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Good month – Bad month: September 2023
Good Month F1 star power Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’. Saturday…
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Word on the beat: AlphaTauri design team to move in with Red Bull as Hamilton-Mercedes contract talks near conclusion
Lewis Hamilton at the Austrian Grand Prix: “I think the FIA should probably put a time when everyone is allowed to start developing next year’s car. Say August 1. That’s…
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1,200 track limits violations in Austria causes race control ructions
There were a total of 1200 possible track limit breaches during the Austrian Grand Prix. They were occurring faster than race control could keep up with and although several penalties…
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McLaren steals a march on F1’s ‘best-of-the-rest’ as Verstappen still dominates
For a team in the midst of setting new Formula 1 records, Red Bull had quite a few headaches to deal with in this part of the season – and…
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Hamilton penalty defeats point of F1 Sprint – Belgian GP diary
The Belgian GP weekend had headlines both on and off the track – from Red Bull’s radio tension and Alpine’s changing faces to harsh sprint race penalties. Chris Medland reports
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How Red Bull achieved F1 perfection as trailing field squabbled in Belgium
The Red Bull’s pace advantage at Spa was big even by its own 2023 standards. The circuit – with its long straights but fast corners – demands aero efficiency above…
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MPH: Should Spa lose Eau Rouge to save its place in F1?
At the heart of Spa-Francorchamps sits Eau Rouge – one of motor sport’s most infamous corner sequences. But, amid growing safety concerns, even Mark Hughes is wrestling with whether it, or even Spa itself, should be cut from F1 entirely
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Why all Colin Chapman’s F1 cars had to be ‘trick’
Colin Chapman was a man constantly driven by innovation – in the latest episode of ‘Engineering the Greats’, Tony Southgate explains just how much the Lotus boss lived for creative design
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Britain’s first Formula E champ? Jake Dennis on London ePrix title decider
The Formula E world championship is coming to a close, with Jake Dennis leading the way. The Briton tells Damien Smith how he prepares to claim his first world title on home soil – a challenge largely in his own hands
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Good month – Bad month: September 2023
Good Month F1 star power Sell-out Silverstone, drivers treated like rock stars, the British GP gripped by its own Hollywood fever – F1 really has hit the ‘big time’. Saturday…
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Word on the beat: AlphaTauri design team to move in with Red Bull as Hamilton-Mercedes contract talks near conclusion
Lewis Hamilton at the Austrian Grand Prix: “I think the FIA should probably put a time when everyone is allowed to start developing next year’s car. Say August 1. That’s…
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1,200 track limits violations in Austria causes race control ructions
There were a total of 1200 possible track limit breaches during the Austrian Grand Prix. They were occurring faster than race control could keep up with and although several penalties…
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McLaren steals a march on F1’s ‘best-of-the-rest’ as Verstappen still dominates
For a team in the midst of setting new Formula 1 records, Red Bull had quite a few headaches to deal with in this part of the season – and…
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Hamilton penalty defeats point of F1 Sprint – Belgian GP diary
The Belgian GP weekend had headlines both on and off the track – from Red Bull’s radio tension and Alpine’s changing faces to harsh sprint race penalties. Chris Medland reports
Mark Hughes
How Red Bull achieved F1 perfection as trailing field squabbled in Belgium
The Red Bull’s pace advantage at Spa was big even by its own 2023 standards. The circuit – with its long straights but fast corners – demands aero efficiency above…
Mark Hughes
MPH: Should Spa lose Eau Rouge to save its place in F1?
At the heart of Spa-Francorchamps sits Eau Rouge – one of motor sport’s most infamous corner sequences. But, amid growing safety concerns, even Mark Hughes is wrestling with whether it, or even Spa itself, should be cut from F1 entirely
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Why all Colin Chapman’s F1 cars had to be ‘trick’
Colin Chapman was a man constantly driven by innovation – in the latest episode of ‘Engineering the Greats’, Tony Southgate explains just how much the Lotus boss lived for creative design
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Britain’s first Formula E champ? Jake Dennis on London ePrix title decider
The Formula E world championship is coming to a close, with Jake Dennis leading the way. The Briton tells Damien Smith how he prepares to claim his first world title on home soil – a challenge largely in his own hands
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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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Podcast: The hidden detail that can explain Red Bull’s sensational F1 pace
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Mark Hughes and Bryn Lucas look back on Verstappen’s win at Sepang, a restart delayed by a software glitch, and what to expect in Singapore
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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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