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…
F1
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…
F1
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…
F1
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…
F1
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…
F1
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…
F1
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…
F1
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
F1
Reims 1960: the end of the road for front-engined F1 cars
Enzo Ferrari could be mulish: who on Earth would think it logical to place a prancing horse behind its cart? So surmised a man basking (from July 1960) in the…
Podcast
Podcast: Frank Dernie, Engineering the Greats
A veteran of Williams, Lotus and Benetton, Frank Dernie knows what it takes to engineer the greatest drivers. In the latest of our podcast series, he recalls working alongside the likes of Piquet, Mansell and Schumacher.
F1
Winning 2020 F1 title would mean more in “momentous” year, says Hamilton
Winning the 2020 world championship while campaigning for greater equality would mean more than any of his previous six titles, Lewis Hamilton has said. He described this year as momentous,…
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…
F1
MPH: Will Vettel ignore team orders? Red Bull for the F1 title? We’ll soon know more
Finally, it’s about to start, a very different season to that envisaged from a very different world of a few months ago. Having waited an age for the F1 season…
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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Severe curbs at ‘weird’ Austrian Grand Prix
There’s no other word to describe working at the Red Bull Ring this weekend than weird. Really, really weird. But weird is very much necessary. In Melbourne, I was pretty…
F1
Vettel: There was never an offer from Ferrari for 2021
Sebastian Vettel says he was surprised when no contract to remain at Ferrari for the 2021 Formula 1 season was offered to him by the team. Despite rumours at the…
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Why fans will witness history in F1 2020
Content sponsored by F1 TV Access The wait for Formula 1’s 70th season to begin may have been uncertain and frustrating, but the championship is now finally about to get…
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Single-Seaters
Hamilton: “We all need to do more, that’s what the message was about”
Lewis Hamilton says the sport can and must do more to promote diversity within motor racing. The Mercedes driver also elaborated on a message he posted calling on people to…
F1
Five unexpected F1 season-openers
There may never again be a start to a Formula 1 season that’s as unorthodox or chaotic as 2020’s offering. A false dawn in Australia all those months ago was…
F1
John Watson: F1 has lost the challenge of the old Österreichring
Formula 1 begins its season at Austria’s Red Bull Ring, a circuit that’s a shadow of its former self. John Watson recalls the mesmerising Österreichring
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2020 Austrian Grand Prix race preview: Formula 1 returns in Austria
Finally. 127 days since Formula 1 pre-season testing ended and 217 days on from the chequered flag bringing the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to a close, we will have…
Single-Seaters
Mercedes launches black livery for 2020 F1 season
Mercedes will run a black livery for the 2020 Formula 1 season beginning in Austria this weekend in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and improved…
F1
MPH: Will Vettel ignore team orders? Red Bull for the F1 title? We’ll soon know more
Finally, it’s about to start, a very different season to that envisaged from a very different world of a few months ago. Having waited an age for the F1 season…
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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…
F1
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…
F1
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…
F1
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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