Capito leaves McLaren in management shake-up

F1 2017: be careful what you wish for

Not a wheel has been turned, barely a 2017-spec power

Bottas to replace Rosberg at Mercedes

Williams drive a hard bargain following protracted negotiations with Mercedes

The month’s big stories at a glance

01.12.16 Red Bull announce new deal with outgoing McLaren

Allison set for Mercedes, so what next for Lowe?

Paddy Lowe’s departure hints at discord behind the scenes, but Mercedes have a plan to replace him within the coming months

F1 Mastermind

Your chosen specialised subject: the world’s greatest sport

F1 sale to be completed before start of season

The sport’s new owners could collect the keys earlier than planned after competition authorities approve the sale

French Grand Prix to return after lost decade

Following years of fruitless rumours and dead ends, the historic event will make a comeback on the F1 calendar in summer 2018

PASSNOTES

Your essential F1 briefing #35 Heave

Manor in peril as sale talks collapse

Owner Stephen Fitzpatrick puts the Manor F1 team’s operating company into administration as sale discussions founder

Renault ring the changes at their Enstone HQ

Team principal Frédéric Vasseur steps down, while long-time engine boss Rob White takes charge of operations in the UK

SEPARATED AT BIRTH …

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Red Bull’s chief technical officer Adrian Newey believes

Steering wheels

Pat Symonds explains THE SCIENCE BEHIND…

Strange things can happen in the rain

Authority, wit and intelligence from the voice of F1 Racing

Budget caps are not the solution

The stories F1’s bigwigs would rather you didn’t know…

Why 2017 is F1’s most important year – ever!

This season’s new machinery will be better to look at and faster and more physical to drive, testing drivers’ skills as never before. But have all the implications of the changes been fully anticipated? Was the sport really so broken that it required such a massive ‘fix’? And what changes are F1’s new owners planning to make – assuming they get to buy it at all?

BIGGER IS BETTER

The official line is that fatter tyres equal faster racing. But it just so happens that they look pretty impressive as well. F1 Racing investigates the thinking behind 2017’s coolest rule change

“That’s motor racing”

Over the course of 50 years on the front line of F1, Ron Dennis evolved a simple three-word catchphrase that encapsulates, with exquisite clarity, our favourite sport’s rich tapestry of soaring competitive success and dispiritingly dismal quirks of fate: “That’s motor racing.” Now, as Ron departs McLaren’s top job, we celebrate five decades of highs and lows for Formula 1’s most successful team leader

Alain Prost

What a life; what a career; what an F1 story Alain Prost has to tell. How better, then, to revisit the back catalogue of this four-time world champion than by presenting him with the questions of friends, rivals, peers and acolytes

A RIDE WITH STOFFEL

McLaren’s new ace says goodbye to Japan after a year of keeping his race technique on the boil in Super Formula