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MPH: does Alonso’s Portimão performance indicate progress?
It’s been patchy at best for Fernando Alonso so far, but does a storming drive at Portimão show his and Alpine’s true potential?
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A straight title fight with Verstappen? ‘Game on’, says Hamilton
Amid the early stages of what promises to be a tight championship battle between the Mercedes and Red Bull team leaders, Lewis Hamilton reckons this is the competitive match-up he’s been waiting for
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Unraced ’90s F1 cars – the Motor Sport guide
The lacklustre Life 190, the Coloni-Subaru and legendary Lola T97/30: read our guide to the 1990’s embarrassment of unraced F1 riches below
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How to watch the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix – start time and TV channels
The second of the back-to-back races brings Formula 1 back to familiar ground at the Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona for round four of the 2021 F1 season. Here is everything…
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Can ‘moneyball’ be used to find the best ever F1 driver?
Justin Moore’s statistical model to find the best F1 driver ever caused outrage – now its new iteration might raise a few eyebrows too, writes Preston Lerner
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Red Bull signs another five Mercedes powertrain employees for new engine division
Red Bull’s aggressive recruitment drive continues with another five Mercedes employees moving across to its powertrains division
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2021 Spanish Grand Prix: what to watch for
The first back-to-back race of the season takes F1 to the Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona where we should get a clear idea of the true competitive order
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Britain’s 1990s Formula 1 revival
Britain had gone a long time without an F1 world champion before things changed in the 1990s
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Goin’ up, goin’ down: the 2021 Portuguese GP
Ups, downs, side to sides – they’ve all been charted in our F1 barometer
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MPH: does Alonso’s Portimão performance indicate progress?
It’s been patchy at best for Fernando Alonso so far, but does a storming drive at Portimão show his and Alpine’s true potential?
F1
A straight title fight with Verstappen? ‘Game on’, says Hamilton
Amid the early stages of what promises to be a tight championship battle between the Mercedes and Red Bull team leaders, Lewis Hamilton reckons this is the competitive match-up he’s been waiting for
F1
Unraced ’90s F1 cars – the Motor Sport guide
The lacklustre Life 190, the Coloni-Subaru and legendary Lola T97/30: read our guide to the 1990’s embarrassment of unraced F1 riches below
F1
How to watch the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix – start time and TV channels
The second of the back-to-back races brings Formula 1 back to familiar ground at the Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona for round four of the 2021 F1 season. Here is everything…
F1
Can ‘moneyball’ be used to find the best ever F1 driver?
Justin Moore’s statistical model to find the best F1 driver ever caused outrage – now its new iteration might raise a few eyebrows too, writes Preston Lerner
F1
Red Bull signs another five Mercedes powertrain employees for new engine division
Red Bull’s aggressive recruitment drive continues with another five Mercedes employees moving across to its powertrains division
F1
2021 Spanish Grand Prix: what to watch for
The first back-to-back race of the season takes F1 to the Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona where we should get a clear idea of the true competitive order
F1
Britain’s 1990s Formula 1 revival
Britain had gone a long time without an F1 world champion before things changed in the 1990s
F1
Goin’ up, goin’ down: the 2021 Portuguese GP
Ups, downs, side to sides – they’ve all been charted in our F1 barometer
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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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