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Birthday bell Toles for Team Enstone
This month marks 40 years since Team Enstone made its F1 debut, as Brian Henton laboured the ungainly Toleman TG181 to 23rd on the grid at the 1981 Italian GP.…
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F1 announces new ‘Overtake Award’ trophy
F1 has announced a new prize for the driver with the most overtakes at the end of a season, and a flurry of new in-race graphics to help fans follow competitors’ progress
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Formula 1 good month, bad month: October 2021
Good month F1’s greatest email exchange The heat’s increasing between Horner and Wolff – and so is the entertainment factor. Everyone loves a feud, especially during one of F1’s great…
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McLaren’s boomerang
Illustration Craig Scarborough McLaren is rivalling Red Bull in how many new parts are being produced as each team continues to heavily develop their cars despite the looming challenge of…
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‘There is a maturity in Lando which we didn’t see in the past’ — Johnny Herbert
Lando Norris is my choice for driver of the first half-season in Formula 1 this year. Why? Because there is a wonderful maturity that is starting to appear in him,…
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How Hamilton reeled in Leclerc to win the 2021 British Grand Prix
At Silverstone, as soon as Lewis Hamilton had a) lost the lead to Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari as his momentum was checked by his collision with Max Verstappen and b) incurred…
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Trackside view, October 2021
Race report Entertainment all the way at the British and Hungarian GPs Word on the beat Lewis’s Covid problems and George Russell testing tyres with Mercedes Tactical analysis Mercedes played…
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All hot and bothered: 2021 British and Hungarian Grands Prix
2021 British Grand Prix | 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix In the narrative of the championship, this is where it got a little ugly, at Silverstone where the long-predicted on-track clash…
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The cost of crashing in modern F1
The car-damaging incidents at the two successive rounds of the Formula 1 championship, Silverstone and the Hungaroring, put damage costs very much in the news in this era of F1…
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Birthday bell Toles for Team Enstone
This month marks 40 years since Team Enstone made its F1 debut, as Brian Henton laboured the ungainly Toleman TG181 to 23rd on the grid at the 1981 Italian GP.…
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F1 announces new ‘Overtake Award’ trophy
F1 has announced a new prize for the driver with the most overtakes at the end of a season, and a flurry of new in-race graphics to help fans follow competitors’ progress
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Formula 1 good month, bad month: October 2021
Good month F1’s greatest email exchange The heat’s increasing between Horner and Wolff – and so is the entertainment factor. Everyone loves a feud, especially during one of F1’s great…
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McLaren’s boomerang
Illustration Craig Scarborough McLaren is rivalling Red Bull in how many new parts are being produced as each team continues to heavily develop their cars despite the looming challenge of…
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‘There is a maturity in Lando which we didn’t see in the past’ — Johnny Herbert
Lando Norris is my choice for driver of the first half-season in Formula 1 this year. Why? Because there is a wonderful maturity that is starting to appear in him,…
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How Hamilton reeled in Leclerc to win the 2021 British Grand Prix
At Silverstone, as soon as Lewis Hamilton had a) lost the lead to Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari as his momentum was checked by his collision with Max Verstappen and b) incurred…
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Trackside view, October 2021
Race report Entertainment all the way at the British and Hungarian GPs Word on the beat Lewis’s Covid problems and George Russell testing tyres with Mercedes Tactical analysis Mercedes played…
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All hot and bothered: 2021 British and Hungarian Grands Prix
2021 British Grand Prix | 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix In the narrative of the championship, this is where it got a little ugly, at Silverstone where the long-predicted on-track clash…
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The cost of crashing in modern F1
The car-damaging incidents at the two successive rounds of the Formula 1 championship, Silverstone and the Hungaroring, put damage costs very much in the news in this era of F1…
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MPH: Assessing F1’s rookie class of 2025 – the Mark Hughes verdict
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
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Mark Hughes: Andrea Stella finally banished the ghost of 2010 Abu Dhabi disaster
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
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Mark Hughes: Piastri pass on Norris was part of McLaren’s bold strategy to foil Verstappen
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
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Jamie Chadwick shines at the Silverstone 4 Hours
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
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Martin Brundle reveals his F1 driver of 2025
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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Prost laments Renault’s ‘sad’ F1 exit: ‘It’ll be difficult to come back’
Alain Prost has given his view on Renault exiting F1 as an engine manufacturer
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Mohammed Ben Sulayem re-elected – how he became FIA president
Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s has now been re-elected as FIA president, after a controversial first term. But how did he become the first non-European president in the FIA’s history?
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