Word on the beat, December 2021
● The confirmation of the proposed 2022 F1 calendar shows 23 races in 36 weeks, with an early finish to avoid a clash with the World Cup. This has created…
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You may have heard Lewis Hamilton’s laments on the radio to his Mercedes team for bringing him in for fresh intermediate tyres in the Turkish Grand Prix with just eight…
2021 Russian GP | 2021 Turkish GP There was a remarkable synergy about this pair of races out beyond eastern Europe. Each of the two title contenders took grid penalties…
In my last couple of years at school before motor racing’s lure proved irresistible, I used to cycle at weekends to the rifle ranges at Bisley, where I’d work as…
The stresses and strains of a very tight championship battle inevitably expose the personality traits of those in the hot centre of it all. The competitive make-up of top-class athletes…
Aston Martin has announced that former McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh will join the team as CEO of its Performance Technologies division. Whitmarsh was last involved in Formula 1 with…
Red Bull’s 200th podium and Max Verstappen joins a very exclusive group of F1 drivers
The news that the last three races of 2021 will be played out on circuits in the Middle East has cast a shadow over this most glittering of Formula 1…
Big stetsons, small stints, gigantic celebrities and more – here’s what was going up and down at the 2021 United States GP
● The confirmation of the proposed 2022 F1 calendar shows 23 races in 36 weeks, with an early finish to avoid a clash with the World Cup. This has created…
You may have heard Lewis Hamilton’s laments on the radio to his Mercedes team for bringing him in for fresh intermediate tyres in the Turkish Grand Prix with just eight…
2021 Russian GP | 2021 Turkish GP There was a remarkable synergy about this pair of races out beyond eastern Europe. Each of the two title contenders took grid penalties…
In my last couple of years at school before motor racing’s lure proved irresistible, I used to cycle at weekends to the rifle ranges at Bisley, where I’d work as…
The stresses and strains of a very tight championship battle inevitably expose the personality traits of those in the hot centre of it all. The competitive make-up of top-class athletes…
Aston Martin has announced that former McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh will join the team as CEO of its Performance Technologies division. Whitmarsh was last involved in Formula 1 with…
Red Bull’s 200th podium and Max Verstappen joins a very exclusive group of F1 drivers
The news that the last three races of 2021 will be played out on circuits in the Middle East has cast a shadow over this most glittering of Formula 1…
Big stetsons, small stints, gigantic celebrities and more – here’s what was going up and down at the 2021 United States GP
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
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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?
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.…
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.…
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…
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
An unfortunate tyre gamble and weak reliability in Canada left McLaren facing an uphill battle to defend its titles in 2026
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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