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F1 at 70: the greatest grand prix
What is the greatest grand prix from seven decades of the Formula 1 world championship? Have your say and vote now
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Markus Winkelhock: The day I led the European GP in a Spyker
It’s one of Formula 1’s extraordinary stories: the driver who started last on his debut and went on to lead the 2007 European Grand Prix. Markus Winkelhock tells the full tale of his one and only – short-lived – F1 race
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Will 2020 be the year Mercedes records a perfect F1 season?
No Formula 1 team has ever had a perfect season. In 70 years of the world championship, great racing drivers have come and gone and brilliantly-engineered cars have dominated. But…
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Parting shot
June 13, 1965 Spa-Francorchamps The Belgian GP was still an early part of the season – round three – but already the writing seemed on the wall. Jim Clark was…
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Don Nichols: Shadowman
I don’t think the idea ever was to make money. It was to make an art piece, an active art piece which was not only attractive but high performing, and…
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Ron Tauranac “just designed bloody good racing cars”
The schoolboy stood shyly by the flung-open workshop doors. It was the first day of his summer holiday of 1963 and he had cycled the short distance from his Byfleet…
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Lewis makes a point, as Alonso returns
Perhaps the most unpredictable season in Formula 1 history finally burst into life with two blockbuster races in Austria, which were as politically charged as they were fraught on track.…
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F1 report: Welcome to the new normal
For the first time in F1’s history, it hosted two consecutive grands prix at the same circuit. The Austrian and Styrian grands prix were the opening salvos of F1’s dramatically…
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F1 report: Word on the beat
● The gearbox sensor issue that had both Mercedes on the verge of retirement throughout the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix was as a result of high spike loadings into the…
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F1 at 70: the greatest grand prix
What is the greatest grand prix from seven decades of the Formula 1 world championship? Have your say and vote now
F1
Markus Winkelhock: The day I led the European GP in a Spyker
It’s one of Formula 1’s extraordinary stories: the driver who started last on his debut and went on to lead the 2007 European Grand Prix. Markus Winkelhock tells the full tale of his one and only – short-lived – F1 race
F1
Will 2020 be the year Mercedes records a perfect F1 season?
No Formula 1 team has ever had a perfect season. In 70 years of the world championship, great racing drivers have come and gone and brilliantly-engineered cars have dominated. But…
Archive
Parting shot
June 13, 1965 Spa-Francorchamps The Belgian GP was still an early part of the season – round three – but already the writing seemed on the wall. Jim Clark was…
Great Read
Archive
Don Nichols: Shadowman
I don’t think the idea ever was to make money. It was to make an art piece, an active art piece which was not only attractive but high performing, and…
F1
Ron Tauranac “just designed bloody good racing cars”
The schoolboy stood shyly by the flung-open workshop doors. It was the first day of his summer holiday of 1963 and he had cycled the short distance from his Byfleet…
Archive
Lewis makes a point, as Alonso returns
Perhaps the most unpredictable season in Formula 1 history finally burst into life with two blockbuster races in Austria, which were as politically charged as they were fraught on track.…
Archive
F1 report: Welcome to the new normal
For the first time in F1’s history, it hosted two consecutive grands prix at the same circuit. The Austrian and Styrian grands prix were the opening salvos of F1’s dramatically…
Archive
F1 report: Word on the beat
● The gearbox sensor issue that had both Mercedes on the verge of retirement throughout the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix was as a result of high spike loadings into the…
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Aston Martin’s giant leap? Alonso will fight McLarens if Newey & Honda F1 upgrades work perfectly
Mark Hughes crunches the numbers on Aston Martin’s big upgrade for the Hungarian Grand Prix – and asks whether it can be enough to close a four-second deficit to near the front of the F1 pack
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MPH: Revealed – the fault behind Mercedes’ Belgian GP deployment chaos
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
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Russell zapped, and Spa made ridiculously easy in F1’s energy-deployment GP
Kimi Antonelli delivered his sixth F1 victory of 2026 at the Belgian Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. But this year’s cars and their energy limitations made Spa-Francorchamps a shadow of the challenge it usually is
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Pedro Rodríguez wins at Spa as Brabham leads the 1970 F1 title race
June 7, 1970 Spa-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium By F1’s Round 4 at Spa in 1970, Jack Brabham was at the top of the standings with eventual title winner Jochen Rindt trailing by…
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Toyota’s resourcefulness delivered a sixth Le Mans 24 Hours victory against the odds
Toyota returned to the top step of the podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a three-year absence. Finally, the Japanese manufacturer triumphed against factory opposition, which was not…
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Mighty Mondeo: how Rouse and Radisich made Ford’s touring car a world-beater
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
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F1 is drawing more attention to its 2026 flaws by trying to hide them
As F1’s power units run out of energy, the series’ response has been to hide the evidence rather than explain it, and fans are noticing
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F1’s worst-performing team-mate – why Esteban Ocon isn’t as bad as he looks
The 18-3 scoreline looks decisive, but a closer look at Haas’s season shows a car that hasn’t been giving both drivers the same chance to score
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Is F1’s world TV feed missing too much of the action in 2026?
A three-way fight for the final point at Spa, decided in a small picture-in-picture window – is F1’s world feed built for the racing it actually has now?
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