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The blow-outs suffered by Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll in Baku gave everyone involved serious cause for concern. At the time of writing Pirelli was still conducting an investigation into…
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Ride the lightning: 2021 Styrian Grand Prix what to watch for
The 2021 title race takes another twist with downpours forecast for the Styrian Grand Prix weekend
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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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Pirelli’s pop culture
The blow-outs suffered by Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll in Baku gave everyone involved serious cause for concern. At the time of writing Pirelli was still conducting an investigation into…
F1
Ride the lightning: 2021 Styrian Grand Prix what to watch for
The 2021 title race takes another twist with downpours forecast for the Styrian Grand Prix weekend
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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…
F1
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
Archive
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…
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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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MPH: Diamond in the rough – is this why Red Bull was fastest by far?
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
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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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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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The three things Sepang reminded us Formula 1 has lost
A software bug, a long wait for the rain to clear and a track that produced better racing than the streets: Sepang reminded Formula 1 of some of the things it has lost
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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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