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June 2024: Word on the beat
λ Andretti Global, Michael Andretti’s proposed F1 team, announced its new Silverstone base last month, despite its rejection by F1 of an entry in 2025. The team is now targeting…
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Why one lost place at the start of the 2024 Chinese GP cost Sergio Perez dearly
Sergio Pérez’s third place in China, behind Lando Norris’s McLaren, has to be counted as a disappointing result for the Mexican, given how dominant his Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen…
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Good month, bad month – June 2024
GOOD Old bull rides again Alonso’s regular heroics for Aramco Martin have been rewarded with a bumper contract extension – someone has to get the points for Team Silverstone. Liberating…
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Flashback: Dallara F1 drivers De Cesaris and Caffi on the Monaco pitwall
There’s every chance that the forthcoming Monaco Grand Prix will induce familiar complaints about overtaking. Of all the previous outbursts of indignation created by the narrow track, few can equal…
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Oscar Piastri: F1’s new ice man
Oscar Piastri is the cool, calm centre of the Formula 1 universe. The Australian meets triumph, disaster and everything between with a laconic deadpan, casting him as the natural heir…
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There’s just no stopping Max Verstappen — 2024 Japanese & Chinese GP F1 reports
As the Max Verstappen/Red Bull steamroller of the world championship continues, the intrigue is all about what is going on behind. Behind Verstappen on track and behind the scenes at…
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Karun Chandhok: “Alonso is still fit enough to deliver at the top level”
We’ve had two grands prix since my last column, including the first Sprint race weekend in China. As you may have read last month, I focused on Carlos Sainz and…
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Mark Hughes: The complications facing F1 as it draws up new 2026 regulations
We are getting a clearer picture of the 2026 Formula now that some tweaks have been made to the published technical regulations. Essentially this is a rejigging of the current…
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Ted Toleman obituary: the man who gave Senna his F1 break
From hopeless backmarker to potent Formula 1 giant-killer, the Toleman team gave a host of key personalities their F1 break between 1981 and ’85, including drivers Derek Warwick, Teo Fabi…
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June 2024: Word on the beat
λ Andretti Global, Michael Andretti’s proposed F1 team, announced its new Silverstone base last month, despite its rejection by F1 of an entry in 2025. The team is now targeting…
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Why one lost place at the start of the 2024 Chinese GP cost Sergio Perez dearly
Sergio Pérez’s third place in China, behind Lando Norris’s McLaren, has to be counted as a disappointing result for the Mexican, given how dominant his Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen…
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Good month, bad month – June 2024
GOOD Old bull rides again Alonso’s regular heroics for Aramco Martin have been rewarded with a bumper contract extension – someone has to get the points for Team Silverstone. Liberating…
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Flashback: Dallara F1 drivers De Cesaris and Caffi on the Monaco pitwall
There’s every chance that the forthcoming Monaco Grand Prix will induce familiar complaints about overtaking. Of all the previous outbursts of indignation created by the narrow track, few can equal…
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Oscar Piastri: F1’s new ice man
Oscar Piastri is the cool, calm centre of the Formula 1 universe. The Australian meets triumph, disaster and everything between with a laconic deadpan, casting him as the natural heir…
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There’s just no stopping Max Verstappen — 2024 Japanese & Chinese GP F1 reports
As the Max Verstappen/Red Bull steamroller of the world championship continues, the intrigue is all about what is going on behind. Behind Verstappen on track and behind the scenes at…
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Karun Chandhok: “Alonso is still fit enough to deliver at the top level”
We’ve had two grands prix since my last column, including the first Sprint race weekend in China. As you may have read last month, I focused on Carlos Sainz and…
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Mark Hughes: The complications facing F1 as it draws up new 2026 regulations
We are getting a clearer picture of the 2026 Formula now that some tweaks have been made to the published technical regulations. Essentially this is a rejigging of the current…
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Ted Toleman obituary: the man who gave Senna his F1 break
From hopeless backmarker to potent Formula 1 giant-killer, the Toleman team gave a host of key personalities their F1 break between 1981 and ’85, including drivers Derek Warwick, Teo Fabi…
Standings – 2026 F1 World Championship
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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
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
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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