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When I was racing, what I most enjoyed about new tracks was the differences they offered. The surfaces were usually tricky, whereas now there’s this expectation that they’ve all got…
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.…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
When Fernando Alonso speared off the road during qualifying for the Australian GP, the result of an oil pressure drop triggering a fail-safe mode that shut down the car, there…
When I was racing, what I most enjoyed about new tracks was the differences they offered. The surfaces were usually tricky, whereas now there’s this expectation that they’ve all got…
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.…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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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