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Ginther takes the hairpin at the 1965 Mexican GP
October 24, 1965, Mexico City, Mexico The 10-round F1 championship came to a close under a blue sky in Mexico. The last race of the 1500cc era was won by…
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Matt Bishop meets Nick Fry, the man who led Brawn GP to 2009 F1 success
If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable…
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Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac F1 goals: ‘Try not to be last, that’s the starting point’
Which sides of the garage are we going to have?” “Well, which do you want?” Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are chatting in the Silverstone pits a few hours before…
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Cadillac’s real-time F1 race rehearsals
Cadillac didn’t have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors’ simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina. From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its…
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‘Mario Andretti said he wanted to talk’: how Cadillac hired F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon
“I was driving down the A1, and I got a call from someone whose opinion I respect, and they said, ‘Would you take a call from the group that are…
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How to get on the F1 grid in 366 days: Cadillac behind the scenes
When Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez head out onto Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit for the Australian Grand Prix on March 8, it will be exactly one year and a day…
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Karun Chandhok: Five big questions ahead of the 2026 F1 season
As I write this column, the Formula 1 world has just woken up from the winter slumber and seen the first teases of a 2026 F1 car as Audi has…
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Mark Hughes: Advantage Mercedes? Behind the F1 rumours for 2026
It’s unusual that a technical controversy should arise in Formula 1 before the concept has even been raced but that’s what happened during the off-season with the revelation that Mercedes…
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Why 2026 F1 testing may be the least representative in modern history
The scale of Formula 1’s 2026 regulation reset means pre-season testing could obscure the competitive order rather than reveal it
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Ginther takes the hairpin at the 1965 Mexican GP
October 24, 1965, Mexico City, Mexico The 10-round F1 championship came to a close under a blue sky in Mexico. The last race of the 1500cc era was won by…
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Matt Bishop meets Nick Fry, the man who led Brawn GP to 2009 F1 success
If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable…
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Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac F1 goals: ‘Try not to be last, that’s the starting point’
Which sides of the garage are we going to have?” “Well, which do you want?” Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are chatting in the Silverstone pits a few hours before…
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Cadillac’s real-time F1 race rehearsals
Cadillac didn’t have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors’ simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina. From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its…
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‘Mario Andretti said he wanted to talk’: how Cadillac hired F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon
“I was driving down the A1, and I got a call from someone whose opinion I respect, and they said, ‘Would you take a call from the group that are…
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How to get on the F1 grid in 366 days: Cadillac behind the scenes
When Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez head out onto Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit for the Australian Grand Prix on March 8, it will be exactly one year and a day…
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Karun Chandhok: Five big questions ahead of the 2026 F1 season
As I write this column, the Formula 1 world has just woken up from the winter slumber and seen the first teases of a 2026 F1 car as Audi has…
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Mark Hughes: Advantage Mercedes? Behind the F1 rumours for 2026
It’s unusual that a technical controversy should arise in Formula 1 before the concept has even been raced but that’s what happened during the off-season with the revelation that Mercedes…
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Why 2026 F1 testing may be the least representative in modern history
The scale of Formula 1’s 2026 regulation reset means pre-season testing could obscure the competitive order rather than reveal it
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MPH: Lando Norris’s F1 magic deserves more appreciation
Lando Norris’s soaring confidence and an improved McLaren mean we’re witnessing a Formula 1 driver at his outer limits, Mark Hughes argues
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Mark Hughes: Too fast to win. How Norris lost Spanish GP to slow-driving Antonelli
Fast enough to build an unassailable lead, Lando Norris was too quick to catch the VSC pit window. And so his flawless F1 Madring weekend ended cruelly, as even the winner acknowledged, Mark Hughes says
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Mark Hughes: Super-smooth Madrid circuit is an F1 minefield
With a brand new surface and a tyre-punishing banked Turn 12, Madrid’s inaugural Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix weekend could reshuffle the Mercedes-McLaren-Ferrari pecking order once again, writes Mark Hughes
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McLaren’s short gearing explains its Zandvoort advantage over Mercedes
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
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Karun Chandhok: McLaren’s pace puts Norris back in the F1 title fight
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
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Kimi Antonelli’s mid-season charge reshapes Formula 1’s 2026 title fight
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
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The secret wind tunnel test that found flaw in McLaren’s radical F1 car
A secret Teddington wind tunnel shared with torpedo tests and a particle accelerator gave McLaren its first taste of porpoising four decades before the sport rediscovered it
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Is Formula 1’s VSC problem actually fixable?
There’s no version of the VSC rule that’s fair to everyone, and the Spanish GP just proved it again
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How sprint races will work in 2027
The 2027 Formula 1 season will include ten sprint races, including a Monaco round: here’s what it means for next year
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