Lewis Hamilton was fastest in second practice for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix but torrential rain meant the session was all-but a washout.

Kimi Raikkonen was fastest in final practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton heaped the pressure on championship rival Nico Rosberg by claiming pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Following back-toback races in America and Mexico, Formula One heads south to Sao Paulo for the Brazilian Grand Prix. Here are the key talking points ahead of the penultimate round of the championship.

Fernando Alonso says he is fortunate to be alive after surviving one of the most spectacular crashes in Formula One memory.

Lewis Hamilton spent the off-season crisscrossing the globe to party with A-list celebrities but Formula One’s reigning champion is adamant there will be no hangover when he returns to work at this week’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

Formula One driver Max Verstappen is now legally able to drive on the road as he celebrated his 18th birthday by passing his driving test.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed there are likely to be two new teams on the grid from next season.

It's an ill wind that doesn’t blow someone some good. Even the volcanic ash has benefited some people – the mâitre d’hotel at Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant in Padstow was beaming from ear to ear when I was there recently.

Workers at a French chemical plant have freed their boss after holding him overnight to protest at the closure of the Loire Valley factory.

Peter Haas, who took over the family-owned Levi Strauss & Co. with his brother and helped build it into a socially-conscious clothing empire, has died. He was 86.