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F1 Retro: Rene Arnoux – Blinded by the Light
F1 Retro – May 2001 F1 seemingly used to have a select yet steady flow of drivers like René Arnoux on tap – charisma-bottled with talent to spare, but a…
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Good month – Bad month: September 2023
Good Month F1 star power Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’. Saturday…
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Word on the beat: AlphaTauri design team to move in with Red Bull as Hamilton-Mercedes contract talks near conclusion
Lewis Hamilton at the Austrian Grand Prix: “I think the FIA should probably put a time when everyone is allowed to start developing next year’s car. Say August 1. That’s…
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1,200 track limits violations in Austria causes race control ructions
There were a total of 1200 possible track limit breaches during the Austrian Grand Prix. They were occurring faster than race control could keep up with and although several penalties…
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McLaren steals a march on F1’s ‘best-of-the-rest’ as Verstappen still dominates
For a team in the midst of setting new Formula 1 records, Red Bull had quite a few headaches to deal with in this part of the season – and…
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Hamilton penalty defeats point of F1 Sprint – Belgian GP diary
The Belgian GP weekend had headlines both on and off the track – from Red Bull’s radio tension and Alpine’s changing faces to harsh sprint race penalties. Chris Medland reports
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How Red Bull achieved F1 perfection as trailing field squabbled in Belgium
The Red Bull’s pace advantage at Spa was big even by its own 2023 standards. The circuit – with its long straights but fast corners – demands aero efficiency above…
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MPH: Should Spa lose Eau Rouge to save its place in F1?
At the heart of Spa-Francorchamps sits Eau Rouge – one of motor sport’s most infamous corner sequences. But, amid growing safety concerns, even Mark Hughes is wrestling with whether it, or even Spa itself, should be cut from F1 entirely
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Why all Colin Chapman’s F1 cars had to be ‘trick’
Colin Chapman was a man constantly driven by innovation – in the latest episode of ‘Engineering the Greats’, Tony Southgate explains just how much the Lotus boss lived for creative design
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F1 Retro: Rene Arnoux – Blinded by the Light
F1 Retro – May 2001 F1 seemingly used to have a select yet steady flow of drivers like René Arnoux on tap – charisma-bottled with talent to spare, but a…
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Good month – Bad month: September 2023
Good Month F1 star power Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’. Saturday…
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Word on the beat: AlphaTauri design team to move in with Red Bull as Hamilton-Mercedes contract talks near conclusion
Lewis Hamilton at the Austrian Grand Prix: “I think the FIA should probably put a time when everyone is allowed to start developing next year’s car. Say August 1. That’s…
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1,200 track limits violations in Austria causes race control ructions
There were a total of 1200 possible track limit breaches during the Austrian Grand Prix. They were occurring faster than race control could keep up with and although several penalties…
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McLaren steals a march on F1’s ‘best-of-the-rest’ as Verstappen still dominates
For a team in the midst of setting new Formula 1 records, Red Bull had quite a few headaches to deal with in this part of the season – and…
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Hamilton penalty defeats point of F1 Sprint – Belgian GP diary
The Belgian GP weekend had headlines both on and off the track – from Red Bull’s radio tension and Alpine’s changing faces to harsh sprint race penalties. Chris Medland reports
Mark Hughes
How Red Bull achieved F1 perfection as trailing field squabbled in Belgium
The Red Bull’s pace advantage at Spa was big even by its own 2023 standards. The circuit – with its long straights but fast corners – demands aero efficiency above…
Mark Hughes
MPH: Should Spa lose Eau Rouge to save its place in F1?
At the heart of Spa-Francorchamps sits Eau Rouge – one of motor sport’s most infamous corner sequences. But, amid growing safety concerns, even Mark Hughes is wrestling with whether it, or even Spa itself, should be cut from F1 entirely
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Why all Colin Chapman’s F1 cars had to be ‘trick’
Colin Chapman was a man constantly driven by innovation – in the latest episode of ‘Engineering the Greats’, Tony Southgate explains just how much the Lotus boss lived for creative design
Standings – 2025 F1 World Championship
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MPH: Assessing F1’s rookie class of 2025 – the Mark Hughes verdict
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
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Mark Hughes: Andrea Stella finally banished the ghost of 2010 Abu Dhabi disaster
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
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Mark Hughes: Piastri pass on Norris was part of McLaren’s bold strategy to foil Verstappen
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
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Jamie Chadwick shines at the Silverstone 4 Hours
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
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Return of the Portuguese GP. Is it a placeholder for another F1 street track?
Formula 1’s two-year return to Portimao may be less a long-term endorsement than a holding pattern, as the championship keeps calendar space open for future street races
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Matt Bishop: He was Williams’ first winning driver but so few know his name
Two Australian F1 drivers who came to Europe at the same time: one became world champion, the other faded from memory. But both Alan Jones and Brian McGuire have their place in racing history
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Martin Brundle reveals his F1 driver of 2025
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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