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Hamilton’s F1 cockpit conundrum — so far forward, he’s behind: MPH
Mercedes is pressing ahead with a major redesign of its 2023 F1 — but Lewis Hamilton has identified an issue that can’t be fixed so easily
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How Mercedes looked to overturn the odds with Saudi Arabian GP tyre gamble
Lewis Hamilton was all at sea with the troublesome Mercedes W14 in qualifying at Jeddah. The first sector in particular, with its high-speed bends between the very close walls, requires…
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F1’s greatest opening race? Coulthard’s ’03 Australian GP win
David Coulthard’s 13th and final F1 win at the 2003 Australian GP was packed with incident from start to finish – a strong contender for the championship’s best-ever opening race
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F1 wants to make practice more exciting — at what cost to the race?
F1’s free practice sessions should be scrapped in favour of a more entertaining format, according to the series’ CEO, Stefano Domenicali. Is it unrealistic to demand non-stop excitement throughout a grand prix weekend? asks Chris Medland
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Senna, Pele and Fangio: Ayrton’s ‘electric’ final Brazilian GP win
30 years ago, Ayrton Senna won his home grand prix for the final time, an F1 victory that provoked a storm of emotion at Interlagos
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Adrian Newey renege left Rahal high and dry
The close friendship of Bobby Rahal, above left, and Adrian Newey, right, was founded on the bond that occurs when conversations between a driver and his race engineer reach a…
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Five months into Red Bull’s F1 cost cap penalty: will we see its impact?
Red Bull’s development programme has been curbed by aero-testing restrictions that penalise the most successful teams and it penalty for breaching the F1 cost cap. Will it help rivals to catch up this season?
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From 22nd to 1st: Watson on his Long Beach F1 overtaking masterclass
Forty years ago today, John Watson rocketed through the field to win from 22nd in Long Beach – it’s a record which has never been beaten
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Word on the beat
David Sanchez, the recently resigned Ferrari chief of engineering, who was responsible for the design of 2022’s F1-75 and 2023’s SF-23, is on his way back to McLaren, where he…
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Hamilton’s F1 cockpit conundrum — so far forward, he’s behind: MPH
Mercedes is pressing ahead with a major redesign of its 2023 F1 — but Lewis Hamilton has identified an issue that can’t be fixed so easily
Archive
How Mercedes looked to overturn the odds with Saudi Arabian GP tyre gamble
Lewis Hamilton was all at sea with the troublesome Mercedes W14 in qualifying at Jeddah. The first sector in particular, with its high-speed bends between the very close walls, requires…
Great Read
F1
F1’s greatest opening race? Coulthard’s ’03 Australian GP win
David Coulthard’s 13th and final F1 win at the 2003 Australian GP was packed with incident from start to finish – a strong contender for the championship’s best-ever opening race
Opinion
F1
F1 wants to make practice more exciting — at what cost to the race?
F1’s free practice sessions should be scrapped in favour of a more entertaining format, according to the series’ CEO, Stefano Domenicali. Is it unrealistic to demand non-stop excitement throughout a grand prix weekend? asks Chris Medland
F1
Senna, Pele and Fangio: Ayrton’s ‘electric’ final Brazilian GP win
30 years ago, Ayrton Senna won his home grand prix for the final time, an F1 victory that provoked a storm of emotion at Interlagos
Archive
Adrian Newey renege left Rahal high and dry
The close friendship of Bobby Rahal, above left, and Adrian Newey, right, was founded on the bond that occurs when conversations between a driver and his race engineer reach a…
F1
Five months into Red Bull’s F1 cost cap penalty: will we see its impact?
Red Bull’s development programme has been curbed by aero-testing restrictions that penalise the most successful teams and it penalty for breaching the F1 cost cap. Will it help rivals to catch up this season?
F1
From 22nd to 1st: Watson on his Long Beach F1 overtaking masterclass
Forty years ago today, John Watson rocketed through the field to win from 22nd in Long Beach – it’s a record which has never been beaten
Archive
Word on the beat
David Sanchez, the recently resigned Ferrari chief of engineering, who was responsible for the design of 2022’s F1-75 and 2023’s SF-23, is on his way back to McLaren, where he…
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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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