How F1 should start and end its season The Winter Olympics kicked off last week with typical fanfare and public awe. Formula 1 could do with a piece of that action to build excitement ahead of a new season 1518480000 F1

Can Bottas convince Mercedes to keep him? Valtteri Bottas has another year at Mercedes, but the likes of Esteban Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo will have an eye on his seat for 2019. Will Bottas respond to that threat with the heroics that marked his early months at Mercedes, or with another slump? 1517875200 F1

What Raikkonen must do to shrug off laggard tag Ferrari has hinted 2018 is Kimi Raikkonen's final, final chance. The statistics suggest the pace is still somewhere within him - but can he turn around the trend of his recent seasons? 1517529600 F1

The driver Mercedes should sign for 2019 Whether Lewis Hamilton stays at Mercedes beyond 2018 is one question; whether Valtteri Bottas does enough to earn another contract extension is another. Either way, Mercedes currently has an opening for 2019 - and it should grab Daniel Ricciardo to fill it 1516752000 F1

How Hamilton changed his game to see off Vettel Lewis Hamilton's victory at the Singapore Grand Prix last weekend gave him a 40-point lead over Sebastian Vettel, who has been driving what is considered the fastest Formula 1 car over a single lap in 2018. Here's how the Mercedes star altered his approach to raise his game 1537315200 F1

The first signs of Leclerc's greatness It's taken Charles Leclerc less than a year of racing on the Formula 1 grid to get himself into a Ferrari race seat, but the signs that he would be something special were apparent long before that 1537315200 F1

What Singapore GP can teach other F1 races Liberty has big plans for how future grands prix should be organised and promoted, but Singapore has been blazing a trail for many of those ideas for years - as JAMES ALLEN explains 1537315200 F1

The full story of Raikkonen's shock Sauber switch Kimi Raikkonen rejoining Sauber after leaving Ferrari was unthinkable just one year ago, but that's exactly what Formula 1 is going to get in 2019. And the reason he is making a rare switch back down the grid is very simple 1537228800 F1