Sir Lewis Hamilton: knighthood for F1 champion in New Year Honours
Lewis Hamilton has been awarded a knighthood in the 2021 New Year Honours List, becoming the fourth Formula 1 driver to receive the honour. It crowns a year that has…
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A new feature-length documentary about Steve McQueen will be broadcast on Sky on January 1 and for anyone with even a passing interest in motor racing it should be judged…
June 19, 1988 Detroit, US Alessandro Nannini in his multi-coloured Benetton B188 twists through the circuit at the 1988 Detroit Grand Prix. Nannini retired with damaged suspension, but team-mate…
Press guest with extra privileges: Being Ford’s guest at Le Mans in 1966 is already pretty lucky, but Robert Ames also became a film extra while Grand Prix was being shot…
Derek Warwick, followed by Patrick Tambay, prepares for a boat ride on the Olympic lake at Montreal on 14 June 1986. This unique form of Formula 1 transport was made…
Martin Brundle is one of this year’s inductees to the Motor Sport Hall of Fame and joins us in our final podcast of 2020 to look back
The McLaren team has raised $185m new capital by selling an initial 15 per cent share to MSP Sports Capital, a consortium of American sports investors. This stake is set…
The season finale was the least interesting race of the year, with Verstappen, Bottas and Hamilton holding their grid places throughout. F1 has been coming here since 2009 and every…
George Russell travelled to the season-ending Middle East triple-header more in hope than in expectation. Williams had provided him with a better car in his 2020 sophomore season than it…
Lewis Hamilton has been awarded a knighthood in the 2021 New Year Honours List, becoming the fourth Formula 1 driver to receive the honour. It crowns a year that has…
A new feature-length documentary about Steve McQueen will be broadcast on Sky on January 1 and for anyone with even a passing interest in motor racing it should be judged…
June 19, 1988 Detroit, US Alessandro Nannini in his multi-coloured Benetton B188 twists through the circuit at the 1988 Detroit Grand Prix. Nannini retired with damaged suspension, but team-mate…
Press guest with extra privileges: Being Ford’s guest at Le Mans in 1966 is already pretty lucky, but Robert Ames also became a film extra while Grand Prix was being shot…
Derek Warwick, followed by Patrick Tambay, prepares for a boat ride on the Olympic lake at Montreal on 14 June 1986. This unique form of Formula 1 transport was made…
Martin Brundle is one of this year’s inductees to the Motor Sport Hall of Fame and joins us in our final podcast of 2020 to look back
The McLaren team has raised $185m new capital by selling an initial 15 per cent share to MSP Sports Capital, a consortium of American sports investors. This stake is set…
The season finale was the least interesting race of the year, with Verstappen, Bottas and Hamilton holding their grid places throughout. F1 has been coming here since 2009 and every…
George Russell travelled to the season-ending Middle East triple-header more in hope than in expectation. Williams had provided him with a better car in his 2020 sophomore season than it…
F1 has trimmed its 2026 regulations ahead of Miami. Mark Hughes points out that these minor changes don’t address the real issues — and pretending otherwise helps no-one
As F1 prepares to vote on a package of 2026 regulation tweaks, Mark Hughes argues the most meaningful fix is the one it’s least likely to try
Charles Leclerc has mastered F1’s new regulations by rooting out the best deployment tricks, while Max Verstappen has been stripped of his advantage, writes Mark Hughes
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
A Formula 1 world championship is meant to identify the best-of-the best. But being among the greatest drivers of your era is no guarantee of a title: here are some of the legendary characters never to be crowned a world champion
Istanbul Park’s return to the calendar is welcome news, and a reminder that other venues are still available
As F1 expands globally, the future of each grand prix depends on complex, evolving contracts between race promoters and commercial rights holders, with some circuits secured long-term and others facing uncertainty
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