Antonelli has already taken more than half a dozen ‘youngest ever’ marks. The records that matter most are the ones nobody expected a 20-year-old to be able to chase
Kimi Antonelli is Formula 1’s youngest world champion by more than three years. Beating that would take a combination the modern sport has made close to impossible
Few see the work that goes on away from the circuits. We asked two MotoGP riders at opposite ends of their careers about what goes in to preparing for the world’s most punishing motor sport
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Has Kimi Antonelli finally broken George Russell? Why the gap between the Mercedes team-mates is becoming such a psychological challenge – and why Antonelli’s rise looks so special
He was rated as the best driver in the world – in the age of Gilles Villeneuve, Carlos Reutemann and Nelson Piquet – and yet Alan Jones, who has just turned 80, remains grossly underappreciated, says Matt Bishop
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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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After a painful radio exchange with Lewis Hamilton at the Singapore GP, Ferrari’s F1 communication problems are back in the spotlight. Mark and Bryn Lucas explore more than a decade of interference
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Formula 1’s fastest car keeps changing hands – is Ferrari’s Monza upgrade about to hand it over again?
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What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
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The 2026 Formula 1 field ranked after the first half of the season. One driver stands above the rest
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What made Kimi Antonelli stand out before he even reached F1? Plus, Mark on the best bits from Christian Horner’s new autobiography
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
After a painful radio exchange with Lewis Hamilton at the Singapore GP, Ferrari’s F1 communication problems are back in the spotlight. Mark and Bryn Lucas explore more than a decade of interference
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
Ferrari’s Mexican GP disappointment exposed growing tensions between Hamilton and Leclerc, leaving Fred Vasseur facing an increasingly difficult battle to keep his drivers in line
Ferrari had the pace for a Mexico 1-2 – until Hamilton and Leclerc’s first-lap clash opened the door for Verstappen to snatch victory. Mark Hughes dissects the race
Kimi Antonelli is Formula 1’s youngest ever world champion; the 20-year-old obliterating Sebastian Vettel’s record that stood for 16 years. Who else makes the top ten of F1’s baby-faced title-holders?
After 73 years, Kimi Antonelli has ended Italy’s wait for a Formula 1 world champion. Here are the Italians who got there first
Mercedes took a gamble when it promoted Kimi Antonelli to Formula 1 before he had even completed a season in F2. Now a world champion, the Italian has vindicated that faith
Kimi Antonelli has secured the 2026 Formula 1 World Championship with four races remaining. Where does that put him in the history books?
Ferrari’s real problem isn’t a lost 1-2 finish in Mexico, but a rivalry where both Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc believe they should be No1, says Mark Hughes
Ferrari had the pace for a Mexico 1-2 – until Hamilton and Leclerc’s first-lap clash opened the door for Verstappen to snatch victory. Mark Hughes dissects the race
MotoGP is threatening rebels with heavy penalties if they don’t contest this weekend’s Qatar GP, where the main aim will be to rescue Liberty Media’s market value, which plummeted by almost £2 billion due to the US/Iran war
What was Jorge Martin’s real mistake in the Phillip Island sprint which transformed the championship in Marc Márquez’s favour? And why riders shouldn’t stand for Liberty’s ridiculous new rules which threaten riders with track penalties for missing promo events
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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A Formula 1 race being won by Stirling Moss in 1961 was nothing unusual. But what has firmly positioned the Oulton Park Gold Cup of that year into motor sport…
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…
