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Who holds the power at Red Bull? Verstappen or Horner?
Max Verstappen dictating to his team his actions on track has shone a light on the intra-team dynamic at Red Bull – who is in charge?
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Verstappen’s coded messages recall previous F1 crashgate controversies
Max Verstappen started the Brazilian GP weekend with some mildly disgruntled noises and ended it with some highly controversial proclamations. After declaring he wasn’t a fan of F1’s three 2022…
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Unsavoury Verstappen has echoes of Ronaldo in Red Bull F1 row
Max Verstappen’s refusal to play the F1 team game in Brazil and his petulant radio remarks call to mind another sporting great with a difficult reputation
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Formula Partridge wins at last: Up and down in Brazil
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Did Monaco F1 crash cause Perez and Verstappen team order row?
Why would Max Verstappen hold on to a grudge over Sergio Perez’s seemingly accidental F1 crash six months ago? Yet that is the most likely explanation for his refusal to obey orders and allow his team-mate through in Brazil
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How Mercedes finally tamed its victorious W13 beast
The W13 once seemed an unmanageable F1 machine, but now Mercedes has harnessed its power to win for the first time this season at the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix, as Mark Hughes explains
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George Russell lives F1 dream to win debut race: 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix report
Mercedes completed its resurgence with a 1-2 result in the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix, bringing a debut F1 win for George Russell, as rifts emerged between squabbling team-mates behind
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Debut grand prix win for George Russell as Mercedes fires 2023 F1 warning shot
A tearful George Russell took a merited first F1 win in the Brazilian Grand Prix, in a demonstration that Mercedes intends to be back in the title hunt in 2023.…
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When have Hamilton and Verstappen crashed before in F1?
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have crashed into each other again in 2022 at the Brazilian Grand Prix – we break down their clashes that have ended in contact
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Who holds the power at Red Bull? Verstappen or Horner?
Max Verstappen dictating to his team his actions on track has shone a light on the intra-team dynamic at Red Bull – who is in charge?
F1
Verstappen’s coded messages recall previous F1 crashgate controversies
Max Verstappen started the Brazilian GP weekend with some mildly disgruntled noises and ended it with some highly controversial proclamations. After declaring he wasn’t a fan of F1’s three 2022…
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Unsavoury Verstappen has echoes of Ronaldo in Red Bull F1 row
Max Verstappen’s refusal to play the F1 team game in Brazil and his petulant radio remarks call to mind another sporting great with a difficult reputation
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Formula Partridge wins at last: Up and down in Brazil
Celebrations in King’s Lynn as its F1 talent incubator produces another star, while world is shocked that F1 champion isn’t a team player
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Did Monaco F1 crash cause Perez and Verstappen team order row?
Why would Max Verstappen hold on to a grudge over Sergio Perez’s seemingly accidental F1 crash six months ago? Yet that is the most likely explanation for his refusal to obey orders and allow his team-mate through in Brazil
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How Mercedes finally tamed its victorious W13 beast
The W13 once seemed an unmanageable F1 machine, but now Mercedes has harnessed its power to win for the first time this season at the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix, as Mark Hughes explains
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George Russell lives F1 dream to win debut race: 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix report
Mercedes completed its resurgence with a 1-2 result in the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix, bringing a debut F1 win for George Russell, as rifts emerged between squabbling team-mates behind
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Debut grand prix win for George Russell as Mercedes fires 2023 F1 warning shot
A tearful George Russell took a merited first F1 win in the Brazilian Grand Prix, in a demonstration that Mercedes intends to be back in the title hunt in 2023.…
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When have Hamilton and Verstappen crashed before in F1?
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have crashed into each other again in 2022 at the Brazilian Grand Prix – we break down their clashes that have ended in contact
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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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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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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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