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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…
Archive
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
Archive
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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The disastrous tease that half the F1 grid fell for at Bahrain GP in Malaysia
Back in Malaysia for the first time in nine years, plenty of Formula 1 teams were caught out by the unique characteristics of the Sepang circuit where one decision had a devastating effect on their whole Bahrain GP weekend
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Mark Hughes: Tyre-wrecking Sepang threatens an F1 upset
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
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MPH: Will Ferrari dare to hire Horner AND fix its biggest issue?
Ferrari’s latest leadership rumour ignores two decades of history: swapping team principals won’t work until Maranello hands real power to the person in the role, says Mark Hughes
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Max Verstappen: ‘Why I’m staying to rebuild Red Bull rather than quitting’
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
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The wreck of Red Bull… and how the F1 team is fixing it
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
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VR46 Academy’s latest title hope: how Marco Bezzecchi found his MotoGP edge
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy – established a decade ago by the seven-times MotoGP king to create a new generation of Italian talent – has so far produced one MotoGP…
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F1’s ten most controversial team orders
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
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Hamilton’s cutting question that Vasseur failed to answer
Hamilton backed Vasseur at Sepang while saying the hierarchy above him is “a question”. A day later, Vasseur’s answers were only about relationships and unity
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The best Malaysian Grands Prix: Sepang’s greatest F1 races
Tropical storms, team orders and some legendary drives. We pick the best F1 races in Malaysia, plus a bonus two-wheel spectacular
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