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Frank Williams’ fighting spirit
Back in the day, when life was in Technicolor and major companies were queueing to sponsor Formula 1 teams, Jackie Stewart used every January to organise a charity clay pigeon…
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Word on the beat, February 2022
• Sauber director Pascal Picci, top, – who took over as chairman and president when Peter Sauber retired – has resigned, citing a disagreement with team principal Frédéric Vasseur over…
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Trackside view, February 2022
Race report The golden season became searingly hot in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi Word on the beat Sauber director resigns, Jean Todt may return to Ferrari, and VW…
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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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Frank Williams’ fighting spirit
Back in the day, when life was in Technicolor and major companies were queueing to sponsor Formula 1 teams, Jackie Stewart used every January to organise a charity clay pigeon…
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Word on the beat, February 2022
• Sauber director Pascal Picci, top, – who took over as chairman and president when Peter Sauber retired – has resigned, citing a disagreement with team principal Frédéric Vasseur over…
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Trackside view, February 2022
Race report The golden season became searingly hot in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi Word on the beat Sauber director resigns, Jean Todt may return to Ferrari, and VW…
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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…
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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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Aston Martin’s giant leap? Alonso will fight McLarens if Newey & Honda F1 upgrades work perfectly
Mark Hughes crunches the numbers on Aston Martin’s big upgrade for the Hungarian Grand Prix – and asks whether it can be enough to close a four-second deficit to near the front of the F1 pack
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MPH: Revealed – the fault behind Mercedes’ Belgian GP deployment chaos
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
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Russell zapped, and Spa made ridiculously easy in F1’s energy-deployment GP
Kimi Antonelli delivered his sixth F1 victory of 2026 at the Belgian Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. But this year’s cars and their energy limitations made Spa-Francorchamps a shadow of the challenge it usually is
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Pedro Rodríguez wins at Spa as Brabham leads the 1970 F1 title race
June 7, 1970 Spa-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium By F1’s Round 4 at Spa in 1970, Jack Brabham was at the top of the standings with eventual title winner Jochen Rindt trailing by…
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Toyota’s resourcefulness delivered a sixth Le Mans 24 Hours victory against the odds
Toyota returned to the top step of the podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a three-year absence. Finally, the Japanese manufacturer triumphed against factory opposition, which was not…
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Mighty Mondeo: how Rouse and Radisich made Ford’s touring car a world-beater
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
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F1 is drawing more attention to its 2026 flaws by trying to hide them
As F1’s power units run out of energy, the series’ response has been to hide the evidence rather than explain it, and fans are noticing
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F1’s worst-performing team-mate – why Esteban Ocon isn’t as bad as he looks
The 18-3 scoreline looks decisive, but a closer look at Haas’s season shows a car that hasn’t been giving both drivers the same chance to score
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Is F1’s world TV feed missing too much of the action in 2026?
A three-way fight for the final point at Spa, decided in a small picture-in-picture window – is F1’s world feed built for the racing it actually has now?
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