his departure.

Lewis Hamilton has hit out at Sergey Sirotkin in their near-miss midway through Q2 in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix accusing the Williams driver of “a disrespectful move” being “completely unnecessary”.

Valtteri Bottas was disappointed to have only qualified on the second row of the grid after feeling he had the pace to “grab” pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton charged to his 10th pole position of the year in Brazil on Saturday ahead of Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel, as both drivers were caught in incidents through qualifying at Interlagos.

Full results from qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, round 20 of the 2018 Formula 1 season. 2018 Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix - Qualifying Results

Sebastian Vettel is under investigation with the Formula 1 race stewards in Brazil after allegedly destroying the weighbridge scales during qualifying at Interlagos on Saturday afternoon.

Relive Crash.net's live coverage of qualifying for the 2018 Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix from Interlagos, Sao Paulo.  Click here for full 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix LIVE coverage. 

Sebastian Vettel rose to the head of the Formula 1 field in final practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon at Interlagos, setting the fastest time of the weekend so far ahead of Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton.

Full results from Free Practice 3 for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, round 20 of the 2018 Formula 1 season. 2018 Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix - Free Practice 3 Results

Relive Crash.net's live coverage of final practice for the 2018 Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix from Interlagos, Sao Paulo. 

Three or four years ago, if you’d told me the future of the Brazilian Grand Prix was under threat, I would have been more than a little upset.

Lewis Hamilton believes Formula 1 does not need to expand its calendar beyond the current amount of 21 races per year.

Ferrari’s Jock Clear is confident Sebastian Vettel will use his painful 2018 Formula 1 world title defeat as a strength for next season as “unfinished business”.

Randy de Puniet and Niccolo Canepa have been announced as the two-rider line-up for the LCR E-Team for the inaugural MotoE championship in 2019.

Senior Ferrari engineer Jock Clear is set to have a “strong influence” on Charles Leclerc during his maiden season with the Formula 1 team in 2019.

Rounding up all of Friday's news and notes from the Interlagos paddock, here is our daily notebook.

Esteban Ocon is set to drop five places on the grid for Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix after Force India was forced into a gearbox change on his car ahead of the Interlagos race weekend.

Lewis Hamilton says there is more potential to extract from his Mercedes Formula 1 car as the team continues to work on solving its recent performance issues at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Nico Hulkenberg made no secret of his frustration after crashing out early in second practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, leaving him on the back foot heading into the remainder of the Formula 1 race weekend.

Outgoing Williams head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley has called for the maligned British Formula 1 team to improve in multiple aspects of the entire business and ‘there’s never one magic bullet’.

Daniel Ricciardo deadpanned that he could “laugh about” his five-place grid penalty for the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday, saying it was simply “the trend lately” during his run of bad luck in Formula 1.

Sebastian Vettel is confident Ferrari is “in the ballpark” to fight for victory at Interlagos on Sunday after a decent day of Formula 1 practice running ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen believe pole position will prove “a bit of a stretch” for the Red Bull Formula 1 team during qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix.