1973 F1 season: Mutton-chopped grid drive through F1’s hairiest era
Few knew: ‘Uncle Ken’, firm of handshake and belief, kept a mean secret; and, with views to his past, present and, wisely, future, Jackie Stewart had let a couple of…
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I’d been in the world 14 years and one month when, on January 4, 1967, I watched Donald Campbell’s fatal Bluebird somersault on Coniston Water, on our black and white…
What’s blue-and-white and red all under? John Surtees’ Ferrari 158 wore North America’s racing colours at a topsy-turvy Mexico City decider, its welfare ostensibly catered for by influential US importer…
Faulty steps and tragic dark shadows cast the still-young world championship in a peculiar and troubled light, especially from this distance of 66 years. This was also a season that…
Formula 1 is back to its best in 2024. But does that means this season should be bracketed among the most outstanding in the world championship’s near-75 years? That we…
Lewis Hamilton last said farewell to a Formula 1 team 12 years ago, after his final race for McLaren in Brazil. Matt Bishop recalls an emotional goodbye
The triple-header across the Americas was an intense period for the Formula 1 circus. So much seemed to happen both on and off the track that on reflection it’s actually…
Dan Fallows has been released from his position of technical director at Aston Martin after a very disappointing season for the F1 team. He will “remain with the group”, his…
In the new book Inside Mercedes F1: Life in the Fast Lane by Matt Whyman, Toto Wolff says that he liked the situation of Lewis Hamilton informing him at the…
Few knew: ‘Uncle Ken’, firm of handshake and belief, kept a mean secret; and, with views to his past, present and, wisely, future, Jackie Stewart had let a couple of…
I’d been in the world 14 years and one month when, on January 4, 1967, I watched Donald Campbell’s fatal Bluebird somersault on Coniston Water, on our black and white…
What’s blue-and-white and red all under? John Surtees’ Ferrari 158 wore North America’s racing colours at a topsy-turvy Mexico City decider, its welfare ostensibly catered for by influential US importer…
Faulty steps and tragic dark shadows cast the still-young world championship in a peculiar and troubled light, especially from this distance of 66 years. This was also a season that…
Formula 1 is back to its best in 2024. But does that means this season should be bracketed among the most outstanding in the world championship’s near-75 years? That we…
Lewis Hamilton last said farewell to a Formula 1 team 12 years ago, after his final race for McLaren in Brazil. Matt Bishop recalls an emotional goodbye
The triple-header across the Americas was an intense period for the Formula 1 circus. So much seemed to happen both on and off the track that on reflection it’s actually…
Dan Fallows has been released from his position of technical director at Aston Martin after a very disappointing season for the F1 team. He will “remain with the group”, his…
In the new book Inside Mercedes F1: Life in the Fast Lane by Matt Whyman, Toto Wolff says that he liked the situation of Lewis Hamilton informing him at the…
Outperformed in Miami, George Russell fell further behind his teenage team-mate Kimi Antonelli in the F1 title race. It makes the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix vital for his championship hopes, says Mark Hughes, even though there’s a long season ahead
With the leading Formula 1 cars closely matched on pace, the 2026 Miami Grand Prix delivered an exciting race where driver pace and team strategy made the difference. But why the big gap between front-running team-mates?
The F1 season resumes in Miami this weekend with an even more complex set of rules. It’s a welcome attempt to improve the racing, but just goes to show that the fundamental problems remain unsolved. Mark Hughes explains
October 7, 2016 Suzuka, Japan By Round 17, Nico Rosberg led Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 23 points. Here’s Rosberg in practice dramatically demonstrating the concept of lateral load transfer.…
I raced in Formula 1 for five years at a dangerous time when you knew that at least one driver on average would probably be killed or maimed each year.…
Ferrari is bidding for a fourth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours win this year. Or to put it another way, to continue an unbeaten run since it ended its 50-year exile from…
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Formula 1 cars are set to sound great again! Why there’s now enough support to scrap current power units in favour of screaming V8s. Plus: George Russell’s big problem
Four races into a new era that took years and hundreds of millions of pounds of power unit development, Formula 1 is already talking about the next one with V8 engines at its core
An ageing champion, an ugly Brabham, and a revolutionary gas-turbine Lotus conspired to produce one of motor sport’s most enchanting afternoons at the 1971 International Trophy, as Matt Bishop recounts
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