Sergio Perez believes Racing Point have fallen behind their midfield rivals despite scoring points in Australia and Bahrain. read more »

F1’s closely-packed midfield pack features even more teams than last year and will remain tough to call from race to race, according to Haas chief Guenther Steiner. read more »

Haas team boss Guenther Steiner expects a fluid fight to lead the midfield in F1 this year. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo hasn't had the smoothest of starts to life outside of Red Bull in the 2019 Formula 1 season, with his new Renault team showing little sign of breaking... read more »

McLaren has made a positive start to the 2019 Formula 1 season, exceeding its own expectations in the first couple of races. Its results have been flattered by the... read more »

Fernando Alonso says McLaren's 2019 Formula 1 car is "a step forward in every aspect" compared to 2019 and believes the team can lead the midfield this season read more »

F1's midfield teams have been left encouraged by a "good step forward" over the future of the sport's landscape.  read more »

McLaren's Carlos Sainz Jr fears Haas could at least half a second clear of the midfield pack in 2019, based on its strong form in Formula 1's Australian Grand Prix read more »

McLaren's Carlos Sainz has said that Haas are a cut above in the midfield battle, predicting their pace advantage to be "half a second" in qualifying. read more »

Carlos Sainz Jr estimates Haas has produced a half-second pace advantage over its Formula 1 midfield rivals including McLaren  read more »

Renault will be bringing upgrades to the Bahrain GP and are "determined to show more" as they look to top the midfield battle. read more »

Guenther Steiner says that if the midfield battle was at the front of the field, it would mean a less predictable top three than currently seen in Formula 1. read more »

Renault F1 Team driver Daniel Ricciardo is ready to bounce back from Melbourne and challenge the midfield in Bahrain read more »

Disappointed Renault accepts work needed to clear F1 midfield read more »

Haas expects F1 front-runners to increase gap to midfield read more »

Hopes of F1's midfield bridging the gap to the 'big three' front-running teams in 2019 are already fading. read more »

Racing in F1's closely-contested midfield, Lance Stroll throughly enjoyed the "wheel-to-wheel" racing as he scored his first points for Racing Point in Australia. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo will need to develop a "harder skin" and "more patience" if he wants to triumph in this year's midfield battle, says Cyril Abiteboul. read more »

Lance Stroll and Racing Point used a long first stint to their advantage at the Australian Grand Prix to take ninth position. read more »

Mercedes kicked off the 2019 Formula 1 season with a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix, but it was Valtteri Bottas rather than a troubled Lewis Hamilton that took... read more »

Kevin Magnussen sees Haas' qualifying performance in Australia as the US squad proving "clearly" it has established itself at the front of the F1 midfield. read more »

The first answers about the F1 2019 pecking order are in, and Mercedes was in a league of its own at the front of the pack. As our experts Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell explain... read more »

Today's sessions have again highlighted how very tight the midfield pack is, with small differences in lap time having quite big effects on final positions. read more »

Alfa Romeo team boss Fred Vasseur thinks Formula 1's top three teams will rapidly pull clear of the midfield again, despite the gap appearing to have closed over the winter read more »

Kimi Raikkonen says that Formula 1's midfield is "too tight" for any accurate projections to be made over Alfa Romeo's position. read more »