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Zandvoort banking will “be scary to drive” says circuit designer
Drivers can gain up to a second a lap in a single corner through the “scary” banked sections of Zandvoort, says the man who has led the redesign of the…
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Seven F1 teams threaten legal action over secret Ferrari engine deal
Seven Formula 1 teams have threatened to take legal action over the secretive agreement made between Ferrari and the FIA, involving the constructor’s engine. In a statement published this morning,…
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Mercedes F1 team to go carbon neutral by end of 2020 season
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has announced plans to go carbon neutral by the end of the current 2020 season. As well as offsetting its carbon dioxide emissions, the reigning…
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MPH: Ferrari’s FIA power unit settlement – what does it mean?
A quite extraordinary and unexpected press release from the FIA last Friday stated: “The FIA announces that, after thorough technical investigations, it has concluded its analysis of the operation of…
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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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Netflix F1: Drive to Survive Season 2 review – more raw drama
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…
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Mysterious engine ‘settlement’ announced between Ferrari and FIA
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…
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Claire Williams: ‘Last year was shameful; now the pride is back’
“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…
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Tony Brooks: making the extremely difficult look ridiculously easy
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…
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Zandvoort banking will “be scary to drive” says circuit designer
Drivers can gain up to a second a lap in a single corner through the “scary” banked sections of Zandvoort, says the man who has led the redesign of the…
F1
Seven F1 teams threaten legal action over secret Ferrari engine deal
Seven Formula 1 teams have threatened to take legal action over the secretive agreement made between Ferrari and the FIA, involving the constructor’s engine. In a statement published this morning,…
F1
Mercedes F1 team to go carbon neutral by end of 2020 season
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has announced plans to go carbon neutral by the end of the current 2020 season. As well as offsetting its carbon dioxide emissions, the reigning…
Mark Hughes
MPH: Ferrari’s FIA power unit settlement – what does it mean?
A quite extraordinary and unexpected press release from the FIA last Friday stated: “The FIA announces that, after thorough technical investigations, it has concluded its analysis of the operation of…
F1
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…
F1
Netflix F1: Drive to Survive Season 2 review – more raw drama
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…
F1
Mysterious engine ‘settlement’ announced between Ferrari and FIA
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…
F1
Claire Williams: ‘Last year was shameful; now the pride is back’
“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…
F1
Tony Brooks: making the extremely difficult look ridiculously easy
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…
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Mark Hughes: Tyre-wrecking Sepang threatens an F1 upset
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
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MPH: Will Ferrari dare to hire Horner AND fix its biggest issue?
Ferrari’s latest leadership rumour ignores two decades of history: swapping team principals won’t work until Maranello hands real power to the person in the role, says Mark Hughes
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Mark Hughes: Epic Baku battle a flashback to when F1 was flat-out
George Russell had it his way for most of the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to an underwhelming McLaren and rare error from Kimi Antonelli. But then came the late safety car
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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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F1’s ten most controversial team orders
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
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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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