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The Editor: May 2024 The Editor: ‘24 race season is looking longer by the day for flat F1’
Zak Brown once got himself a tattoo after losing a bet with Daniel Ricciardo when the Australian won at Monza…
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Cast your vote now for Motor Sport’s Race Car of the Century
Voting has now closed in our Race Car of the Century poll and the winner will be announced later this…
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Susie Wolff takes the FIA to court
A new front was opened in the off-track wrangles facing Formula 1 with news that Susie Wolff, left, had filed…
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Avon tyres saved — now with a Nova name
Relief all round on the grippy subject of motor sport tyre supply this month after confirmation that the Avon brand…
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£25,000 incentive for top GB4 female driver
MotorSport Vision boss Jonathan Palmer is putting his money where his mouth is to encourage female racers up the ladder…
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Westminster Abbey send-off for Sir Stirling
A memorial service for Sir Stirling Moss will be held in Westminster Abbey, London on May 8 to celebrate the…
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Graham Hill’s first Lotus GP car for Monaco sale
The first Lotus Formula 1 contender – and the car in which Graham Hill cut his teeth at motor racing’s…
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‘Flunder’-bodied, Le Mans class-winning Porsche 908 set to be auctioned
Air|Water in Costa Mesa, California is a new event from the founders of Luftgekühlt – the brainchild of double Le…
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Mark Hughes: Stale F1 grid looks set for a wave of new drivers in 2025
The outstanding performance of 18-year-old British driver Oliver Bearman as Carlos Sainz’s late-notice substitute at Ferrari in Jeddah is more…
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Mat Oxley: ‘MotoGP riders all seem to be mates. But that may be about to change’
Sport is all about rivalry, so what happens if all the competitors in your favourite motor sport championship are now…
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Doug Nye: ‘If Verstappen keeps dominating F1, its appeal could fall off a cliff’
Set against the background of a wildly unstable world any competitive endeavour that can be fought out for fun, achievement…
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Andrew Frankel: ‘Lagonda could have been the Rolls-Royce of electric age. Instead, it’s dead’
As I was driving the Rolls-Royce Spectre, reviewed elsewhere in this issue, I found myself struck by a bad case…
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Karun Chandhok: Hamilton to Ferrari — ‘He didn’t feel like being anyone’s stopgap’
The Formula 1 driver market was completely flat as last season rolled along. With an unprecedented scenario of every team…
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Red Bull’s crushing start to the 2024 F1 season that ended in a cloud of smoke
Meet the new season, same as the old one. Max Verstappen’s Red Bull totally dominant, Charles Leclerc giving spirited chase…
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Oliver Bearman in F1 at the deep end?
Eighteen-year-old Formula 2 driver Oliver Bearman was sensationally called up at Jeddah by Ferrari for his Formula 1 debut, as…
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Word on the beat
The resignations of Alpine technical director Matt Harman and chief of aerodynamics Dirk de Beer were made before the opening…
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F1’s pitstop conundrum at 2024 Saudi Arabian GP
A particular set of occurrences in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix triggered a highly unusual strategic conundrum in which there…
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Good month, bad month
Good month Sarky Tsunoda Tsunoda’s incandescent radio comments in recent GPs have been a rare cockle-warmer in yawn-fest races. 200mph…
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Ferrari’s F1 quick-fixer
This month marks 50 years since Niki Lauda won his first Formula 1 race – driving for Ferrari in the…
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2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre review: the spirit of e-cstasy
Back in 2011 Rolls-Royce announced that it had made an electric car. Just one, mind, to canvass the views of…
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