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Parting shot: August 2024
January 26, 1975 Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil Familiar faces from almost 50 years ago at round two of the 1975 F1 season. Hometown hero Carlos Pace, back row, third from…
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Mercedes’ F1 bounce back
After two painful years, a lot of soul-searching and a fair few blind alleys, Mercedes has finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel in Formula 1. In…
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Pierre Gasly in Ayrton Senna’s first Toleman: Always meet your heroes
The tension’s almost unbearable as a chilling breeze sweeps down the old Silverstone pitlane. Will it, won’t it? Silence descends for a second, and the atmosphere ratchets up one more…
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Senna v Scooby: How F1 drivers voted for their Race Car of the Century
In the end it came down to a two-car race between cult heroes. In the red corner was the car many regard as the ultimate expression of 1980s simplicity and…
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Driving the Lotus 49: Grand Prix Crown Jewel
The era that made me fall in love with Formula 1 was the late 1980s and early 1990s. People often ask me about my favourite F1 cars at which point…
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Flashback: Peugeot and Renault V10 Formula 1 engines compared
Ask any F1 engine designer for their name these days and chances are the management of the team concerned will need to hold an urgent meeting before giving any consent.…
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Mercedes’ first GP comeback
F1 Retro – October 2014 Click here to read After a couple of lacklustre seasons, the Mercedes F1 team now looks to be back on track with recent podium finishes.…
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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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Parting shot: August 2024
January 26, 1975 Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil Familiar faces from almost 50 years ago at round two of the 1975 F1 season. Hometown hero Carlos Pace, back row, third from…
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Mercedes’ F1 bounce back
After two painful years, a lot of soul-searching and a fair few blind alleys, Mercedes has finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel in Formula 1. In…
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Pierre Gasly in Ayrton Senna’s first Toleman: Always meet your heroes
The tension’s almost unbearable as a chilling breeze sweeps down the old Silverstone pitlane. Will it, won’t it? Silence descends for a second, and the atmosphere ratchets up one more…
Archive
Senna v Scooby: How F1 drivers voted for their Race Car of the Century
In the end it came down to a two-car race between cult heroes. In the red corner was the car many regard as the ultimate expression of 1980s simplicity and…
Great Read
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Driving the Lotus 49: Grand Prix Crown Jewel
The era that made me fall in love with Formula 1 was the late 1980s and early 1990s. People often ask me about my favourite F1 cars at which point…
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Flashback: Peugeot and Renault V10 Formula 1 engines compared
Ask any F1 engine designer for their name these days and chances are the management of the team concerned will need to hold an urgent meeting before giving any consent.…
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Mercedes’ first GP comeback
F1 Retro – October 2014 Click here to read After a couple of lacklustre seasons, the Mercedes F1 team now looks to be back on track with recent podium finishes.…
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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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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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