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Frank Williams was breaking bread and new ground when this was taken in January 1985. It was Frank’s idea to have some of ‘the lads’ to lunch and chew the…
It’s rare you hear a Formula 1 driver blast their former team after leaving the grand prix paddock, but four-time world champion Alain Prost made no attempt at diplomacy after…
Spa-Francorchamps is nearing the end of its government-backed £67m winter revamp aimed at both improving the safety of the Belgian Grand Prix venue and also attracting back one of its…
This new year sees a big anniversary for mainstream racing car design in general – and for Lotus in particular. At this time of the year in 1962, Colin Chapman…
Their nicknames were El Chueco and Ciccio: Juan Manuel Fangio was indeed bandy and Alberto Ascari was… well, both were chubby in truth. Looks deceive. Though interrupted badly by injury…
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Fifty years ago when a BRM P160 burst out of a giant cigarette packet at Paul Ricard to signify Marlboro’s first F1 sponsorship deal, smoking was synonymous with glamour –…
F1 Retro November 2015 Being told to “F*** off” isn’t the usual introduction to your future boss, but this was exactly what Graham Hill (born this month in 1929) said…
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135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 6 Just as the Coventry Climax racing effort was fading in the mid-1960s, a new contender was waiting in…
As F1 prepares to embark upon a brave new era in which the cars are specifically regulated to provide closer wheel-to-wheel racing, Pat Symonds, the man in charge of formulating…
Frank Williams was breaking bread and new ground when this was taken in January 1985. It was Frank’s idea to have some of ‘the lads’ to lunch and chew the…
It’s rare you hear a Formula 1 driver blast their former team after leaving the grand prix paddock, but four-time world champion Alain Prost made no attempt at diplomacy after…
Spa-Francorchamps is nearing the end of its government-backed £67m winter revamp aimed at both improving the safety of the Belgian Grand Prix venue and also attracting back one of its…
This new year sees a big anniversary for mainstream racing car design in general – and for Lotus in particular. At this time of the year in 1962, Colin Chapman…
Their nicknames were El Chueco and Ciccio: Juan Manuel Fangio was indeed bandy and Alberto Ascari was… well, both were chubby in truth. Looks deceive. Though interrupted badly by injury…
Great Read
Fifty years ago when a BRM P160 burst out of a giant cigarette packet at Paul Ricard to signify Marlboro’s first F1 sponsorship deal, smoking was synonymous with glamour –…
F1 Retro November 2015 Being told to “F*** off” isn’t the usual introduction to your future boss, but this was exactly what Graham Hill (born this month in 1929) said…
Great Read
135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 6 Just as the Coventry Climax racing effort was fading in the mid-1960s, a new contender was waiting in…
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
He’s only 19, but Kimi Antonelli has shown F1 championship-winning pace and may never get a better title shot. The ingredients are there for another historic battle between one experienced team-mate and a thrusting newcomer, says Mark Hughes
Kimi Antonelli looked like he’d have blasted to victory in the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, no matter what rules F1 was racing under, says Mark Hughes. However, the result was once again overshadowed by the shortcomings of the series’ new regulations
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
March 21, 2026 Sebring, Florida, USA Porsche Penske Motorsport trio Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich completed a double in the ‘36 Hours of Florida’ when they added Sebring…
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Leading the world championship aged 19, Kimi Antonelli has proved he has the pace to win the title — and this could be his best shot. Plus: how GPs could be shortened over safety fears, and why Max Verstappen is serious in threatening to quit
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
There are a small number of racing drivers whose stories only truly reveal themselves, or even make sense, when you stop thinking about lap times and start thinking about geography:…
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