Ferrari introduces crucial F1 car update – but it’s wasted a year
Both Ferrari and Mercedes are ringing the technical changes in a bid to catch Red Bull – but they’ve already spent too long going in the wrong direction, writes Mark Hughes
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Three of Formula 1’s greatest-ever drivers shared a podium only once — at the 1993 Spanish Grand Prix. In the middle of a season of varying fortunes, there was little camaraderie between Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, writes Damien Smith
What may be the most hated corner in F1 is no more: the final Barcelona chicane has been axed from GP racing. Now we suggest six more turns that should go the same way
Max Verstappen’s 2023 Monaco GP win was a triumph of performance, tyre management and strategy — in stark contrast to Ayrton Senna’s experience 35 years earlier, writes Mark Hughes:”there was a time when the driver could largely do whatever the hell he wanted”
Small errors cost Ferrari and Mercedes dearly at the Monaco GP, as closely-matched rivals took advantage. It’s evidence the F1 field is closing up under the cost cap, writes Chris Medland — even Red Bull can’t be complacent
From the ashes of the W Series concept, the new all-female F1 Academy series has begun, however you may not even have noticed… The new championship was founded by Formula…
The Jim Clark Trust has announced plans for a new major event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Scotsman’s landmark Formula 1 world championship victory in 1963. To be…
Even when he isn’t winning Lewis Hamilton still dominates the headlines. Shortly after the cancelled race at Imola reports surfaced that the seven-time world champion was in talks to join…
An Aston Martin powered by Honda? Only in Formula 1. At first glance, a partnership that will mate Honda powertrains to Lawrence Stroll’s Aston Martin-badged F1 cars from 2026 could…
Both Ferrari and Mercedes are ringing the technical changes in a bid to catch Red Bull – but they’ve already spent too long going in the wrong direction, writes Mark Hughes
Three of Formula 1’s greatest-ever drivers shared a podium only once — at the 1993 Spanish Grand Prix. In the middle of a season of varying fortunes, there was little camaraderie between Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, writes Damien Smith
What may be the most hated corner in F1 is no more: the final Barcelona chicane has been axed from GP racing. Now we suggest six more turns that should go the same way
Max Verstappen’s 2023 Monaco GP win was a triumph of performance, tyre management and strategy — in stark contrast to Ayrton Senna’s experience 35 years earlier, writes Mark Hughes:”there was a time when the driver could largely do whatever the hell he wanted”
Small errors cost Ferrari and Mercedes dearly at the Monaco GP, as closely-matched rivals took advantage. It’s evidence the F1 field is closing up under the cost cap, writes Chris Medland — even Red Bull can’t be complacent
From the ashes of the W Series concept, the new all-female F1 Academy series has begun, however you may not even have noticed… The new championship was founded by Formula…
The Jim Clark Trust has announced plans for a new major event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Scotsman’s landmark Formula 1 world championship victory in 1963. To be…
Even when he isn’t winning Lewis Hamilton still dominates the headlines. Shortly after the cancelled race at Imola reports surfaced that the seven-time world champion was in talks to join…
An Aston Martin powered by Honda? Only in Formula 1. At first glance, a partnership that will mate Honda powertrains to Lawrence Stroll’s Aston Martin-badged F1 cars from 2026 could…
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
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
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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.…
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.…
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…
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
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
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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