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Whitmarsh: Turning Aston Martin into F1 title contender will be ’24/7′ job
Martin Whitmarsh is back for another go at Formula 1 and he’s got some task on his hands transforming Aston Martin into title contenders
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Lewis Hamilton’s 10 greatest F1 wins
We have already rated Lewis Hamilton’s F1 wins from 100 to 90 in order of greatness, and now comes the top 10: the finest victories from Hamilton’s grand prix career.…
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Breaking down Lewis Hamilton’s 100 F1 wins: infographic
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Flashback: Jonathan Palmer’s Zakspeed sponsor sewn up
A stitch in time saves drive. An overdramatic paraphrase of an old saying, perhaps, but securing further sponsorship, no matter how small, could help oil the financial wheels of a…
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Formula 1 good month, bad month, December 2021
Good month Rain dance F1 went full Bolshoi in Sochi with several grand prix cars doing their best twirls. Norris and Russell proved their wet-weather skill in Russia qualifying though,…
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Red Bull’s balancing act gave Verstappen pace to overtake in Sochi
Max Verstappen’s strategy from his penalised back-of-the-grid start in Sochi had to encompass many variables, far beyond just the usual tyre choice and pitstop timings. The Sochi track gives good…
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How Williams improved its FW43B: Giving the underdog its day
Illustration by Craig Scarborough In Sochi George Russell qualified the Williams FW43B into Q3 for the third time this season. Once there, an inspired early switch to slicks played its…
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Ayrton Senna through the keyhole
F1 Retro February 2010 It’s 30 years since Ayrton Senna claimed his final F1 drivers’ crown. Snapshots of Senna, written by Mike Doodson for our February 2010 edition, features an…
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Being 2nd driver in an F1 team sucks the energy out of you: Johnny Herbert
Just as I did in 1996, Valtteri Bottas will leave a Championship-winning team next year for Sauber – or Alfa Romeo as it is known today. In that situation you’ve…
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Whitmarsh: Turning Aston Martin into F1 title contender will be ’24/7′ job
Martin Whitmarsh is back for another go at Formula 1 and he’s got some task on his hands transforming Aston Martin into title contenders
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Lewis Hamilton’s 10 greatest F1 wins
We have already rated Lewis Hamilton’s F1 wins from 100 to 90 in order of greatness, and now comes the top 10: the finest victories from Hamilton’s grand prix career.…
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Breaking down Lewis Hamilton’s 100 F1 wins: infographic
Data Jake Williams-Smith Infographics Made from Data Data up to and including Russian GP 2021
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Flashback: Jonathan Palmer’s Zakspeed sponsor sewn up
A stitch in time saves drive. An overdramatic paraphrase of an old saying, perhaps, but securing further sponsorship, no matter how small, could help oil the financial wheels of a…
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Formula 1 good month, bad month, December 2021
Good month Rain dance F1 went full Bolshoi in Sochi with several grand prix cars doing their best twirls. Norris and Russell proved their wet-weather skill in Russia qualifying though,…
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Red Bull’s balancing act gave Verstappen pace to overtake in Sochi
Max Verstappen’s strategy from his penalised back-of-the-grid start in Sochi had to encompass many variables, far beyond just the usual tyre choice and pitstop timings. The Sochi track gives good…
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How Williams improved its FW43B: Giving the underdog its day
Illustration by Craig Scarborough In Sochi George Russell qualified the Williams FW43B into Q3 for the third time this season. Once there, an inspired early switch to slicks played its…
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Ayrton Senna through the keyhole
F1 Retro February 2010 It’s 30 years since Ayrton Senna claimed his final F1 drivers’ crown. Snapshots of Senna, written by Mike Doodson for our February 2010 edition, features an…
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Being 2nd driver in an F1 team sucks the energy out of you: Johnny Herbert
Just as I did in 1996, Valtteri Bottas will leave a Championship-winning team next year for Sauber – or Alfa Romeo as it is known today. In that situation you’ve…
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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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