The most pressurised race weekend of McLaren’s season – What to watch out for in Qatar GP
The Qatar Grand Prix will be a pressure-packed penultimate round of the 2025 F1 season. Here’s what to watch out for at the Lusail event
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Peter Wright was with Lotus for some of the greatest F1 highs, but also witnessed its demise – he told the story to Motor Sport in this month’s magazine
Lost alongside Graham Hill on a foggy November night 50 years ago, Tony Brise was already seen as “something special” in F1. All that’s left is the hint of what might have been
Guenther Steiner is that rare thing in modern motor sport: a genuine character; a straight-talking, old-school racer in an era of corporate jargon and marketing polish. Not despite that, but…
Narrower tyres Those big fat slicks of old seem a long time ago now… The wheels remain at 18in, but the width of the front tyres has been reduced by…
In a nondescript German factory corridor, bright shafts of light break through the gaps in a shutter. Suddenly the corrugated metal door starts to rise as the dazzling white beams…
Soon we’ll know the outcome of what has turned out to be a fascinating three-way title fight. Someone has to win it. And by the final race the fascination will…
The Formula 1 circus has climbed aboard BA 1246 from São Paulo heading back to London Heathrow. Everyone around me is looking forward to the last weekend off before the…
The honeymoon period between Ferrari executive chairman John Elkann and Lewis Hamilton seems to be over, given the former’s stinging summary of the team’s turgid performances after the São Paulo…
The Qatar Grand Prix will be a pressure-packed penultimate round of the 2025 F1 season. Here’s what to watch out for at the Lusail event
Peter Wright was with Lotus for some of the greatest F1 highs, but also witnessed its demise – he told the story to Motor Sport in this month’s magazine
Lost alongside Graham Hill on a foggy November night 50 years ago, Tony Brise was already seen as “something special” in F1. All that’s left is the hint of what might have been
Guenther Steiner is that rare thing in modern motor sport: a genuine character; a straight-talking, old-school racer in an era of corporate jargon and marketing polish. Not despite that, but…
Narrower tyres Those big fat slicks of old seem a long time ago now… The wheels remain at 18in, but the width of the front tyres has been reduced by…
In a nondescript German factory corridor, bright shafts of light break through the gaps in a shutter. Suddenly the corrugated metal door starts to rise as the dazzling white beams…
Soon we’ll know the outcome of what has turned out to be a fascinating three-way title fight. Someone has to win it. And by the final race the fascination will…
The Formula 1 circus has climbed aboard BA 1246 from São Paulo heading back to London Heathrow. Everyone around me is looking forward to the last weekend off before the…
The honeymoon period between Ferrari executive chairman John Elkann and Lewis Hamilton seems to be over, given the former’s stinging summary of the team’s turgid performances after the São Paulo…
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
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
F1’s new mechanism to help struggling engine manufacturers catch up with the leaders could be more powerful than first thought, writes Mark Hughes. Are Mercedes and Ferrari masking their true performance for long-term advantage?
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.…
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.…
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…
Hamilton arrived in Montreal having skipped the simulator entirely in his preparation, but it wasn’t an oversight
Verstappen’s Nürburgring masterclass was a reminder of everything Formula 1 gave up – and why it can never get it back
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Audacious overtakes and relentless pace: why Max Verstappen was mesmerising at the Nürburgring. Plus what makes the Canadian Grand Prix unmissable
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