Ferrari and Italy's great lost hero Only one Italian - Alberto Ascari - has ever won the F1 drivers' title with Ferrari. Lorenzo Bandini looked like he had a great shot at becoming the second, before one of the most brutal tragedies of a lethal F1 era stopped him. NIGEL ROEBUCK remembers a lost Italian hope 1531612800 F1

When Alfa Romeo went unbeaten in F1 Alfa Romeo has semi-returned to Formula 1 with this year's Sauber tie-up. But when the world championship began, Alfa was the marque they all had to beat - and no one could, as DAMIEN SMITH explains 1531526400 F1

James Allen: Will F1 or FE be on top in 15 years? Formula 1 and Formula E exist in parallel for now, but the world will be very different by the 2030s. Will the series with the clearer sense of purpose emerge as motorsport's top category, wonders JAMES ALLEN 1531353600 F1

The pursuit of the perfect F1 pitstop PAT SYMONDS explains the nuts and bolts of pitstop safety in an era when Formula 1 teams are fighting to pull off the fastest services in the history of the championship 1531180800 F1

Why wide-open German GP is all about the drivers Who holds the edge among Formula 1's top three teams ebbs and flows from circuit to circuit, but Hockenheim appears not to favour any one of Ferrari, Mercedes or Red Bull in particular, which means the driver could make all the difference 1532044800 F1

The Red Bull ace v the new Leclerc v the wild outsider title fight Approaching the halfway stage of the 2018 Formula 3 European Championship no driver has yet emerged as a dominant favourite, as Lando Norris did in 2017. Instead a trio of rookies are sharing the limelight 1532044800 F3

Why F1 drivers are smarter than you think A tie-up between Formula Medicine and Pirelli offering mental and physical exercises for racing drivers provided the ideal setting to conduct a unique test. We went to Italy to see how a normal person measures up against Sauber's Marcus Ericsson 1532044800 Performance

Is 'free energy' trick the key to Ferrari's surge? Earlier this year there was huge intrigue over what Ferrari was doing with its battery system. Now the breakthrough it made is becoming clear, and it seems to have played a big part in Ferrari's surge to the top of the championship table 1531958400 F1