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Our verdict on every circuit on the 2024 F1 race calendar
1 Bahrain Sakhir / February 29-March 2 Twentieth anniversary of its first GP. Yes, really. Much better now it’s a night race. 2 Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche / March…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘Five F1 drivers who need to get it right in 2024’
Carlos Sainz Lewis Hamilton’s shock move to Ferrari has thrown a real curveball at Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard has done a very good job at Ferrari and while he may…
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How Aston Martin’s plan to win the F1 championship is starting to fall into place
Can Aston Martin break away from the chasing pack and lead the pursuit of expected F1 pacesetters Red Bull in 2024? That’s going to be one of the most intriguing…
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Why McLaren could be Red Bull’s greatest F1 threat in 2024
F1 2024: McLaren After roaming Formula 1’s wilderness for more than a decade, McLaren is finally going places. It’s not back in the promised land yet, but one of F1’s…
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2024 F1 drivers and teams: release the stats!
Red Bull RB20 A near-whitewash in 2023. Can anyone lay a glove on the team in 2024? Max Verstappen Car No 1 Wins 54 Poles 32 Starts 185 2023…
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Radical Red Bull puts champions on the front foot in 2024 F1 pre-season testing
Tech focus A Sharp intake of air Aerodynamicist Chris Bull takes us through Red Bull’s cooling system It would be humbling for Mercedes if, just as it abandoned its slim…
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F1 2024 preview: Same cast, different script?
With Hamilton to Ferrari for 2025 – and the avalanche of driver moves likely to follow, is the upcoming 2024 season already just a placeholder even before it’s begun? For…
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MPH: Can easier-to-drive Ferrari beat bold Red Bull in 2024?
During pre-season testing it was interesting to hear both Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc comment favourably upon the improvement in the Ferrari’s balance compared to last year’s car. Couple that…
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Flashback: Jordan’s 1993 F1 telemetry analysis — two laptops
When Formula 1 teams carried out pre-season tests in Bahrain recently, there would have been more people monitoring progress from the factories than at the track. A limit on race…
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Our verdict on every circuit on the 2024 F1 race calendar
1 Bahrain Sakhir / February 29-March 2 Twentieth anniversary of its first GP. Yes, really. Much better now it’s a night race. 2 Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche / March…
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Karun Chandhok: ‘Five F1 drivers who need to get it right in 2024’
Carlos Sainz Lewis Hamilton’s shock move to Ferrari has thrown a real curveball at Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard has done a very good job at Ferrari and while he may…
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How Aston Martin’s plan to win the F1 championship is starting to fall into place
Can Aston Martin break away from the chasing pack and lead the pursuit of expected F1 pacesetters Red Bull in 2024? That’s going to be one of the most intriguing…
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Why McLaren could be Red Bull’s greatest F1 threat in 2024
F1 2024: McLaren After roaming Formula 1’s wilderness for more than a decade, McLaren is finally going places. It’s not back in the promised land yet, but one of F1’s…
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2024 F1 drivers and teams: release the stats!
Red Bull RB20 A near-whitewash in 2023. Can anyone lay a glove on the team in 2024? Max Verstappen Car No 1 Wins 54 Poles 32 Starts 185 2023…
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Radical Red Bull puts champions on the front foot in 2024 F1 pre-season testing
Tech focus A Sharp intake of air Aerodynamicist Chris Bull takes us through Red Bull’s cooling system It would be humbling for Mercedes if, just as it abandoned its slim…
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F1 2024 preview: Same cast, different script?
With Hamilton to Ferrari for 2025 – and the avalanche of driver moves likely to follow, is the upcoming 2024 season already just a placeholder even before it’s begun? For…
Mark Hughes
MPH: Can easier-to-drive Ferrari beat bold Red Bull in 2024?
During pre-season testing it was interesting to hear both Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc comment favourably upon the improvement in the Ferrari’s balance compared to last year’s car. Couple that…
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Flashback: Jordan’s 1993 F1 telemetry analysis — two laptops
When Formula 1 teams carried out pre-season tests in Bahrain recently, there would have been more people monitoring progress from the factories than at the track. A limit on race…
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
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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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