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2021 Monaco & Azerbaijan GPs: Advantage Max… for now
Monaco GP | Azerbaijan GP This is where the competitive shape of the season changed again, where the narrative of the fight up front between Mercedes and Red Bull took…
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Gilles Villeneuve’s 1981 Spanish caravan: ‘He won with a dog of a car’
The 1981 Spanish GP is remebered by some as Gilles Villeneuve’s greatest win, and John Watson had a front-row seat – in his McLaren MP4/1
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Goin’ up, goin’ down: 2021 French GP
Scuderia on the slide, Perez eating mammoth stints for breakfast and oscillating off-road surfaces – here’s what was going up and down at the 2021 French GP
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Midfield maestros and last-gasp contact: 2021 French Grand Prix what you missed
Another strategic race made for great viewing as Max Verstappen took the plaudits in France while Aston Martin pulled off their own strategy sweep for points
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The blurred lines that gave us Paul Ricard’s best-ever French Grand Prix
A thrilling duel between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton played out from beginning to end, the outcome in the balance throughout. It was surely the best grand prix that has…
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Verstappen’s victory a ‘true reflection’ of Red Bull might: 2021 French Grand Prix report
Paul Ricard gets a bad rap, but the 2021 French Grand Prix helped it recover some of it as a thriller played out between the top two teams in front…
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Verstappen wins in strategic battle royale: 2021 French Grand Prix lap by lap
Max Verstappen’s Red Bull team pulled off a strategic masterclass to win the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, the Dutchman overtaking Lewis Hamilton on the second-to-last lap in a…
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Advantage Verstappen but are there clouds on the horizon? 2021 French GP qualifying
Max Verstappen’s first pole position since the Bahrain season-opener bodes well for an epic season-long championship fight! After Hamilton’s win from pole at Round Four in Barcelona, the feeling was…
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Verstappen storms to 2021 French GP pole ahead of Hamilton: qualifying as it happened
Max Verstappen proved Red Bull has the pace over a single lap to take on Mercedes with a mighty pole lap in France
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2021 Monaco & Azerbaijan GPs: Advantage Max… for now
Monaco GP | Azerbaijan GP This is where the competitive shape of the season changed again, where the narrative of the fight up front between Mercedes and Red Bull took…
F1
Gilles Villeneuve’s 1981 Spanish caravan: ‘He won with a dog of a car’
The 1981 Spanish GP is remebered by some as Gilles Villeneuve’s greatest win, and John Watson had a front-row seat – in his McLaren MP4/1
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Goin’ up, goin’ down: 2021 French GP
Scuderia on the slide, Perez eating mammoth stints for breakfast and oscillating off-road surfaces – here’s what was going up and down at the 2021 French GP
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Midfield maestros and last-gasp contact: 2021 French Grand Prix what you missed
Another strategic race made for great viewing as Max Verstappen took the plaudits in France while Aston Martin pulled off their own strategy sweep for points
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The blurred lines that gave us Paul Ricard’s best-ever French Grand Prix
A thrilling duel between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton played out from beginning to end, the outcome in the balance throughout. It was surely the best grand prix that has…
F1
Verstappen’s victory a ‘true reflection’ of Red Bull might: 2021 French Grand Prix report
Paul Ricard gets a bad rap, but the 2021 French Grand Prix helped it recover some of it as a thriller played out between the top two teams in front…
F1
Verstappen wins in strategic battle royale: 2021 French Grand Prix lap by lap
Max Verstappen’s Red Bull team pulled off a strategic masterclass to win the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, the Dutchman overtaking Lewis Hamilton on the second-to-last lap in a…
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Advantage Verstappen but are there clouds on the horizon? 2021 French GP qualifying
Max Verstappen’s first pole position since the Bahrain season-opener bodes well for an epic season-long championship fight! After Hamilton’s win from pole at Round Four in Barcelona, the feeling was…
F1
Verstappen storms to 2021 French GP pole ahead of Hamilton: qualifying as it happened
Max Verstappen proved Red Bull has the pace over a single lap to take on Mercedes with a mighty pole lap in France
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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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