Ferrari's Charles Leclerc hailed a big step forward as Formula One championship runner-up on Sunday and hoped to go one better next season. read more »

Whilst the gap to P4 in the Constructors' Championship is bigger than hoped, this season has shown that anything is possible so we keep our heads down and continue to... read more »

Aston Martin's Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel had hoped for better results going into the Brazilian Grand Prix, with the team only earning one point in their... read more »

From his pole position, the Dane made it to the first corner in front, and he remained in the lead until Max Verstappen passed him on the third lap.He slipped back to seventh... read more »

Mercedes F1 trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin has expressed his delight with George Russell's win in the Sao Paulo Sprint Race after coming from behind to beat... read more »

We are not starting as far forward as we had hoped, however, tomorrow will be a race of attrition as well as pace and we will be looking to move forwards and fighting until the... read more »

After the final practice this morning it looked like we might be in the fight for pole; in the end, the gap at the end to Max was a bit bigger than we had hoped for. read more »

The Spaniard had hoped to hit the ground running this year after a strong first season with Ferrari in 2021, in which he had few problems adapting to his new... read more »

Guenther Steiner was unhappy with the grid positions for his drivers after Qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix but he has hopes of returning to the points on Sunday. read more »

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has vowed to investigate the reason behind the Scuderia's sudden race-pace deficit to Red Bull which has resulted in the hoped-for F1... read more »

Overall, that session was probably a little worse than we had hoped for - not in terms of our final positions, which were probably our maximum today, but with respect to the... read more »

The Milton Keynes-based team's two drivers have diverged on floors since the Belgian Grand Prix last month.Verstappen has run the floor that has worked so well for him in... read more »

We've spent the last few days analyzing the past weekend and ensuring we learn as much as possible from it. The result in Spa was not what we hoped but we can take these... read more »

Otmar Szafnauer had hoped Oscar Piastri would honour the contract he signed last November with Alpine rather than walk away to join McLaren in 2023. read more »

Szafnauer says that the Frenchman's only weakness is that he can take too long to find the limits at the start of the race weekend.Aston Martin announced last week that it... read more »

The Canadian set the fastest time in the wet-but-drying FP3 session with a late run on intermediate tyres that put him 0.661s clear of Charles Leclerc's Ferrari, with the... read more »

The new regulations had hoped to bid farewell to the traditional endplate and wing interaction of the past, with a curved transition between the elements.This was designed to... read more »

Mercedes may have hoped to compete for a race win but still looked some way off the pace on qualifying day at the French Grand Prix. read more »

Max Verstappen was not as happy as he would have liked after being beaten by Ferrari drivers in both free practice sessions in France on Friday. read more »

Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton believe the squad is further off the pace than hoped for at Formula 1's French Grand Prix. Mercedes has pinpointed... read more »

As technical director Francois-Xavier Demaison said: "We can really call it a new car, because the list of parts we kept is much shorter than the ones we changed."The... read more »

P2 must have been much more than Sergio Perez had hoped for after an early front-wing change at the British Grand Prix. read more »

The team had hoped that the advent of the new-for-2022 regulatory framework would help to continue its recovery, after finishing eighth in the 2021 constructors'... read more »

German manufacturers Porsche and Audi had hoped to confirm their entries to F1 around the time of this year's Austrian Grand Prix, once the new rules had been set in stone... read more »

Ferrari senior performance engineer Jock Clear has claimed that the Scuderia had "hoped for better" from Charles Leclerc's recovery drive at the Canadian Grand Prix. read more »