F1’s 2026 development ban: how FIA stops teams from cheating
The 2026 F1 rules are now close to being finalised, but teams are banned from working on them until the start of 2025 – here’s how the FIA stops any competitors from jumping the gun
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Thai royal Prince ‘B Bira’ was an accomplished racer, an aviator, an Olympian and gifted artist. And yet, after a life of adventure, he died anonymously at a London Tube station, as Matt Bishop recounts
Loud, brash, controversial and devastatingly successful – Red Bull has trod its own winning path over 20 years in F1. Some of its key players look back on two decades of racing with James Elson
Mercedes’ return to competitiveness has been a hard and gruelling journey. Key figures from the team tell Motor Sport what went wrong and how it clawed its way back to the front
F1 heads to Hungary this weekend for a 70-lap tour of the Hungaroring — a circuit which often delivers plenty of racing action despite its narrow street-like nature. Viewers in…
In this month’s magazine, Karun Chandhok takes the Lotus 49 to the Hethel test track to find out why it’s the Race Car of the Century
One has the jitters, one has hope after years of agonising defeat and the other is struggling to keep up. Mark Hughes analyses how three key figures on the F1 grid are trying to overcome their confidence crises
Adrian Newey is heralded by many as the greatest F1 designer of all time. But what makes him so special? Cambridge Kisby identifies a common theme amongst his title-winning drivers that may provide an answer
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was the team boss, engineer and innovator who pushed design to the limits – read the Motor Sport profile
The 2026 F1 rules are now close to being finalised, but teams are banned from working on them until the start of 2025 – here’s how the FIA stops any competitors from jumping the gun
Thai royal Prince ‘B Bira’ was an accomplished racer, an aviator, an Olympian and gifted artist. And yet, after a life of adventure, he died anonymously at a London Tube station, as Matt Bishop recounts
Loud, brash, controversial and devastatingly successful – Red Bull has trod its own winning path over 20 years in F1. Some of its key players look back on two decades of racing with James Elson
Mercedes’ return to competitiveness has been a hard and gruelling journey. Key figures from the team tell Motor Sport what went wrong and how it clawed its way back to the front
F1 heads to Hungary this weekend for a 70-lap tour of the Hungaroring — a circuit which often delivers plenty of racing action despite its narrow street-like nature. Viewers in…
In this month’s magazine, Karun Chandhok takes the Lotus 49 to the Hethel test track to find out why it’s the Race Car of the Century
One has the jitters, one has hope after years of agonising defeat and the other is struggling to keep up. Mark Hughes analyses how three key figures on the F1 grid are trying to overcome their confidence crises
Adrian Newey is heralded by many as the greatest F1 designer of all time. But what makes him so special? Cambridge Kisby identifies a common theme amongst his title-winning drivers that may provide an answer
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was the team boss, engineer and innovator who pushed design to the limits – read the Motor Sport profile
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
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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
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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?
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