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Mercedes off the hook? 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix – what to watch for
The first of back-to-back race weekends takes F1 back to Portugal and promises a lot of action
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Silverstone confirmed as first sprint qualifying venue at 2021 British GP
The 2021 British Grand Prix will be the first in the history of F1 to host a sprint qualifying event
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Why F1 is striking the right calendar balance with Miami GP
Miami will join the F1 calendar next season over other iconic venues but Chris Medland argues that there’s a balance to be found between old and new
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Derek Warwick on John Gentry, his favourite engineer
“John and I had ultimate trust in each other. He was a great engineer who knew what I was thinking and trying to say, and would transmit that straight to…
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Parting shot: Carlo Chiti in Monaco
May 22, 1982 Monaco Alfa Romeo technical director Carlo Chiti, who was also the designer of the Ferrari 156 ‘Sharknose’ which we celebrate in this issue, sits thoughtfully in the…
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Kimi Räikkönen: No regrets
At the Eifel GP last year Kimi Räikkönen logged his 323rd grand prix start, breaking the record held by Rubens Barrichello. Twenty years after his rookie season the Finn will…
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Now that’s what I call… F1 1990s, the decade’s underrated cars
For those of a certain age, the 1990s is remembered as a halcyon period of great rivalries, epic races and dramatic deciders. The decade began with the heated relationship between Ayrton…
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John Gentry: The changing man
March, Shadow, Fittipaldi, Tyrrell, ATS, Toleman, Renault, Alfa Romeo, Brabham, Benetton; then there was a leftfield switch to Suzuki and Yamaha in motorcycling, before a return to four wheels to…
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Giancarlo Baghetti: F1’s debut king
On May 13, 1950 Giuseppe Farina took the chequered flag at Silverstone, and thus by definition won a world championship race at his first attempt, for this was the first…
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Mercedes off the hook? 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix – what to watch for
The first of back-to-back race weekends takes F1 back to Portugal and promises a lot of action
F1
Silverstone confirmed as first sprint qualifying venue at 2021 British GP
The 2021 British Grand Prix will be the first in the history of F1 to host a sprint qualifying event
F1
Why F1 is striking the right calendar balance with Miami GP
Miami will join the F1 calendar next season over other iconic venues but Chris Medland argues that there’s a balance to be found between old and new
Archive
Derek Warwick on John Gentry, his favourite engineer
“John and I had ultimate trust in each other. He was a great engineer who knew what I was thinking and trying to say, and would transmit that straight to…
Archive
Parting shot: Carlo Chiti in Monaco
May 22, 1982 Monaco Alfa Romeo technical director Carlo Chiti, who was also the designer of the Ferrari 156 ‘Sharknose’ which we celebrate in this issue, sits thoughtfully in the…
Archive
Kimi Räikkönen: No regrets
At the Eifel GP last year Kimi Räikkönen logged his 323rd grand prix start, breaking the record held by Rubens Barrichello. Twenty years after his rookie season the Finn will…
Great Read
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Now that’s what I call… F1 1990s, the decade’s underrated cars
For those of a certain age, the 1990s is remembered as a halcyon period of great rivalries, epic races and dramatic deciders. The decade began with the heated relationship between Ayrton…
Archive
John Gentry: The changing man
March, Shadow, Fittipaldi, Tyrrell, ATS, Toleman, Renault, Alfa Romeo, Brabham, Benetton; then there was a leftfield switch to Suzuki and Yamaha in motorcycling, before a return to four wheels to…
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Giancarlo Baghetti: F1’s debut king
On May 13, 1950 Giuseppe Farina took the chequered flag at Silverstone, and thus by definition won a world championship race at his first attempt, for this was the first…
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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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