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Why F1’s 2027 silly season stopped being silly
F1’s 2027 grid was supposed to be shaken up by new rules – instead, almost nobody is moving
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Podcast: Will McLaren’s secret weakness end its winning run?
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What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
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Why McLaren’s Zandvoort set-up allowed Lando Norris to beat Antonelli
Netherlands August 21-23 Lando Norris made it two grand prix wins on the trot with victory for McLaren in a dramatic and ever-twisting-and-turning Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. The race…
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What the FIA’s ADUO verdict confirms about Red Bull’s problem
F1’s benchmark engine continues to be no match to its rivals on track, and the FIA’s latest verdict has confirmed there’s no relief coming soon
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Karun Chandhok: McLaren’s pace puts Norris back in the F1 title fight
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
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Mercedes’ money problem: real constraint, or convenient excuse?
Antonelli and Russell have conceded the pace fight. Wolff says the money isn’t there to respond – but not everyone in the paddock is convinced
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MPH: Lawson’s Zandvoort showing leaves Red Bull with tough questions
Standing in for Hadjar at Zandvoort, Lawson made a strong case for himself with a very solid weekend. Now Red Bull will need to make some difficult decisions, writes Mark Hughes
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The sensational Zandvoort drive overshadowed by Villeneuve’s two-wheeled lap
As Formula 1 bids farewell to Zandvoort, Matt Bishop revisits a boozy Imola dinner from 2001 and reopens an old argument: was Gilles Villeneuve’s legendary two-wheeled lap really the greatest drive the circuit ever saw?
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Execution vs indecision: The strategy gap between Mercedes and Ferrari
At Zandvoort, Mercedes showed how decisive team orders should look. Ferrari showed, again, what happens without them
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Why F1’s 2027 silly season stopped being silly
F1’s 2027 grid was supposed to be shaken up by new rules – instead, almost nobody is moving
F1 Show
Podcast: Will McLaren’s secret weakness end its winning run?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
Subscriber
Archive
Why McLaren’s Zandvoort set-up allowed Lando Norris to beat Antonelli
Netherlands August 21-23 Lando Norris made it two grand prix wins on the trot with victory for McLaren in a dramatic and ever-twisting-and-turning Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. The race…
F1
What the FIA’s ADUO verdict confirms about Red Bull’s problem
F1’s benchmark engine continues to be no match to its rivals on track, and the FIA’s latest verdict has confirmed there’s no relief coming soon
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Karun Chandhok: McLaren’s pace puts Norris back in the F1 title fight
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
F1
Mercedes’ money problem: real constraint, or convenient excuse?
Antonelli and Russell have conceded the pace fight. Wolff says the money isn’t there to respond – but not everyone in the paddock is convinced
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MPH: Lawson’s Zandvoort showing leaves Red Bull with tough questions
Standing in for Hadjar at Zandvoort, Lawson made a strong case for himself with a very solid weekend. Now Red Bull will need to make some difficult decisions, writes Mark Hughes
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The sensational Zandvoort drive overshadowed by Villeneuve’s two-wheeled lap
As Formula 1 bids farewell to Zandvoort, Matt Bishop revisits a boozy Imola dinner from 2001 and reopens an old argument: was Gilles Villeneuve’s legendary two-wheeled lap really the greatest drive the circuit ever saw?
F1
Execution vs indecision: The strategy gap between Mercedes and Ferrari
At Zandvoort, Mercedes showed how decisive team orders should look. Ferrari showed, again, what happens without them
Standings – 2026 F1 World Championship
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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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Jackie Stewart wins at the Nürburgring as Fittipaldi finishes sixth
August 5, 1973 Nürburgring, West Germany A busy scene in the Lotus garage at the 1973 German Grand Prix, Round 11 of 15 of the F1 World Championship. Drivers Emerson…
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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
5. 2003: Solberg vs Loeb vs Sainz Subaru’s Norwegian star Petter Solberg, above – ‘Hollywood’ – lay a point adrift of Citroën pair Carlos Sainz and Sébastien Loeb going into…
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Felipe Massa’s 2009 crash tested the resilience of a Richard Mille watch
It was back in 2009 when Felipe Massa suffered life-threatening injuries during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, losing control of his Ferrari at 175mph as a result of being…
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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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