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Karun Chandhok: The top moments of a vintage 2024 F1 season
We’ve made it to the end of the longest ever Formula 1 season with an unprecedented 24 grands prix and six sprints. Let’s be honest, after the first two weekends…
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December 8, 2024 Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi
Roar into the night: McLaren’s clan congregates for a celebration photo outside its pit garage in Abu Dhabi to mark a special achievement. Lando Norris’s fourth career win, ahead of…
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How McLaren’s great ‘communicators’ unlocked its F1 potential
Just a few seasons ago McLaren was staring into the abyss, with a poor car and dysfunctional team – Mark Hughes explains how Zak Brown empowered some crucial staff to get it firing again
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Where it all went wrong for Sergio Perez at Red Bull
Sergio Perez has now left the Red Bull F1 team with immediate effect, his GP career looking possibly over. James Elson details the Mexican’s spectacular fall from hero to zero
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Charismatic, wild and remarkable: Ferrari’s fallen F1 heroes
18 years ago, Clay Regazzoni lost his life in a road accident in Parma, Italy. Matt Bishop remembers the charismatic Swiss driver, as well as the other three former Ferrari pilots to lose their lives outside of a race track
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How Verstappen and Alpine made the Sao Paulo GP into race of the year
The Sao Paulo changed the face of both F1 world championships. Adam Cooper recalls the chaos of Interlagos with Alpine race engineers Josh Peckett and John Howard
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MPH: Sainz finally has an F1 team to lead. Is it worth dropping so far down the grid?
Carlos Sainz has battled against ‘chosen’ team-mates like Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc for all his F1 career — and thrived. Now, at Williams, he finally has a team centred on him, says Mark Hughes. But the fight goes on
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McLaren: Life after Bruce
There was a lot to think about. But Bruce Leslie McLaren — boss / designer / engineer / tester / racer — preferred it that way. Three years of his…
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Emerson Fittipaldi: Young gun, old master
Emerson Fittipaldi’s language dates him, reminding you of a time in motor-racing more violent and dangerous, yet also gentler, less hard-nosed. ‘Dice’, for example, is a favourite word of his,…
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Karun Chandhok: The top moments of a vintage 2024 F1 season
We’ve made it to the end of the longest ever Formula 1 season with an unprecedented 24 grands prix and six sprints. Let’s be honest, after the first two weekends…
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December 8, 2024 Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi
Roar into the night: McLaren’s clan congregates for a celebration photo outside its pit garage in Abu Dhabi to mark a special achievement. Lando Norris’s fourth career win, ahead of…
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How McLaren’s great ‘communicators’ unlocked its F1 potential
Just a few seasons ago McLaren was staring into the abyss, with a poor car and dysfunctional team – Mark Hughes explains how Zak Brown empowered some crucial staff to get it firing again
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Where it all went wrong for Sergio Perez at Red Bull
Sergio Perez has now left the Red Bull F1 team with immediate effect, his GP career looking possibly over. James Elson details the Mexican’s spectacular fall from hero to zero
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Charismatic, wild and remarkable: Ferrari’s fallen F1 heroes
18 years ago, Clay Regazzoni lost his life in a road accident in Parma, Italy. Matt Bishop remembers the charismatic Swiss driver, as well as the other three former Ferrari pilots to lose their lives outside of a race track
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How Verstappen and Alpine made the Sao Paulo GP into race of the year
The Sao Paulo changed the face of both F1 world championships. Adam Cooper recalls the chaos of Interlagos with Alpine race engineers Josh Peckett and John Howard
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MPH: Sainz finally has an F1 team to lead. Is it worth dropping so far down the grid?
Carlos Sainz has battled against ‘chosen’ team-mates like Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc for all his F1 career — and thrived. Now, at Williams, he finally has a team centred on him, says Mark Hughes. But the fight goes on
Great Read
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McLaren: Life after Bruce
There was a lot to think about. But Bruce Leslie McLaren — boss / designer / engineer / tester / racer — preferred it that way. Three years of his…
Great Read
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Emerson Fittipaldi: Young gun, old master
Emerson Fittipaldi’s language dates him, reminding you of a time in motor-racing more violent and dangerous, yet also gentler, less hard-nosed. ‘Dice’, for example, is a favourite word of his,…
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MPH: Assessing F1’s rookie class of 2025 – the Mark Hughes verdict
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
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Mark Hughes: Andrea Stella finally banished the ghost of 2010 Abu Dhabi disaster
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
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Mark Hughes: Piastri pass on Norris was part of McLaren’s bold strategy to foil Verstappen
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
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Jamie Chadwick shines at the Silverstone 4 Hours
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
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Return of the Portuguese GP. Is it a placeholder for another F1 street track?
Formula 1’s two-year return to Portimao may be less a long-term endorsement than a holding pattern, as the championship keeps calendar space open for future street races
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Matt Bishop: He was Williams’ first winning driver but so few know his name
Two Australian F1 drivers who came to Europe at the same time: one became world champion, the other faded from memory. But both Alan Jones and Brian McGuire have their place in racing history
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Martin Brundle reveals his F1 driver of 2025
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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