China may be a fast-rising economic power on the international stage but the world's most populous country has yet to play much of a role in Formula 1, despite the Chinese Grand Prix being run since 2004. However, two-time world champion Fernando Alonso could play a key role in changing that in the years ahead. Ahead of this year's Chinese GP this weekend, Alonso announced that his Fernando Alons...

Lando Norris secured his first FIA Formula 2 Championship victory in the Feature Race at Sakhir, Bahrain, mastering the hot and windy conditions to win with an 8.3s advantage over Carlin teammate Sergio Sette Camara, who held onto second place after a thrilling battle in the final stages of the race with Russian Time's Artem Markelov, the latter producing a spectacular recovery drive to secure th...

The amazing story of Billy Monger took another dramatic turn Saturday at the Oulton Park circuit. The 18-year-old Briton, who lost the lower part of both legs in a British F4 accident last April, claimed a podium finish on his British F3 debut. Monger started fifth, kept his nose clean on the opening lap and then avoided a clash between Krishnaraaj Mahadik and Clement Novalak to climb to third be...

Maximilian Gunther set the fastest lap of the FIA Formula 2 Championship preseason test at Sakhir, Bahrain on the final day, leading the way with a 1m42.756s set in the morning session to beat Charouz Racing System's Louis Deletraz and ART Grand Prix's George Russell. Günther's BWT Arden teammate Nirei Fukuzumi was quickest in the afternoon session. Roy Nissany of Campos Vexatec Racing jumped th...

Leonardo Pulcini topped the second day of the GP3 Series pre-season test at Jerez, Spain, ending the session with a 1m30.255s to set the fastest time overall ahead of Trident driver Pedro Piquet and ART Grand Prix's Jake Hughes. Overnight rain had once again created difficult conditions to open the day at the circuit, culminating in plenty of wet tire running in the morning. Piquet left the pitla...

The Formula 1 Group has been confirmed bv the FIA as the promoter of the new FIA Formula 3 Championship, which will be introduced in 2019. The new championship is expected to replace GP3 as third tier on the main ladder to Formula 1, and will join Formula 2 as part of Formula 1's support package with a calendar that is expected to run across nine or 10 weekends, with two races per event. At the c...

Lando Norris ended the second day of FIA Formula 2 pre-season testing with the quickest time, as his 1m42.226s lap proved to be unbeatable during the post-break running while DAMS driver Alexander Albon headed the leaderboard in the afternoon. In the morning, Trident's Arjun Maini was the first to take to the circuit, followed in hot pursuit by Sette Camara. Seeking to get plenty of dry running e...

Lando Norris completed the first day of the FIA Formula 2 pre-season test at Le Castellet, France as the fastest driver overall, the Carlin driver setting a 1m43.095 lap during the afternoon session to head the timesheets ahead of Nyck De Vries and teammate Sergio Sette Camara. A damp, overcast Circuit Paul Ricard greeted the teams as they sought to clock in their customary installation laps at t...