Daniel Ricciardo's Renault spell may not have been as successful as hoped, but it has at least, in various ways, made him a better driver. read more »

Getting two cars home inside the points was the goal today, but we had hoped to be higher up the order at the end. read more »

We had hoped to reach Q3 on the medium tyres, but with all the teams so closely-matched, we had to switch to the softs to progress. read more »

Overall, we didn't quite show the competitiveness in FP2 that we hoped to, so we will look to make some changes tomorrow to help with the balance. read more »

A "humbled and honoured" Lewis Hamilton has described breaking Michael Schumacher's podium record as surpassing anything he could have ever hoped as a child. read more »

Once again Max extracted the absolute maximum from the car today and to split the Mercedes, which was the faster race car, it's the best we could have hoped for. read more »

Lewis Hamilton has been left dismayed by the fact this year's Formula 1 world title fight is far from the close battle he had hoped for. read more »

Lando Norris admitted he had made the most of his McLaren's qualifying potential for the British Grand Prix by claiming P5 on the grid. read more »

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 »