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Eau Rouge: The corner that could not be built today
From ‘the most challenging corner of the post-war period’ to a sequence that’s lost its soul – the evolution of Spa’s defining corner has divided the racing world
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MPH: F1’s big fears fade as a new era begins smoothly
Mark Hughes dissects F1’s first shakedown, revealing why the opening signs are far more positive than expected
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Bottas on Cadillac’s F1 reality check: learn, finish races, don’t be last
Cadillac’s first F1 season comes with a clear message: Try not to be last
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Matt Bishop: The forgotten F1 season when Coulthard trounced Häkkinen
David Coulthard’s career has long been shaded by his McLaren team-mate Mika Häkkinen’s success. But he was much more than a No2 driver in 2001 when he showed himself to be one of Formula 1’s giants
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What are the yellow lights on F1 2026 cars’ mirrors?
As 2026 F1 testing began in Barcelona, a new set of flashing yellow mirror lights sparked intrigue
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Ginther takes the hairpin at the 1965 Mexican GP
October 24, 1965, Mexico City, Mexico The 10-round F1 championship came to a close under a blue sky in Mexico. The last race of the 1500cc era was won by…
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Matt Bishop meets Nick Fry, the man who led Brawn GP to 2009 F1 success
If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable…
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Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac F1 goals: ‘Try not to be last, that’s the starting point’
Which sides of the garage are we going to have?” “Well, which do you want?” Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are chatting in the Silverstone pits a few hours before…
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Cadillac’s real-time F1 race rehearsals
Cadillac didn’t have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors’ simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina. From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its…
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Eau Rouge: The corner that could not be built today
From ‘the most challenging corner of the post-war period’ to a sequence that’s lost its soul – the evolution of Spa’s defining corner has divided the racing world
F1
MPH: F1’s big fears fade as a new era begins smoothly
Mark Hughes dissects F1’s first shakedown, revealing why the opening signs are far more positive than expected
F1
Bottas on Cadillac’s F1 reality check: learn, finish races, don’t be last
Cadillac’s first F1 season comes with a clear message: Try not to be last
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Matt Bishop: The forgotten F1 season when Coulthard trounced Häkkinen
David Coulthard’s career has long been shaded by his McLaren team-mate Mika Häkkinen’s success. But he was much more than a No2 driver in 2001 when he showed himself to be one of Formula 1’s giants
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What are the yellow lights on F1 2026 cars’ mirrors?
As 2026 F1 testing began in Barcelona, a new set of flashing yellow mirror lights sparked intrigue
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Archive
Ginther takes the hairpin at the 1965 Mexican GP
October 24, 1965, Mexico City, Mexico The 10-round F1 championship came to a close under a blue sky in Mexico. The last race of the 1500cc era was won by…
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Archive
Matt Bishop meets Nick Fry, the man who led Brawn GP to 2009 F1 success
If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable…
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Archive
Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac F1 goals: ‘Try not to be last, that’s the starting point’
Which sides of the garage are we going to have?” “Well, which do you want?” Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are chatting in the Silverstone pits a few hours before…
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Cadillac’s real-time F1 race rehearsals
Cadillac didn’t have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors’ simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina. From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its…
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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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MPH: Fernando Alonso still has the magic – he’s not done with F1 yet
At 44 and showing no signs of slowing down, Fernando Alonso remains one of F1’s most extraordinary forces, writes Mark Hughes
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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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When Silverstone was still gloriously mad: Graham Hill’s last hurrah
An ageing champion, an ugly Brabham, and a revolutionary gas-turbine Lotus conspired to produce one of motor sport’s most enchanting afternoons at the 1971 International Trophy, as Matt Bishop recounts
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Antonelli has entered the F1 title conversation, and Wolff can’t stop it
After three grand prix wins from three poles, Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff is struggling to contain expectations about Kimi Antonelli
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Pressure mounts on Kimi Antonelli as he’s compared to Italy’s greatest-ever F1 driver
Seventy-three years since Alberto Ascari became the last Italian F1 driver to win the world championship, expectations of title leader Kimi Antonelli are growing — but the teenager isn’t flinching under the pressure
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