The Belgian felt he was a sitting duck on the straights, with the pace deficit of his MCL32 making it impossible to attack or defend at Spa-Francorchamps. read more »

Fernando Alonso gets a dream start in the Belgian Grand Prix... but his afternoon soon turns to a familiar nightmare read more »

Lewis Hamilton cut his championship deficit to Sebastian Vettel to just seven points with a closely fought victory in the Belgian Grand Prix. read more »

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- After another qualifying session ended by a loss of power, Fernando Alonso took a swipe at McLaren's engine partner Honda. With teammate... read more »

Valtteri Bottas admits he is "slightly confused" by his deficit to Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton after he qualified in third position for the Belgian Grand… read more »

Fernando Alonso believes the McLaren Formula 1 team could have topped the times in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying if not for the power deficit of its Honda engine read more »

Renault are planning to bring "software and hardware updates" to Spa and Monza as they attempt to narrow the pace deficit to Mercedes and Ferrari. read more »

Toro Rosso expects the next two races in the Formula 1 season at Spa and Monza to cause "problems" for the team read more »

Max Verstappen is downbeat about the possibility of Red Bull closing the pace deficit to Mercedes and Ferrari in the second half of the season. read more »

The Spaniard believes there is too large a deficit between the top three teams and the rest of the field. read more »

Lagging behind F1's leading cars by as much as "one to two seconds" per lap, Gene Haas says his team's deficit is "really depressing." read more »

Valtteri Bottas says he now feels "fully settled in" at Mercedes, and cannot attribute any potential performance deficit to his inexperience with the… read more »

Mercedes junior George Russell was left feeling encouraged by his relatively small deficit to Valtteri Bottas on the first day of the Hungaroring in-season… read more »

HUNGARORING -- Lewis Hamilton says it is unclear which setup direction Mercedes should take in order to overcome the deficit he faced to Daniel Ricciardo's fastest Friday... read more »

Romain Grosjean says Haas must understand why it was unable to replicate its qualifying pace as he missed out on points at the British Grand Prix. Grosjean… read more »

Lewis Hamilton revelled in victory at the British Grand Prix as he dominated proceedings to rack up a fifth home win, slicing his deficit in the title race to… read more »

Valtteri Bottas has admitted that the heavy lock-up he suffered on his final British Grand Prix qualifying lap does not explain the "big difference" to the… read more »

Since retiring from the Spanish Grand Prix with a turbo failure, Valtteri Bottas has scored more points than any other driver at the following four races. From a potential 100... read more »

ax Verstappen says pushing his Red Bull to find extra tenths of a second forced his spin off during qualifying but isn t downbeat. read more »

Sebastian Vettel is confident that Ferrari's deficit to Mercedes during qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was a "one-off", after a close first day of… read more »

Daniel Ricciardo says there is "no excuse" for his recent one-lap deficit to Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen, having not beaten the 19-year-old in qualifying… read more »

Fernando Alonso believes McLaren-Honda's speed deficit is so pronounced that his rivals think he is on a slow lap when he is actually on a quick… read more »

Sebastian Vettel is adamant Ferrari's one-second deficit to Mercedes in Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying is not representative of what will happen in Sunday's Baku... read more »

Fernando Alonso says McLaren-Honda could lose up to three seconds on the Baku straights to its front-running rivals along with its grid penalties. read more »

Red Bull is hopeful it can claw back some of the deficit to Ferrari and Mercedes without a major 2017 engine upgrade from power unit supplier Renault. Renault recently... read more »