Formula 1

Max Verstappen’s contract extension to the end of 2028 is the most extreme of F1’s recent long-term deals. What does it mean for young drivers?

F2 champion Oscar Piastri will be available to race for McLaren in Formula 1 as a stand-in driver, despite being contracted to Alpine

The Alpine Academy will have two affiliate drivers in 2022, as Hadrien David returns to its ranks and W Series’ Abbi Pulling is backed too

Oliver Gray will move to Carlin for his second season in British Formula 4, and race as a junior driver of the Williams Formula 1 team

Two-time F1 champion Fernando Alonso has launched a management company featuring F2 driver Clement Novalak as one of its drivers

F1 teams are now mandated to run ‘young’ drivers in FP1s twice a year. Is that sufficient enough for those drivers to prove themselves?

Team Goh has announced its Super Formula driver Ren Sato, already a Honda junior, has joined the Red Bull Junior Team for 2022

The Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team has grown its roster of junior drivers for 2022, with the addition of Daniel Guinchard and Luna Fluxa

Reigning GB3 champion Zak O’Sullivan will move up to FIA Formula 3 this year with Carlin as a Williams Racing Formula 1 junior

Formula 2 race winner Marcus Armstrong will not be part of the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2022

Every year, some of junior single-seaters’ top drivers are handed professional opportunities. Some go to sportscars, and others reach F1 and SF

Future Alfa Romeo Formula 1 driver Guanyu Zhou says he is surprised at criticism he has received on social media ahead of his graduation to the top level in 2022

Logan Sargeant will make his F1 test debut for Williams at Yas Marina Circuit next week in the world championship’s official post-season test

Commentator Alex Jacques, best known as the voice of F2 and F3, is this week’s podcast guest ahead of a highly anticipated F1 finale in Abu Dhabi

The battles on track and the race director’s responses in the Saudi Arabian GP made the news, but what do such antics mean for junior racing?

Laura Camps Torras and Maria Germano Neto have won the FIA Girls on Track Rising Stars programme and joined the Ferrari Driver Academy

The Williams young driver academy will be overseen by former WRC co-driver Sven Smeets after he was appointed sporting director of the F1 team

Sir Frank Williams’ two eponmyous companies are best known for F1 success, but it was in junior single-seaters where his name first made waves

Ferrari junior Robert Shwartzman will take part in the Formula 1 young driver test in Abu Dhabi next month with the Haas team

Theo Pourchaire will move into a unspecificed test driver role with Alfa Romeo next year after missing out on a F1 seat with the team