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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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Good month, bad month: Who’s on the up and who’s on the slide in F1
GOOD MONTH Old dog, Newey tricks Adrian Newey has jumped ship to Aston for an eye-watering £30m-a-year and shares in the team, potentially making him F1’s first billionaire engineer.…
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How McLaren was outwitted by a wily Ferrari F1 team at Monza
Utilising its car’s easiness on the front tyres, Ferrari used strategy to help Charles Leclerc deliver a home victory at Monza. Stopping only once, he gained track position over the…
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λ Red Bull has reshuffled some roles within its team in the wake of the imminent departure of sporting director Jonathan Wheatley for his new role as Sauber principal. Max…
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McLaren says it’s delighted that mini-DRS controversy is distracting rivals
As Oscar Piastri fended off the attacks of Charles Leclerc for most of the second half of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the rearwards-facing camera of the McLaren got a lot…
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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…
Archive
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…
Archive
Good month, bad month: Who’s on the up and who’s on the slide in F1
GOOD MONTH Old dog, Newey tricks Adrian Newey has jumped ship to Aston for an eye-watering £30m-a-year and shares in the team, potentially making him F1’s first billionaire engineer.…
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How McLaren was outwitted by a wily Ferrari F1 team at Monza
Utilising its car’s easiness on the front tyres, Ferrari used strategy to help Charles Leclerc deliver a home victory at Monza. Stopping only once, he gained track position over the…
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Word on the beat
λ Red Bull has reshuffled some roles within its team in the wake of the imminent departure of sporting director Jonathan Wheatley for his new role as Sauber principal. Max…
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McLaren says it’s delighted that mini-DRS controversy is distracting rivals
As Oscar Piastri fended off the attacks of Charles Leclerc for most of the second half of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the rearwards-facing camera of the McLaren got a lot…
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MPH: Decoded – why Russell and Piastri can’t keep up with their F1 team-mates
Hungary revealed how wind and worn tarmac are rewriting the rules of 2026 F1 performance, and why some of the grid’s best drivers are struggling to keep up. Mark Hughes explains
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Formula 1 2026 half-term report. Every driver rated – who deserves an A+?
Kimi Antonelli Astonishing progression from his patchy and underprepared rookie season. Yes, he’s in the best car but he’s doing things with it that stand comparison with the finest. In…
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‘Kimi Antonelli was 11 when I saw him race. He amazed me’: when Mercedes’ talent scout discovered the F1 sensation
To call Gwen Lagrue a ’scout’ is reductive. Identifying talent is just part of the equation; he supplements that by developing it, playing a central role in nurturing a plethora…
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Kimi Antonelli’s mid-season charge reshapes Formula 1’s 2026 title fight
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
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Madring’s La Monumental gives Madrid’s new F1 circuit a distinctive challenge
There was a time when circuit corner names were utilitarian labels, nothing more. Even for the greatest curves, inspiration was drawn from local landmarks or topography: think of Eau Rouge…
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Scott Dixon leaves Ganassi after 25 years as Arrow McLaren reshapes its IndyCar future
The 2025 IndyCar championship was a snoozer, as Álex Palou clinched the title with several rounds remaining. The most compelling storyline in the closing weeks of the season was whether…
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‘It was the day Niki Lauda almost died. Who remembers a frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win?’
Niki Lauda’s blazing Ferrari cast a pall over the 1976 German Grand Prix, so it’s easy to overlook what happened in the F1 race. Matt Bishop recognises James Hunt’s masterful and brave victory at the Nürburgring
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The Beatle who predicted F1’s TV boom decades early
Long before Drive to Survive, an ex-Beatle and lifelong racing obsessive told Barry Sheene how F1 would find its biggest audience
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The bizarre bug that cost Frentzen his F1 title shot – and why he’s made peace with it
A software bug cost Heinz-Harald Frentzen his best shot at the world title, but he explains why it never actually cost him much at all
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