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Hakkinen on Senna’s reaction to his F1 debut: ‘He went berserk!’
In our March 2023 issue, Mika Häkkinen reveals how illustrious team-mate Ayrton Senna reacted to the Finn’s scintillating McLaren F1 debut
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‘I have sympathy for Binotto’: Christian Horner argues for F1 team boss stability
Christian Horner is starting his 19th season in charge of Red Bull. The longest-serving F1 team principal tells Chris Medland about his “remarkable journey” since taking over and gives his verdict on the latest team boss changes
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Is Nico Hülkenberg’s F1 return a step forward or backward for Haas?
Nico Hülkenberg will join Kevin Magnussen to form the oldest F1 driver pairing in 2023. But will the promise of experience outweigh Haas’s lack of youth in guaranteeing its future?
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Mika’s five formidable F1 performances
1993 Portuguese GP (DNF – crash) “Häkkinen was the breath of fresh air F1 needed in Estoril, and he bounced into the paddock like some golden retriever puppy that had…
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Mika Häkkinen: The Motor Sport Interview
Mika Pauli Häkkinen came to Britain from Finland in 1988, where he’d won everything there was to win in karting and the lower formulae, and within two years was British…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Response to Andretti F1 proposal is lukewarm at best’
Michael Andretti recently upped the stakes in his attempts at taking his team Andretti Global into Formula 1 with the announcement that GM was part of the bid and the…
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Mario Andretti’s 100th career win — Flashback
This image was unexpected, not because Mario Andretti had just scored his first IndyCar win in five years, but thanks to the manner in which the photo opportunity had arisen.…
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Mario Andretti: ‘We’re not asking F1 for favours, we’re bringing something to the party’
Andretti Global, Michael’s racing empire based in the US, is teaming up with General Motors and the Cadillac brand in its ambition to enter Formula 1. This is big news,…
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‘We’re pushing forward’: Alex Albon steps up as Williams F1 team leader
Alex Albon rediscovered his confidence at Williams last year. Now he goes into 2023 as the senior driver with a rookie team-mate to coach, a new boss and, he says, determination to get off the back of the grid
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Hakkinen on Senna’s reaction to his F1 debut: ‘He went berserk!’
In our March 2023 issue, Mika Häkkinen reveals how illustrious team-mate Ayrton Senna reacted to the Finn’s scintillating McLaren F1 debut
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‘I have sympathy for Binotto’: Christian Horner argues for F1 team boss stability
Christian Horner is starting his 19th season in charge of Red Bull. The longest-serving F1 team principal tells Chris Medland about his “remarkable journey” since taking over and gives his verdict on the latest team boss changes
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Is Nico Hülkenberg’s F1 return a step forward or backward for Haas?
Nico Hülkenberg will join Kevin Magnussen to form the oldest F1 driver pairing in 2023. But will the promise of experience outweigh Haas’s lack of youth in guaranteeing its future?
Archive
Mika’s five formidable F1 performances
1993 Portuguese GP (DNF – crash) “Häkkinen was the breath of fresh air F1 needed in Estoril, and he bounced into the paddock like some golden retriever puppy that had…
Archive
Mika Häkkinen: The Motor Sport Interview
Mika Pauli Häkkinen came to Britain from Finland in 1988, where he’d won everything there was to win in karting and the lower formulae, and within two years was British…
Archive
Mark Hughes: ‘Response to Andretti F1 proposal is lukewarm at best’
Michael Andretti recently upped the stakes in his attempts at taking his team Andretti Global into Formula 1 with the announcement that GM was part of the bid and the…
Archive
Mario Andretti’s 100th career win — Flashback
This image was unexpected, not because Mario Andretti had just scored his first IndyCar win in five years, but thanks to the manner in which the photo opportunity had arisen.…
Archive
Mario Andretti: ‘We’re not asking F1 for favours, we’re bringing something to the party’
Andretti Global, Michael’s racing empire based in the US, is teaming up with General Motors and the Cadillac brand in its ambition to enter Formula 1. This is big news,…
F1
‘We’re pushing forward’: Alex Albon steps up as Williams F1 team leader
Alex Albon rediscovered his confidence at Williams last year. Now he goes into 2023 as the senior driver with a rookie team-mate to coach, a new boss and, he says, determination to get off the back of the grid
Standings – 2025 F1 World Championship
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MPH: Assessing F1’s rookie class of 2025 – the Mark Hughes verdict
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
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Mark Hughes: Andrea Stella finally banished the ghost of 2010 Abu Dhabi disaster
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
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Mark Hughes: Piastri pass on Norris was part of McLaren’s bold strategy to foil Verstappen
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
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Jamie Chadwick shines at the Silverstone 4 Hours
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
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Martin Brundle reveals his F1 driver of 2025
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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Prost laments Renault’s ‘sad’ F1 exit: ‘It’ll be difficult to come back’
Alain Prost has given his view on Renault exiting F1 as an engine manufacturer
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Mohammed Ben Sulayem re-elected – how he became FIA president
Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s has now been re-elected as FIA president, after a controversial first term. But how did he become the first non-European president in the FIA’s history?
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