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Senna’s Lotus 98T heads to auction with an estimate of up to $12m
The Lotus that Senna drove to two victories and five pole positions in 1986 is heading to auction
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2026 Australian Grand Prix start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Australian Grand Prix
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Podcast: Aston F1 disaster reveals Newey’s ambition
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Why Adrian Newey’s towering ambitions could come good. Plus: what to look for at the Australian GP; F1 contingencies if Bahrain GP is cancelled; and Mark answers your questions
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Why Bottas’s penalty threat vanished ahead of Australian GP
Valtteri Bottas had been expecting to serve a penalty from the 2024 Abu Dhabi GP when he returned to the Formula 1 grid with Cadillac. But an unexpected rule change has given him a clean sheet
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What a lap of Albert Park might actually look like with F1’s 2026 cars
Formula 1 has never asked this much of a driver in a single lap. Albert Park is where we find out if anyone has the answers to the new 2026 regulations
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Will new F1 wow or flop in Melbourne? Australian GP briefing
The new era begins in Melbourne this weekend – but will F1’s boldest gamble in decades deliver?
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MPH: Laughing at Aston’s F1 troubles? That’s a low-intelligence take
It’d be easy to laugh at Aston Martin’s disastrous start to 2026 after owner Lawrence Stroll invested millions into making it an F1 super-team. But don’t mock, writes Mark Hughes. Adrian Newey’s ambitious design could well come good
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From DRS to Straight Mode: How Melbourne’s overtaking zones have been reinvented
The Albert Park circuit map looks familiar, but a closer look at the annotations ahead of the 2026 Australian Grand Prix shows how F1’s new active aero modes are likely to shape the racing
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Will F1 have to cancel the Bahrain Grand Prix after Iranian missile attacks?
The World Endurance Championship has cancelled its opening round in Qatar. Now Formula 1 faces another Middle East dilemma, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues
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Senna’s Lotus 98T heads to auction with an estimate of up to $12m
The Lotus that Senna drove to two victories and five pole positions in 1986 is heading to auction
F1
2026 Australian Grand Prix start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Australian Grand Prix
F1 Show
Podcast: Aston F1 disaster reveals Newey’s ambition
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Why Adrian Newey’s towering ambitions could come good. Plus: what to look for at the Australian GP; F1 contingencies if Bahrain GP is cancelled; and Mark answers your questions
F1
Why Bottas’s penalty threat vanished ahead of Australian GP
Valtteri Bottas had been expecting to serve a penalty from the 2024 Abu Dhabi GP when he returned to the Formula 1 grid with Cadillac. But an unexpected rule change has given him a clean sheet
F1
What a lap of Albert Park might actually look like with F1’s 2026 cars
Formula 1 has never asked this much of a driver in a single lap. Albert Park is where we find out if anyone has the answers to the new 2026 regulations
F1
Will new F1 wow or flop in Melbourne? Australian GP briefing
The new era begins in Melbourne this weekend – but will F1’s boldest gamble in decades deliver?
F1
MPH: Laughing at Aston’s F1 troubles? That’s a low-intelligence take
It’d be easy to laugh at Aston Martin’s disastrous start to 2026 after owner Lawrence Stroll invested millions into making it an F1 super-team. But don’t mock, writes Mark Hughes. Adrian Newey’s ambitious design could well come good
F1
From DRS to Straight Mode: How Melbourne’s overtaking zones have been reinvented
The Albert Park circuit map looks familiar, but a closer look at the annotations ahead of the 2026 Australian Grand Prix shows how F1’s new active aero modes are likely to shape the racing
F1
Will F1 have to cancel the Bahrain Grand Prix after Iranian missile attacks?
The World Endurance Championship has cancelled its opening round in Qatar. Now Formula 1 faces another Middle East dilemma, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues
Standings – 2026 F1 World Championship
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Mass frustration at the US GP – but Kimi just looked like a kid having fun
Kimi Antonelli all but secured the Formula 1 title with a champion’s drive at the 2026 United States Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. Behind him, forlorn rivals failed to make their superior pace stick
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MPH: The revelation in Horner’s book – how he turned Red Bull from no-hopers into F1 winners
Christian Horner details how he rebuilt Red Bull from the ashes of Jaguar, and hired F1’s greatest designer from under the noses of rivals in his new autobiography, Drive. Mark Hughes found it fascinating
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Mark Hughes: Did Ferrari have pace to beat Red Bull? We’ll never know…
Mark Hughes analyses how Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to victory in Singapore, and how Lewis Hamilton’s strategic gamble turned a promising Ferrari result into a costly disappointment
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Jackie Stewart wins at the Nürburgring as Fittipaldi finishes sixth
August 5, 1973 Nürburgring, West Germany A busy scene in the Lotus garage at the 1973 German Grand Prix, Round 11 of 15 of the F1 World Championship. Drivers Emerson…
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Do safety cars make races boring or more exciting? Dilemma for US series as it considers cutting back cautions
When it comes to sports car racing, it’s not just the American tracks that are markedly different from most of their international counterparts. The overall philosophy used by the FIA…
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Two corners from becoming champion: Oliver Solberg’s heartbreaking crash tops the most thrilling WRC deciders
5. 2003: Solberg vs Loeb vs Sainz Subaru’s Norwegian star Petter Solberg, above – ‘Hollywood’ – lay a point adrift of Citroën pair Carlos Sainz and Sébastien Loeb going into…
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Felipe Massa’s 2009 crash tested the resilience of a Richard Mille watch
It was back in 2009 when Felipe Massa suffered life-threatening injuries during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, losing control of his Ferrari at 175mph as a result of being…
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Desiré Wilson’s battle to be F1’s first female winner: ‘Sponsors couldn’t accept their star men being beaten by a woman’
Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race, and for all I know she may always carry that mantle. OK, her famous victory in…
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Enzo Ferrari: the making of a legend
Where their sons are concerned, mums have much to answer for. Certainly none other than Enzo Ferrari was deeply influenced, indeed in many ways shaped, by his formidable mother, Adalgisa…
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