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Good month, bad month – August 2024
Good Month Flav’s back Controversial playboy team boss Flavio Briatore has returned to Alpine as a special adviser – and is already rumoured to be engineering a final-hour Carlos Sainz…
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Verstappen too hasty to blame Red Bull for getting ‘everything wrong’ in Austrian GP
At the end of the first stint, I caught quite a bit of traffic and we should have just boxed because I gave up free lap time,” complained Max Verstappen…
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Audi has given an update in the development of its 2026 F1 power unit. It has reportedly completed race distance stints on the test bench in Audi’s facility in Neuburg,…
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Mercedes is flying with new F1 front wing
After a very difficult start to the season – its third in the last three years – Mercedes suddenly hit form in Canada as George Russell took pole position and…
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Mercedes returns to front of the F1 pack: 2024 Canadian, Spanish and Austrian GP report
As McLaren and Lando Norris established themselves at the front, apparently ready at any track to challenge Red Bull and Max Verstappen on raw performance, so the differences in detail…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘F1 has missed the buzz of true competition. Why will the rules change so soon?’
As we get over the first third of the 2024 F1 season I think it’s fair to conclude that the chasing pack has started to make inroads into the Red…
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ExCel Formula 1 Exhibition to focus on British talent
The Formula 1 Exhibition, an official show which has proven popular with fans around the world, is coming to London for the first time next month. The exhibition will open…
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Hamilton F1 fairytale beats any film fiction – British GP Up/down
Lewis Hamilton absolutely Crypto.com-Qatar-Airways-Workday’d his way to a 2024 British GP F1 win that would warm the cockles of even the frostiest rockstars
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Wolff’s muted congratulations shows Hamilton relationship has changed
Wolf’s reaction to Hamilton’s fairytale victory; McLaren’s struggles; F1’s new movie attention; Perez’s poor form; and Silverstone’s room for improvement. Chris Medland’s diary from the 2024 British GP paddock
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Good month, bad month – August 2024
Good Month Flav’s back Controversial playboy team boss Flavio Briatore has returned to Alpine as a special adviser – and is already rumoured to be engineering a final-hour Carlos Sainz…
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Verstappen too hasty to blame Red Bull for getting ‘everything wrong’ in Austrian GP
At the end of the first stint, I caught quite a bit of traffic and we should have just boxed because I gave up free lap time,” complained Max Verstappen…
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Word on the beat
Audi has given an update in the development of its 2026 F1 power unit. It has reportedly completed race distance stints on the test bench in Audi’s facility in Neuburg,…
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Mercedes is flying with new F1 front wing
After a very difficult start to the season – its third in the last three years – Mercedes suddenly hit form in Canada as George Russell took pole position and…
Archive
Mercedes returns to front of the F1 pack: 2024 Canadian, Spanish and Austrian GP report
As McLaren and Lando Norris established themselves at the front, apparently ready at any track to challenge Red Bull and Max Verstappen on raw performance, so the differences in detail…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘F1 has missed the buzz of true competition. Why will the rules change so soon?’
As we get over the first third of the 2024 F1 season I think it’s fair to conclude that the chasing pack has started to make inroads into the Red…
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ExCel Formula 1 Exhibition to focus on British talent
The Formula 1 Exhibition, an official show which has proven popular with fans around the world, is coming to London for the first time next month. The exhibition will open…
Opinion
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Hamilton F1 fairytale beats any film fiction – British GP Up/down
Lewis Hamilton absolutely Crypto.com-Qatar-Airways-Workday’d his way to a 2024 British GP F1 win that would warm the cockles of even the frostiest rockstars
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Wolff’s muted congratulations shows Hamilton relationship has changed
Wolf’s reaction to Hamilton’s fairytale victory; McLaren’s struggles; F1’s new movie attention; Perez’s poor form; and Silverstone’s room for improvement. Chris Medland’s diary from the 2024 British GP paddock
Standings – 2026 F1 World Championship
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Mark Hughes: The knife-edge strategy that delivered Hamilton’s Barcelona win
Mark Hughes analyses the finely poised strategic battle that underpinned Lewis Hamilton’s landmark first Ferrari victory in Barcelona
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Mark Hughes: Barcelona offers Russell the reset he desperately needs
Mark Hughes examines why Barcelona’s high-energy demands could be the perfect antidote to Russell’s Monaco misery, and why Leclerc’s brake woes are harder to solve than they appear
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MPH: Ferrari brake changes delight Hamilton but leave Leclerc angry and without feel
As Brembo pushes back against Leclerc’s public criticism, Mark Hughes traces the rift back to the moment Hamilton walked through Ferrari’s door
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Mark Hughes: why F1’s 50/50 hybrid rules were doomed by conflicting priorities
With apologies to David Byrne and Talking Heads: And you may find yourself Watching someone lift and coast And you may find yourself Watching cars slowly decelerate down the straights…
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Felix Rosenqvist edges David Malukas in closest Indianapolis 500 finish on record
May 24, 2026 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana It was a photo finish in the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 after a one-lap shootout at the close. Mick Schumacher’s…
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Why the Monaco pitlane saga may outlast its verdict
Pierre Gasly has his Monaco podium back, for now. But the measurement failure might need more answers before the issue is settled
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Does F1’s power unit compromise go far enough?
F1 has agreed a phased rebalancing of the 2026 power unit framework, but the two-year road to 60/40 raises as many questions as it answers
‘I began to cry inside my helmet’ – Jean Alesi recalls his only F1 win, 31 years on
Jean Alesi’s only Formula 1 win, the story of that Montreal afternoon remains one of the sport’s most beloved, and most bittersweet
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