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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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August 2023: Word on the beat
Bridgestone has made a bid for the F1 tyre supply contract running from 2025-27. Existing supplier Pirelli has also made its bid to be retained as the contracted supplier. Bridgestone…
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Ditching Barcelona’s final chicane earned F1 drivers’ approval at Spanish GP
The actual geometry of Barcelona’s final corner was unchanged. But its nature had been transformed from a third-gear acceleration zone to a near-flat-in-seventh blast by the changes made preceding the…
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How to watch 2023 Austrian GP and sprint race: F1 livestream, TV schedule and start time
The rampant Red Bulls are in no need of a home-field advantage in 2023, but Max Verstappen will nevertheless feel the full might of his Orange Army of fans during…
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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…
Opinion
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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…
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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August 2023: Word on the beat
Bridgestone has made a bid for the F1 tyre supply contract running from 2025-27. Existing supplier Pirelli has also made its bid to be retained as the contracted supplier. Bridgestone…
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Ditching Barcelona’s final chicane earned F1 drivers’ approval at Spanish GP
The actual geometry of Barcelona’s final corner was unchanged. But its nature had been transformed from a third-gear acceleration zone to a near-flat-in-seventh blast by the changes made preceding the…
F1
How to watch 2023 Austrian GP and sprint race: F1 livestream, TV schedule and start time
The rampant Red Bulls are in no need of a home-field advantage in 2023, but Max Verstappen will nevertheless feel the full might of his Orange Army of fans during…
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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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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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The three things Sepang reminded us Formula 1 has lost
A software bug, a long wait for the rain to clear and a track that produced better racing than the streets: Sepang reminded Formula 1 of some of the things it has lost
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F1’s ten most controversial team orders
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
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