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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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‘Mario Andretti said he wanted to talk’: how Cadillac hired F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon
“I was driving down the A1, and I got a call from someone whose opinion I respect, and they said, ‘Would you take a call from the group that are…
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How to get on the F1 grid in 366 days: Cadillac behind the scenes
When Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez head out onto Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit for the Australian Grand Prix on March 8, it will be exactly one year and a day…
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Karun Chandhok: Five big questions ahead of the 2026 F1 season
As I write this column, the Formula 1 world has just woken up from the winter slumber and seen the first teases of a 2026 F1 car as Audi has…
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Mark Hughes: Advantage Mercedes? Behind the F1 rumours for 2026
It’s unusual that a technical controversy should arise in Formula 1 before the concept has even been raced but that’s what happened during the off-season with the revelation that Mercedes…
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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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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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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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‘Mario Andretti said he wanted to talk’: how Cadillac hired F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon
“I was driving down the A1, and I got a call from someone whose opinion I respect, and they said, ‘Would you take a call from the group that are…
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How to get on the F1 grid in 366 days: Cadillac behind the scenes
When Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez head out onto Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit for the Australian Grand Prix on March 8, it will be exactly one year and a day…
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Karun Chandhok: Five big questions ahead of the 2026 F1 season
As I write this column, the Formula 1 world has just woken up from the winter slumber and seen the first teases of a 2026 F1 car as Audi has…
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Mark Hughes: Advantage Mercedes? Behind the F1 rumours for 2026
It’s unusual that a technical controversy should arise in Formula 1 before the concept has even been raced but that’s what happened during the off-season with the revelation that Mercedes…
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Mark Hughes: Hamilton chose wrong F1 track for simulator gamble
Hamilton decided not to use the simulator to prepare for the Canadian GP, but as Mark Hughes explains, Montreal may be exactly the wrong place to ditch it
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MPH: What Verstappen did at the Nürburgring is everything F1 can’t offer
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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MPH: Still sandbagging? The crafty reason Mercedes and Ferrari may be hiding true F1 pace
F1’s new mechanism to help struggling engine manufacturers catch up with the leaders could be more powerful than first thought, writes Mark Hughes. Are Mercedes and Ferrari masking their true performance for long-term advantage?
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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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‘Too safe’ call leaves McLaren under pressure in 2026 F1 title battle
An unfortunate tyre gamble and weak reliability in Canada left McLaren facing an uphill battle to defend its titles in 2026
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Mark Hughes: The fastest Mercedes F1 driver? It was too close to call in Canada
Mercedes was the dominant force in Canada, and there was little to split its two drivers until a power unit failure forced George Russell out, leaving Kimi Antonelli cruising to a record-breaking fourth Formula 1 victory
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Why Hamilton ditched the F1 sim – and why he thinks it was making him slower
Hamilton arrived in Montreal having skipped the simulator entirely in his preparation, but it wasn’t an oversight
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