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Mercedes can erase the pain of 2021 this year, says Anthony Davidson
I’ve been asked a few times now how I think the Mercedes team can pick itself up after the controversy at Abu Dhabi last season, and the simple answer is:…
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Mark Webber: ‘Red Bull’s secret formula will keep it at the top of F1 in 2022’
The million-dollar question for Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari is how many punches they used to close out last season, and what effect that might have had on their 2022…
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‘Wait and see’ will characterise F1 in 2022, says Mercedes
The new rules may not require the clean-sheet approach to power units as demanded of the chassis department, but as Mercedes High Performance Powertrains managing director Hywel Thomas explains, those…
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Mercedes voyages into the unknown with 2022 F1 rules
So will these new Formula 1 regulations deliver what they’re supposed to and improve the ability of grand prix cars to actually race each other in 2022? “Good question,” says…
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F1’s 2022 cars under the skin
It’s all about the tech. As the new F1 season gears up ahead of the first race in Bahrain at the end of March, fans have been given their first…
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Max vs Lewis 2.0: the 2022 F1 rematch
Formula 1 people hate unknowns. They can’t stand any inkling that they lack control over their own destinies. Yet at the same time, and just like the rest of us,…
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Flashback: Bedlam in Jacarepaguá
When the 10 F1 teams turn up in Bahrain for the first grand prix of 2022, none of them will experience conditions like this. In 1989, Brabham faced this excuse…
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Sir Patrick Head: The Motor Sport Interview
Sir Patrick Head, knighted for services to motor sport in 2015, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from University College London in 1970 and soon after started work at…
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One of F1’s most exciting races ever: 1962 BRDC International Trophy
This year absolutely bulges with anniversaries, and one of the most spectacularly exciting Formula 1 races ever run took place on May 12, 1962. The 14th BRDC International Trophy at…
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Mercedes can erase the pain of 2021 this year, says Anthony Davidson
I’ve been asked a few times now how I think the Mercedes team can pick itself up after the controversy at Abu Dhabi last season, and the simple answer is:…
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Mark Webber: ‘Red Bull’s secret formula will keep it at the top of F1 in 2022’
The million-dollar question for Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari is how many punches they used to close out last season, and what effect that might have had on their 2022…
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‘Wait and see’ will characterise F1 in 2022, says Mercedes
The new rules may not require the clean-sheet approach to power units as demanded of the chassis department, but as Mercedes High Performance Powertrains managing director Hywel Thomas explains, those…
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Mercedes voyages into the unknown with 2022 F1 rules
So will these new Formula 1 regulations deliver what they’re supposed to and improve the ability of grand prix cars to actually race each other in 2022? “Good question,” says…
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F1’s 2022 cars under the skin
It’s all about the tech. As the new F1 season gears up ahead of the first race in Bahrain at the end of March, fans have been given their first…
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Max vs Lewis 2.0: the 2022 F1 rematch
Formula 1 people hate unknowns. They can’t stand any inkling that they lack control over their own destinies. Yet at the same time, and just like the rest of us,…
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Flashback: Bedlam in Jacarepaguá
When the 10 F1 teams turn up in Bahrain for the first grand prix of 2022, none of them will experience conditions like this. In 1989, Brabham faced this excuse…
Great Read
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Sir Patrick Head: The Motor Sport Interview
Sir Patrick Head, knighted for services to motor sport in 2015, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from University College London in 1970 and soon after started work at…
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One of F1’s most exciting races ever: 1962 BRDC International Trophy
This year absolutely bulges with anniversaries, and one of the most spectacularly exciting Formula 1 races ever run took place on May 12, 1962. The 14th BRDC International Trophy at…
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Mark Hughes: Hamilton chose wrong F1 track for simulator gamble
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
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MPH: What Verstappen did at the Nürburgring is everything F1 can’t offer
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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MPH: Still sandbagging? The crafty reason Mercedes and Ferrari may be hiding true F1 pace
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?
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Nico Rosberg celebrates victory at Suzuka in 2016
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.…
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Derek Daly: why the numbers prove Williams sabotaged my 1982 F1 season for Rosberg
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.…
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Ferrari’s bid for four straight Le Mans wins faces a tougher field and stricter BoP rules
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…
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Johnny Servoz-Gavin: F1’s hippie racer whose career was cruelly ended by a twig
F1 flashback: Johnny Servoz-Gavin
He looked set to become one of Formula 1’s greats until a single twig in a French forest cut his career short. Matt Bishop remembers a playboy and prodigy
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‘Too safe’ call leaves McLaren under pressure in 2026 F1 title battle
An unfortunate tyre gamble and weak reliability in Canada left McLaren facing an uphill battle to defend its titles in 2026
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Mark Hughes: The fastest Mercedes F1 driver? It was too close to call in Canada
Mercedes was the dominant force in Canada, and there was little to split its two drivers until a power unit failure forced George Russell out, leaving Kimi Antonelli cruising to a record-breaking fourth Formula 1 victory
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