FERRARI chief Fred Vasseur shut down a reporter’s question about Lewis Hamilton following the Japanese Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc earned the Scuderia third and fourth place …

Lando Norris started the Japanese Grand Prix third on the grid but finished the race fifth, unable to hold off the Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc in his McLaren

Daniel Ricciardo hasn’t scored a point yet for Red Bull’s sister F1 team RB this season after four races and is under pressure to pick up his performances or risk being ousted for Liam Lawson

Carlos Sainz is one of 12 F1 drivers without a contract for next season as he will leave Ferrari at the end of this year with Lewis Hamilton joining the team; F1 returns to Shanghai for the first time in five years for the Chinese GP on April 19-21, live on Sky Sports F1

Red Bull locks out the front row at the Japanese Grand Prix, but Ferrari has reasons to believe

HENRY CLARK IN SUZUKA: It’s the hope that kills you. Only a few days ago Lewis Hamilton was able to muster an expression which had the vaguest semblance of a smile.

Carlos Sainz impressively claimed a podium finish at the Japanese Grand Prix, highlighting Ferrari’s strong performance despite Red Bull’s win.

Max Verstappen started the Japanese Grand Prix on pole with Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez behind him, as the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc had a lot of work to do to catch them

Alpine team-mates Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly collided with each other during the Japanese Grand Prix.

The likes of Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz are all candidates for Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes seat, but Toto Wolff seems to be focussed upon getting Andrea Kimi Antonelli ready for an F1 bow

Daniel Ricciardo’s frustrations have continued after being defeated by teammate Yuki Tsunoda in qualifying at the Japanese Grand Prix.

The stewards investigated the moment George Russell was released from the garage by his Mercedes team but almost collided with the McLaren of Oscar Piastri in the pit lane

Lance Stroll has endured a difficult start to the 2024 Formula 1 season and has been outperformed by teammate Fernando Alonso but has received the team’s first upgrade

HENRY CLARK IN SUZUKA:The Red Bull driver looked back to his imperious best in Suzuka, qualifying on pole for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were both pleasantly surprised by Mercedes’ pace on Friday at the Japanese Grand Prix, but the former has warned his team about too many changes

Reports last week suggested Aston Martin’s billionaire owner Lawrence Stroll had made an obscene offer to Red Bull F1 car design legend Adrian Newey to convince him to move

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will wear a special helmet at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix to mark the 10th anniversary of Jules Bianchi’s tragic accident at Suzuka.

Max Verstappen sets the fastest time in Friday practice at the Japanese Grand Prix as the second session was rendered useless by the weather.

‘George, in my opinion, should have seen it coming.’

Sky Sports F1s Ted Kravitz talks through the various upgrades Red Bull and Ferrari have made to their cars for the Japanese Grand Prix.

Alonso was handed a 20-second time penalty after Russell’s car ended up on its side in Australia

Sebastian Vettel has admitted he could consider an F1 return and has chatted with Mercedes chief Toto Wolff recently, leading to George Russell being questioned on the topic

HENRY CLARK IN TOKYO: Daniel Ricciardo has vowed to turn his season around after a torrid start to 2024 which has left him without a single point.

Logan Sargeant will race at the Japanese Grand Prix with the repaired chassis his Williams teammate Alex Albon broke two weeks ago.

Lewis Hamilton has said he is at peace with the controversial outcome of his 2021 championship fight with Max Verstappen even though he felt “robbed” of a record eighth F1 title.

Christian Horner’s accuser is said to be appealing the result of Red Bull’s investigation.

‘I remember having to turn down Tom Cruise and it broke my heart.’

David Coulthard has questioned Lewis Hamilton’s commitment to Mercedes in his final season before he joins Ferrari, but George Russell doesn’t think that is fair

Leading engineer David Sanchez leaves McLaren just three months after joining the team from Ferrari.

The 50-year-old will be hoping his side can secure a return to winning ways

Mercedes poor start to the season reached a low point as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell retired from the Australian GP; technical director James Allison has explained some of the issues facing the Silver Arrows; watch the Japanese GP live on Sky Sports F1 this weekend

There are question marks over the Red Bull future of star designer Adrian Newey, with one rival F1 team said to made him a ‘big-money’ contract offer

Toto Wolff is coming under pressure amid another disappointing season for Mercedes, though the team boss is fighting back against suggestions he needs to bring in extra help

Max Verstappen is set to lose a key ally at Red Bull, with chief mechanic Lee Stevenson confirming he will be leaving the team to take up a new role with a rival F1 outfit

Formula One has been rocked by allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the Red Bull supremo made by a colleague at his team – with Horner since being cleared of misconduct.

Briatore said he has since been discharged by doctors after the ‘perfectly successful’ surgery, which saw the mass removed after a minimal invasive procedure.

Fernando Alonso seems to have a plethora of options for 2025, including staying with his Aston Martin team, but F1’s elder statesman could land himself a seat at the top again

Christian Horner was accused by a female colleague of inappropriate behaviour but then cleared by Red Bull after an investigation, though the complainant has since appealed that outcome

Former Renault F1 boss and ex-Queens Park Rangers co-owner Flavio Briatore has heart surgery to remove a benign tumour.

Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff revealed a cocky message he sent to driver Lewis Hamilton about what will happen in 2025 when he races for their rivals Ferrari

The F1 side have enjoyed a positive start to the new season, despite issues in Australia over the weekend

Helmut Marko has a huge influence over the Red Bull driver line-up and had talked down the hopes of Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda – but has had to U-turn after an impressive showing

Details of the investigation have remained strictly confidential.

Mercedes had a wretched weekend in Melbourne and Toto Wolff admitted he has considered his future after Lewis Hamilton and George Russell did not finish the race

To go from an operation to a grand prix victory in such a short time, as Carlos Sainz did in Australia, is both remarkable and entirely typical of what F1 drivers do.

Daniel Ricciardo’s underwhelming start to the season has become a major talking point in Formula One but the Australian said he is ignoring his critics and is sure a turnaround is coming soon.

The 24-year-old is still waiting for a first Formula One race win, something which a fan took the chance to remind him of after Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix.

F1 star George Russell was filmed by two social media influencers while going to the bathroom at the Australian Grand Prix, but the pair have issued an apology for their “lapse of judgement”

The drama at Albert Park kicked off when Max Verstappen ran into a brake problem on the very first lap – with Russell’s huge last-lap smash putting an exclamation point on the race.

Lando Norris has jokingly claimed he will have his appendix removed to boost his chances of a Grand Prix win after Carlos Sainz’s victory in Australia.