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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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Formula 1 in 2020: Bravely into the new world
So perhaps the strangest, most dystopian season in the sport’s history begins. But regardless of the surreal circumstances of the outside world in which F1 has to exist, its life…
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F1 2020: Runners and riders
Mercedes AMG Brackley, uk Last year 1 The undoubted benchmark of the sport at the moment. Can it make it a clean sweep of seven drivers and constructors titles? Lewis…
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Double time for the British GP
This year Silverstone will host a British Grand Prix like no other. For a start there will be no spectators in the grandstands as a result of the social distancing…
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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…
Great Read
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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…
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…
Archive
Formula 1 in 2020: Bravely into the new world
So perhaps the strangest, most dystopian season in the sport’s history begins. But regardless of the surreal circumstances of the outside world in which F1 has to exist, its life…
Archive
F1 2020: Runners and riders
Mercedes AMG Brackley, uk Last year 1 The undoubted benchmark of the sport at the moment. Can it make it a clean sweep of seven drivers and constructors titles? Lewis…
Archive
Double time for the British GP
This year Silverstone will host a British Grand Prix like no other. For a start there will be no spectators in the grandstands as a result of the social distancing…
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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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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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