The headaches that will dominate F1 2019

Just two races into the 2019 Formula 1 season, every team has encountered specific problems they must cure if they are to succeed. But that could actually be a good thing for the competitive order

Jonathan Noble Apr 4, 2019, 9:50 AM

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Whether it was collective sympathy for Charles Leclerc losing what would have been a maiden Formula 1 win to a dropped cylinder, or a bit of fatigue after a fairly brutal month travelling from Barcelona to Melbourne and on to Bahrain, the paddock at Sakhir on Sunday night felt flat.

Yes, some people were pretty chuffed with their evening's work - Mercedes celebrated its unexpected win and Zak Brown bounded down to the TV pen to congratulate Lando Norris for his first F1 points - but elsewhere smiles were hard to find.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.