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All conventional tyre deg-dominated strategy went out the window with the rain-affected Singapore and Japanese grands prix. Getting the strategy right was all about when to switch from inters to…
For all that we are towards the end of the season, there is a cost cap in place and although wind tunnels are generally devoted now to the 2023 cars,…
I must admit, I didn’t expect to be the one who broke the news to Max Verstappen that he was a two-time Formula 1 world champion. While I prepared for…
The controversial end to the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship will live long in the memory, and the sport returns to Abu Dhabi almost a year since the course of…
Jenson Button MBE, or ‘JB’ as he’s known on Planet F1, did not have a job in the winter of 2008. A year later he was world champion, having won…
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This might sound big-headed but when it came to my rivals I always believed I was as good as, if not better, than all of them. You have to have…
This is the transmission and right-rear corner – plus nose cone – from Philippe Alliot’s Lola on their way back to the Larrousse Calmels pit after an enormous shunt during…
Volkswagen will be on the Formula 1 grid come 2026. Its Audi brand has confirmed its entry to the motor sport big time, while sister marque Porsche may or may…
Carlos Sainz’s nasty aquaplaning exit on the opening lap of the Japanese Grand Prix put in place a sequence of events which were scarily reminiscent of those which caused the…
All conventional tyre deg-dominated strategy went out the window with the rain-affected Singapore and Japanese grands prix. Getting the strategy right was all about when to switch from inters to…
For all that we are towards the end of the season, there is a cost cap in place and although wind tunnels are generally devoted now to the 2023 cars,…
I must admit, I didn’t expect to be the one who broke the news to Max Verstappen that he was a two-time Formula 1 world champion. While I prepared for…
The controversial end to the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship will live long in the memory, and the sport returns to Abu Dhabi almost a year since the course of…
Jenson Button MBE, or ‘JB’ as he’s known on Planet F1, did not have a job in the winter of 2008. A year later he was world champion, having won…
Great Read
This might sound big-headed but when it came to my rivals I always believed I was as good as, if not better, than all of them. You have to have…
This is the transmission and right-rear corner – plus nose cone – from Philippe Alliot’s Lola on their way back to the Larrousse Calmels pit after an enormous shunt during…
Volkswagen will be on the Formula 1 grid come 2026. Its Audi brand has confirmed its entry to the motor sport big time, while sister marque Porsche may or may…
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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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