MPH: F1 testing lap time analysis – how far ahead is Mercedes?
So the numbers are in from six days of pre-season testing. When analysing them, using the methods outlined here, to attempt to establish a performance order, we can apply several…
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Preseason testing is over and there are two weeks until the first race of the F1 season, but there’s still plenty of mileage left in last year’s racing, as Drive…
A confidential settlement has been agreed between Ferrari and F1’s governing body, the FIA, after an investigation into the team’s engine. Rivals had raised suspicions over the legality of last…
“It was pretty dire last year. No one gets their car late for testing, do they? It was a shock. I mean, I arrived, thinking that car was going to…
Tony Brooks turned 88 this week. My interest in him was piqued by a factoid within Cyril Posthumus’ year-by-year history of the German Grand Prix: that two-time winner Brooks was…
Classification Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m 16.841sec 145 2. Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 1min 17.066sec 139 3. Lance Stroll Racing Point 1min 17.118sec 130 4. Nicholas Latifi…
New banked corners at Zandvoort have been completed, two months before Formula 1 returns to the Dutch circuit. The two sections, angled at 18- and 19-degrees, are said to be…
Alfa Romeo’s reserve driver clocked the fastest time of Formula 1 testing day four, as Robert Kubica registered a 1 min 16.942sec to top the timesheets. His time was comfortably…
The 2020 Formula 1 season is fast approaching and it isn’t just new cars that get unveiled these days.
So the numbers are in from six days of pre-season testing. When analysing them, using the methods outlined here, to attempt to establish a performance order, we can apply several…
Preseason testing is over and there are two weeks until the first race of the F1 season, but there’s still plenty of mileage left in last year’s racing, as Drive…
A confidential settlement has been agreed between Ferrari and F1’s governing body, the FIA, after an investigation into the team’s engine. Rivals had raised suspicions over the legality of last…
“It was pretty dire last year. No one gets their car late for testing, do they? It was a shock. I mean, I arrived, thinking that car was going to…
Tony Brooks turned 88 this week. My interest in him was piqued by a factoid within Cyril Posthumus’ year-by-year history of the German Grand Prix: that two-time winner Brooks was…
Classification Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m 16.841sec 145 2. Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 1min 17.066sec 139 3. Lance Stroll Racing Point 1min 17.118sec 130 4. Nicholas Latifi…
New banked corners at Zandvoort have been completed, two months before Formula 1 returns to the Dutch circuit. The two sections, angled at 18- and 19-degrees, are said to be…
Alfa Romeo’s reserve driver clocked the fastest time of Formula 1 testing day four, as Robert Kubica registered a 1 min 16.942sec to top the timesheets. His time was comfortably…
The 2020 Formula 1 season is fast approaching and it isn’t just new cars that get unveiled these days.
Mark Hughes unpicks the energy deployment data, the Mercedes engine intrigue and Red Bull Powertrains’ ominous long runs from Bahrain F1 testing to ask who was really fastest
Mercedes’ F1 rivals are united in protesting its new power unit, as the series aims to stamp out “smart rule interpretation”. But it won’t be easy to resolve, explains Mark Hughes
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Why AI is set to become a major factor in F1. Plus: Adrian Newey’s extraordinary Aston Martin; Christian Horner’s potential comeback; and what the drivers really make of their new cars
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Alain Prost adopted a disguise; Kimi Räikkönen was “Eskimo”; and Ayrton Senna was bizarrely unsuccessful: the strange and secret stories of F1 drivers who tested cars they were never meant to drive
The removal of the MGU-H from Formula 1’s 2026 power units has turned race starts into one of the most technically treacherous moments ahead of the first race, and the paddock is bracing itself
As Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso question the complexity of 2026’s new cars, Matt Bishop looks back to 1991 and a Formula 1 season that struck the perfect balance between innovation and joy
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