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2017 Mexican Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes’ in-depth report on the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix Max Verstappen stood in even thinner air than everyone else atop the podium – as a championship celebration played out around…
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Classic Mexican Grands Prix
A history of the Mexican Grand Prix The Mexican Grand Prix has been run in three distinct eras since it was first held as a non-championship race in 1962. That…
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Submit your questions to Christian Horner
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Motor Sport’s Weekly Debrief – October 27
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The tangled roots of F1 and FE
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The romance of one-off F1 drives
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The welcome return of Paul Ricard
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Driver insight: United States Grand Prix
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How good was Hartley?
Mark Hughes looks at the numbers, as Toro Rosso retains Brendon Hartley for Mexico Brendon Hartley’s performance in his Formula 1 debut at Austin has earned him another race opportunity…
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2017 Mexican Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes’ in-depth report on the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix Max Verstappen stood in even thinner air than everyone else atop the podium – as a championship celebration played out around…
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F1
Classic Mexican Grands Prix
A history of the Mexican Grand Prix The Mexican Grand Prix has been run in three distinct eras since it was first held as a non-championship race in 1962. That…
Opinion
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Submit your questions to Christian Horner
Christian Horner will join us for the Motor Sport podcast, in association with Mercedes-Benz Horner became Red Bull team principal in 2005 having founded the Arden Formula 3000 team in 1997.…
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Motor Sport’s Weekly Debrief – October 27
Alonso enters 2018 endurance one-off, Nissan launches major programme, IndyCar and NASCAR teams announce line-ups and more in the Weekly Debrief Kvyat released by Toro Rosso Daniil Kvyat will not…
Opinion
F1
The tangled roots of F1 and FE
Formula E may seem like a series filled with big-data peddling, buzzword-filled vernacular, but it’s far from a terrifying, techy stereotype, explains Sam Smith With roots in old-school engineering and…
Opinion
F1
The romance of one-off F1 drives
Second chances such as Brendon Hartley’s don’t come easily in F1, but one-offs can still prove indelible, as Paul Fearnley illustrates Congratulations to Brendon Hartley for parlaying a one-off with…
Opinion
F1
The welcome return of Paul Ricard
Circuit Paul Ricard’s return to the F1 calendar is a salivating prospect for Dickie Meaden, but its fabled history has been punctuated by tragedy The return of the French Grand…
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F1
Driver insight: United States Grand Prix
Karun’s solution to the late penalty drama at Austin, with insight into Hamilton’s blistering qualifying form and Hartley’s debut What a fairly dramatic and mad weekend it’s been. We had…
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F1
How good was Hartley?
Mark Hughes looks at the numbers, as Toro Rosso retains Brendon Hartley for Mexico Brendon Hartley’s performance in his Formula 1 debut at Austin has earned him another race opportunity…
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MPH: Deployment and deception: decoding F1 testing runs in Bahrain
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
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
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Schumacher in a Ligier? F1’s most unlikely testing stories
Alain Prost adopted a disguise; Kimi Räikkönen was “Eskimo”; and Ayrton Senna was bizarrely unsuccessful: he strange and secret stories of F1 drivers who tested cars they were never meant to drive
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Why 2026 F1 race starts are a problem waiting to happen
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Matt Bishop: Modern F1 peaked in 1991 – look at what we’ve lost
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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