All news by author: Daniel Moxon

The Madrid Grand Prix is set to debut on the F1 calendar in 2026 meaning two races in Spain that year are likely, though the new street track spells trouble for the Circuit de Catalunya's future in F1

Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has taken over from ousted chief Guenther Steiner, after which owner Gene Haas declared himself "embarrassed" by the team's results

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are the highest paid F1 drivers by far and Red Bull's extraordinary success in 2023 helped the Dutchman to get the better of his Mercedes rival

Carlos Sainz is expected to sign a new deal with Ferrari this season but has long been linked with Audi after talks were held last year over a potential future switch

Rapper Will.i.am has taken a keen interest in F1 in recent years, including writing songs for the championship, and the Black Eyed Peas frontman has made a Lewis Hamilton prediction

Guenther Steiner was relieved of his duties as Haas team principal after a decade in charge of F1's youngest team, while director of engineering Ayao Komatsu was promoted to replace him

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton will always be considered rivals when competing against one another, after their 2021 title fight which went down to the wire and was decided controversially

Mercedes will keep Lewis Hamilton around for as long as possible, but even they know the time is approaching when they will have to go on without the seven-time champion

Three-quarters of the F1 grid are out of contract at the end of the 2024 season with eight of the 10 teams needing to make decisions over the future of their driver line-ups

Williams finished seventh in the 2023 F1 constructors' championship with 28 points - Alex Albon scored 27 of them and his heroics have captured the attention of top teams

Max Verstappen is dominating the Formula 1 world while Lewis Hamilton has not won a race for more than two years, with Red Bull well ahead of all their main rivals

Lando Norris, now an established star of F1 despite his young age, was joined by rookie sensation Oscar Piastri at McLaren last year as the team enjoyed an upturn in fortunes

Red Bull plan to work even more closely with sister team AlphaTauri this year, which has caused McLaren chief executive Zak Brown to call for common ownership in F1 to be banned

Red Bull rule the F1 roost with Max Verstappen on top while Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team, along with the rest of their rivals, were unable to mount a title challenge in 2023

Lewis Hamilton will hope to get back to winning ways with Mercedes when the new F1 season begins in Bahrain in a few weeks, but on Friday he was in Paris for the Dior Menswear show

Max Verstappen's main focus will be on his efforts to secure a fourth successive F1 title this year, but before his work gets under way he plans to race in another event

Lewis Hamilton will hope he can spearhead Mercedes' return to F1 title contention after two seasons of being unable to stop Max Verstappen and his dominant Red Bull team

Sergio Perez hopes the fourth time will be the charm in his quest to provide a serious title challenge to Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen this year - and the consequences could be severe if he can't

McLaren may well prove to be Red Bull's main rivals in the 2024 F1 season which would be a blow to Christian Horner and his outfit on two fronts, given Lando Norris would be leading the charge

Ayao Komatsu has been promoted to lead a Formula 1 team for the first time, taking the reigns at Haas after long-serving team principal Guenther Steiner was axed

Sergio Perez is fighting for his Red Bull future this year after an underwhelming 2023 season, and his F1 career as a whole could be in jeopardy should he lose his seat

Lewis Hamilton is contracted to two more seasons racing with Mercedes in F1 but, at the age of 39, time is running out for the seven-time world champion to win an eighth title

Max Verstappen is the dominant force in Formula 1 right now with Red Bull on top, while Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team have struggled to compete with their rivals

Talks have been ongoing for some time regarding the creation of a new F1 street race in the Spanish capital Madrid, which would threaten the future of Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya

Alex Albon has earned admiring glances from top F1 teams interested in potentially acquiring his services thanks to excellent performances and results since returning to the grid with Williams