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Jody Scheckter’s wild ride to the top of F1
Jody Scheckter went through an F1 transformation like few others. Branded a grand prix enfant terrible when he debuted in 1972, seven years later Scheckter was the sure hand on…
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Good month, bad month – July 2024
GOOD Classic tracks Imola was sweet relief for racing eyes after Bahrain/Shanghai/Miami –“I wish we had 24 of these on the calendar,” said Verstappen. Overalls historique Full respect to…
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One lap from victory? The story of Lando Norris’s Imola charge
Although the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola was a fairly standard one-stop event and there was no safety car interruption for once, the strategy intrigue wasn’t so much about pitstop…
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Word on the beat – July 2024
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali recently questioned F1’s power unit direction, saying that for 2030, “It is a personal consideration of mine, not yet shared with the teams, even if we…
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Why Max Verstappen was out of luck with Miami GP safety car
The Miami Grand Prix safety car for the Kevin Magnussen/Logan Sargeant accident was decisive in vaulting Lando Norris to the front and the foundation of his first grand prix victory.…
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Three GPs and three different winners: 2024 Miami, Imola and Monaco F1 race reports
Ferrari senior engineer Jock Clear was asked recently if he thought Red Bull was beatable. His reply was as follows: “We know how big the gap to Red Bull is…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘In Miami, Lando Norris took a popular F1 win’
It’s been brilliant to watch Lando Norris finally take his first win. As he and the McLaren team have progressed over the past couple of seasons, it feels like the…
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MPH: Red Bull’s Achilles heel revealed — now for an F1 title fight?
A familiar trait impacted Red Bull’s performance in Monaco. But will it be enough for either Ferrari or McLaren to legitimately challenge for an F1 title? Mark Hughes analyses their chances
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Monaco ’24 shows Hamilton/Alonso paranoia alive and well – like 2007
Competitive paranoia told Lewis Hamilton that he could have secured sixth at the 2024 Monaco GP — had Mercedes told him so. But as Mark Hughes remembers, the Briton had seen a similar scenario before
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Jody Scheckter’s wild ride to the top of F1
Jody Scheckter went through an F1 transformation like few others. Branded a grand prix enfant terrible when he debuted in 1972, seven years later Scheckter was the sure hand on…
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Good month, bad month – July 2024
GOOD Classic tracks Imola was sweet relief for racing eyes after Bahrain/Shanghai/Miami –“I wish we had 24 of these on the calendar,” said Verstappen. Overalls historique Full respect to…
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One lap from victory? The story of Lando Norris’s Imola charge
Although the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola was a fairly standard one-stop event and there was no safety car interruption for once, the strategy intrigue wasn’t so much about pitstop…
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Word on the beat – July 2024
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali recently questioned F1’s power unit direction, saying that for 2030, “It is a personal consideration of mine, not yet shared with the teams, even if we…
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Why Max Verstappen was out of luck with Miami GP safety car
The Miami Grand Prix safety car for the Kevin Magnussen/Logan Sargeant accident was decisive in vaulting Lando Norris to the front and the foundation of his first grand prix victory.…
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Three GPs and three different winners: 2024 Miami, Imola and Monaco F1 race reports
Ferrari senior engineer Jock Clear was asked recently if he thought Red Bull was beatable. His reply was as follows: “We know how big the gap to Red Bull is…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘In Miami, Lando Norris took a popular F1 win’
It’s been brilliant to watch Lando Norris finally take his first win. As he and the McLaren team have progressed over the past couple of seasons, it feels like the…
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MPH: Red Bull’s Achilles heel revealed — now for an F1 title fight?
A familiar trait impacted Red Bull’s performance in Monaco. But will it be enough for either Ferrari or McLaren to legitimately challenge for an F1 title? Mark Hughes analyses their chances
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Monaco ’24 shows Hamilton/Alonso paranoia alive and well – like 2007
Competitive paranoia told Lewis Hamilton that he could have secured sixth at the 2024 Monaco GP — had Mercedes told him so. But as Mark Hughes remembers, the Briton had seen a similar scenario before
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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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Audi revives the Auto Union Lucca, born for war with Mercedes
Auto Union vs Mercedes – Rosemeyer vs Caracciola. Germany’s land speed rivalry of the 1930s was one of the most charged in motor sport history. Now Audi Tradition has recreated one of the most significant record-breaking cars of the era
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V8 engines set for F1 comeback – why it’s really expected to happen
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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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