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F1 Retro – March 2019 As Felipe Massa builds a legal challenge to Lewis Hamilton’s debut F1 title in 2008 – the Brazilian claiming that season’s Singapore ‘Crashgate’ directly contributed…
GOOD MONTH Suits you sirs Despite its team boss’s woe-is-us protestations, Williams’ special Gulf livery plus its Stars ’n’ Stripes Austin trim cut a pretty sharp look – helped by…
There was an agonising decision on the Mercedes pitwall on lap 16 of the US Grand Prix which in hindsight they got wrong. It possibly cost Lewis Hamilton the team’s…
Alpine boss Bruno Famin has confirmed that the agreement with Michael Andretti’s team to supply it with Renault F1 power units lapsed in March of this year, the original terms…
The problem with the tyres at Qatar was announced on Saturday morning by the FIA. It would be more accurate to say it was a problem with the pyramid kerbs…
Amid this season of Max Verstappen domination, there are still moments when the chasers get a glimpse. Ferrari of course finally broke Red Bull’s domination at Singapore before Verstappen bounced…
Although the FIA, as the sport’s governing body, has given its all-clear for Michael Andretti’s IndyCar team to join F1 from 2025 or ’26, the arguments continue to rage about…
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Whoever wrote the programme notes for the 1950 GP d’Europe at Silverstone, the inaugural world championship Formula 1 race, was dearly not without a sense of humour. “Only by orderly…
Race report All the action from Lusail and Circuit of the Americas, including a win for Oscar Piastri Word on the beat McLaren £19m compensation claim and COTA blows cold…
F1 Retro – March 2019 As Felipe Massa builds a legal challenge to Lewis Hamilton’s debut F1 title in 2008 – the Brazilian claiming that season’s Singapore ‘Crashgate’ directly contributed…
GOOD MONTH Suits you sirs Despite its team boss’s woe-is-us protestations, Williams’ special Gulf livery plus its Stars ’n’ Stripes Austin trim cut a pretty sharp look – helped by…
There was an agonising decision on the Mercedes pitwall on lap 16 of the US Grand Prix which in hindsight they got wrong. It possibly cost Lewis Hamilton the team’s…
Alpine boss Bruno Famin has confirmed that the agreement with Michael Andretti’s team to supply it with Renault F1 power units lapsed in March of this year, the original terms…
The problem with the tyres at Qatar was announced on Saturday morning by the FIA. It would be more accurate to say it was a problem with the pyramid kerbs…
Amid this season of Max Verstappen domination, there are still moments when the chasers get a glimpse. Ferrari of course finally broke Red Bull’s domination at Singapore before Verstappen bounced…
Although the FIA, as the sport’s governing body, has given its all-clear for Michael Andretti’s IndyCar team to join F1 from 2025 or ’26, the arguments continue to rage about…
Great Read
Whoever wrote the programme notes for the 1950 GP d’Europe at Silverstone, the inaugural world championship Formula 1 race, was dearly not without a sense of humour. “Only by orderly…
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
Back in Malaysia for the first time in nine years, plenty of Formula 1 teams were caught out by the unique characteristics of the Sepang circuit where one decision had a devastating effect on their whole Bahrain GP weekend
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy – established a decade ago by the seven-times MotoGP king to create a new generation of Italian talent – has so far produced one MotoGP…
Twelve years after the rain-soaked 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the memory of Jules Bianchi – and the extraordinary future he might have enjoyed – remains painfully vivid for Matt Bishop
A software bug, a long wait for the rain to clear and a track that produced better racing than the streets: Sepang reminded Formula 1 of some of the things it has lost
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
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