Australia's Daniel Ricciardo has tested positive for Covid-19 but his McLaren team expect him to be fit for the Formula One season opener in Bahrain on March 20.

McLaren's Lando Norris took his maiden Formula One pole in a shock outcome to Saturday's qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix.

Belgian Grand Prix: McLaren's Lando Norris was "just a bit bruised" after being involved in a massive crash during qualifying for the Grand Prix at Spa on Saturday.

Formula 1: Despite an early collision with Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton sealed a win at the British Grand Prix.

Red Bull's world championship leader Max Verstappen will start on pole for the Austrian Grand Prix after edging out McLaren's Lando Norris in qualifying on Saturday.

Formula One: With Mansour Ojjeh on board McLaren won seven of their eight constructors' world titles since 1984 and 10 of their 12 drivers' crowns.

Max Verstappen capitalised on Ferrari pole-sitter Charles Leclerc's cruel last-minute withdrawal to win Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix and go top of the drivers' world championship for the first time.

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix: Max Verstappen kept his cool to claim a chaotic rain-hit race on Sunday as seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton recovered from a rare mistake to sneak in second.

British driver Lando Norris has tested positive for coronavirus while on holiday in Dubai, Formula One team McLaren said on Tuesday.

Formula One announced that all 10 teams have agreed to the new Concorde Agreement.

Lewis Hamilton finished ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by more than three-tenths of a second.

Ferrari-bound Carlos Sainz was fifth for McLaren ahead of an out-of-sorts six-time champion Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes.

Formula One returned with a bang in a belated, dramatic and incident-strewn 2020 season-opening Austrian Grand Prix.

Daniel Ricciardo will leave Renault for McLaren from where Carlos Sainz has been signed to replace four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari.

McLaren is a grand name in British racing that has produced cars featured in James Bond movies and bred winners of Formula 1 races since the 1960s.

Carlos Sainz emerged in pole position to succeed Sebastian Vettel at Maranello after the German announced Tuesday he was quitting Ferrari after talks over a new contract broke down.

Daniel Ricciardo will line up alongside Lando Norris at McLaren in 2021 after he leaves Renault at the end of this season.

The 2020 F1 world championship has been unable to start with eight races of a scheduled 22 already either scrapped or postponed.