Even though he was pipped to the drive, Oscar Piastri defended Guanyu Zhou after the new Alfa Romeo driver received criticism on social media. read more »

FIA race director Michael Masi has defended the time taken for decisions to be made after two separate instances in the past two weeks where cases took almost a day to close. read more »

F1 race director Michael Masi has defended the stewards' process after two race weekends filled with delayed rulings. read more »

Before the summer break Ocon took a shock maiden win in Budapest after an incident-filled start saw him vault to the lead.All race long Ocon defended his lead against Aston... read more »

Formula 1 Race Director Michael Masi has defended the prolonged wait for certain stewarding decisions that have taken place in recent weekends. In Brazil Lewis Hamilton's... read more »

FIA race director, Michael Masi has defended the official warning issued to Christian Horner for comments made ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix. read more »

Max Verstappen thinks Formula 1 championship rival Lewis Hamilton would have defended against him in the same manner had their positions been reversed in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.  read more »

Max Verstappen says "we are not here to be in a kindergarten" as he defended his "hard racing" against Lewis Hamilton in the Sao Paulo GP. read more »

Ahead of the right of review hearing, Max Verstappen has defended the incident at Turn 4 last weekend insisting that it was a "great battle". read more »

Carlos Sainz defended himself from blame following a collision with McLaren's Lando Norris at the start of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix and claimed the incident cost him the... read more »

Max Verstappen has again defended Valtteri Bottas after he was criticised for weak defending at the start of the Mexican Grand Prix. read more »

Mercedes "would have been able to defend against Red Bull all race" with better starts in Mexico, according to their strategy chief James Vowles. read more »

Max Verstappen's rivals have defended the Drive to Survive series after the Red Bull driver called it "fake". read more »

Yuki Tsunoda defended well against Lewis Hamilton in the early stages in Turkey, but he admitted it "killed our tyres" in the race. read more »

A "frustrated" Lewis Hamilton believes he should have overruled his Mercedes team and not stopped at the Turkish GP, although Toto Wolff has defended the pit decision... read more »

Lewis Hamilton has defended his remarks about being injured following his Monza crash after they were questioned by Helmut Marko. read more »

At Monza Ricciardo snatched the lead away from Red Bull's polesitter Max Verstappen at the start and managed to keep the Dutchman at bay during the first stint.After... read more »

The Dutchman and title rival Hamilton were battling for position on track at Monza following the first round of pitstops as they ran wheel-to-wheel after the pitlane... read more »

Mika Hakkinen has defended the decisions the FIA made on race day at the Belgian Grand Prix, feeling they did a good job. read more »

Williams team boss Jost Capito has defended the decision to generate a race classification behind the Safety Car in Belgium. read more »

Halfway through a mixed debut campaign, AlphaTauri technical chief Jody Egginton has defended Yuki Tsunoda's "ups and downs". read more »

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has defended his strategists against accusations of misjudgments following Carlos Sainz's over-rule during the Hungarian Grand Prix. read more »

Ocon took the lead after a chaotic, wet opening lap and restart, at which leader Hamilton was the only driver not to dive into the pits for slicks.Hamilton paid a price for... read more »

Following "allegations" by Red Bull, although it must be noted one can only surmise what was said, George Russell has defended Lewis Hamilton. read more »

Lewis Hamilton has defended himself and Mercedes against Max Verstappen's claim of "disrespectful" British Grand Prix celebrations. read more »