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Trackside view, August 2021
Race report If Monaco was short on thrills, Baku delivered by the bucketload Word on the beat Has Mercedes unwittingly recorded the world’s longest pitstop? Tactical analysis Baku gave both…
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Daniel Ricciardo: ‘homesickness and car struggles are fuelling me’
Consider for a moment the bad days you have at work. Not the ones when your work is going particularly badly, but when things outside of your professional life are…
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Under the skin of the Ferrari F1-2000: Red revolution
Twenty-one years ago, Ferrari returned to the pinnacle of Formula 1 achievement, adding the Drivers’ World Championship for Michael Schumacher to its second consecutive Formula 1 Constructors’ title, which itself was its…
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Max Power: the force of Mosley
Authors of many epitaphs on Max Mosley found the need to make heavy use of a thesaurus. One writer, searching for an alternative to ‘calculating’, had liberally sprinkled his piece…
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Max Mosley: Formula 1’s saviour or sinner?
No breed is more effective – or deadly – than the poacher turned gamekeeper. As the ‘M’ of March, that arch ‘disruptor’ of constructors, Max Mosley served the ideal apprenticeship…
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Ferrari on its tyre wear headache: ‘We do not have the answer right now’
Ferrari’s graining issues have come rather wearing for Maranello, as its problems preserving tyres were brutally exposed in Paul Ricard
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Yas Marina set for circuit changes to aid overtaking at F1 finale
The Yas Marina Circuit is set to undergo changes ahead of the 2021 edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the hopes of improving overtaking. Since joining the calendar…
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From Monaco to Indy: Race against time
On May 15, 1977, Clay Regazzoni crashed heavily after spinning to the inside of the track out of Turn 3 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and his hopes of qualifying for…
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2021 British Grand Prix preview
There has always been a sense of occasion about the British Grand Prix – and a wonderful 60-year-old photo by Bernard Cahier illustrates the point. In 1961, long before the…
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Trackside view, August 2021
Race report If Monaco was short on thrills, Baku delivered by the bucketload Word on the beat Has Mercedes unwittingly recorded the world’s longest pitstop? Tactical analysis Baku gave both…
F1
Daniel Ricciardo: ‘homesickness and car struggles are fuelling me’
Consider for a moment the bad days you have at work. Not the ones when your work is going particularly badly, but when things outside of your professional life are…
Great Read
Archive
Under the skin of the Ferrari F1-2000: Red revolution
Twenty-one years ago, Ferrari returned to the pinnacle of Formula 1 achievement, adding the Drivers’ World Championship for Michael Schumacher to its second consecutive Formula 1 Constructors’ title, which itself was its…
Archive
Max Power: the force of Mosley
Authors of many epitaphs on Max Mosley found the need to make heavy use of a thesaurus. One writer, searching for an alternative to ‘calculating’, had liberally sprinkled his piece…
Great Read
Archive
Max Mosley: Formula 1’s saviour or sinner?
No breed is more effective – or deadly – than the poacher turned gamekeeper. As the ‘M’ of March, that arch ‘disruptor’ of constructors, Max Mosley served the ideal apprenticeship…
F1
Ferrari on its tyre wear headache: ‘We do not have the answer right now’
Ferrari’s graining issues have come rather wearing for Maranello, as its problems preserving tyres were brutally exposed in Paul Ricard
F1
Yas Marina set for circuit changes to aid overtaking at F1 finale
The Yas Marina Circuit is set to undergo changes ahead of the 2021 edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the hopes of improving overtaking. Since joining the calendar…
Archive
From Monaco to Indy: Race against time
On May 15, 1977, Clay Regazzoni crashed heavily after spinning to the inside of the track out of Turn 3 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and his hopes of qualifying for…
Archive
2021 British Grand Prix preview
There has always been a sense of occasion about the British Grand Prix – and a wonderful 60-year-old photo by Bernard Cahier illustrates the point. In 1961, long before the…
Standings – 2025 F1 World Championship
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MPH: F1 2025’s competitive landscape after six races
Six races into the Formula 1 season, McLaren has taken an early lead as Max Verstappen has kept Red Bull competitive and Mercedes and Ferrari try to gain ground. Mark Hughes analyses the field’s form in the first quarter of 2025
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Miami showed Verstappen exploiting F1 rules to max – again
Max Verstappen preserved his lead at the start of the Miami GP by knowing the letter of the F1 law – probably costing Lando Norris the win
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The two key questions posed by McLaren’s Miami GP dominance
McLaren crushed the opposition in the Miami Grand Prix, with Piastri taking his third straight win in a race that looked like Norris’s to lose. Mark Hughes answers the main questions from the sixth round of the 2025 season
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
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Axe hangs over Perez as Marko jets in to discuss Red Bull replacement
Sergio Perez’s future looks bleak after another underwhelming performance, while George Russell can be upbeat despite his disqualification: 2024 Belgian GP diary
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Today’s F1 starting grid for the 2025 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix
Oscar Piastri is set to start on pole for the 2025 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix after a qualifying session with two heavy crashes and a resurgent Aston Martin. Here’s how the starting grid looks for Sunday’s race in Imola
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45 years of grands prix at Imola: the circuit’s greatest F1 races
Ahead of what may be Imola’s last grand prix for some time, we look back at some of the circuit’s greatest moments – from its first F1 grand prix to Ferrari’s most recent heartbreak
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Everything that happened in Emilia Romagna F1 GP practice
F1 championship leader Piastri leads McLaren 1-2 in Friday practice sessions at Imola
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