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Can Alonso rediscover his spark at home?
Fernando Alonso is showing signs of life and will be hoping to reproduce some more home magic from years gone by. Damien Smith looks back at his best on Spanish soil
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Daniel Ricciardo: ‘The car is not doing everything I want’
Daniel Ricciardo has revealed to Adam Cooper what’s holding him back in the McLaren – but a feisty drive last week points to light at the end of the tunnel
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The small differences which swung the Portuguese GP in Hamilton’s favour – MPH
Luck played its part in the Portuguese GP, but Lewis Hamilton ultimately made several factors play to his advantage
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2021 Portuguese Grand Prix race report: Hamilton wins game of fine margins against Verstappen
Fine margins could well prove decisive in this year’s championship battle, and Max Verstappen will rue being on the wrong side of them as he leaves Portugal. On Saturday, it…
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Hamilton seizes Portimao victory: 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix lap by lap report
Lewis Hamilton had to fight for it but took victory in the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix with an early-race blitz. Valtteri Bottas had held onto his pole position and Max…
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Sebastian Vettel on his first Q3 in nine months: ‘There’s still more pace to come’
Sebastian Vettel has reached Q3 for the first time in nine months – he explained to Adam Cooper how he finally seems to be turning a corner with Aston Martin
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2021 Portuguese GP qualifying report: Bottas cracks the Portimão code
Valtteri Bottas cracks the code to speed at Portimão, with an approach he opened up on on Friday
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Bottas fights back to take first pole of 2021 in Portuguese GP qualifying
Valtteri Bottas claimed pole in Portugal, beating Lewis Hamilton by 0.007sec
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Can a resurgent Ferrari maintain its momentum at Portuguese GP?
Ferrari are on the fightback, and as Adam Cooper writes, despite a long road ahead both drivers are optimistic after improved initial performances
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Can Alonso rediscover his spark at home?
Fernando Alonso is showing signs of life and will be hoping to reproduce some more home magic from years gone by. Damien Smith looks back at his best on Spanish soil
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Daniel Ricciardo: ‘The car is not doing everything I want’
Daniel Ricciardo has revealed to Adam Cooper what’s holding him back in the McLaren – but a feisty drive last week points to light at the end of the tunnel
Mark Hughes
The small differences which swung the Portuguese GP in Hamilton’s favour – MPH
Luck played its part in the Portuguese GP, but Lewis Hamilton ultimately made several factors play to his advantage
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2021 Portuguese Grand Prix race report: Hamilton wins game of fine margins against Verstappen
Fine margins could well prove decisive in this year’s championship battle, and Max Verstappen will rue being on the wrong side of them as he leaves Portugal. On Saturday, it…
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Hamilton seizes Portimao victory: 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix lap by lap report
Lewis Hamilton had to fight for it but took victory in the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix with an early-race blitz. Valtteri Bottas had held onto his pole position and Max…
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Sebastian Vettel on his first Q3 in nine months: ‘There’s still more pace to come’
Sebastian Vettel has reached Q3 for the first time in nine months – he explained to Adam Cooper how he finally seems to be turning a corner with Aston Martin
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2021 Portuguese GP qualifying report: Bottas cracks the Portimão code
Valtteri Bottas cracks the code to speed at Portimão, with an approach he opened up on on Friday
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Bottas fights back to take first pole of 2021 in Portuguese GP qualifying
Valtteri Bottas claimed pole in Portugal, beating Lewis Hamilton by 0.007sec
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Can a resurgent Ferrari maintain its momentum at Portuguese GP?
Ferrari are on the fightback, and as Adam Cooper writes, despite a long road ahead both drivers are optimistic after improved initial performances
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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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MPH: Will Ferrari dare to hire Horner AND fix its biggest issue?
Ferrari’s latest leadership rumour ignores two decades of history: swapping team principals won’t work until Maranello hands real power to the person in the role, says Mark Hughes
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Mark Hughes: Epic Baku battle a flashback to when F1 was flat-out
George Russell had it his way for most of the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to an underwhelming McLaren and rare error from Kimi Antonelli. But then came the late safety car
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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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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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The best Malaysian Grands Prix: Sepang’s greatest F1 races
Tropical storms, team orders and some legendary drives. We pick the best F1 races in Malaysia, plus a bonus two-wheel spectacular
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