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Ayrton Senna, 30 years on from Imola
The death of Ayrton Senna was as massive a blow to racing as Jim Clark’s in 1968. Both were the clear yardsticks of their generation, though Ayrton’s occasional penchant for…
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Flashback: Nelson Piquet escapes Tamburello F1 crash
Much is written in the pages of this month’s magazine about Ayrton Senna’s fatal accident at Imola and the set of circumstances that contrived against him. A further irony is…
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Good month, bad month
Good month Sarky Tsunoda Tsunoda’s incandescent radio comments in recent GPs have been a rare cockle-warmer in yawn-fest races. 200mph roadblock Magnussen solidified his position as a warp-speed wind-up-merchant by…
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F1’s pitstop conundrum at 2024 Saudi Arabian GP
A particular set of occurrences in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix triggered a highly unusual strategic conundrum in which there was no right answer in real time, but only in…
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Word on the beat
The resignations of Alpine technical director Matt Harman and chief of aerodynamics Dirk de Beer were made before the opening race of the season, though Harman was still in situ…
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Oliver Bearman in F1 at the deep end?
Eighteen-year-old Formula 2 driver Oliver Bearman was sensationally called up at Jeddah by Ferrari for his Formula 1 debut, as Carlos Sainz was hospitalised with appendicitis. On Ferrari’s Driver Academy,…
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Red Bull’s crushing start to the 2024 F1 season that ended in a cloud of smoke
Meet the new season, same as the old one. Max Verstappen’s Red Bull totally dominant, Charles Leclerc giving spirited chase in his Ferrari, Mercedes struggling with bouncing, McLaren in that…
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Doug Nye: ‘If Verstappen keeps dominating F1, its appeal could fall off a cliff’
Set against the background of a wildly unstable world any competitive endeavour that can be fought out for fun, achievement and promotion –rather than for basic survival – can expect…
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Mark Hughes: Stale F1 grid looks set for a wave of new drivers in 2025
The outstanding performance of 18-year-old British driver Oliver Bearman as Carlos Sainz’s late-notice substitute at Ferrari in Jeddah is more significant even than spotlighting a major future Formula 1 star.…
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Ayrton Senna, 30 years on from Imola
The death of Ayrton Senna was as massive a blow to racing as Jim Clark’s in 1968. Both were the clear yardsticks of their generation, though Ayrton’s occasional penchant for…
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Flashback: Nelson Piquet escapes Tamburello F1 crash
Much is written in the pages of this month’s magazine about Ayrton Senna’s fatal accident at Imola and the set of circumstances that contrived against him. A further irony is…
Archive
Good month, bad month
Good month Sarky Tsunoda Tsunoda’s incandescent radio comments in recent GPs have been a rare cockle-warmer in yawn-fest races. 200mph roadblock Magnussen solidified his position as a warp-speed wind-up-merchant by…
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F1’s pitstop conundrum at 2024 Saudi Arabian GP
A particular set of occurrences in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix triggered a highly unusual strategic conundrum in which there was no right answer in real time, but only in…
Archive
Word on the beat
The resignations of Alpine technical director Matt Harman and chief of aerodynamics Dirk de Beer were made before the opening race of the season, though Harman was still in situ…
Archive
Oliver Bearman in F1 at the deep end?
Eighteen-year-old Formula 2 driver Oliver Bearman was sensationally called up at Jeddah by Ferrari for his Formula 1 debut, as Carlos Sainz was hospitalised with appendicitis. On Ferrari’s Driver Academy,…
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Red Bull’s crushing start to the 2024 F1 season that ended in a cloud of smoke
Meet the new season, same as the old one. Max Verstappen’s Red Bull totally dominant, Charles Leclerc giving spirited chase in his Ferrari, Mercedes struggling with bouncing, McLaren in that…
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Doug Nye: ‘If Verstappen keeps dominating F1, its appeal could fall off a cliff’
Set against the background of a wildly unstable world any competitive endeavour that can be fought out for fun, achievement and promotion –rather than for basic survival – can expect…
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Mark Hughes: Stale F1 grid looks set for a wave of new drivers in 2025
The outstanding performance of 18-year-old British driver Oliver Bearman as Carlos Sainz’s late-notice substitute at Ferrari in Jeddah is more significant even than spotlighting a major future Formula 1 star.…
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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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