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Trackside view, August 2021
Race report If Monaco was short on thrills, Baku delivered by the bucketload Word on the beat Has Mercedes unwittingly recorded the world’s longest pitstop? Tactical analysis Baku gave both…
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Daniel Ricciardo: ‘homesickness and car struggles are fuelling me’
Consider for a moment the bad days you have at work. Not the ones when your work is going particularly badly, but when things outside of your professional life are…
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Under the skin of the Ferrari F1-2000: Red revolution
Twenty-one years ago, Ferrari returned to the pinnacle of Formula 1 achievement, adding the Drivers’ World Championship for Michael Schumacher to its second consecutive Formula 1 Constructors’ title, which itself was its…
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Max Power: the force of Mosley
Authors of many epitaphs on Max Mosley found the need to make heavy use of a thesaurus. One writer, searching for an alternative to ‘calculating’, had liberally sprinkled his piece…
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Max Mosley: Formula 1’s saviour or sinner?
No breed is more effective – or deadly – than the poacher turned gamekeeper. As the ‘M’ of March, that arch ‘disruptor’ of constructors, Max Mosley served the ideal apprenticeship…
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Ferrari on its tyre wear headache: ‘We do not have the answer right now’
Ferrari’s graining issues have come rather wearing for Maranello, as its problems preserving tyres were brutally exposed in Paul Ricard
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Yas Marina set for circuit changes to aid overtaking at F1 finale
The Yas Marina Circuit is set to undergo changes ahead of the 2021 edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the hopes of improving overtaking. Since joining the calendar…
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From Monaco to Indy: Race against time
On May 15, 1977, Clay Regazzoni crashed heavily after spinning to the inside of the track out of Turn 3 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and his hopes of qualifying for…
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2021 British Grand Prix preview
There has always been a sense of occasion about the British Grand Prix – and a wonderful 60-year-old photo by Bernard Cahier illustrates the point. In 1961, long before the…
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Trackside view, August 2021
Race report If Monaco was short on thrills, Baku delivered by the bucketload Word on the beat Has Mercedes unwittingly recorded the world’s longest pitstop? Tactical analysis Baku gave both…
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Daniel Ricciardo: ‘homesickness and car struggles are fuelling me’
Consider for a moment the bad days you have at work. Not the ones when your work is going particularly badly, but when things outside of your professional life are…
Great Read
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Under the skin of the Ferrari F1-2000: Red revolution
Twenty-one years ago, Ferrari returned to the pinnacle of Formula 1 achievement, adding the Drivers’ World Championship for Michael Schumacher to its second consecutive Formula 1 Constructors’ title, which itself was its…
Archive
Max Power: the force of Mosley
Authors of many epitaphs on Max Mosley found the need to make heavy use of a thesaurus. One writer, searching for an alternative to ‘calculating’, had liberally sprinkled his piece…
Great Read
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Max Mosley: Formula 1’s saviour or sinner?
No breed is more effective – or deadly – than the poacher turned gamekeeper. As the ‘M’ of March, that arch ‘disruptor’ of constructors, Max Mosley served the ideal apprenticeship…
F1
Ferrari on its tyre wear headache: ‘We do not have the answer right now’
Ferrari’s graining issues have come rather wearing for Maranello, as its problems preserving tyres were brutally exposed in Paul Ricard
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Yas Marina set for circuit changes to aid overtaking at F1 finale
The Yas Marina Circuit is set to undergo changes ahead of the 2021 edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the hopes of improving overtaking. Since joining the calendar…
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From Monaco to Indy: Race against time
On May 15, 1977, Clay Regazzoni crashed heavily after spinning to the inside of the track out of Turn 3 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and his hopes of qualifying for…
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2021 British Grand Prix preview
There has always been a sense of occasion about the British Grand Prix – and a wonderful 60-year-old photo by Bernard Cahier illustrates the point. In 1961, long before the…
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Aston Martin’s giant leap? Alonso will fight McLarens if Newey & Honda F1 upgrades work perfectly
Mark Hughes crunches the numbers on Aston Martin’s big upgrade for the Hungarian Grand Prix – and asks whether it can be enough to close a four-second deficit to near the front of the F1 pack
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MPH: Revealed – the fault behind Mercedes’ Belgian GP deployment chaos
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
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Russell zapped, and Spa made ridiculously easy in F1’s energy-deployment GP
Kimi Antonelli delivered his sixth F1 victory of 2026 at the Belgian Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. But this year’s cars and their energy limitations made Spa-Francorchamps a shadow of the challenge it usually is
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Pedro Rodríguez wins at Spa as Brabham leads the 1970 F1 title race
June 7, 1970 Spa-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium By F1’s Round 4 at Spa in 1970, Jack Brabham was at the top of the standings with eventual title winner Jochen Rindt trailing by…
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Toyota’s resourcefulness delivered a sixth Le Mans 24 Hours victory against the odds
Toyota returned to the top step of the podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a three-year absence. Finally, the Japanese manufacturer triumphed against factory opposition, which was not…
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Mighty Mondeo: how Rouse and Radisich made Ford’s touring car a world-beater
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
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F1 is drawing more attention to its 2026 flaws by trying to hide them
As F1’s power units run out of energy, the series’ response has been to hide the evidence rather than explain it, and fans are noticing
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F1’s worst-performing team-mate – why Esteban Ocon isn’t as bad as he looks
The 18-3 scoreline looks decisive, but a closer look at Haas’s season shows a car that hasn’t been giving both drivers the same chance to score
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Is F1’s world TV feed missing too much of the action in 2026?
A three-way fight for the final point at Spa, decided in a small picture-in-picture window – is F1’s world feed built for the racing it actually has now?
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