Where does Bernie fit into F1’s new order?
The final obstacle of Liberty’s takeover has been passed, but questions remain The FIA World Motor Sport Council today gave its approval for the purchase by Liberty Media of the majority shareholding in…
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In Ferrari’s 70th year, Andrew Frankel turns nostalgic Seventy years ago a well-known team manager decided to build his own cars. Actually, he’d made up his mind many years earlier,…
An easy fit, and why Wehrlein missed out So finally one of Formula 1’s worst-kept secrets was confirmed: Valtteri Bottas is Nico Rosberg’s replacement at Mercedes alongside Lewis Hamilton. Given…
Formula 1’s 2017 grid has been finalised, with Valtteri Bottas replacing Nico Rosberg at champions Mercedes, Felipe Massa returning from the briefest of retirements to partner rookie Lance Stroll and Pascal Wehrlein replacing Felipe…
So how come Tazio Nuvolari was so fast? Two Motor Sport photographs in particular provide clues. The first features in the August 1932 edition’s French Grand Prix report (right). It…
This week in motor sport, as Formula 1 and sports cars head to Argentina. January 9 1960: Pascal Fabre is born. In profile 1972: Ronnie Peterson and Tim Schenken win the Buenos Aires…
Mercedes AMG’s Toto Wolff is 45 today. A handy GT racer in the early 2000s, he set a new lap record on the Nürburgring in 2009, his next lap was slightly…
Renault and Frédéric Vasseur have parted ways, a split that has been a long time coming Frédéric Vasseur’s sudden resignation as team principal of the Renault F1 team is just…
As predicted in Motor Sport this month, Mercedes-AMG’s tech chief Paddy Lowe has left the championship-winning team and is set for Williams. For the full story, go here. The story, written by…
The final obstacle of Liberty’s takeover has been passed, but questions remain The FIA World Motor Sport Council today gave its approval for the purchase by Liberty Media of the majority shareholding in…
In Ferrari’s 70th year, Andrew Frankel turns nostalgic Seventy years ago a well-known team manager decided to build his own cars. Actually, he’d made up his mind many years earlier,…
An easy fit, and why Wehrlein missed out So finally one of Formula 1’s worst-kept secrets was confirmed: Valtteri Bottas is Nico Rosberg’s replacement at Mercedes alongside Lewis Hamilton. Given…
Formula 1’s 2017 grid has been finalised, with Valtteri Bottas replacing Nico Rosberg at champions Mercedes, Felipe Massa returning from the briefest of retirements to partner rookie Lance Stroll and Pascal Wehrlein replacing Felipe…
So how come Tazio Nuvolari was so fast? Two Motor Sport photographs in particular provide clues. The first features in the August 1932 edition’s French Grand Prix report (right). It…
This week in motor sport, as Formula 1 and sports cars head to Argentina. January 9 1960: Pascal Fabre is born. In profile 1972: Ronnie Peterson and Tim Schenken win the Buenos Aires…
Mercedes AMG’s Toto Wolff is 45 today. A handy GT racer in the early 2000s, he set a new lap record on the Nürburgring in 2009, his next lap was slightly…
Renault and Frédéric Vasseur have parted ways, a split that has been a long time coming Frédéric Vasseur’s sudden resignation as team principal of the Renault F1 team is just…
As predicted in Motor Sport this month, Mercedes-AMG’s tech chief Paddy Lowe has left the championship-winning team and is set for Williams. For the full story, go here. The story, written by…
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
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
Formula 1’s two-year return to Portimao may be less a long-term endorsement than a holding pattern, as the championship keeps calendar space open for future street races
Two Australian F1 drivers who came to Europe at the same time: one became world champion, the other faded from memory. But both Alan Jones and Brian McGuire have their place in racing history
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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