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Was Hamilton’s Styrian GP pole one of the great qualifying laps?
Through the spray at the Red Bull Ring, Lewis Hamilton took the 89th pole position of his career at last weekend’s Styrian Grand Prix and it was undoubtedly one of…
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MPH: How Hamilton’s challengers crumbled: Styrian GP analysis
Lewis Hamilton’s epic qualifying lap for the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix set up an ‘easy’ win on Sunday – by F1 standards. Mark Hughes examines the factors that gave him a clear run
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Stewards demand Racing Point & Mercedes brake parts over illegal copying allegations
Stewards have impounded parts from the Racing Point cars used in the Styrian Grand Prix after a protest that they had been illegally copied from Mercedes. The front and rear…
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2020 F1 Styrian Grand Prix report: Hamilton in command ahead of midfield drama
Lewis Hamilton notched up his first win of the 2020 season in a comfortable 2020 F1 Styrian Grand Prix for the Mercedes driver – as drama unfolded behind
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2020 Styrian Grand Prix qualifying: Hamilton leaves the rest in a cloud of spray
You get funny weather in the mountains but, strangely enough, you’ve got to go back to the seventies for a rain-afflicted race at what was then the Osterreichring. The older…
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Verstappen fastest on Friday as rain looms over Styrian GP qualifying
Max Verstappen beat Valtteri Bottas by just 0.043sec to top Friday practice in a session that could potentially set the grid for Sunday’s Styrian Grand Prix. The weather forecast makes…
F1
Red Bull won’t offer Sebastian Vettel an F1 lifeline
Hopes of a return to Red Bull for Sebastian Vettel appear to be over as the team confirmed it would not be making an offer for the four-time world champion…
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Podcast: John Barnard, Engineering the Greats
https://youtu.be/86ZDexFKKuM John Barnard wasn’t just headhunted by Ferrari. Such was his clout that Enzo allowed him to set up his own design operation in Guildford, well away from the scrutiny…
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Vettel says he would welcome Red Bull F1 reunion offer
Sebastian Vettel says a return to Red Bull in 2021 would be a difficult proposition to turn down. The four-time champion told media ahead of the Styrian Grand Prix that…
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Styrian Grand Prix preview: Déjà vu at the Red Bull Ring
The Austrian Grand Prix provided Formula 1 with the unforgettable restart it needed, with excitement and action up and down the field for almost every one of the 71 laps.…
F1
Will anything change for race two in Austria?
Formula 1 is about to host back-to-back races at the same circuit for the first time in its history, and with that comes some trepidation about what – if anything,…
F1
Why Alonso — and not youth — was the answer for Renault
He’s soon to turn 39 and isn’t known for tolerating a mediocre car. So why did Renault hire Fernando Alonso over a younger driver? asks Chris Medland
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The Alonso-Renault relationship: championships and controversy
It was hailed as a changing of the guard when a young Fernando Alonso claimed back-to-back championships, triumphing over Michael Schumacher in 2005 and ’06. The old power that was…
Mark Hughes
MPH: How Hamilton’s challengers crumbled: Styrian GP analysis
Lewis Hamilton’s epic qualifying lap for the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix set up an ‘easy’ win on Sunday – by F1 standards. Mark Hughes examines the factors that gave him a clear run
F1
MPH: The bullets Bottas dodged to win in Austria
“We dodged some bullets there,” said a relieved Valtteri Bottas after climbing out of his Mercedes the victor of the opening round of the 2020 world championship, a thrilling and…
MotoGP
MotoGP’s 2020 rear slick – will it really be good for inline-fours and bad for V4s?
Who will Michelin’s new rear slick help and who will it hinder in the battle for the 2020 MotoGP championship? Because nothing has a bigger effect on a racing motorcycle…
MotoGP
‘Anthony Gobert wanted a dancing girl in the pit!’
In 1984 Stuart Shenton had been with Honda for 18 months when HRC engineer (and later HRC president) Satoru Horiike wandered up and asked a question. “He said, if Honda…
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Confirmed: Fernando Alonso to make F1 return with Renault in 2021
Fernando Alonso will make his Formula 1 comeback next season, with Renault announcing he will replace Daniel Ricciardo for 2021. In what will be the two-time F1 champion’s third stint…
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How F1 can make every race as entertaining as the Austrian GP
It was nice to have some normality back in our lives on Sunday afternoon. Twenty Formula 1 cars on a grid ready for a real life motor race that kicked…
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Ferrari fast-tracking aero updates for Styrian Grand Prix
Ferrari is making efforts to bring forward planned updates to arrive in time for the second race of the 2020 season having slipped into the midfield during the Austrian Grand…
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Was the Austrian Grand Prix as good as the 2020 F1 season gets?
It was, I think, better than any of us expected and all but the most dreamy of optimists hoped. Formula 1’s return to racing after seven months away produced an…
F1
MPH: The bullets Bottas dodged to win in Austria
“We dodged some bullets there,” said a relieved Valtteri Bottas after climbing out of his Mercedes the victor of the opening round of the 2020 world championship, a thrilling and…
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Bottas wins F1 opener in chaos-filled 2020 Austrian GP: race report
An afternoon of drama and chaos on Formula 1’s return ended with a Mercedes win after a manic 2020 F1 Austrian Grand Prix
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2020 Austrian Grand Prix qualifying: Bottas on pole as Ferrari goes backwards
The indication from Barcelona testing was that Mercedes would continue to set the pace, as it has done since the start of the hybrid era. Lockdown has done nothing to…
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The one characteristic shared by every great F1 driver
Every great Formula 1 driver has two things in common — and nothing else, according to Frank Dernie, the F1 engineer, who has worked with multiple world champions in his…
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Mercedes DAS system ruled legal ahead of Austrian GP qualifying
Stewards have rejected Red Bull’s protest and ruled that Mercedes can race at the Austrian Grand Prix with the DAS system used by Lewis Hamilton on Friday
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Mark Hughes
MPH: How Hamilton’s challengers crumbled: Styrian GP analysis
Lewis Hamilton’s epic qualifying lap for the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix set up an ‘easy’ win on Sunday – by F1 standards. Mark Hughes examines the factors that gave him a clear run
F1
Stewards demand Racing Point & Mercedes brake parts over illegal copying allegations
Stewards have impounded parts from the Racing Point cars used in the Styrian Grand Prix after a protest that they had been illegally copied from Mercedes. The front and rear…
F1
2020 F1 Styrian Grand Prix report: Hamilton in command ahead of midfield drama
Lewis Hamilton notched up his first win of the 2020 season in a comfortable 2020 F1 Styrian Grand Prix for the Mercedes driver – as drama unfolded behind
F1
2020 Styrian Grand Prix qualifying: Hamilton leaves the rest in a cloud of spray
You get funny weather in the mountains but, strangely enough, you’ve got to go back to the seventies for a rain-afflicted race at what was then the Osterreichring. The older…
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