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What is Formula 1’s rookie race?
A grid full of aspiring Formula 1 drivers was set to go head-to-head around Yas Marina this winter, in an event dubbed the ‘rookie race’. The concept would see eligible…
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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
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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What is Formula 1’s rookie race?
A grid full of aspiring Formula 1 drivers was set to go head-to-head around Yas Marina this winter, in an event dubbed the ‘rookie race’. The concept would see eligible…
F1
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
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’
F1
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
Archive
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…
Archive
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…
Archive
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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MPH: Did Piastri really sabotage Norris’s qualifying? The paranoia of F1’s towing game
A perfectly executed tow gave Pierre Gasly pole at Monza, but behind it lay a familiar F1 story of team-mate distrust, which is sometimes justified, as Mark Hughes explains
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Mark Hughes: The new Jim Clark? Antonelli’s Monza win was one of the greatest F1 has seen
The power unit, the passing zones, the red flag – strip them all away and what’s left is still one of the greatest drives in F1 history. Mark Hughes analyses Kimi Antonelli’s Monza masterclass
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Mark Hughes: Monza tow is worth a massive 1.5sec – prepare for F1 qualifying controversy
Under 2026’s energy-starved rules, Monza’s tow is way too valuable, and that, Mark Hughes writes, is set to make controversial qualifying shenanigans for the 2026 Italian Grand Prix almost inevitable
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McLaren’s short gearing explains its Zandvoort advantage over Mercedes
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
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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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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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‘I didn’t expect to survive my career’ – The last man alive from Monza’s greatest finish
Kimi Antonelli’s stunning Monza victory sent Matt Bishop back to 1971’s legendary five-car photo finish – and to Howden Ganley, the last man alive from that
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John Watson: ‘It takes a racer to win from the back. Kimi is outstanding’
Kimi Antonelli’s F1 victory from 19th on the grid at Monza was sensational. Now John Watson, who won a grand prix after starting a record-breaking 22nd, rates the drive
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‘Devastating’ Monza was really just a reality check for Ferrari
Lewis Hamilton called Monza “a bit devastating.” But a self-inflicted collision and a missed pit window don’t change the fact that Ferrari hasn’t looked like a real title contender for a while
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