Late tyre blowout denies Verstappen victory: 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix lap by lap report
Sergio Perez took a dramatic win in Baku after Max Verstappen suffered a high-speed tyre failure in the final laps and Lewis Hamilton made a crucial error
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McLaren shareholder Mansour Ojjeh, who was a key figure in the team’s early ’80s revival with TAG-Porsche engines, has passed away at the age of 68
Has Formula 1 ever been better? Consider this: at the end of Q2 on a long, 100sec-plus Baku lap, just three-hundredths of a second covered the top five drivers, in…
Charles Leclerc takes pole ahead of Lewis Hamilton in an accident-filled qualifying session, with Sainz, Tsunoda, Ricciardo, Stroll and Giovinazzi all crashing out
The 2021 Singapore GP will no longer go ahead as planned though there are three potential races that could replace it
Jacques Villeneuve’s FW18-3, with which he won three grands prix and famously used to overtake Michael Schumacher at Estoril, is up for sale at a price of £2.2m
Ferrari enjoyed a strong Monaco GP weekend, with Charles Leclerc beating the Mercedes and Red Bull drivers to taking a superb pole, and Carlos Sainz logging his first Maranello podium…
Pierre Gasly topped final practice for AlphaTauri as Mercedes struggled and Verstappen crashed out
Formula 1 continues to dance very dexterously around the challenges of the pandemic in keeping the whole show on the road. But perhaps its greatest calendar-related challenge is set for…
Sergio Perez took a dramatic win in Baku after Max Verstappen suffered a high-speed tyre failure in the final laps and Lewis Hamilton made a crucial error
McLaren shareholder Mansour Ojjeh, who was a key figure in the team’s early ’80s revival with TAG-Porsche engines, has passed away at the age of 68
Has Formula 1 ever been better? Consider this: at the end of Q2 on a long, 100sec-plus Baku lap, just three-hundredths of a second covered the top five drivers, in…
Charles Leclerc takes pole ahead of Lewis Hamilton in an accident-filled qualifying session, with Sainz, Tsunoda, Ricciardo, Stroll and Giovinazzi all crashing out
The 2021 Singapore GP will no longer go ahead as planned though there are three potential races that could replace it
Jacques Villeneuve’s FW18-3, with which he won three grands prix and famously used to overtake Michael Schumacher at Estoril, is up for sale at a price of £2.2m
Ferrari enjoyed a strong Monaco GP weekend, with Charles Leclerc beating the Mercedes and Red Bull drivers to taking a superb pole, and Carlos Sainz logging his first Maranello podium…
Pierre Gasly topped final practice for AlphaTauri as Mercedes struggled and Verstappen crashed out
Formula 1 continues to dance very dexterously around the challenges of the pandemic in keeping the whole show on the road. But perhaps its greatest calendar-related challenge is set for…
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
He’s only 19, but Kimi Antonelli has shown F1 championship-winning pace and may never get a better title shot. The ingredients are there for another historic battle between one experienced team-mate and a thrusting newcomer, says Mark Hughes
Kimi Antonelli looked like he’d have blasted to victory in the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, no matter what rules F1 was racing under, says Mark Hughes. However, the result was once again overshadowed by the shortcomings of the series’ new regulations
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
March 21, 2026 Sebring, Florida, USA Porsche Penske Motorsport trio Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich completed a double in the ‘36 Hours of Florida’ when they added Sebring…
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Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Leading the world championship aged 19, Kimi Antonelli has proved he has the pace to win the title — and this could be his best shot. Plus: how GPs could be shortened over safety fears, and why Max Verstappen is serious in threatening to quit
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
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