The Pirelli chief has said that a difference of 0.7 seconds between the hyper-soft and ultra-soft was expected. read more »

The pre-season tests have given Pirelli further insight into the anticipated lap-time differences between its compounds. read more »

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff feels Red Bull are losing out on performance because of their choice of fuel suppliers. read more »

Sebastian Vettel believes Ferrari still needs to find more performance from the SF71H, despite setting a record lap of Barcelona on the penultimate day of pre-season Formula 1... read more »

Red Bull would possibly gain some performance by using the same fuel as their engine suppliers Renault, according to Mercedes' Toto Wolff. read more »

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff believes Red Bull might have cost itself performance by not using the same fuel and oil supplier as the works Renault team read more »

McLaren executive director Zak Brown admits his team has been impressed with its former engine supplier Honda's performance in winter Formula 1 testing with its new... read more »

The penultimate day of testing promisies to be another busy one as the attention of Formula One's teams turns from reliability to performance and finding the limits of... read more »

Teams continued to test at Barcelona for the 6th day in 2 weeks. As some are getting settled, more and more teams set out to do more relevant performance runs and race simulations. read more »

Mercedes technical director James Allison says his team has found 0.25s in performance from the work around its new car's sidepods alone. read more »

Renault driver Carlos Sainz says he would put money on the times between Formula One's teams opening up in the remaining three days of testing despite a tight spread on... read more »

A reliable final day in Spain left Pierre Gasly happy with the performance of both the STR13 and the Honda power unit. read more »

Pirelli Motorsport boss Mario Isola reflects on the first test in Barcelona. read more »

Renault admits the best way to optimise the performance potential of its engines this year is to accept the inevitability of grid penalties at the tail-end of 2018. read more »

Toro Rosso believe Honda's engine is closer in performance to former supplier Renault's than has been believed and the Japanese firm could wipe out the gap as early... read more »

Renault: Focus on reliability will aid performance read more »

Robert Kubica: I'm judged on performance, not pace read more »

Although Sebastian Vettel feels Ferrari's SF71H is a "step forward", he concedes he doesn't really know about performance given the weather in Spain. read more »

The Belgian ended third fastest on day two in Spain, but he was restricted to just thirty-seven laps. read more »

Renault Formula 1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul admits his team is considering factoring strategic grid penalties into its 2018 season, in order to maximise engine performance read more »

Sauber's Technical Director was happy with the performance of the C37-Ferrari during the opening day of pre-season testing on Monday. read more »

Honda will focus on reliability over performance with its first race specification engine for the 2018 Formula 1 season, Autosport has learned read more »

FIA directive will ensure customer teams have engine performance parity with works teams. read more »

The F1 off-season may seem long to fans, but the team is busy throughout the few months without racing. The factory is busy preparing the new car, the engineers are improving... read more »

The FIA has moved to remove doubts about Formula 1 customer teams having engine performance parity with their works counterparts. read more »