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David Coulthard on Mika Häkkinen: My Greatest Rival
It has to be Mika Häkkinen, an opponent for seven years, with good times and bad. Good times when developing the McLaren, bad times when we ran at the front.…
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Jan Magnussen: ‘I didn’t realise how unhappy I was in F1’
Jackie Stewart described Jan Magnussen as “the greatest driving talent to emerge since Ayrton Senna”. The young Dane dominated the 1994 British F3 championship, winning 14 of 18 races for…
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George Russell cools after ‘heat of the moment’
George Russell has apologised for colliding with Valtteri Bottas during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and for the emotional comments he made afterwards.The Williams driver posted on social media that…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Did murky F1 politics play a role in slowing Mercedes?’
So the season gets underway and we see a resurgent Red Bull-Honda giving the previously all-conquering Mercedes a very hard time. Then we hear from both Merc’s Toto Wolff and…
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Trackside view, June 2021
Race report All the action from a stunning start to the World Championship Profile: Yuki Tsunoda Why we’ll be hearing more from AlphaTauri’s young sensation Tactical analysis How Hamilton managed…
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Miami GP on the calendar for 2022
The addition of a Miami Grand Prix to the Formula 1 calendar from 2022 represents an important milestone – and a significant degree of face saving – for commercial rights…
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Formula 1 good month, bad month: June 2021
Good month F1’s classic tracks The swoop of Aqua Minarale, the dive into Rivazza, the thrill of Piratella: Imola is the closest that bitumen gets to poetry. Surely the drama of…
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F1’s gladiators going at it: I’m enjoying 2021 — Johnny Herbert
What a great time to become Motor Sport’s new columnist, as we head into a Formula 1 season that looks set to be just what we’ve all been waiting for.…
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How F1 rake angles have shaken up the 2021 championship
From the moment the regulation floor trim of 2021 was announced there were competing theories about how it would affect the low-rake and high-rake cars respectively. The fact that the…
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David Coulthard on Mika Häkkinen: My Greatest Rival
It has to be Mika Häkkinen, an opponent for seven years, with good times and bad. Good times when developing the McLaren, bad times when we ran at the front.…
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Jan Magnussen: ‘I didn’t realise how unhappy I was in F1’
Jackie Stewart described Jan Magnussen as “the greatest driving talent to emerge since Ayrton Senna”. The young Dane dominated the 1994 British F3 championship, winning 14 of 18 races for…
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George Russell cools after ‘heat of the moment’
George Russell has apologised for colliding with Valtteri Bottas during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and for the emotional comments he made afterwards.The Williams driver posted on social media that…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Did murky F1 politics play a role in slowing Mercedes?’
So the season gets underway and we see a resurgent Red Bull-Honda giving the previously all-conquering Mercedes a very hard time. Then we hear from both Merc’s Toto Wolff and…
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Trackside view, June 2021
Race report All the action from a stunning start to the World Championship Profile: Yuki Tsunoda Why we’ll be hearing more from AlphaTauri’s young sensation Tactical analysis How Hamilton managed…
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Miami GP on the calendar for 2022
The addition of a Miami Grand Prix to the Formula 1 calendar from 2022 represents an important milestone – and a significant degree of face saving – for commercial rights…
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Formula 1 good month, bad month: June 2021
Good month F1’s classic tracks The swoop of Aqua Minarale, the dive into Rivazza, the thrill of Piratella: Imola is the closest that bitumen gets to poetry. Surely the drama of…
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F1’s gladiators going at it: I’m enjoying 2021 — Johnny Herbert
What a great time to become Motor Sport’s new columnist, as we head into a Formula 1 season that looks set to be just what we’ve all been waiting for.…
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How F1 rake angles have shaken up the 2021 championship
From the moment the regulation floor trim of 2021 was announced there were competing theories about how it would affect the low-rake and high-rake cars respectively. The fact that 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’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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Podcast: F1 ‘insulting fans’ intelligence’ by trying to cover up failings?
Why ‘oversensitive’ officials have made a big mistake by trying to sweep Formula 1’s issues under the carpet
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