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What is tyre graining? Who decides on F1’s DRS zones? Ask Mark
Can you explain what tyre graining is and how it affects car performance? Is it different to tyre deg that we hear so much about? Geoff Hill, Ealing Hi Geoff.…
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Set-up struggles make this year’s Mercedes F1 car a mystery machine
Mercedes introduced the first significant upgrades to its troublesome W13 at Miami. Although the team feels that it needs a fuller understanding of the root cause of the car’s inconsistencies…
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F1 Retro: Graham Hill’s triple crown
F1 Retro August 2007 Fifty years ago this month Graham Hill won Le Mans. And by adding the French classic to his list of victories he achieved something that no…
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Revived Mercedes is relishing the fightback: ‘It’s nice to be the challenger’
Mercedes technical director Mike Elliot explains the gains a reinvigorated Mercedes has made, as well as the difficulties around the cost cap and aerodynamic testing rules
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Formula 1: good month, bad month — July 2022
Good month Horror shirt “Please buy the merchandise,”Alex Albon, above, centre, begged in Miami in the hope of a bigger budget. Another brilliant performance to take ninth in the race…
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BRM: Racing for Britain book review
Why do we spend more time remembering the glorious failure of the V16 than we do the cars that finally brought grand prix victory to the optimistic BRM marque? Is…
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Mark Blundell on Martin Brundle: My Greatest Rival
This has to be my old sparring partner Martin Brundle. When I started in Formula Ford in 1984 he was already in Formula 1 with Tyrrell but I caught up…
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Hamilton set for FIA showdown over jewellery: 2022 Monaco GP – what to watch for
Formula 1 heads to Monaco with a Hamilton-FIA row, intense title battle and questions about the race’s future lingering in the air
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Flashback: René Arnoux dashes from podium to payphone in Canada
René Arnoux’s victory in the 1983 Canadian Grand Prix was his first in a season that had seen six different winners in the previous seven races. Having claimed three pole…
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What is tyre graining? Who decides on F1’s DRS zones? Ask Mark
Can you explain what tyre graining is and how it affects car performance? Is it different to tyre deg that we hear so much about? Geoff Hill, Ealing Hi Geoff.…
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Set-up struggles make this year’s Mercedes F1 car a mystery machine
Mercedes introduced the first significant upgrades to its troublesome W13 at Miami. Although the team feels that it needs a fuller understanding of the root cause of the car’s inconsistencies…
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F1 Retro: Graham Hill’s triple crown
F1 Retro August 2007 Fifty years ago this month Graham Hill won Le Mans. And by adding the French classic to his list of victories he achieved something that no…
F1
Revived Mercedes is relishing the fightback: ‘It’s nice to be the challenger’
Mercedes technical director Mike Elliot explains the gains a reinvigorated Mercedes has made, as well as the difficulties around the cost cap and aerodynamic testing rules
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Formula 1: good month, bad month — July 2022
Good month Horror shirt “Please buy the merchandise,”Alex Albon, above, centre, begged in Miami in the hope of a bigger budget. Another brilliant performance to take ninth in the race…
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BRM: Racing for Britain book review
Why do we spend more time remembering the glorious failure of the V16 than we do the cars that finally brought grand prix victory to the optimistic BRM marque? Is…
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Mark Blundell on Martin Brundle: My Greatest Rival
This has to be my old sparring partner Martin Brundle. When I started in Formula Ford in 1984 he was already in Formula 1 with Tyrrell but I caught up…
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Hamilton set for FIA showdown over jewellery: 2022 Monaco GP – what to watch for
Formula 1 heads to Monaco with a Hamilton-FIA row, intense title battle and questions about the race’s future lingering in the air
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Flashback: René Arnoux dashes from podium to payphone in Canada
René Arnoux’s victory in the 1983 Canadian Grand Prix was his first in a season that had seen six different winners in the previous seven races. Having claimed three pole…
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MPH: Why Red Bull’s rivals could push Max Verstappen out of F1 for good
As F1 power unit manufacturers fail to agree on rule changes, so the threat of Max Verstappen quitting the series becomes more real, writes Mark Hughes
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Mark Hughes: Hamilton chose wrong F1 track for simulator gamble
Hamilton decided not to use the simulator to prepare for the Canadian GP, but as Mark Hughes explains, Montreal may be exactly the wrong place to ditch it
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MPH: What Verstappen did at the Nürburgring is everything F1 can’t offer
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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Nico Rosberg celebrates victory at Suzuka in 2016
October 7, 2016 Suzuka, Japan By Round 17, Nico Rosberg led Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 23 points. Here’s Rosberg in practice dramatically demonstrating the concept of lateral load transfer.…
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Derek Daly: why the numbers prove Williams sabotaged my 1982 F1 season for Rosberg
I raced in Formula 1 for five years at a dangerous time when you knew that at least one driver on average would probably be killed or maimed each year.…
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Ferrari’s bid for four straight Le Mans wins faces a tougher field and stricter BoP rules
Ferrari is bidding for a fourth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours win this year. Or to put it another way, to continue an unbeaten run since it ended its 50-year exile from…
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Russell vs Antonelli resembles one of F1’s most toxic team-mate battles
The emerging Antonelli vs Russell F1 title duel brings to mind 2016 and the Hamilton-Rosberg years. But there’s an older, destructive example that’s a closer match for Mercedes’ current situation
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Johnny Servoz-Gavin: F1’s hippie racer whose career was cruelly ended by a twig
F1 flashback: Johnny Servoz-Gavin
He looked set to become one of Formula 1’s greats until a single twig in a French forest cut his career short. Matt Bishop remembers a playboy and prodigy
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‘Too safe’ call leaves McLaren under pressure in 2026 F1 title battle
An unfortunate tyre gamble and weak reliability in Canada left McLaren facing an uphill battle to defend its titles in 2026
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