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Sold-out Brooklands centenary to gather A to Z of grand prix cars
More than 100 cars, from Alfa Romeo to Zakspeed are set to celebrate the centenary of Britain’s first grand prix at Brooklands
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A year since his last F1 win, what’s gone wrong for Oscar Piastri?
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Podcast: Why Norris, Antonelli and Hamilton have an edge over their F1 team-mates
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Fernando Alonso turns 45. Is Aston Martin really the best use of what’s left?
As Fernando Alonso turns 45, his Aston Martin gamble still hasn’t paid off. We weigh it against four other ways the most veteran active driver in the sport could be spending what’s left of his prime
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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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F1’s next calendar puzzle: what replaces Qatar and Abu Dhabi?
As the Middle East conflict threatens F1’s season finale, several candidates are being considered as possible replacement options
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‘The Germans said if I raced, they’d kill me’: the GP driver who defied Hitler
A New Zealand farm boy turned Cambridge law student turned grand prix driver – Matt Bishop tells the quietly remarkable story of a man history nearly forgot
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Heinz-Harald Frentzen on the Williams years, Jordan’s title bid and life beyond Formula 1
Let us start with an audacious understatement: there are not many drivers whose Formula 1 preparation involved making coffins. Perhaps there is only one, for that is where Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s…
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Jackie Stewart and Denis Jenkinson’s safety feud reshaped Formula 1’s future
As the Greek tragedians demonstrated two millennia ago, every great protagonist demands an equally formidable antagonist. For Jackie Stewart, it was a bespectacled journalist with a long, wispy beard for…
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Sold-out Brooklands centenary to gather A to Z of grand prix cars
More than 100 cars, from Alfa Romeo to Zakspeed are set to celebrate the centenary of Britain’s first grand prix at Brooklands
F1
A year since his last F1 win, what’s gone wrong for Oscar Piastri?
Twelve months on from his last F1 win at Zandvoort when he led the World Championship, Oscar Piastri looks like McLaren’s weaker driver this year, though not all of it has been his doing
F1 Show
Podcast: Why Norris, Antonelli and Hamilton have an edge over their F1 team-mates
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
The evidence behind some of F1’s gaping team-mate discrepancies – plus the best viewer question we’ve ever received: watch the latest episode of the F1 Show now
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Fernando Alonso turns 45. Is Aston Martin really the best use of what’s left?
As Fernando Alonso turns 45, his Aston Martin gamble still hasn’t paid off. We weigh it against four other ways the most veteran active driver in the sport could be spending what’s left of his prime
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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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F1’s next calendar puzzle: what replaces Qatar and Abu Dhabi?
As the Middle East conflict threatens F1’s season finale, several candidates are being considered as possible replacement options
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‘The Germans said if I raced, they’d kill me’: the GP driver who defied Hitler
A New Zealand farm boy turned Cambridge law student turned grand prix driver – Matt Bishop tells the quietly remarkable story of a man history nearly forgot
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Heinz-Harald Frentzen on the Williams years, Jordan’s title bid and life beyond Formula 1
Let us start with an audacious understatement: there are not many drivers whose Formula 1 preparation involved making coffins. Perhaps there is only one, for that is where Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s…
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Jackie Stewart and Denis Jenkinson’s safety feud reshaped Formula 1’s future
As the Greek tragedians demonstrated two millennia ago, every great protagonist demands an equally formidable antagonist. For Jackie Stewart, it was a bespectacled journalist with a long, wispy beard for…
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Mass frustration at the US GP – but Kimi just looked like a kid having fun
Kimi Antonelli all but secured the Formula 1 title with a champion’s drive at the 2026 United States Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. Behind him, forlorn rivals failed to make their superior pace stick
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MPH: The revelation in Horner’s book – how he turned Red Bull from no-hopers into F1 winners
Christian Horner details how he rebuilt Red Bull from the ashes of Jaguar, and hired F1’s greatest designer from under the noses of rivals in his new autobiography, Drive. Mark Hughes found it fascinating
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Mark Hughes: Did Ferrari have pace to beat Red Bull? We’ll never know…
Mark Hughes analyses how Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to victory in Singapore, and how Lewis Hamilton’s strategic gamble turned a promising Ferrari result into a costly disappointment
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Jackie Stewart wins at the Nürburgring as Fittipaldi finishes sixth
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Do safety cars make races boring or more exciting? Dilemma for US series as it considers cutting back cautions
When it comes to sports car racing, it’s not just the American tracks that are markedly different from most of their international counterparts. The overall philosophy used by the FIA…
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Felipe Massa’s 2009 crash tested the resilience of a Richard Mille watch
It was back in 2009 when Felipe Massa suffered life-threatening injuries during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, losing control of his Ferrari at 175mph as a result of being…
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Desiré Wilson’s battle to be F1’s first female winner: ‘Sponsors couldn’t accept their star men being beaten by a woman’
Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race, and for all I know she may always carry that mantle. OK, her famous victory in…
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Enzo Ferrari: the making of a legend
Where their sons are concerned, mums have much to answer for. Certainly none other than Enzo Ferrari was deeply influenced, indeed in many ways shaped, by his formidable mother, Adalgisa…
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