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My family car as a child… Was an orange BMW 2002. a lovely car. That’s the first one I remember and then, later, it was a Citroën CX with self-levelling…
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Flashback… August 2023
This is typical Ayrton Senna. On the grid for the 1988 French Grand Prix, Ayrton discusses the front-left pressure with McLaren tyre technician Chris Robson. Senna’s engineer, Steve Nichols, looks…
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Johnny Herbert: ‘It’s demoralising being the team-mate of a special F1 driver like Verstappen — they keep punching you in the arm’
What’s happened to Sergio Pérez? His early season form was the best I’ve seen from him, then it just evaporated. It’s what we saw with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton…
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Peter Revson: All work no playboy
Peter Revson, the driver whom Andrew Frankel says “might have the unique distinction of being remembered as less of a driver than he actually was”, took his debut F1 win…
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Let reserve drivers do sprint races — it’s the answer to F1’s problems
F1 sprint events have fallen flat on their face since their 2021 introduction – if the field of reserve drivers took to the grid instead, we could have a real race on our hands
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‘We gave it our best shot for Bruce’: How McLaren rallied after founder’s death
He was the visionary founder, the brilliant driver, and the inspirational leader. Then he was gone. Matt Bishop on how the team regrouped to honour Bruce McLaren with a race victory, just days after his death
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Formula 1: Good month, bad month – August 2023
Good month Hollywood Gold Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones’ remarkably earnest tribute to the commentating abilities of Martin Brundle during his grid-walk was the Spanish GP highlight. Go on…
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Alpine needs Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney to raise cash for F1 title bid
A-list actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElehenney will help Alpine to rake in more cash and boost its fanbase after taking a stake in the F1 team as part of…
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Red Bull keeps rivals guessing with ‘troubling’ tyre strategies at Spanish GP
When the tyre blankets came off on the grid in Spain, almost the whole field had opted for the red-striped C3 soft as their starting tyre. But both Red Bulls…
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Nicolas Minassian : My life in cars
My family car as a child… Was an orange BMW 2002. a lovely car. That’s the first one I remember and then, later, it was a Citroën CX with self-levelling…
Archive
Flashback… August 2023
This is typical Ayrton Senna. On the grid for the 1988 French Grand Prix, Ayrton discusses the front-left pressure with McLaren tyre technician Chris Robson. Senna’s engineer, Steve Nichols, looks…
Opinion
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Johnny Herbert: ‘It’s demoralising being the team-mate of a special F1 driver like Verstappen — they keep punching you in the arm’
What’s happened to Sergio Pérez? His early season form was the best I’ve seen from him, then it just evaporated. It’s what we saw with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton…
Archive
Peter Revson: All work no playboy
Peter Revson, the driver whom Andrew Frankel says “might have the unique distinction of being remembered as less of a driver than he actually was”, took his debut F1 win…
Opinion
F1
Let reserve drivers do sprint races — it’s the answer to F1’s problems
F1 sprint events have fallen flat on their face since their 2021 introduction – if the field of reserve drivers took to the grid instead, we could have a real race on our hands
F1
‘We gave it our best shot for Bruce’: How McLaren rallied after founder’s death
He was the visionary founder, the brilliant driver, and the inspirational leader. Then he was gone. Matt Bishop on how the team regrouped to honour Bruce McLaren with a race victory, just days after his death
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Formula 1: Good month, bad month – August 2023
Good month Hollywood Gold Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones’ remarkably earnest tribute to the commentating abilities of Martin Brundle during his grid-walk was the Spanish GP highlight. Go on…
F1
Alpine needs Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney to raise cash for F1 title bid
A-list actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElehenney will help Alpine to rake in more cash and boost its fanbase after taking a stake in the F1 team as part of…
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Red Bull keeps rivals guessing with ‘troubling’ tyre strategies at Spanish GP
When the tyre blankets came off on the grid in Spain, almost the whole field had opted for the red-striped C3 soft as their starting tyre. But both Red Bulls…
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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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