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Bottas wins F1 opener in chaos-filled 2020 Austrian GP: race report
An afternoon of drama and chaos on Formula 1’s return ended with a Mercedes win after a manic 2020 F1 Austrian Grand Prix
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Bottas wins F1 opener in chaos-filled 2020 Austrian GP: race report
An afternoon of drama and chaos on Formula 1’s return ended with a Mercedes win after a manic 2020 F1 Austrian Grand Prix
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2020 Austrian Grand Prix qualifying: Bottas on pole as Ferrari goes backwards
The indication from Barcelona testing was that Mercedes would continue to set the pace, as it has done since the start of the hybrid era. Lockdown has done nothing to…
F1
The one characteristic shared by every great F1 driver
Every great Formula 1 driver has two things in common — and nothing else, according to Frank Dernie, the F1 engineer, who has worked with multiple world champions in his…
F1
Mercedes DAS system ruled legal ahead of Austrian GP qualifying
Stewards have rejected Red Bull’s protest and ruled that Mercedes can race at the Austrian Grand Prix with the DAS system used by Lewis Hamilton on Friday
F1
Reims 1960: the end of the road for front-engined F1 cars
Enzo Ferrari could be mulish: who on Earth would think it logical to place a prancing horse behind its cart? So surmised a man basking (from July 1960) in the…
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A veteran of Williams, Lotus and Benetton, Frank Dernie knows what it takes to engineer the greatest drivers. In the latest of our podcast series, he recalls working alongside the likes of Piquet, Mansell and Schumacher.
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