How to make a hash of Suzuka: Goin’ up & down at the Japanese GP
Drivers, fans and viewers were overjoyed to return to Suzuka for the first time in three years, so what went wrong? There’s one overriding factor…
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Max Verstappen has driven beautifully and barely been challenged on his way to a second F1 championship. It won’t always be this way, writes Damien Smith, but he looks destined for even more titles
It wasn’t just the spray that clouded the 2022 Japenese Grand Prix: safety errors, points confusion and the rapidly approaching evening brought disarray. Mark Hughes explains why
One day, Max Verstappen will get to win a world championship in normal, uncontroversial circumstances. 2022 had none of the controversy of 2021, but it completely outdid it in terms…
Margins were wafer-thin in F1 qualifying for the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen secured pole by 0.01sec over Charles Leclerc — and narrowly avoided a crash with Lando Norris
Since Max Verstappen’s F1 career came into full flower last year and Lewis Hamilton’s run of titles came to an end, the perception has inevitably been that we are seeing…
Max Verstappen stands on the brink of a second F1 world championship but as the Suzuka skies threaten another wet race, how will he — and the rest of the grid — deal with it?
Why did it take so long to investigate Sergio Perez in Singapore? What happened to the F1 cost cap report? The FIA has rightly come under fire this week, writes Chris Medland but it hasn’t got everything wrong
His final action would be typical of the man. He didn’t like fuss. Inured by an upbringing devoid of shows of emotion – taskmaster father Clive had won a VC…
Drivers, fans and viewers were overjoyed to return to Suzuka for the first time in three years, so what went wrong? There’s one overriding factor…
Max Verstappen has driven beautifully and barely been challenged on his way to a second F1 championship. It won’t always be this way, writes Damien Smith, but he looks destined for even more titles
It wasn’t just the spray that clouded the 2022 Japenese Grand Prix: safety errors, points confusion and the rapidly approaching evening brought disarray. Mark Hughes explains why
One day, Max Verstappen will get to win a world championship in normal, uncontroversial circumstances. 2022 had none of the controversy of 2021, but it completely outdid it in terms…
Margins were wafer-thin in F1 qualifying for the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen secured pole by 0.01sec over Charles Leclerc — and narrowly avoided a crash with Lando Norris
Since Max Verstappen’s F1 career came into full flower last year and Lewis Hamilton’s run of titles came to an end, the perception has inevitably been that we are seeing…
Max Verstappen stands on the brink of a second F1 world championship but as the Suzuka skies threaten another wet race, how will he — and the rest of the grid — deal with it?
Why did it take so long to investigate Sergio Perez in Singapore? What happened to the F1 cost cap report? The FIA has rightly come under fire this week, writes Chris Medland but it hasn’t got everything wrong
His final action would be typical of the man. He didn’t like fuss. Inured by an upbringing devoid of shows of emotion – taskmaster father Clive had won a VC…
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
He’s only 19, but Kimi Antonelli has shown F1 championship-winning pace and may never get a better title shot. The ingredients are there for another historic battle between one experienced team-mate and a thrusting newcomer, says Mark Hughes
Kimi Antonelli looked like he’d have blasted to victory in the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, no matter what rules F1 was racing under, says Mark Hughes. However, the result was once again overshadowed by the shortcomings of the series’ new regulations
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
March 21, 2026 Sebring, Florida, USA Porsche Penske Motorsport trio Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich completed a double in the ‘36 Hours of Florida’ when they added Sebring…
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Leading the world championship aged 19, Kimi Antonelli has proved he has the pace to win the title — and this could be his best shot. Plus: how GPs could be shortened over safety fears, and why Max Verstappen is serious in threatening to quit
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
There are a small number of racing drivers whose stories only truly reveal themselves, or even make sense, when you stop thinking about lap times and start thinking about geography:…
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