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New Nigel Mansell F1 documentary hits TV screens
A new documentary on the career of Nigel Mansell will air on Sky on the weekend of the British Grand Prix. The 90-minute film, Williams & Mansell: Red 5, features…
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New Nigel Mansell documentary: overdue tribute to underrated F1 champ
When Williams and Nigel Mansell combined in Formula 1, the results were spectacular. Damien Smith gives his verdict on a new documentary that unashamedly celebrates the championship-winning partnership with rediscovered footage
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‘Red Bull winning every F1 race in 2023? It’s not going to happen’
Max Verstappen may have looked unstoppable so far this F1 season, but there’s little chance of his team winning every race in 2023 — somebody will beat Red Bull, writes Andrew Frankel
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Alpine raises F1 pricetag: why new team entry fee is set to triple
Alpine’s new F1 investment values the team at around $900m, which means that new teams wanting to join the grid are set to see the entry fee skyrocket, writes Chris Medland
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Nicolas Minassian : My life in cars
My family car as a child… Was an orange BMW 2002. a lovely car. That’s the first one I remember and then, later, it was a Citroën CX with self-levelling…
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Flashback… August 2023
This is typical Ayrton Senna. On the grid for the 1988 French Grand Prix, Ayrton discusses the front-left pressure with McLaren tyre technician Chris Robson. Senna’s engineer, Steve Nichols, looks…
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Johnny Herbert: ‘It’s demoralising being the team-mate of a special F1 driver like Verstappen — they keep punching you in the arm’
What’s happened to Sergio Pérez? His early season form was the best I’ve seen from him, then it just evaporated. It’s what we saw with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton…
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Peter Revson: All work no playboy
Peter Revson, the driver whom Andrew Frankel says “might have the unique distinction of being remembered as less of a driver than he actually was”, took his debut F1 win…
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Let reserve drivers do sprint races — it’s the answer to F1’s problems
F1 sprint events have fallen flat on their face since their 2021 introduction – if the field of reserve drivers took to the grid instead, we could have a real race on our hands
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New Nigel Mansell F1 documentary hits TV screens
A new documentary on the career of Nigel Mansell will air on Sky on the weekend of the British Grand Prix. The 90-minute film, Williams & Mansell: Red 5, features…
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New Nigel Mansell documentary: overdue tribute to underrated F1 champ
When Williams and Nigel Mansell combined in Formula 1, the results were spectacular. Damien Smith gives his verdict on a new documentary that unashamedly celebrates the championship-winning partnership with rediscovered footage
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‘Red Bull winning every F1 race in 2023? It’s not going to happen’
Max Verstappen may have looked unstoppable so far this F1 season, but there’s little chance of his team winning every race in 2023 — somebody will beat Red Bull, writes Andrew Frankel
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Alpine raises F1 pricetag: why new team entry fee is set to triple
Alpine’s new F1 investment values the team at around $900m, which means that new teams wanting to join the grid are set to see the entry fee skyrocket, writes Chris Medland
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Nicolas Minassian : My life in cars
My family car as a child… Was an orange BMW 2002. a lovely car. That’s the first one I remember and then, later, it was a Citroën CX with self-levelling…
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Flashback… August 2023
This is typical Ayrton Senna. On the grid for the 1988 French Grand Prix, Ayrton discusses the front-left pressure with McLaren tyre technician Chris Robson. Senna’s engineer, Steve Nichols, looks…
Opinion
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Johnny Herbert: ‘It’s demoralising being the team-mate of a special F1 driver like Verstappen — they keep punching you in the arm’
What’s happened to Sergio Pérez? His early season form was the best I’ve seen from him, then it just evaporated. It’s what we saw with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton…
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Peter Revson: All work no playboy
Peter Revson, the driver whom Andrew Frankel says “might have the unique distinction of being remembered as less of a driver than he actually was”, took his debut F1 win…
Opinion
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Let reserve drivers do sprint races — it’s the answer to F1’s problems
F1 sprint events have fallen flat on their face since their 2021 introduction – if the field of reserve drivers took to the grid instead, we could have a real race on our hands
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MPH: Why Red Bull’s rivals could push Max Verstappen out of F1 for good
As F1 power unit manufacturers fail to agree on rule changes, so the threat of Max Verstappen quitting the series becomes more real, writes Mark Hughes
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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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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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Russell vs Antonelli resembles one of F1’s most toxic team-mate battles
The emerging Antonelli vs Russell F1 title duel brings to mind 2016 and the Hamilton-Rosberg years. But there’s an older, destructive example that’s a closer match for Mercedes’ current situation
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Johnny Servoz-Gavin: F1’s hippie racer whose career was cruelly ended by a twig
F1 flashback: Johnny Servoz-Gavin
He looked set to become one of Formula 1’s greats until a single twig in a French forest cut his career short. Matt Bishop remembers a playboy and prodigy
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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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