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Monaco’s VIP traffic jam: the hidden price of grand prix glamour
Monaco still sells F1’s most intoxicating fantasy, even if getting anyone there on grand prix weekend is an exercise in controlled chaos
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Podcast: Is Ferrari set to steal the 2026 F1 championship?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Ingenuious design and more power in the pipeline: why Ferrari could end the 2026 Formula 1 season on top — but faces a double whammy from unexpected rule changes
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The McLaren F1 drivers you’ve forgotten about
As McLaren celebrates its 1000th Formula 1 grand prix in Monaco, we look back at the men who were part of its history, but very briefly…
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Monaco is Ferrari’s chance to end its F1 drought
Monaco GP briefing
Formula 1’s most famous race gets a fresh twist with the 2026 rules, and Ferrari might have every reason to believe this is finally its weekend
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MPH: Ferrari’s double whammy – why F1 rule changes could kill its edge
With innovative aero features on its car and engine improvements in the pipeline, Ferrari could end the year as Formula 1’s strongest team, writes Mark Hughes. But unexpected regulation changes could strip away the advantages it has built
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2026 Monaco Grand Prix start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix
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‘Brilliant! No driver has ever been so clear of the field’ – Schumacher’s greatest F1 victory
F1 flashback: 1996 Spanish Grand Prix
Thirty years ago, Michael Schumacher produced a performance so far beyond his rivals that it left Stirling Moss searching for superlatives. Matt Bishop argues that it was the greatest drive of his career
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Jabouille, Scheckter and Villeneuve: F1 legends in their own lunchtime
May 12, 1979 Zolder, Belgium Legends in their own lunchtime, from left, Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault), Jody Scheckter (Ferrari), Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) and René Arnoux (Renault). Villeneuve was leading the F1…
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Mark Hughes: why F1’s 50/50 hybrid rules were doomed by conflicting priorities
With apologies to David Byrne and Talking Heads: And you may find yourself Watching someone lift and coast And you may find yourself Watching cars slowly decelerate down the straights…
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Monaco’s VIP traffic jam: the hidden price of grand prix glamour
Monaco still sells F1’s most intoxicating fantasy, even if getting anyone there on grand prix weekend is an exercise in controlled chaos
F1 Show
Podcast: Is Ferrari set to steal the 2026 F1 championship?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Ingenuious design and more power in the pipeline: why Ferrari could end the 2026 Formula 1 season on top — but faces a double whammy from unexpected rule changes
F1
The McLaren F1 drivers you’ve forgotten about
As McLaren celebrates its 1000th Formula 1 grand prix in Monaco, we look back at the men who were part of its history, but very briefly…
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Monaco is Ferrari’s chance to end its F1 drought
Monaco GP briefing
Formula 1’s most famous race gets a fresh twist with the 2026 rules, and Ferrari might have every reason to believe this is finally its weekend
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MPH: Ferrari’s double whammy – why F1 rule changes could kill its edge
With innovative aero features on its car and engine improvements in the pipeline, Ferrari could end the year as Formula 1’s strongest team, writes Mark Hughes. But unexpected regulation changes could strip away the advantages it has built
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2026 Monaco Grand Prix start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix
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‘Brilliant! No driver has ever been so clear of the field’ – Schumacher’s greatest F1 victory
F1 flashback: 1996 Spanish Grand Prix
Thirty years ago, Michael Schumacher produced a performance so far beyond his rivals that it left Stirling Moss searching for superlatives. Matt Bishop argues that it was the greatest drive of his career
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Jabouille, Scheckter and Villeneuve: F1 legends in their own lunchtime
May 12, 1979 Zolder, Belgium Legends in their own lunchtime, from left, Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault), Jody Scheckter (Ferrari), Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) and René Arnoux (Renault). Villeneuve was leading the F1…
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Mark Hughes: why F1’s 50/50 hybrid rules were doomed by conflicting priorities
With apologies to David Byrne and Talking Heads: And you may find yourself Watching someone lift and coast And you may find yourself Watching cars slowly decelerate down the straights…
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MPH: Lando Norris’s F1 magic deserves more appreciation
Lando Norris’s soaring confidence and an improved McLaren mean we’re witnessing a Formula 1 driver at his outer limits, Mark Hughes argues
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Mark Hughes: Too fast to win. How Norris lost Spanish GP to slow-driving Antonelli
Fast enough to build an unassailable lead, Lando Norris was too quick to catch the VSC pit window. And so his flawless F1 Madring weekend ended cruelly, as even the winner acknowledged, Mark Hughes says
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Mark Hughes: Super-smooth Madrid circuit is an F1 minefield
With a brand new surface and a tyre-punishing banked Turn 12, Madrid’s inaugural Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix weekend could reshuffle the Mercedes-McLaren-Ferrari pecking order once again, writes Mark Hughes
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McLaren’s short gearing explains its Zandvoort advantage over Mercedes
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
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Karun Chandhok: McLaren’s pace puts Norris back in the F1 title fight
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
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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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The secret wind tunnel test that found flaw in McLaren’s radical F1 car
A secret Teddington wind tunnel shared with torpedo tests and a particle accelerator gave McLaren its first taste of porpoising four decades before the sport rediscovered it
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Is Formula 1’s VSC problem actually fixable?
There’s no version of the VSC rule that’s fair to everyone, and the Spanish GP just proved it again
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How sprint races will work in 2027
The 2027 Formula 1 season will include ten sprint races, including a Monaco round: here’s what it means for next year
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