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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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MPH: End of the Brawn and Newey era? The designers more significant than any recent F1 driver
In the last three decades, almost every F1 champion has owed part of their success to Ross Brawn or Adrian Newey, who looks set to leave Red Bull. In that way, they’ve had a greater impact on GP racing than any driver during that time, says Mark Hughes
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1 corner, 6 years apart: How Chinese GP exposed shift in Hamilton – Verstappen dynamic
An impatient Max Verstappen was forced off track in his rash bid to pass Lewis Hamilton at the 2018 Chinese GP. Last weekend, in the same situation, at the same corner, he bided his time. Mark Hughes examines the shifting statures of the two champions
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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…
Archive
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…
Archive
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…
F1
MPH: End of the Brawn and Newey era? The designers more significant than any recent F1 driver
In the last three decades, almost every F1 champion has owed part of their success to Ross Brawn or Adrian Newey, who looks set to leave Red Bull. In that way, they’ve had a greater impact on GP racing than any driver during that time, says Mark Hughes
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1 corner, 6 years apart: How Chinese GP exposed shift in Hamilton – Verstappen dynamic
An impatient Max Verstappen was forced off track in his rash bid to pass Lewis Hamilton at the 2018 Chinese GP. Last weekend, in the same situation, at the same corner, he bided his time. Mark Hughes examines the shifting statures of the two champions
Standings – 2026 F1 World Championship
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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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F1’s next great force: Antonelli makes history in Monaco with gut punch to Russell
Kimi Antonelli’s outstanding Monaco GP victory was worthy of the legendary drivers who have won in Monte Carlo, writes Mark Hughes. At the same time, team-mate George Russell’s form is disintegrating
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Locked in to Ferrari: Why is Leclerc sticking with underperforming F1 team?
Charles Leclerc has been one of F1’s fastest drivers in the seven seasons he’s raced for Ferrari, but has just eight wins to his name, writes Mark Hughes. Will his faith finally be rewarded with his latest contract extension?
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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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Does Kimi Antonelli actually have any F1 title rivals?
Barcelona-Catalunya GP briefing
Five wins, 66 points clear, and no challenger in sight. Can anyone stop Antonelli in Barcelona?
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The ‘practical joke’ that won a GP – and the other six-wheeled cars banned by F1
F1 flashback: 1976 Swedish Grand Prix
Matt Bishop revisits one of motor sport’s most extraordinary stories, 50 years on from the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34’s only F1 victory
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Has F1’s ADUO failed at the first hurdle?
ADUO was Formula 1’s insurance policy against another decade of engine dominance. Its first verdict appears to have done the opposite
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