This week in motor sport – September 19
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring some dramatic Portuguese and Canadian Grands Prix, and a birthday for a bona fide Le Mans legend September 19…
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The rumoured Apple takeover of McLaren – and why Andrew Frankel hopes it doesn’t happen. Is Apple about to take over McLaren? And, if so, what are the ramifications for its…
How’s the season going so far? It’s been a difficult season so far for the #5 car. Before Austin we had finished only one race out of five, so that says…
Jochen Mass joined Ed Foster and the returning Rob Widdows to talk about his career and to answer readers’ questions in the latest Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz.…
1. At 1h 55m 48.950s, the 2016 Singapore Grand Prix was the quickest at Marina Bay to date. 2. It also maintained the 100 per cent record for safety cars in Singapore – in…
With victory in the time trial and the team relay at the Rio Paralympic Games, former CART and Formula 1 racer Alex Zanardi added two more gold medals to the two won at London 2012 – the…
Singapore is always a glitzy and atmospheric event, a breathtaking spectacle of sliding cars between the night-time floodlit walls, 900 horsepower, degrading grip, rubber marbles waiting menacingly off line. But…
The 1958 Argentine Grand Prix is rightly regarded as one of Moss’s greatest races, but until late in the day it had seemed as if Stirling would not even be…
The fifth Monaco Grand Prix would be a landmark event, in that the grid would be determined by practice times rather than ballot – an idea borrowed from America. Eighty…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring some dramatic Portuguese and Canadian Grands Prix, and a birthday for a bona fide Le Mans legend September 19…
The rumoured Apple takeover of McLaren – and why Andrew Frankel hopes it doesn’t happen. Is Apple about to take over McLaren? And, if so, what are the ramifications for its…
How’s the season going so far? It’s been a difficult season so far for the #5 car. Before Austin we had finished only one race out of five, so that says…
Jochen Mass joined Ed Foster and the returning Rob Widdows to talk about his career and to answer readers’ questions in the latest Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz.…
1. At 1h 55m 48.950s, the 2016 Singapore Grand Prix was the quickest at Marina Bay to date. 2. It also maintained the 100 per cent record for safety cars in Singapore – in…
With victory in the time trial and the team relay at the Rio Paralympic Games, former CART and Formula 1 racer Alex Zanardi added two more gold medals to the two won at London 2012 – the…
Singapore is always a glitzy and atmospheric event, a breathtaking spectacle of sliding cars between the night-time floodlit walls, 900 horsepower, degrading grip, rubber marbles waiting menacingly off line. But…
The 1958 Argentine Grand Prix is rightly regarded as one of Moss’s greatest races, but until late in the day it had seemed as if Stirling would not even be…
The fifth Monaco Grand Prix would be a landmark event, in that the grid would be determined by practice times rather than ballot – an idea borrowed from America. Eighty…
Alpine sits at the bottom of the F1 championship table this year; its drivers struggling with the car. But one change due in 2026 could transform its fortunes, says Mark Hughes
When you’re falling behind, there’s less risk in trying something different. Which is why F1 drivers can ace grands prix and still get beaten by a slower team-mate — as Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton know too well
The valuation of a Formula 1 team may seem an esoteric consideration for F1 followers. But it can have a huge impact upon events and the landscape upon which the…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Sergio Perez’s future looks bleak after another underwhelming performance, while George Russell can be upbeat despite his disqualification: 2024 Belgian GP diary
Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz’s death didn’t just change the company. It marked the begining of the end for Christian Horner’s two-decade reign at the head of the F1 team
At the 2025 Formula 1 season reached the summer break, clear winners and losers have emerged in a campaign defined by McLaren’s dominance
Vittorio Brambilla won just a single grand prix in his Formula 1 career but, writes Matt Bishop, it was a spectacularly skilful and determined victory at an Austrian race blanketed by rain and tragedy
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