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Hans no longer ruled by the clock
Former Formula 1 competitor and Le Mans legend Hans-Joachim Stuck celebrates his birthday on January 1. Along with his racing father, the German is part of what fans in the…
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Formula 1: Good month, bad month — February 2023
Good Month Auf wiedersehen, Seb! So, farewell Sebastian Vettel. The four-time world champ went from wunderkind and youngest driver to win the title to outspoken elder statesman in a mere…
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‘Verstappen’s view is that Perez should know his Red Bull place’ — MPH
After two F1 world titles, Max Verstappen believes that a team-mate who can’t match him week in, week out, is only a support driver. And that creates a tension between him and Perez for 2023, writes Mark Hughes
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Podcast: Best F1 team 2022
Red Bull had the greatest success but was it the strongest F1 team of 2022? Allan McNish and Lawrence Barretto join Chris Medland for a podcast with some surprising verdicts
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‘Ultimate expression of teamwork’: how McLaren created the MP4/4
Two designers of the most successful F1 car of all time, the McLaren MP4/4, explain how the car was borne of brilliant creativity and practical thinking
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FIA follows Fifa’s lead on protest ban: ‘It’s the opposite of progress’
After previously allowing drivers to make personal protests on matters such as race and LGBTQ+, the FIA has followed FIFA in banning such statements – this is a grave error, says Chris Medland
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Podcast: Best F1 race 2022
Which of this year’s 22 grands prix stands out as the best? Jolyon Palmer and Jack Nicholls join Chris Medland to pick the race that combined drama, excitement and overtaking
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How Verstappen’s F1 success has fuelled insatiable travelling fanbase
Max Verstappen’s back-to-back world championship success has been followed by a fervent travelling fanbase – his manager Raymond Vermeulen explains how the ‘Orange Army’ has been mobilised
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Mika Häkkinen: The ice-cool Finn who Schumacher feared
Mika Häkkinen became a double F1 world champion in his own inimitable style – read why he should be voted into this year’s Hall of Fame, and see the other candidates
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Hans no longer ruled by the clock
Former Formula 1 competitor and Le Mans legend Hans-Joachim Stuck celebrates his birthday on January 1. Along with his racing father, the German is part of what fans in the…
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Formula 1: Good month, bad month — February 2023
Good Month Auf wiedersehen, Seb! So, farewell Sebastian Vettel. The four-time world champ went from wunderkind and youngest driver to win the title to outspoken elder statesman in a mere…
F1
‘Verstappen’s view is that Perez should know his Red Bull place’ — MPH
After two F1 world titles, Max Verstappen believes that a team-mate who can’t match him week in, week out, is only a support driver. And that creates a tension between him and Perez for 2023, writes Mark Hughes
Motor Sport Podcast
Podcast: Best F1 team 2022
Red Bull had the greatest success but was it the strongest F1 team of 2022? Allan McNish and Lawrence Barretto join Chris Medland for a podcast with some surprising verdicts
F1
‘Ultimate expression of teamwork’: how McLaren created the MP4/4
Two designers of the most successful F1 car of all time, the McLaren MP4/4, explain how the car was borne of brilliant creativity and practical thinking
F1
FIA follows Fifa’s lead on protest ban: ‘It’s the opposite of progress’
After previously allowing drivers to make personal protests on matters such as race and LGBTQ+, the FIA has followed FIFA in banning such statements – this is a grave error, says Chris Medland
Motor Sport Podcast
Podcast: Best F1 race 2022
Which of this year’s 22 grands prix stands out as the best? Jolyon Palmer and Jack Nicholls join Chris Medland to pick the race that combined drama, excitement and overtaking
F1
How Verstappen’s F1 success has fuelled insatiable travelling fanbase
Max Verstappen’s back-to-back world championship success has been followed by a fervent travelling fanbase – his manager Raymond Vermeulen explains how the ‘Orange Army’ has been mobilised
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Mika Häkkinen: The ice-cool Finn who Schumacher feared
Mika Häkkinen became a double F1 world champion in his own inimitable style – read why he should be voted into this year’s Hall of Fame, and see the other candidates
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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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