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David Coulthard on Mika Häkkinen: My Greatest Rival
It has to be Mika Häkkinen, an opponent for seven years, with good times and bad. Good times when developing the McLaren, bad times when we ran at the front.…
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Jan Magnussen: ‘I didn’t realise how unhappy I was in F1’
Jackie Stewart described Jan Magnussen as “the greatest driving talent to emerge since Ayrton Senna”. The young Dane dominated the 1994 British F3 championship, winning 14 of 18 races for…
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George Russell cools after ‘heat of the moment’
George Russell has apologised for colliding with Valtteri Bottas during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and for the emotional comments he made afterwards.The Williams driver posted on social media that…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Did murky F1 politics play a role in slowing Mercedes?’
So the season gets underway and we see a resurgent Red Bull-Honda giving the previously all-conquering Mercedes a very hard time. Then we hear from both Merc’s Toto Wolff and…
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Trackside view, June 2021
Race report All the action from a stunning start to the World Championship Profile: Yuki Tsunoda Why we’ll be hearing more from AlphaTauri’s young sensation Tactical analysis How Hamilton managed…
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Miami GP on the calendar for 2022
The addition of a Miami Grand Prix to the Formula 1 calendar from 2022 represents an important milestone – and a significant degree of face saving – for commercial rights…
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Formula 1 good month, bad month: June 2021
Good month F1’s classic tracks The swoop of Aqua Minarale, the dive into Rivazza, the thrill of Piratella: Imola is the closest that bitumen gets to poetry. Surely the drama of…
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F1’s gladiators going at it: I’m enjoying 2021 — Johnny Herbert
What a great time to become Motor Sport’s new columnist, as we head into a Formula 1 season that looks set to be just what we’ve all been waiting for.…
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How F1 rake angles have shaken up the 2021 championship
From the moment the regulation floor trim of 2021 was announced there were competing theories about how it would affect the low-rake and high-rake cars respectively. The fact that the…
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David Coulthard on Mika Häkkinen: My Greatest Rival
It has to be Mika Häkkinen, an opponent for seven years, with good times and bad. Good times when developing the McLaren, bad times when we ran at the front.…
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Jan Magnussen: ‘I didn’t realise how unhappy I was in F1’
Jackie Stewart described Jan Magnussen as “the greatest driving talent to emerge since Ayrton Senna”. The young Dane dominated the 1994 British F3 championship, winning 14 of 18 races for…
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George Russell cools after ‘heat of the moment’
George Russell has apologised for colliding with Valtteri Bottas during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and for the emotional comments he made afterwards.The Williams driver posted on social media that…
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Mark Hughes: ‘Did murky F1 politics play a role in slowing Mercedes?’
So the season gets underway and we see a resurgent Red Bull-Honda giving the previously all-conquering Mercedes a very hard time. Then we hear from both Merc’s Toto Wolff and…
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Trackside view, June 2021
Race report All the action from a stunning start to the World Championship Profile: Yuki Tsunoda Why we’ll be hearing more from AlphaTauri’s young sensation Tactical analysis How Hamilton managed…
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Miami GP on the calendar for 2022
The addition of a Miami Grand Prix to the Formula 1 calendar from 2022 represents an important milestone – and a significant degree of face saving – for commercial rights…
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Formula 1 good month, bad month: June 2021
Good month F1’s classic tracks The swoop of Aqua Minarale, the dive into Rivazza, the thrill of Piratella: Imola is the closest that bitumen gets to poetry. Surely the drama of…
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F1’s gladiators going at it: I’m enjoying 2021 — Johnny Herbert
What a great time to become Motor Sport’s new columnist, as we head into a Formula 1 season that looks set to be just what we’ve all been waiting for.…
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How F1 rake angles have shaken up the 2021 championship
From the moment the regulation floor trim of 2021 was announced there were competing theories about how it would affect the low-rake and high-rake cars respectively. The fact that the…
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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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