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Toto Wolff admits: ‘We made a mistake with George Russell’
“We have to take our disqualification on the chin,” read a statement from Toto Wolff, after George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix-winning Mercedes was found to be 1.5kg underweight after the…
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Mercedes and McLaren take the Bull by the horns: British, Hungarian and Belgian GP report
The last three races before Formula 1’s summer break were a confirmation of the new competitive hierarchy, one in which McLaren was the team to beat after years of Red…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘It’s been brilliant to see seven different F1 winners’
The Formula 1 season heads into the summer break after a demanding run of five races in six weekends. While 2024 started off in a dominant way for Max Verstappen,…
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MPH: Why Sainz couldn’t wait on the whim of Verstappen any longer
With uncertainty at Red Bull and Mercedes, Carlos Sainz stalled his F1 contract negotiations for as long as he could. In the end, writes Mark Hughes, he had to sign with Williams or risk seeing Valtteri Bottas take the seat
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Showboating and ‘water-cooled brakes’ — when F1 had to clamp down on weight limits
George Russell’s disqualification from the 2024 Belgian GP showed there’s no leeway when it comes to F1 weight limits. As Mark Hughes recalls, it’s been that way since the shenanigans of 1982 which were tinged with tragedy
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Emerson Fittipaldi: The worst car I ever drove – Lotus 56B
When a driver has raced at the highest level for more than a quarter of a century, choosing his least favourite car is not easy. But Emerson Fittipaldi ponders our…
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Niki Lauda: The worst car I ever drove – March 721X
It was the one time I needed not to get into a bad car. It was 1972 and I’d bought my way into Formula 1 with March; I’d agreed to…
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Troubled soul Luigi Musso: ‘the only Italian who mattered in GP racing’
On Sunday, while George Russell was apparently winning the Belgian Grand Prix, albeit soon to be disqualified with the result that Lewis Hamilton would inherit the victory, those of you…
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Word on the beat
There is a proposal for a junior driver F1 race to take place at Abu Dhabi after the final grand prix of the year. It would be an extension of…
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Toto Wolff admits: ‘We made a mistake with George Russell’
“We have to take our disqualification on the chin,” read a statement from Toto Wolff, after George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix-winning Mercedes was found to be 1.5kg underweight after the…
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Mercedes and McLaren take the Bull by the horns: British, Hungarian and Belgian GP report
The last three races before Formula 1’s summer break were a confirmation of the new competitive hierarchy, one in which McLaren was the team to beat after years of Red…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘It’s been brilliant to see seven different F1 winners’
The Formula 1 season heads into the summer break after a demanding run of five races in six weekends. While 2024 started off in a dominant way for Max Verstappen,…
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MPH: Why Sainz couldn’t wait on the whim of Verstappen any longer
With uncertainty at Red Bull and Mercedes, Carlos Sainz stalled his F1 contract negotiations for as long as he could. In the end, writes Mark Hughes, he had to sign with Williams or risk seeing Valtteri Bottas take the seat
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Showboating and ‘water-cooled brakes’ — when F1 had to clamp down on weight limits
George Russell’s disqualification from the 2024 Belgian GP showed there’s no leeway when it comes to F1 weight limits. As Mark Hughes recalls, it’s been that way since the shenanigans of 1982 which were tinged with tragedy
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Emerson Fittipaldi: The worst car I ever drove – Lotus 56B
When a driver has raced at the highest level for more than a quarter of a century, choosing his least favourite car is not easy. But Emerson Fittipaldi ponders our…
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Niki Lauda: The worst car I ever drove – March 721X
It was the one time I needed not to get into a bad car. It was 1972 and I’d bought my way into Formula 1 with March; I’d agreed to…
F1
Troubled soul Luigi Musso: ‘the only Italian who mattered in GP racing’
On Sunday, while George Russell was apparently winning the Belgian Grand Prix, albeit soon to be disqualified with the result that Lewis Hamilton would inherit the victory, those of you…
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MPH: Antonelli is ravaging Russell’s golden chance of F1 title — Canada is critical
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
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Mark Hughes: Miami’s F1 team-mate divide – why driver pace made the difference
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?
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Mark Hughes: Ever-more complex F1 rules expose just how flawed they are
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
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Nico Rosberg celebrates victory at Suzuka in 2016
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.…
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Derek Daly: why the numbers prove Williams sabotaged my 1982 F1 season for Rosberg
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.…
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Ferrari’s bid for four straight Le Mans wins faces a tougher field and stricter BoP rules
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…
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V8 engines set for F1 comeback – why it’s really expected to happen
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
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The uncomfortable reality beneath Ben Sulayem’s V8 engine promise
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
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When Silverstone was still gloriously mad: Graham Hill’s last hurrah
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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