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MPH: Why Formula 1’s fastest car keeps changing hands
A season that opened with total Mercedes dominance is turning into a three-way fight for the fastest car in F1. Mark Hughes explains why
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Mario Andretti in the rain at Montreal’s 1978 season finale
October 7, 1978 Montreal, Canada With the 1978 F1 title already in the bag for Lotus’s Mario Andretti, the final round of the season saw the American finish the race…
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Alex Wurz: ‘I was proper quick but overweight Benetton damaged my reputation’
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John Watson returns to the McLaren MP4/1, 45 years after Silverstone victory
Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John Watson’s 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with McLaren Heritage test driver Rob…
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McLaren’s secret F1 wind tunnel tests: how MP4/1 took shape alongside Sting Ray torpedo
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take shape. The McLaren MP4 would famously laminate a new technology…
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How James Garner drove the F3 ‘kiddy cars’ and real F1 machinery for Grand Prix
While Brad Pitt’s F1: The Movie failed to earn anything more than a best sound Academy Award back in March, 60 years ago the seminal film Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer,…
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John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix: the making of F1’s most authentic film
“We are delighted to confirm that the filming, on the Circuit Automobile de Montagne d’Auvergne, for the film Grand Prix, will take place from July 28 to August 6, from 8am…
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George Harrison, Barry Sheene and the Nürburgring: readers revisit racing memories
Matt Bishop’s perceptive piece on the 1976 German Grand Prix and James Hunt’s victory [A frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win: the F1 victory that’s easy to forget, online, August 4]…
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BRM’s V16 and the Silverstone debut that tested British Racing Motors
It is possible that I am going to look foolish writing this the day after the Belgian Grand Prix – thanks to summer schedules and my deadline being brought forward…
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MPH: Why Formula 1’s fastest car keeps changing hands
A season that opened with total Mercedes dominance is turning into a three-way fight for the fastest car in F1. Mark Hughes explains why
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Mario Andretti in the rain at Montreal’s 1978 season finale
October 7, 1978 Montreal, Canada With the 1978 F1 title already in the bag for Lotus’s Mario Andretti, the final round of the season saw the American finish the race…
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Alex Wurz: ‘I was proper quick but overweight Benetton damaged my reputation’
There are some drivers whose careers can be measured easily in statistics, their achievements neatly catalogued in tables of wins and championships. There are others whose contribution to motor sport…
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Archive
John Watson returns to the McLaren MP4/1, 45 years after Silverstone victory
Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John Watson’s 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with McLaren Heritage test driver Rob…
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McLaren’s secret F1 wind tunnel tests: how MP4/1 took shape alongside Sting Ray torpedo
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take shape. The McLaren MP4 would famously laminate a new technology…
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Archive
How James Garner drove the F3 ‘kiddy cars’ and real F1 machinery for Grand Prix
While Brad Pitt’s F1: The Movie failed to earn anything more than a best sound Academy Award back in March, 60 years ago the seminal film Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer,…
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Archive
John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix: the making of F1’s most authentic film
“We are delighted to confirm that the filming, on the Circuit Automobile de Montagne d’Auvergne, for the film Grand Prix, will take place from July 28 to August 6, from 8am…
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George Harrison, Barry Sheene and the Nürburgring: readers revisit racing memories
Matt Bishop’s perceptive piece on the 1976 German Grand Prix and James Hunt’s victory [A frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win: the F1 victory that’s easy to forget, online, August 4]…
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BRM’s V16 and the Silverstone debut that tested British Racing Motors
It is possible that I am going to look foolish writing this the day after the Belgian Grand Prix – thanks to summer schedules and my deadline being brought forward…
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Mass frustration at the US GP – but Kimi just looked like a kid having fun
Kimi Antonelli all but secured the Formula 1 title with a champion’s drive at the 2026 United States Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. Behind him, forlorn rivals failed to make their superior pace stick
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MPH: The revelation in Horner’s book – how he turned Red Bull from no-hopers into F1 winners
Christian Horner details how he rebuilt Red Bull from the ashes of Jaguar, and hired F1’s greatest designer from under the noses of rivals in his new autobiography, Drive. Mark Hughes found it fascinating
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Mark Hughes: Did Ferrari have pace to beat Red Bull? We’ll never know…
Mark Hughes analyses how Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to victory in Singapore, and how Lewis Hamilton’s strategic gamble turned a promising Ferrari result into a costly disappointment
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Do safety cars make races boring or more exciting? Dilemma for US series as it considers cutting back cautions
When it comes to sports car racing, it’s not just the American tracks that are markedly different from most of their international counterparts. The overall philosophy used by the FIA…
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Two corners from becoming champion: Oliver Solberg’s heartbreaking crash tops the most thrilling WRC deciders
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Race leader runs out of fuel on the last lap in ‘crazy’ finish to Bathurst 1000
Who to choose for our Drive of the Month after the pure theatre and sensational finish of the Bathurst 1000 at the Mount Panorama Circuit? How about Zach Bates and…
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Desiré Wilson’s battle to be F1’s first female winner: ‘Sponsors couldn’t accept their star men being beaten by a woman’
Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race, and for all I know she may always carry that mantle. OK, her famous victory in…
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Enzo Ferrari: the making of a legend
Where their sons are concerned, mums have much to answer for. Certainly none other than Enzo Ferrari was deeply influenced, indeed in many ways shaped, by his formidable mother, Adalgisa…
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The Porsche racing cars that time forgot
1962 Porsche 804 December 1960: a gloomy silence descends on a test cell in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. A still relatively small – approximately 1250 staff – but realistically effective car company renowned…
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