Is Adrian Newey worth £30m a year? F1 drivers explain why he is
Adrian Newey will transfer to Aston Martin for an unprecedented fee – is he worth it? Current and past F1 drivers explain what makes him so valuable to any team
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Niki Lauda was on course to win the F1 title for Ferrari by the time of the 1977 Italian GP but, after announcing he’d be leaving the team, the tifosi booed him before a fascinating race as he battled Mario Andretti, team-mate Carlos Reutemann, and old foe James Hunt
Adrian Newey’s arrival at the Aston Martin F1 team makes him the biggest name in Lawrence Stroll’s recently assembled all-star engineering line-up
Adrian Newey has been at the forefront of F1 design for over forty years – Motor Sport celebrates one of grand prix racing’s greatest car designers
Having a state-of-the-art wind tunnel is still crucial to F1 development – particularly with the 2026 rule changes. McLaren’s latest facility has helped it back to the front, and Aston Martin is hoping to do the same
Red Bull finds itself with an overly complex 2024 F1 car that even Max Verstappen can’t overcome – does it turn back, or risk going into a development dead end?
The first world title 1963 The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet Scottish hill farmer delivered on…
We’ve noted before the potency of the motor-racing gene, the father-and-son successions such as the Hills and the Villeneuves, and dynasties from the Unsers to the Andrettis. More rarely, a…
Two drivers, almost a century apart, lit up the Monza timesheet then crashed heavily on their GP weekend debuts. Mark Hughes compares Kimi Antonelli’s spectacular drive for Mercedes with another superstar’s appearance in 1925
Adrian Newey will transfer to Aston Martin for an unprecedented fee – is he worth it? Current and past F1 drivers explain what makes him so valuable to any team
Niki Lauda was on course to win the F1 title for Ferrari by the time of the 1977 Italian GP but, after announcing he’d be leaving the team, the tifosi booed him before a fascinating race as he battled Mario Andretti, team-mate Carlos Reutemann, and old foe James Hunt
Adrian Newey’s arrival at the Aston Martin F1 team makes him the biggest name in Lawrence Stroll’s recently assembled all-star engineering line-up
Adrian Newey has been at the forefront of F1 design for over forty years – Motor Sport celebrates one of grand prix racing’s greatest car designers
Having a state-of-the-art wind tunnel is still crucial to F1 development – particularly with the 2026 rule changes. McLaren’s latest facility has helped it back to the front, and Aston Martin is hoping to do the same
Red Bull finds itself with an overly complex 2024 F1 car that even Max Verstappen can’t overcome – does it turn back, or risk going into a development dead end?
The first world title 1963 The year of Profumo, great train robbers, ‘loveable mop tops’ – and the grassy knoll. In its midst, a quiet Scottish hill farmer delivered on…
We’ve noted before the potency of the motor-racing gene, the father-and-son successions such as the Hills and the Villeneuves, and dynasties from the Unsers to the Andrettis. More rarely, a…
Two drivers, almost a century apart, lit up the Monza timesheet then crashed heavily on their GP weekend debuts. Mark Hughes compares Kimi Antonelli’s spectacular drive for Mercedes with another superstar’s appearance in 1925
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…
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
After three grand prix wins from three poles, Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff is struggling to contain expectations about Kimi Antonelli
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