McLaren says it’s delighted that mini-DRS controversy is distracting rivals
As Oscar Piastri fended off the attacks of Charles Leclerc for most of the second half of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the rearwards-facing camera of the McLaren got a lot…
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McLaren’s prospects of beating Red Bull to the world constructors’ championship were becoming quite realistic as we came into this three-race sequence. The MCL38 was being developed into an ever-quicker…
It’s fair to say that since Miami, every single grand prix has been good to watch. The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was an enthralling contest with the jeopardy of a street…
Elsewhere in this issue you will find my review of the Aston Martin Vantage, and suffice to say here it is a fairly impressive machine… But the magazine will be…
More than most seasons of the past, there’s a real volatility of competitiveness in Formula 1 this year; the fall of Red Bull, McLaren’s changing fortunes, the strange yo-yoing form…
Jeremy Clarkson, strangely, called it early, when he said at the British GP that his fellow old Reptonian was house hunting in Oxfordshire, not Maranello. At the time the speculation…
The F1 performance advantage in the modern ground effect era changes from week to week – but no team can truly work out why, writes Mark Hughes
Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 career looks to be at an end with the news that he will be replaced immediately at RB, just over a year after returning to the…
Back in 1996 I stood with John Surtees above the Albert Park pits in Melbourne, watching the Australian Grand Prix, freshly relocated from Adelaide. We were gawping up at a…
As Oscar Piastri fended off the attacks of Charles Leclerc for most of the second half of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the rearwards-facing camera of the McLaren got a lot…
McLaren’s prospects of beating Red Bull to the world constructors’ championship were becoming quite realistic as we came into this three-race sequence. The MCL38 was being developed into an ever-quicker…
It’s fair to say that since Miami, every single grand prix has been good to watch. The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was an enthralling contest with the jeopardy of a street…
Elsewhere in this issue you will find my review of the Aston Martin Vantage, and suffice to say here it is a fairly impressive machine… But the magazine will be…
More than most seasons of the past, there’s a real volatility of competitiveness in Formula 1 this year; the fall of Red Bull, McLaren’s changing fortunes, the strange yo-yoing form…
Jeremy Clarkson, strangely, called it early, when he said at the British GP that his fellow old Reptonian was house hunting in Oxfordshire, not Maranello. At the time the speculation…
The F1 performance advantage in the modern ground effect era changes from week to week – but no team can truly work out why, writes Mark Hughes
Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 career looks to be at an end with the news that he will be replaced immediately at RB, just over a year after returning to the…
Back in 1996 I stood with John Surtees above the Albert Park pits in Melbourne, watching the Australian Grand Prix, freshly relocated from Adelaide. We were gawping up at a…
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
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
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
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…
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
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
Alain Prost has given his view on Renault exiting F1 as an engine manufacturer
Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s has now been re-elected as FIA president, after a controversial first term. But how did he become the first non-European president in the FIA’s history?
Cadillac is in a race against time to get its new F1 car ready for 2026 – sim driver Pietro Fittipaldi explains how it’s running in the virtual world first
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