F1 Gossip: Verstappen on not being "mad Max" in 2019

- Max Verstappen says he was “never Mad Max” despite outbursts last year as he looks to become Red Bull’s mature team leader in 2019 (Reuters)

- Mercedes technical boss James Allison gives in-depth comparisons between his team’s “clumsy and naïve” 2018 F1 car and this year’s W10 (Mercedes)

- Formula 1 bosses have been accused of sending “an appalling message” over abuses allegedly related to the Bahrain Grand Prix (BBC)

- Ferrari will drop Philip Morris’s Mission Winnow branding campaign for the Australian Grand Prix over fears on tobacco advertising laws (Reuters)

- Valtteri Bottas reveals how he reset and prepared for the 2019 F1 season in Lapland (Formula1.com)