Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
From Antonelli’s “impossible” Monza victory to the paranoia gripping Ferrari and McLaren’s driver pairings, this week’s biggest Formula 1 questions answered
As Formula 1 arrives at Madring for the first time, Max Verstappen has highlighted two key worries. Will they come true?
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Few moments in Monza’s 100-year history are as emotional as Jody Scheckter’s 1979 Italian GP victory in a Ferrari, securing the drivers’ and constructors’ titles. Damien Smith revisits the F1 win with the South African veteran
F1 will cut around three laps off each race in 2027 – the latest chapter in a 75-year habit of using fuel rules to quietly fix what the engine formula got wrong
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Spanish Grand Prix
There are few names more steeped in Le Mans lore than Porsche, with the company firmly cemented at the top of the charts for overall wins. Yet in the first…
The Toyota Celica ST185 has an unmatched record in the WRC – Nicky Grist and engineer Don Woolfield remember a superlative car
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Time was running out. On several levels. The most pressing problem, however, was to qualify. This process would have been straightforward — until just a few days ago. Which is…
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The Subaru Impreza 555 swept all before it in the WRC, and became an icon in the hands of Colin McRae – its design team leader remembers the epic tale
Why James Garner’s 1966 epic is still a blockbuster
Lost ‘Pete Aron’ interview uncovered
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Formula 1 arms race
The game-changing McLaren MP4/1
Alex Wurz: ‘We’re going to make you shorter’
Unseen 1970s Can-Am photos
Quickfire motor sport clips and stories from our short video vault
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Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
The 2026 Formula 1 field ranked after the first half of the season. One driver stands above the rest
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
In this special episode, Mark welcomes MotoGP columnist Mat Oxley to discuss whether new series owner Liberty Media can repeat its F1 success with MotoGP – without losing motorcycling’s “dangerous and dirty” soul
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
How quickly should F1 drivers adapt to their cars? And what is going wrong for George Russell?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Formula 1’s fastest car keeps changing hands – is Ferrari’s Monza upgrade about to hand it over again?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
The 2026 Formula 1 field ranked after the first half of the season. One driver stands above the rest
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
In this special episode, Mark welcomes MotoGP columnist Mat Oxley to discuss whether new series owner Liberty Media can repeat its F1 success with MotoGP – without losing motorcycling’s “dangerous and dirty” soul
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
How quickly should F1 drivers adapt to their cars? And what is going wrong for George Russell?
Everything you need to know about F1 qualifying in 2026, including the new format, tyre strategies and the balance between one lap and race pace
A perfectly executed tow gave Pierre Gasly pole at Monza, but behind it lay a familiar F1 story of team-mate distrust, which is sometimes justified, as Mark Hughes explains
Kimi Antonelli’s stunning Monza victory sent Matt Bishop back to 1971’s legendary five-car photo finish – and to Howden Ganley, the last man alive from that
Moto2 and Moto3 will remain a part of the main paddock, based in open garages, so fans with paddock access can watch teams at work
With enough four-wheeled splendour to outshine its ostentatious setting, the 2026 Hampton Court Palace Concours of Excellence assembled a glittering selection of automotive aristocracy
Kimi Antonelli’s F1 victory from 19th on the grid at Monza was sensational. Now John Watson, who won a grand prix after starting a record-breaking 22nd, rates the drive
With a brand new surface and a banked Turn 12 that punishes tyre camber, Madrid’s inaugural Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix weekend could reshuffle the Mercedes-McLaren-Ferrari pecking order once again, writes Mark Hughes
A perfectly executed tow gave Pierre Gasly pole at Monza, but behind it lay a familiar F1 story of team-mate distrust, which is sometimes justified, as Mark Hughes explains
Moto2 and Moto3 will remain a part of the main paddock, based in open garages, so fans with paddock access can watch teams at work
Nine races to go in what’s looking like a three-way title fight between Marc Márquez and Aprilia team-mates Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi. Márquez’s injuries mean he will be able to attack at some tracks but will be forced onto the defensive at others, so which is which?
There are a small number of racing drivers whose stories only truly reveal themselves, or even make sense, when you stop thinking about lap times and start thinking about geography:…
Where do you begin when you are interviewing a man who has started 322 Formula 1 grands prix, who has won 11 of them, who has stood on 68 F1…
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Giancarlo Fisichella notched up more than 200 starts over a 14-season Formula 1 career that took him from Minardi to Ferrari via Jordan (twice), Benetton, Sauber, Renault and Force India.…
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It is hard to imagine that the speed limit was only raised to a heady 20mph in 1903. With no motor sport activity allowed on British roads, Hugh Fortescue Locke…
Kevin Rice describes what you are seeing over these pages as “a barn find”, and it’s hard to disagree. The man who took these images, Charles Strickland Laird, was a…
Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic on land. To witness him holding court in the local,…
