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2025 Bahrain GP start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
The 2025 Formula 1 season is set to hot up in Sakhir – watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix
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Räikkönen’s sensational Suzuka ’05 win: Japan’s greatest race?
Twenty years ago, Kimi Räikkonen put in one of the finest drives of his Formula 1 career at Suzuka to win from 17th on the grid. Matt Bishop looks back at an awe-inspiring performance
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Bruce McLaren: The Man Behind The Marque
Ambition is a funny thing. For some it burns so bright it sears a lasting scar on their personalities. Others look as if they don’t have a scrap of it…
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Lap of the Gods: Ayrton Senna’s stunning start at Donington ’93
The image is clear in my mind’s eye: a ball of first-lap spray containing two Williams-Renaults, Karl Wendlinger’s Sauber, Michael Schumacher’s Benetton and Ayrton Senna’s trim McLaren MP4/8 tagging on…
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How McLaren crafted James Hunt’s title-winning, underrated M23 F1 car
Formula 1 in 1973 boiled down to Lotus versus Tyrrell: Lithe and balanced 72 versus stubby and twitchy 005-006. But were either the best car of the season? Silverstone that…
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F1 snore-fest shows new cars badly needed: Up/Down Japanese GP
The 2025 Japanese GP showed a much more extreme change than next year’s technical regulations is needed to make racing at classic F1 tracks interesting
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Verstappen now the F1 title favourite? Japanese GP takeaways
Is Verstappen could be F1 title favourite after his Japanese GP win; McLaren might already need to back one of its drivers; question marks over whether Red Bull made the right choice with Tsunoda. These are the main takeaways from Suzuka
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Gallery: the best 2025 Japanese GP fan outfits in Suzuka
Take a look at some of the best F1 fan outfits from the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix – from replica race suits and helmets to homemade hats
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Mark Hughes: How Verstappen cracked the McLaren code in Japan
McLaren’s dominance came to an end in Japan as Max Verstappen put on a masterclass to show the Woking team’s seasons will not be the cakewalk some suspected. Here’s how the world champion defeated his rivals
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2025 Bahrain GP start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
The 2025 Formula 1 season is set to hot up in Sakhir – watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix
F1
Räikkönen’s sensational Suzuka ’05 win: Japan’s greatest race?
Twenty years ago, Kimi Räikkonen put in one of the finest drives of his Formula 1 career at Suzuka to win from 17th on the grid. Matt Bishop looks back at an awe-inspiring performance
Great Read
Archive
Bruce McLaren: The Man Behind The Marque
Ambition is a funny thing. For some it burns so bright it sears a lasting scar on their personalities. Others look as if they don’t have a scrap of it…
Great Read
Archive
Lap of the Gods: Ayrton Senna’s stunning start at Donington ’93
The image is clear in my mind’s eye: a ball of first-lap spray containing two Williams-Renaults, Karl Wendlinger’s Sauber, Michael Schumacher’s Benetton and Ayrton Senna’s trim McLaren MP4/8 tagging on…
Great Read
Archive
How McLaren crafted James Hunt’s title-winning, underrated M23 F1 car
Formula 1 in 1973 boiled down to Lotus versus Tyrrell: Lithe and balanced 72 versus stubby and twitchy 005-006. But were either the best car of the season? Silverstone that…
Opinion
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F1 snore-fest shows new cars badly needed: Up/Down Japanese GP
The 2025 Japanese GP showed a much more extreme change than next year’s technical regulations is needed to make racing at classic F1 tracks interesting
F1
Verstappen now the F1 title favourite? Japanese GP takeaways
Is Verstappen could be F1 title favourite after his Japanese GP win; McLaren might already need to back one of its drivers; question marks over whether Red Bull made the right choice with Tsunoda. These are the main takeaways from Suzuka
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Gallery: the best 2025 Japanese GP fan outfits in Suzuka
Take a look at some of the best F1 fan outfits from the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix – from replica race suits and helmets to homemade hats
F1
Mark Hughes: How Verstappen cracked the McLaren code in Japan
McLaren’s dominance came to an end in Japan as Max Verstappen put on a masterclass to show the Woking team’s seasons will not be the cakewalk some suspected. Here’s how the world champion defeated his rivals
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Mark Hughes: Barcelona offers Russell the reset he desperately needs
Mark Hughes examines why Barcelona’s high-energy demands could be the perfect antidote to Russell’s Monaco misery, and why Leclerc’s brake woes are harder to solve than they appear
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MPH: Ferrari brake changes delight Hamilton but leave Leclerc angry and without feel
As Brembo pushes back against Leclerc’s public criticism, Mark Hughes traces the rift back to the moment Hamilton walked through Ferrari’s door
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F1’s next great force: Antonelli makes history in Monaco with gut punch to Russell
Kimi Antonelli’s outstanding Monaco GP victory was worthy of the legendary drivers who have won in Monte Carlo, writes Mark Hughes. At the same time, team-mate George Russell’s form is disintegrating
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Mark Hughes: why F1’s 50/50 hybrid rules were doomed by conflicting priorities
With apologies to David Byrne and Talking Heads: And you may find yourself Watching someone lift and coast And you may find yourself Watching cars slowly decelerate down the straights…
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Felix Rosenqvist edges David Malukas in closest Indianapolis 500 finish on record
May 24, 2026 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana It was a photo finish in the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 after a one-lap shootout at the close. Mick Schumacher’s…
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Does F1’s power unit compromise go far enough?
F1 has agreed a phased rebalancing of the 2026 power unit framework, but the two-year road to 60/40 raises as many questions as it answers
‘I began to cry inside my helmet’ – Jean Alesi recalls his only F1 win, 31 years on
Jean Alesi’s only Formula 1 win, the story of that Montreal afternoon remains one of the sport’s most beloved, and most bittersweet
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2026 Barcelona-Catalunya GP start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya GP
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