Qualifying third for the Styrian GP, Carlos Sainz had hoped for a strong result only for his race to be undone by a slow pit stop. read more »

Both cars home, a double-points finish and a podium for Lando is better than all but the wildest dreamers in the garage could have hoped for at the F1 season restart.... read more »

Lewis Hamilton says the first Safety Car in the Austrian GP ruined his plans to "take a risk" with a strategy gamble he hoped would help him win the F1 season-opener. read more »

McLaren CEO Zak Brown feels it may be difficult for Formula 1 to hit its target of 15-18 race in 2020. read more »

The idea of introducing reversed-grid races isn’t completely off the table according to Formula 1’s head of motorsport, Ross Brawn. Although efforts to introduce them this... read more »

Mercedes’ chief designer John Owen has revealed that the Dual-Axis-Steering (DAS) system was inspired by something the team developed and ran “a couple of years ago”, but it... read more »

Red Bull's motorsport advisor Helmut Marko considered putting a camp together where his drivers could get deliberately infected with the coronavirus. read more »

Liberty Media had hoped to have the first signature on a new Concorde Agreement in April but that is now on hold with F1's owners considering a one-year option. read more »

It can only be hoped that in the convoluted contractual world that stifles Formula 1, and that has played a central role in holding the sport up to ridicule these past few... read more »

Honda F1 managing director Masashi Yamamoto has revealed that the supplier and Red Bull had hoped to win at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2019. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo may well have hoped for fairer fortunes in 2019, having swapped Red Bull for Renault. read more »

Honda initially hoped it would start the 2019 Formula 1 season with what became its Spec 2 engine, but is "so happy" with the progress made with its actual schedule read more »

Things may not have gone the way Robert Kubica had hoped for, but he doesn't "regret" his Formula 1 return in 2019. read more »

The Abu Dhabi wasn't the season-ending thriller that people might have hoped for, but did witness one of the great individual performances of the year as Lewis Hamilton... read more »

Robert Kubica's return to Formula 1 may not have gone as hoped, but a racing comeback from life-threatening injuries leaves the Pole with plenty of reasons to be proud. read more »

Alexander Albon has impressed in race conditions since being promoted, but he is probably "not quite progressing as well as Red Bull would have hoped for", according... read more »

Obviously it was a disappointing race, we had hoped for more, and it had looked like we might get it. read more »

Sergio Perez says his 2019 season has not been as strong as he had hoped it would be, despite an improved run of form since the summer break. read more »

Alfa Romeo Racing remain optimistic ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix after not getting the result they would have liked in Austin. read more »

We had a very quick race car this weekend and P5 and P6 ultimately isn't the result we'd hoped for. read more »

Lewis Hamilton hoped that the stewards would take a "very strict" approach on Max Verstappen's failure to slow under yellow flags in Q3 at the Mexican GP. read more »

Max Verstappen believes Red Bull achieved the best they could have hoped for in Sochi, as both him and Alexander Albon came home in fourth and fifth. read more »

Today things went better than we had hoped. read more »

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said that Charles Leclerc's pole in Singapore was "even better than we hoped" for. read more »

Pirelli is using new secret testing procedures pioneered at its Milan factory to ensure that next year's Formula 1 tyres can produce the wider working range hoped for read more »