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Expect the unexpected at the Hungaroring: September 2022 events
Hungarian Grand Prix July 29-31 If there’s one race that stands out from a highly crowded July – during which the Formula 1 circus will have four races inside a…
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Team orders? ‘No way!’ said René Arnoux as he seized home French GP win
You have taken pole position at your home grand prix driving for what is ostensibly your national team. You then lead the race, and once a pair of pesky rivals…
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Trackside view: September 2022
Race report Up and down for Leclerc in Austria and Canada, while Sainz sizzles at Silverstone Word on the beat Change at the top, Ricciardo about to go pop and…
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‘Is it right to penalise drivers for breaking track limits by millimetres? Actually, yes it is’: Johnny Herbert
Track limits and the rule on crossing the white line reared its head again at the Austrian Grand Prix. In the race more than 40 transgressions were recorded and five-second…
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How can Audi and Porsche enter F1? Ask Mark
Hi Mark. What’s the deal with Audi and Porsche both joining F1? The two were stopped from co-existing in sports car racing, so why are they now both preparing F1…
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Red Bull risks losing its advantage with change to F1 regulations
Although speculation rages about the influence of plank flexibility on the Red Bull RB18’s relatively smooth ride (see Mark Hughes’s column), there is clearly more to it than just that.…
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Heavenly Max and the patience of a Sainz: F1 in Canada, Britain & Austria
🇨🇦 2022 Canadian Grand Prix 🇬🇧 2022 British Prix 🇦🇹 2022 Austrian Grand Prix Three grands prix packed into four weekends in this quick-fire championship gave three different winners, one…
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F1 Retro: Good God, it’s an Arrows
F1 Retro June 2002 The German grand prix which took place in July 2002 was won by Michael Schumacher from pole for Ferrari. However, it would also become a footnote…
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Formula 1: good month, bad month — September 2022
Good month Flashback! Mick Schumacher earned his first points at Silverstone after a battle with Max Verstappen. A Schumacher versus a Verstappen – is it 1994 again? Teary-eyed An…
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Expect the unexpected at the Hungaroring: September 2022 events
Hungarian Grand Prix July 29-31 If there’s one race that stands out from a highly crowded July – during which the Formula 1 circus will have four races inside a…
Great Read
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Team orders? ‘No way!’ said René Arnoux as he seized home French GP win
You have taken pole position at your home grand prix driving for what is ostensibly your national team. You then lead the race, and once a pair of pesky rivals…
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Trackside view: September 2022
Race report Up and down for Leclerc in Austria and Canada, while Sainz sizzles at Silverstone Word on the beat Change at the top, Ricciardo about to go pop and…
Opinion
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‘Is it right to penalise drivers for breaking track limits by millimetres? Actually, yes it is’: Johnny Herbert
Track limits and the rule on crossing the white line reared its head again at the Austrian Grand Prix. In the race more than 40 transgressions were recorded and five-second…
Archive
How can Audi and Porsche enter F1? Ask Mark
Hi Mark. What’s the deal with Audi and Porsche both joining F1? The two were stopped from co-existing in sports car racing, so why are they now both preparing F1…
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Red Bull risks losing its advantage with change to F1 regulations
Although speculation rages about the influence of plank flexibility on the Red Bull RB18’s relatively smooth ride (see Mark Hughes’s column), there is clearly more to it than just that.…
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Heavenly Max and the patience of a Sainz: F1 in Canada, Britain & Austria
🇨🇦 2022 Canadian Grand Prix 🇬🇧 2022 British Prix 🇦🇹 2022 Austrian Grand Prix Three grands prix packed into four weekends in this quick-fire championship gave three different winners, one…
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F1 Retro: Good God, it’s an Arrows
F1 Retro June 2002 The German grand prix which took place in July 2002 was won by Michael Schumacher from pole for Ferrari. However, it would also become a footnote…
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Formula 1: good month, bad month — September 2022
Good month Flashback! Mick Schumacher earned his first points at Silverstone after a battle with Max Verstappen. A Schumacher versus a Verstappen – is it 1994 again? Teary-eyed An…
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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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