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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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How to watch the 2024 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix: start time, live stream and TV schedule
The lights will go out on the first F1 race of the 2024 season on Saturday: full details on how to watch, live stream and catch the highlights for the Bahrain Grand Prix
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Silverstone Festival to honour Senna
The “biggest and best” collection of Ayrton Senna racing cars ever assembled is the ambitious target set by the Silverstone Festival, which will celebrate the life of the great Brazilian…
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Silverstone secures British GP for 10 more years
Formula 1 has halted any fresh tension over the future of the British Grand Prix by granting a new deal that will keep the race at Silverstone until at least…
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Christian Horner under investigation
The reigning world champions were engulfed in an off-track scandal on the eve of the new Formula 1 season when their team boss and talismanic leader was accused of inappropriate…
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Doug Nye: ‘McLaren rewrote the history books in 1980s F1 turbo era’
Even before Lewis Hamilton told Toto Wolff of his decision to opt out of his Mercedes contract in favour of Ferrari next year, thought turns to the fresh F1 engine…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Lewis Hamilton has nothing to prove, and they’ll love him at Ferrari’
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, team-mates at Scuderia Ferrari from 2025, eh? That is such a mouthwatering prospect; Hamilton the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, Leclerc often…
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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…
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How to watch the 2024 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix: start time, live stream and TV schedule
The lights will go out on the first F1 race of the 2024 season on Saturday: full details on how to watch, live stream and catch the highlights for the Bahrain Grand Prix
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Silverstone Festival to honour Senna
The “biggest and best” collection of Ayrton Senna racing cars ever assembled is the ambitious target set by the Silverstone Festival, which will celebrate the life of the great Brazilian…
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Silverstone secures British GP for 10 more years
Formula 1 has halted any fresh tension over the future of the British Grand Prix by granting a new deal that will keep the race at Silverstone until at least…
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Christian Horner under investigation
The reigning world champions were engulfed in an off-track scandal on the eve of the new Formula 1 season when their team boss and talismanic leader was accused of inappropriate…
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Doug Nye: ‘McLaren rewrote the history books in 1980s F1 turbo era’
Even before Lewis Hamilton told Toto Wolff of his decision to opt out of his Mercedes contract in favour of Ferrari next year, thought turns to the fresh F1 engine…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Lewis Hamilton has nothing to prove, and they’ll love him at Ferrari’
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, team-mates at Scuderia Ferrari from 2025, eh? That is such a mouthwatering prospect; Hamilton the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, Leclerc often…
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MPH: Norris had no sympathy for Russell’s F1 car complaints. Here’s why
Lando Norris responded bluntly to George Russell’s complaints of struggling to adapt to this year’s Mercedes F1 car. It exposed more than just their different driving styles, says Mark Hughes; it shows where their heads are at
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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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Formula 1 2026 half-term report. Every driver rated – who deserves an A+?
Kimi Antonelli Astonishing progression from his patchy and underprepared rookie season. Yes, he’s in the best car but he’s doing things with it that stand comparison with the finest. In…
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Kimi Antonelli’s mid-season charge reshapes Formula 1’s 2026 title fight
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
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Madring’s La Monumental gives Madrid’s new F1 circuit a distinctive challenge
There was a time when circuit corner names were utilitarian labels, nothing more. Even for the greatest curves, inspiration was drawn from local landmarks or topography: think of Eau Rouge…
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‘Kimi Antonelli was 11 when I saw him race. He amazed me’: when Mercedes’ talent scout discovered the F1 sensation
To call Gwen Lagrue a ’scout’ is reductive. Identifying talent is just part of the equation; he supplements that by developing it, playing a central role in nurturing a plethora…
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‘It was the day Niki Lauda almost died. Who remembers a frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win?’
Niki Lauda’s blazing Ferrari cast a pall over the 1976 German Grand Prix, so it’s easy to overlook what happened in the F1 race. Matt Bishop recognises James Hunt’s masterful and brave victory at the Nürburgring
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The Beatle who predicted F1’s TV boom decades early
Long before Drive to Survive, an ex-Beatle and lifelong racing obsessive told Barry Sheene how F1 would find its biggest audience
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The bizarre bug that cost Frentzen his F1 title shot – and why he’s made peace with it
A software bug cost Heinz-Harald Frentzen his best shot at the world title, but he explains why it never actually cost him much at all
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