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Helmut Marko caused a stir after the Bahrain GP with his worries that Max Verstappen could leave Red Bull early. But how real are those fears?
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Matt Bishop: The shadow of controversy in Senna’s final races
Ayrton Senna’s tragic final races in 1994, marked by controversy over illegal traction control and his relentless pursuit of excellence in a challenging car, remain a poignant chapter in F1 history, as Matt Bishop recalls
F1
2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Round five of the 2025 Formula 1 season wraps up the first triple-header of the year in Saudi Arabia. There are the dates and start time for the Jeddah event, including all sessions
MotoGP
Acosta and Viñales make MotoGP history at COTA
Pedro Acosta lit up MotoGP once again on Sunday in the 2024 US GP, narrowly missing victory, which went to Viñales and Aprilia. Meanwhile Ducati once again struggled with the dreaded chatter
F1
The man who replaced Jim Clark at Lotus: ‘No arm round the shoulder’
F1 debuts are never easy by any stretch – and Jackie Oliver had it tougher than most when getting behind the wheel for Lotus following Jim Clark’s tragic death, as he explains in Motor Sport’s May edition
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MPH: The fix F1 won’t make, but probably should
As F1 prepares to vote on a package of 2026 regulation tweaks, Mark Hughes argues the most meaningful fix is the one it’s least likely to try
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How a WW2 bombing raid started the Ducati motorcycles story
Ducati celebrates its centenary this year, but the company only started making motorcycles after Allied bombers destroyed its Borgo Panigale factory, which was manufacturing munitions for the German military
F1
Split by a heartbeat: Spanish GP that revealed the F1 genius of Senna, Prost and Mansell
Forty years on from the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix, Matt Bishop recalls the race that compressed the talents of three future Formula 1 legends into a winning gap of just 0.014 seconds
F1
From Senna to Verstappen: F1’s greatest wet-weather drives
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