Word on the beat, January 2022
● With negotiations having broken down between Michael Andretti and Sauber over the purchase of the team, Andretti will continue to look for F1 opportunities. ● A new Chinese Grand Prix…
The Circuit of the Americas is tough on tyres, but this year it was more so. The bumps had developed further since they first became apparent in 2019 as the…
When Ferrari introduced a revised spec of power unit at the Russian Grand Prix, with a switch from a 400v to 800v system and battery, it played it down. The…
USA GP | Mexican GP | São Paulo GP This three-race run, with just three more to go, put a very different complexion on the championship contest. Coming in, Max Verstappen…
Last month the news was that the proposed Michael Andretti buyout of the Sauber F1 team had hit the rocks and would no longer be happening. This month the speculation…
It was probably the least exciting race in a season where the bar has been set high, as Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes disappeared into the floodlit evening. But there were reasons…
As we wait for the stewards to decide if there is any basis for Mercedes’ request for a right to review the Brazil Hamilton/Verstappen incident, so F1 finds itself trapped…
An extraordinary performance from Lewis Hamilton saw him overcome being thrown to the back of the grid for the Saturday sprint race, taking a five-place grid drop for the main…
Interlagos is perfectly configured to equalise a low-drag-favouring car like the Mercedes with a high-downforce-favouring car like the Red Bull (unless of course it rains heavily, in which case downforce…
Red Bull came to Mexico expected to dominate and backed up that expectation throughout Friday when it was at times up to 0.5sec quicker than Mercedes. But Mercedes locked out…
Toto Wolff has said that if the title fight between his driver Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen goes down to the wire in Abu Dhabi, whichever of them is in…
Fernando Alonso's one-man war against the stewards has built up throughout the season, spilling over in Sochi and Austin – but, as Mark Hughes writes, this apparent campaign for on-track justice makes him who he is
We have already rated Lewis Hamilton's F1 wins from 100 to 90 in order of greatness, and now comes the top 10: the finest victories from Hamilton's grand prix career.…
You may have heard Lewis Hamilton’s laments on the radio to his Mercedes team for bringing him in for fresh intermediate tyres in the Turkish Grand Prix with just eight…
2021 Russian GP | 2021 Turkish GP There was a remarkable synergy about this pair of races out beyond eastern Europe. Each of the two title contenders took grid penalties…
The stresses and strains of a very tight championship battle inevitably expose the personality traits of those in the hot centre of it all. The competitive make-up of top-class athletes…
What the record Austin crowd saw was a brilliantly vivid see-sawing contest between Max Verstappen’s Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes in which the former prevailed – just. What was…