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MPH: Alonso’s F1 success and US funding rumours – why did Alpine boss attack team?
Laurent Rossi has not hidden his disappointment in Alpine’s start to the 2023 season – Mark Hughes has a possible reason why
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F1 team bosses back glitzy pre-race driver announcements – to a point
From rainy days in camp chairs to non-stop Miami entertainment, F1’s fan experience is evolving – current team principals are all for it
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‘Dismay at Red Bull’s F1 domination? Blame teams who’ve failed horribly’
As Red Bull looks to be walking away with the Formula 1 title this year, Damien Smith says it’s not the rules that are to blame, but underperforming rivals who have failed to mount a challenge — and that’s what really makes racing compelling
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Choppy start to Alpine’s F1 season that’s behind Laurent Rossi’s outburst
Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi publicly denounced the F1 team after an error-strewn start to the season that has also seen it slide down the pecking order. Can there be any way back for team principal Otmar Szafnauer? asks Chris Medland
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Alonso silences F1 sceptics: who dares to question his motivation now?
Life is sweet for Fernando Alonso, sitting third in the F1 World Championship and silencing his most recent doubter — the boss of a crisis-hit Alpine team. Question his motivation and he’ll be hell-bent on proving how wrong they were over and over again, writes Mark Hughes
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Ferrari on a knife edge: the ‘unknown’ issues plaguing its 2023 F1 car
From a front-row lockout in 2022, to a 57-second defeat in 2023, the Miami Grand Prix was a sobering experience for Charles Leclerc and Ferrari. But the team doesn’t fully understand what is going wrong
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What made Watkins Glen so good: F1’s greatest American track
The US has delivered a mixed bag of race circuits to the F1 World Championship, but one track stands above all the rest: Watkins Glen
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Why are F1 cars so big and heavy? The plan to shrink single-seaters
Current Formula 1 cars are the biggest ever – but things could soon be changing, according to the championship’s chief technical officer Pat Symonds
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God save Jackie Stewart – Up and down in Miami
The 2023 Festival of Greed – sorry, Miami GP – lived up to all the off-track hyperbole by delivering a race of little substance. Job done!
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MPH: Alonso’s F1 success and US funding rumours – why did Alpine boss attack team?
Laurent Rossi has not hidden his disappointment in Alpine’s start to the 2023 season – Mark Hughes has a possible reason why
F1
F1 team bosses back glitzy pre-race driver announcements – to a point
From rainy days in camp chairs to non-stop Miami entertainment, F1’s fan experience is evolving – current team principals are all for it
F1
‘Dismay at Red Bull’s F1 domination? Blame teams who’ve failed horribly’
As Red Bull looks to be walking away with the Formula 1 title this year, Damien Smith says it’s not the rules that are to blame, but underperforming rivals who have failed to mount a challenge — and that’s what really makes racing compelling
F1
Choppy start to Alpine’s F1 season that’s behind Laurent Rossi’s outburst
Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi publicly denounced the F1 team after an error-strewn start to the season that has also seen it slide down the pecking order. Can there be any way back for team principal Otmar Szafnauer? asks Chris Medland
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Alonso silences F1 sceptics: who dares to question his motivation now?
Life is sweet for Fernando Alonso, sitting third in the F1 World Championship and silencing his most recent doubter — the boss of a crisis-hit Alpine team. Question his motivation and he’ll be hell-bent on proving how wrong they were over and over again, writes Mark Hughes
F1
Ferrari on a knife edge: the ‘unknown’ issues plaguing its 2023 F1 car
From a front-row lockout in 2022, to a 57-second defeat in 2023, the Miami Grand Prix was a sobering experience for Charles Leclerc and Ferrari. But the team doesn’t fully understand what is going wrong
F1
What made Watkins Glen so good: F1’s greatest American track
The US has delivered a mixed bag of race circuits to the F1 World Championship, but one track stands above all the rest: Watkins Glen
F1
Why are F1 cars so big and heavy? The plan to shrink single-seaters
Current Formula 1 cars are the biggest ever – but things could soon be changing, according to the championship’s chief technical officer Pat Symonds
Opinion
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God save Jackie Stewart – Up and down in Miami
The 2023 Festival of Greed – sorry, Miami GP – lived up to all the off-track hyperbole by delivering a race of little substance. Job done!
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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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