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Pato O’Ward’s McLaren F1 test: ‘This is crazy and insane’
In the days following the Abu Dhabi season finale the teams stayed on to take part in the young driver test. McLaren chose this as an opportunity to run its…
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F1’s 2021 title deciders: All’s not always fair in love and war…
A Middle Eastern three-race flourish to this most astonishingly closely fought championship – with the outcome decided on the last lap of the last race, just as in 2008, but…
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Truly epic: 2021 was the year F1 finally delivered on its promise
Right in the middle of facing unprecedented challenges from the outside world and just at the moment it most needed it, Formula 1 served up a truly epic season. It…
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Belgian GP promoter offers ‘no compensation’ to fans who attended 2021 washout
The Belgian GP promoter has said fans will not be refunded for this year’s washout race, which was called off after three laps
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Romain Grosjean’s great escape
Romain Grosjean is a happy man. He’s alive for a start. A year on from that terrifying crash in Bahrain – if the barrier-splitting impact didn’t kill him, the inferno…
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F1’s sink or swim moment after Muddle in the Marina: The Editor
In Argentina they do not talk about Diego Maradona’s Hand of God goal when discussing their team’s triumph in the 1986 football World Cup. Just like in this country we…
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Critical moments of the 2021 F1 season: where the title was won and lost
Here is the recap of the most important moments from an unforgettable battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton
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New FIA president: Hamilton can be given ‘no forgiveness’ for awards absence
New FIA president Mohammed bin Sulayem has said that Hamilton will be penalised if found in a breach of the rules for missing the FIA gala
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FIA must look at itself after blaming fans for Abu Dhabi debacle – MPH
With the FIA set to conduct an analysis of the Abu Dhabi debacle, Mark Hughes asks what will be really learnt
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Pato O’Ward’s McLaren F1 test: ‘This is crazy and insane’
In the days following the Abu Dhabi season finale the teams stayed on to take part in the young driver test. McLaren chose this as an opportunity to run its…
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F1’s 2021 title deciders: All’s not always fair in love and war…
A Middle Eastern three-race flourish to this most astonishingly closely fought championship – with the outcome decided on the last lap of the last race, just as in 2008, but…
Opinion
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Truly epic: 2021 was the year F1 finally delivered on its promise
Right in the middle of facing unprecedented challenges from the outside world and just at the moment it most needed it, Formula 1 served up a truly epic season. It…
F1
Belgian GP promoter offers ‘no compensation’ to fans who attended 2021 washout
The Belgian GP promoter has said fans will not be refunded for this year’s washout race, which was called off after three laps
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Romain Grosjean’s great escape
Romain Grosjean is a happy man. He’s alive for a start. A year on from that terrifying crash in Bahrain – if the barrier-splitting impact didn’t kill him, the inferno…
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F1’s sink or swim moment after Muddle in the Marina: The Editor
In Argentina they do not talk about Diego Maradona’s Hand of God goal when discussing their team’s triumph in the 1986 football World Cup. Just like in this country we…
F1
Critical moments of the 2021 F1 season: where the title was won and lost
Here is the recap of the most important moments from an unforgettable battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton
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New FIA president: Hamilton can be given ‘no forgiveness’ for awards absence
New FIA president Mohammed bin Sulayem has said that Hamilton will be penalised if found in a breach of the rules for missing the FIA gala
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FIA must look at itself after blaming fans for Abu Dhabi debacle – MPH
With the FIA set to conduct an analysis of the Abu Dhabi debacle, Mark Hughes asks what will be really learnt
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Mercedes seizes early 2026 F1 advantage as Russell and Antonelli dominate opening two races
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…
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MPH: Antonelli vs Russell – is this F1’s next epic title battle?
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
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Flawed F1 exposed again at Suzuka, but searing Antonelli would win in any era
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
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Katsuta triumphs in Safari Rally as Toyota driver ends 94-start wait with grit and resilience
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…
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Verstappen’s Nürburgring pole and battle overshadowed by tyre rule exclusion in NLS2
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…
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Porsche Penske’s Sebring win marred by team orders dispute in Florida endurance double
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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Ready for the F1 title fight: How Kimi Antonelli revealed he has what it takes
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
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
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Stewart and Jenkinson clash over safety as Rindt wins at Clermont-Ferrand
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…
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Heikki Kovalainen on F1 pressure, McLaren years and the cost of chasing greatness
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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