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MPH: F1’s big fears fade as a new era begins smoothly
Mark Hughes dissects F1’s first shakedown, revealing why the opening signs are far more positive than expected
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Bottas on Cadillac’s F1 reality check: learn, finish races, don’t be last
Cadillac’s first F1 season comes with a clear message: Try not to be last
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Matt Bishop: The forgotten F1 season when Coulthard trounced Häkkinen
David Coulthard’s career has long been shaded by his McLaren team-mate Mika Häkkinen’s success. But he was much more than a No2 driver in 2001 when he showed himself to be one of Formula 1’s giants
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What are the yellow lights on F1 2026 cars’ mirrors?
As 2026 F1 testing began in Barcelona, a new set of flashing yellow mirror lights sparked intrigue
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Ginther takes the hairpin at the 1965 Mexican GP
October 24, 1965, Mexico City, Mexico The 10-round F1 championship came to a close under a blue sky in Mexico. The last race of the 1500cc era was won by…
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Matt Bishop meets Nick Fry, the man who led Brawn GP to 2009 F1 success
If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable…
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Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac F1 goals: ‘Try not to be last, that’s the starting point’
Which sides of the garage are we going to have?” “Well, which do you want?” Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are chatting in the Silverstone pits a few hours before…
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Cadillac’s real-time F1 race rehearsals
Cadillac didn’t have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors’ simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina. From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its…
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‘Mario Andretti said he wanted to talk’: how Cadillac hired F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon
“I was driving down the A1, and I got a call from someone whose opinion I respect, and they said, ‘Would you take a call from the group that are…
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MPH: F1’s big fears fade as a new era begins smoothly
Mark Hughes dissects F1’s first shakedown, revealing why the opening signs are far more positive than expected
F1
Bottas on Cadillac’s F1 reality check: learn, finish races, don’t be last
Cadillac’s first F1 season comes with a clear message: Try not to be last
F1
Matt Bishop: The forgotten F1 season when Coulthard trounced Häkkinen
David Coulthard’s career has long been shaded by his McLaren team-mate Mika Häkkinen’s success. But he was much more than a No2 driver in 2001 when he showed himself to be one of Formula 1’s giants
F1
What are the yellow lights on F1 2026 cars’ mirrors?
As 2026 F1 testing began in Barcelona, a new set of flashing yellow mirror lights sparked intrigue
Archive
Ginther takes the hairpin at the 1965 Mexican GP
October 24, 1965, Mexico City, Mexico The 10-round F1 championship came to a close under a blue sky in Mexico. The last race of the 1500cc era was won by…
Archive
Matt Bishop meets Nick Fry, the man who led Brawn GP to 2009 F1 success
If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable…
Archive
Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac F1 goals: ‘Try not to be last, that’s the starting point’
Which sides of the garage are we going to have?” “Well, which do you want?” Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez are chatting in the Silverstone pits a few hours before…
Archive
Cadillac’s real-time F1 race rehearsals
Cadillac didn’t have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors’ simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina. From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its…
Archive
‘Mario Andretti said he wanted to talk’: how Cadillac hired F1 team boss Graeme Lowdon
“I was driving down the A1, and I got a call from someone whose opinion I respect, and they said, ‘Would you take a call from the group that are…
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Mass frustration at the US GP – but Kimi just looked like a kid having fun
Kimi Antonelli all but secured the Formula 1 title with a champion’s drive at the 2026 United States Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. Behind him, forlorn rivals failed to make their superior pace stick
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MPH: The revelation in Horner’s book – how he turned Red Bull from no-hopers into F1 winners
Christian Horner details how he rebuilt Red Bull from the ashes of Jaguar, and hired F1’s greatest designer from under the noses of rivals in his new autobiography, Drive. Mark Hughes found it fascinating
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Mark Hughes: Did Ferrari have pace to beat Red Bull? We’ll never know…
Mark Hughes analyses how Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to victory in Singapore, and how Lewis Hamilton’s strategic gamble turned a promising Ferrari result into a costly disappointment
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Jackie Stewart wins at the Nürburgring as Fittipaldi finishes sixth
August 5, 1973 Nürburgring, West Germany A busy scene in the Lotus garage at the 1973 German Grand Prix, Round 11 of 15 of the F1 World Championship. Drivers Emerson…
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Do safety cars make races boring or more exciting? Dilemma for US series as it considers cutting back cautions
When it comes to sports car racing, it’s not just the American tracks that are markedly different from most of their international counterparts. The overall philosophy used by the FIA…
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Two corners from becoming champion: Oliver Solberg’s heartbreaking crash tops the most thrilling WRC deciders
5. 2003: Solberg vs Loeb vs Sainz Subaru’s Norwegian star Petter Solberg, above – ‘Hollywood’ – lay a point adrift of Citroën pair Carlos Sainz and Sébastien Loeb going into…
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Felipe Massa’s 2009 crash tested the resilience of a Richard Mille watch
It was back in 2009 when Felipe Massa suffered life-threatening injuries during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, losing control of his Ferrari at 175mph as a result of being…
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Desiré Wilson’s battle to be F1’s first female winner: ‘Sponsors couldn’t accept their star men being beaten by a woman’
Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race, and for all I know she may always carry that mantle. OK, her famous victory in…
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Enzo Ferrari: the making of a legend
Where their sons are concerned, mums have much to answer for. Certainly none other than Enzo Ferrari was deeply influenced, indeed in many ways shaped, by his formidable mother, Adalgisa…
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