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Valtteri Bottas signs new one-year Mercedes deal for 2021
Valtteri Bottas will remain with Mercedes next season after the team confirmed the Finn has signed a new one-year deal for 2021. The 30-year-old has been with Mercedes since 2017,…
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F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix preview: Silverstone turns up the heat
The British Grand Prix sprang into life three laps from the end as Pirelli rubber began to feel the strain of the demanding Silverstone circuit and changed the course of…
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Only one practice session before qualifying when F1 returns to Imola
Formula 1 has firmed up the timetable for its return to Imola at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix two-day race weekend, with practice cut down to one Saturday session. The…
F1
Silverstone tyre blowouts: what happens next?
As the camera cut from one failure to the next, there was a sense of déjà vu as drivers were forced to limp around Silverstone with deflated Pirelli tyres, causing…
F1
MPH: Piecing together Silverstone’s shredded tyre drama
You know all about the dramatic tyre-bursting end which crowned an otherwise predictable Mercedes demonstration. How with even just three inflated tyres for most of the last lap, Lewis Hamilton…
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2020 British Grand Prix race report: Hamilton holds on after final lap blowout
Even an eternal optimist would have struggled to see the dramatic conclusion of the British Grand Prix coming — despite the lessons learned from Austria. At the season-opener, a well-timed…
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2020 British Grand Prix qualifying report: grid set for opening lap fireworks
The two principal car requirements of Silverstone are aerodynamic efficiency and horsepower. And so, obviously, you didn’t need to look beyond the Mercedes W11. The team’s recent Silverstone record was…
History
Mercedes’ dominant 1954 return to grand prix racing: Formula 1 Car by Car extract
1954 brought the return of Mercedes to grand prix racing. In a story familiar to the hybrid era, its W196 was the class of the field. Peter Higham tells the story in an extract from Formula 1 Car by Car 1950-59
F1
Confirmed: Nico Hülkenberg replaces Sergio Perez for the British GP
Nico Hülkenberg will race in this weekend’s British Grand Prix for Racing Point, taking the place of Sergio Perez who has tested positive for coronavirus. The German driver, who was…
Mark Hughes
The data that shows this year’s Mercedes is the most dominant yet
Mercedes has won every championship in the hybrid era, and nothing’s likely to change this season. Analysis by Mark Hughes suggests the 2020 car is the most dominant of the current generation
F1
Sergio Perez becomes first F1 driver to test positive for coronavirus
Sergio Perez has tested positive for coronavirus ahead of the British Grand Prix and will miss this weekend’s race. He is the first Formula 1 driver to test positive for…
F1
8 British GPs which have turned the F1 championship on its head
You think you know how a title race is going and then you get to the British Grand Prix. In its long and storied history, the race has frequently altered…
F1
The most iconic cars in F1’s history?
Formula 1 celebrates seven decades of the World Championship next weekend with the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone, and is marking the occasion with a series of posters, featuring…
F1
MPH: Piecing together Silverstone’s shredded tyre drama
You know all about the dramatic tyre-bursting end which crowned an otherwise predictable Mercedes demonstration. How with even just three inflated tyres for most of the last lap, Lewis Hamilton…
Mark Hughes
The data that shows this year’s Mercedes is the most dominant yet
Mercedes has won every championship in the hybrid era, and nothing’s likely to change this season. Analysis by Mark Hughes suggests the 2020 car is the most dominant of the current generation
MotoGP
Could Quartararo be MotoGP’s first non-factory champ?
Any talk of Fabio Quartararo winning the 2020 MotoGP world title is hugely premature, because things can change more instantly and more drastically in motorcycle racing than in just about…
Road Racing
Revealed: plans for an Isle of Wight ‘TT’ road race
Britain’s first-ever roadraces are planned to take place on the Isle of Wight in October 2021. A team of promoters and racers has been working for many months on the…
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2020 British Grand Prix preview: Seven at Silverstone for Hamilton?
Formula 1 returns after a one week break following its whirlwind triple header to kick-off the 2020 season and there is a sense of inevitability heading into Silverstone this weekend.…
F1
A Bridge to the past: Silverstone’s lost great corner
Silverstone is unrecognisable as the circuit that hosted the first F1 Championship race but still retains its old glory, writes Damien Smith. If only there had been a way to keep Bridge Corner
F1
MPH: Why is Mercedes so far clear of its F1 rivals?
Mercedes looks to have made another stride forward in performance this season, but that’s not the only reason why it has been so dominant in the first three grands prix, says Mark Hughes
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Imola and Nürburgring return to F1 calendar; US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil rounds cancelled
Formula 1 has announced the next round of 2020 calendar additions that include a return to Imola and the Nürburgring as well as a trip to Portimão. Along with the…
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F1 needs a proper drivers’ championship — there’s only one way to do it
Only one car has shown itself capable of winning F1 races this season, writes Tony Dodgins. And this means 90 per cent of drivers don’t have a chance of the title. Is there another way?
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F1 at 70: the greatest grand prix
What is the greatest grand prix from seven decades of the Formula 1 world championship? Have your say and vote now
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Markus Winkelhock: The day I led the European GP in a Spyker
It’s one of Formula 1’s extraordinary stories: the driver who started last on his debut and went on to lead the 2007 European Grand Prix. Markus Winkelhock tells the full tale of his one and only – short-lived – F1 race
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Will 2020 be the year Mercedes records a perfect F1 season?
No Formula 1 team has ever had a perfect season. In 70 years of the world championship, great racing drivers have come and gone and brilliantly-engineered cars have dominated. But…
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Ron Tauranac “just designed bloody good racing cars”
The schoolboy stood shyly by the flung-open workshop doors. It was the first day of his summer holiday of 1963 and he had cycled the short distance from his Byfleet…
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F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix preview: Silverstone turns up the heat
The British Grand Prix sprang into life three laps from the end as Pirelli rubber began to feel the strain of the demanding Silverstone circuit and changed the course of…
F1
Only one practice session before qualifying when F1 returns to Imola
Formula 1 has firmed up the timetable for its return to Imola at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix two-day race weekend, with practice cut down to one Saturday session. The…
F1
Silverstone tyre blowouts: what happens next?
As the camera cut from one failure to the next, there was a sense of déjà vu as drivers were forced to limp around Silverstone with deflated Pirelli tyres, causing…
F1
MPH: Piecing together Silverstone’s shredded tyre drama
You know all about the dramatic tyre-bursting end which crowned an otherwise predictable Mercedes demonstration. How with even just three inflated tyres for most of the last lap, Lewis Hamilton…
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