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Was Russell’s Barca performance one of the great defensive drives? – Up and down in Spain
Exploding Ferrari engines, incredible defensive drives and Sainz in the gravel – there was much to mull on in Barcelona
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Verstappen wins Spanish GP battle, but is Leclerc winning the war?
Charles Leclerc couldn’t believe his beautiful day could be coming to such a brutal conclusion as the Ferrari lost power 27 laps into a race which he’d dominated from pole.…
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Ferrari frazzled in Barcelona heat, as Verstappen takes F1 title lead: 2022 Spanish GP report
If the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was going to be the ultimate test of the success of the 2022 regulations, then it certainly delivered, but it was perhaps reliability that was…
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Verstappen comes through to win as Leclerc breaks down: 2022 Spanish GP as it happened
Max Verstappen won via a trip through the gravel after Charles Leclerc’s engine failed whilst leading comfortably, as George Russell battled with the Red Bull early on in an exciting race
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Leclerc rescues pole after Q3 spin: 2022 Spanish GP qualifying
Charles Leclerc snatched victory from the jaws of defeat after he compensated for an early Q3 spin by setting a stunning pole lap for the 2022 Spanish GP. Max Verstappen…
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Why Aston Martin was cleared over new sidepods — but may have copied Red Bull legally
In an intriguing development in Spain on Friday the FIA put out a statement confirming that Aston Martin has done nothing illegal in creating an updated version of its AMR22…
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Leclerc makes it three in a row ahead of qualifying: Spanish GP practice round-up
Charles Leclerc once more headed practice for Spanish GP FP3, with Verstappen, Russell and Hamilton all close behind
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Alonso slams ‘incompetent’ stewards after Miami penalties
Fernando Alonso has raged against recent steward decision-making, accusing officials of “incompetence” and lacking “knowledge of racing”
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Why Ferrari risks making its car worse with new upgrade — MPH
Ferrari is gambling with a heavy F1 upgrade package that could see it regain the advantage over Red Bull — or make its car worse. But it has no choice writes Mark Hughes
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Was Russell’s Barca performance one of the great defensive drives? – Up and down in Spain
Exploding Ferrari engines, incredible defensive drives and Sainz in the gravel – there was much to mull on in Barcelona
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Verstappen wins Spanish GP battle, but is Leclerc winning the war?
Charles Leclerc couldn’t believe his beautiful day could be coming to such a brutal conclusion as the Ferrari lost power 27 laps into a race which he’d dominated from pole.…
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Ferrari frazzled in Barcelona heat, as Verstappen takes F1 title lead: 2022 Spanish GP report
If the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was going to be the ultimate test of the success of the 2022 regulations, then it certainly delivered, but it was perhaps reliability that was…
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Verstappen comes through to win as Leclerc breaks down: 2022 Spanish GP as it happened
Max Verstappen won via a trip through the gravel after Charles Leclerc’s engine failed whilst leading comfortably, as George Russell battled with the Red Bull early on in an exciting race
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Leclerc rescues pole after Q3 spin: 2022 Spanish GP qualifying
Charles Leclerc snatched victory from the jaws of defeat after he compensated for an early Q3 spin by setting a stunning pole lap for the 2022 Spanish GP. Max Verstappen…
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Why Aston Martin was cleared over new sidepods — but may have copied Red Bull legally
In an intriguing development in Spain on Friday the FIA put out a statement confirming that Aston Martin has done nothing illegal in creating an updated version of its AMR22…
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Leclerc makes it three in a row ahead of qualifying: Spanish GP practice round-up
Charles Leclerc once more headed practice for Spanish GP FP3, with Verstappen, Russell and Hamilton all close behind
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Alonso slams ‘incompetent’ stewards after Miami penalties
Fernando Alonso has raged against recent steward decision-making, accusing officials of “incompetence” and lacking “knowledge of racing”
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Why Ferrari risks making its car worse with new upgrade — MPH
Ferrari is gambling with a heavy F1 upgrade package that could see it regain the advantage over Red Bull — or make its car worse. But it has no choice writes Mark Hughes
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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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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
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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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Jules Bianchi and the glorious future that Formula 1 never saw
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
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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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