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F1 set for closest season yet on 75th anniversary
F1 2025 could be the most exciting grand prix season ever – and it’ll coincide with the world championship’s 75th anniversary
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Mark Hughes: Why Newey chose Aston over Ferrari and Williams
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Sardinia’s ‘Superprix’: When F3000 rocked the streets of Cagliari
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Formula 1’s 2025 rookies
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Is Aston Martin’s £20m-a-year Adrian Newey good value? Lawrence Stroll reckons so
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F1 set for closest season yet on 75th anniversary
F1 2025 could be the most exciting grand prix season ever – and it’ll coincide with the world championship’s 75th anniversary
F1
Mark Hughes: Why Newey chose Aston over Ferrari and Williams
Adrian Newey will move from Red Bull to Aston Martin next year – in this month’s magazine, Mark Hughes analyses why F1’s greatest designer has picked ‘Team Silverstone’
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Sardinia’s ‘Superprix’: When F3000 rocked the streets of Cagliari
In 2003, Matt Bishop travelled to Sardinia to cover a Euro Formula 3000 race held on Cagliari roads – an intriguing event which added to the chequered history of Italian street circuits
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Jan Lammers: The Motor Sport Interview
Born in the seaside town of Zandvoort, not far from the famous circuit, Jan Lammers has done so much to raise the profile of Dutch racing drivers, long before the…
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Formula 1’s 2025 rookies
After an off-season that saw the entire 2023 Formula 1 entry list transferred to 2024 unchanged there has been a lot more driver market activity over the course of this…
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Motorcycle legend Mick Doohan on why son Jack is the right man for Alpine
Amid the inevitable noise around the impending arrival of Andrea Kimi Antonelli on the Formula 1 grid his fellow 2025 rookie Jack Doohan landed an Alpine seat – replacing Esteban…
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Is Aston Martin’s £20m-a-year Adrian Newey good value? Lawrence Stroll reckons so
Adrian Newey could have gone anywhere – but he’s gone to Aston Martin, the Silverstone-based outfit which started life as Jordan Grand Prix 33 years ago. Part of the team…
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Why COTA and Las Vegas will deliver first-rate F1 racing — and challenge drivers
COTA This is one of the most interesting layouts out of the wave of modern tracks that have joined the F1 calendar in the past 15 years. The designers have…
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The two faces of F1: why Austin and Las Vegas Grands Prix are chalk and cheese
Two grands prix in the same country, separated by a month, different time zones and 1200 miles. Yet for what they represent in Formula 1, the Circuit of the Americas…
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