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Smoke and Heat: Lotus in the JPS days
Although I had no more than a small role as the team’s press officer during the black-and-gold glory days of the Lotus 72, I had a ringside seat at someof…
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Back in black: Lotus and Emerson reunited at Brands Hatch
It’s one of motor racing’s most familiar photographic clichés: black livery with gold flourishes, distinctive dark helmet with elegant red swirls, driver’s head cocked to one side as he coaxes…
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Emerson Fittipaldi: The best car of my career
“The Lotus 72 was such an important car for me –definitely the best car of my career. I have driven it recently at the Goodwood events and it still feels…
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Special brew: The Lotus 72
Chassis 72/5 Fittipaldi’s old faithful Emerson Fittipaldi crashed what would turn out to be his ‘old faithful’ on his first appearance in the car, in Friday practice at Monza 1970…
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New Spa surface will make track 1.5sec per-lap faster*
*But with similar lap times as last year, as Spa’s new faster surface will be counterbalanced by F1’s slower 2022 cars
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Crossing the tunnel channels
It is notable how the development of the Red Bull and Ferrari, comfortably the two fastest cars of the season, seems to be influenced by their relative strengths and weaknesses.…
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F1 Retro: Setting a smoking lap
F1 Retro August 2005 I kept my foot down – that’s what racing is all about.” So said Keke Rosberg, the moustachioed, Marlboro-smoking racing hero featured in this month’s F1 Retro,…
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Formula 1: good month, bad month — October 2022
Good month Alonso’s Machiavellian moves If you’re going to waste your talent in the midfield, do it with as many zeros on your contract as possible, and an iconic car…
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Ferrari in the cooler
Red Bull made some great strategy calls in winning Verstappen the Hungarian Grand Prix from 10th on the grid. But underlying it all was Verstappen’s pace advantage. As rival Carlos…
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Smoke and Heat: Lotus in the JPS days
Although I had no more than a small role as the team’s press officer during the black-and-gold glory days of the Lotus 72, I had a ringside seat at someof…
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Back in black: Lotus and Emerson reunited at Brands Hatch
It’s one of motor racing’s most familiar photographic clichés: black livery with gold flourishes, distinctive dark helmet with elegant red swirls, driver’s head cocked to one side as he coaxes…
Great Read
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Emerson Fittipaldi: The best car of my career
“The Lotus 72 was such an important car for me –definitely the best car of my career. I have driven it recently at the Goodwood events and it still feels…
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Special brew: The Lotus 72
Chassis 72/5 Fittipaldi’s old faithful Emerson Fittipaldi crashed what would turn out to be his ‘old faithful’ on his first appearance in the car, in Friday practice at Monza 1970…
F1
New Spa surface will make track 1.5sec per-lap faster*
*But with similar lap times as last year, as Spa’s new faster surface will be counterbalanced by F1’s slower 2022 cars
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Crossing the tunnel channels
It is notable how the development of the Red Bull and Ferrari, comfortably the two fastest cars of the season, seems to be influenced by their relative strengths and weaknesses.…
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F1 Retro: Setting a smoking lap
F1 Retro August 2005 I kept my foot down – that’s what racing is all about.” So said Keke Rosberg, the moustachioed, Marlboro-smoking racing hero featured in this month’s F1 Retro,…
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Formula 1: good month, bad month — October 2022
Good month Alonso’s Machiavellian moves If you’re going to waste your talent in the midfield, do it with as many zeros on your contract as possible, and an iconic car…
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Ferrari in the cooler
Red Bull made some great strategy calls in winning Verstappen the Hungarian Grand Prix from 10th on the grid. But underlying it all was Verstappen’s pace advantage. As rival Carlos…
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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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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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Hamilton’s cutting question that Vasseur failed to answer
Hamilton backed Vasseur at Sepang while saying the hierarchy above him is “a question”. A day later, Vasseur’s answers were only about relationships and unity
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