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Red Bull learns lessons from rocky Singapore GP
The simulator had already suggested that Singapore was going to be the most difficult circuit on the calendar for the Red Bull RB19. What wasn’t anticipated was just how much…
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Verstappen’s 2023 F1 title march stalls in Singapore
Max Verstappen’s victory around his home circuit of Zandvoort had him poised to become the first driver to win 10 grands prix in a row the following week at Monza,…
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F1 Trackside View: November 2023
Race report Ferrari threatens at home, delivers next time out, then Verstappen answers critics Word on the beat Lawson’s disappointment, Massa’s madness and why DRS will get a boost in…
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Mark Hughes: Cool head wins McLaren F1 contract extension for Oscar Piastri
McLaren’s announcement at Suzuka that it had extended Oscar Piastri’s contract to the end of 2026 was no great surprise given the 22-year-old’s enormously promising rookie season. He has been…
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Ferrari 640: F1’s most influential modern-day grand prix car
The Ferrari 640 was an F1 winner – when it could finish – and its effect on grand prix design can still be seen today
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MPH: Hamilton urges ‘greatest’ Mercedes development drive. But which direction?
It’s Hammer-time for Mercedes’ factory staff, as its star F1 driver calls for an intense six-months of work to catch Red Bull. The team says that it knows where to focus its efforts but, writes Mark Hughes, Lewis Hamilton isn’t saying quite the same thing
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Red Bull’s one-man F1 team: why Perez’s pace is irrelevant in 2023
Red Bull will look back at 2023 as a season of record-breaking dominance with a rocket ship car; brilliant strategy; and blistering pace from Max Verstappen. But amid the hubris,…
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The next Liam Lawson? The Kiwi dominating F4 with F1 aspirations
Liam Lawson couldn’t have done much more to convince Red Bull he was worthy of a full-time seat at its junior team for 2024. You know, the team whoes sole…
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Word on the beat
Impressive rookie stand-in Liam Lawson, above, was informed (by Red Bull’s Helmut Marko) just after qualifying his AlphaTauri in Q3 at Singapore that there would be no race seat…
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Red Bull learns lessons from rocky Singapore GP
The simulator had already suggested that Singapore was going to be the most difficult circuit on the calendar for the Red Bull RB19. What wasn’t anticipated was just how much…
Archive
Verstappen’s 2023 F1 title march stalls in Singapore
Max Verstappen’s victory around his home circuit of Zandvoort had him poised to become the first driver to win 10 grands prix in a row the following week at Monza,…
Archive
F1 Trackside View: November 2023
Race report Ferrari threatens at home, delivers next time out, then Verstappen answers critics Word on the beat Lawson’s disappointment, Massa’s madness and why DRS will get a boost in…
Opinion
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Mark Hughes: Cool head wins McLaren F1 contract extension for Oscar Piastri
McLaren’s announcement at Suzuka that it had extended Oscar Piastri’s contract to the end of 2026 was no great surprise given the 22-year-old’s enormously promising rookie season. He has been…
F1
Ferrari 640: F1’s most influential modern-day grand prix car
The Ferrari 640 was an F1 winner – when it could finish – and its effect on grand prix design can still be seen today
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MPH: Hamilton urges ‘greatest’ Mercedes development drive. But which direction?
It’s Hammer-time for Mercedes’ factory staff, as its star F1 driver calls for an intense six-months of work to catch Red Bull. The team says that it knows where to focus its efforts but, writes Mark Hughes, Lewis Hamilton isn’t saying quite the same thing
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Red Bull’s one-man F1 team: why Perez’s pace is irrelevant in 2023
Red Bull will look back at 2023 as a season of record-breaking dominance with a rocket ship car; brilliant strategy; and blistering pace from Max Verstappen. But amid the hubris,…
F1
The next Liam Lawson? The Kiwi dominating F4 with F1 aspirations
Liam Lawson couldn’t have done much more to convince Red Bull he was worthy of a full-time seat at its junior team for 2024. You know, the team whoes sole…
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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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