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Benetton and its albatross
Why Benetton? That’s the question most ask when I mentioned the book I’ve written. I started to wonder myself at times. This is a team about which there is plenty…
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Benetton: when F1 was in fashion
Take a step back for a moment. An Austrian company that sells a sickly sweet, fizzy energy drink is the dominant force in the world’s most technically sophisticated and complex…
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Back when Hill had a mountain to climb
Damon Hill emerged as a candidate for a Williams race seat in late-1992 after Nigel Mansell opted for the US and Riccardo Patrese left for Benetton. Hill had been the…
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Prost’s final fling
With Nigel Mansell gone and new team-mate Damon Hill finding his feet, the path was clear for Alain Prost to make the most of the opportunity to drive the best…
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Williams FW15C: Nobody’s done it better
Thirty years after Alain Prost won the 1993 Formula 1 world championship the Williams FW15C remains the most advanced F1 car ever to race, perhaps challenged only by the McLaren…
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Allen Berg: The Motor Sport Interview
Forty years ago, a 21-year-old unknown from Alberta, Canada, pitched up in England with dreams of racing in Formula 1. Allen Berg made it – just – starting nine grands…
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F1 Retro: F1’s model pupil
F1 Retro – November 2013 The Goodwood Revival crowd were recently treated to the spectacular sight of Jackie Stewart, still spritely at 84 years old, gunning his Tyrrell 006 round…
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Good month – Bad month: November 2023
Good Month Laying down the Lawson AlphaTauri supersub Liam Lawson has been brilliant, scoring his first points at Marina Bay. With Ricciardo and Tsunoda now confirmed at AlphaTauri for 2024,…
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The crash that cost red Bull in Singapore GP
Having qualified a shock 11th and 13th fastest in Singapore, Red Bull was looking for a strategic route to rescue its weekend come the race. The reduction of the speed…
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Benetton and its albatross
Why Benetton? That’s the question most ask when I mentioned the book I’ve written. I started to wonder myself at times. This is a team about which there is plenty…
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Benetton: when F1 was in fashion
Take a step back for a moment. An Austrian company that sells a sickly sweet, fizzy energy drink is the dominant force in the world’s most technically sophisticated and complex…
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Back when Hill had a mountain to climb
Damon Hill emerged as a candidate for a Williams race seat in late-1992 after Nigel Mansell opted for the US and Riccardo Patrese left for Benetton. Hill had been the…
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Prost’s final fling
With Nigel Mansell gone and new team-mate Damon Hill finding his feet, the path was clear for Alain Prost to make the most of the opportunity to drive the best…
Great Read
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Williams FW15C: Nobody’s done it better
Thirty years after Alain Prost won the 1993 Formula 1 world championship the Williams FW15C remains the most advanced F1 car ever to race, perhaps challenged only by the McLaren…
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Allen Berg: The Motor Sport Interview
Forty years ago, a 21-year-old unknown from Alberta, Canada, pitched up in England with dreams of racing in Formula 1. Allen Berg made it – just – starting nine grands…
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F1 Retro: F1’s model pupil
F1 Retro – November 2013 The Goodwood Revival crowd were recently treated to the spectacular sight of Jackie Stewart, still spritely at 84 years old, gunning his Tyrrell 006 round…
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Good month – Bad month: November 2023
Good Month Laying down the Lawson AlphaTauri supersub Liam Lawson has been brilliant, scoring his first points at Marina Bay. With Ricciardo and Tsunoda now confirmed at AlphaTauri for 2024,…
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The crash that cost red Bull in Singapore GP
Having qualified a shock 11th and 13th fastest in Singapore, Red Bull was looking for a strategic route to rescue its weekend come the race. The reduction of the speed…
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MPH: Diamond in the rough – is this why Red Bull was fastest by far?
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
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The disastrous tease that half the F1 grid fell for at Bahrain GP in Malaysia
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
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Mark Hughes: Tyre-wrecking Sepang threatens an F1 upset
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
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Max Verstappen: ‘Why I’m staying to rebuild Red Bull rather than quitting’
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…
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The wreck of Red Bull… and how the F1 team is fixing it
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…
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VR46 Academy’s latest title hope: how Marco Bezzecchi found his MotoGP edge
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…
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Revived Verstappen faces the F1 circuit that has always beaten him
After a chaotic win at Sepang, Max Verstappen heads to the circuit where victory has proved elusive. Can this be the year he finally manages it?
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2026 Singapore GP start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix
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Jules Bianchi and the glorious future that Formula 1 never saw
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
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