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Simon’s snapshots #21
When Formula 1 cars are unleashed at Monza this weekend, there will be few architectural surprises. Grand Prix racing has been like that for some time. There will be design…
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Your opinion: The National Motor Museum
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F1’s tyre controversy
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Lella Lombardi: She made her point
Formula 1 was at its most macho: James Hunt was having sex for breakfast; the ‘Monza Gorilla’ was muscling a works March; and, on a hill overlooking Barcelona, officials, team…
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Lord Hesketh in 1979
We’ve dug out and digitised Rob Widdows’ old tapes from when he presented a show called Track Torque on Radio Victory in the late 1970s and early ’80s. The first…
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Kimi Räikkönen: “a misunderstood individual”
The ‘silly season’ has been intrinsic to Formula 1 since Job was a boy, and traditionally goes on and on. Occasionally we get a year where no major contracts are…
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Room for improvement in motor sport safety
There are occasions when, even before you ask a driver a question, you know the answer you’ll get. You can almost go through it word for word, with the facial…
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Guy Ligier, 1930-2015
Ex-Formula 1 team principal Guy Ligier died on Sunday at the age of 85. An accomplished sportsman and racing driver in his own right, Ligier bought the assets of the…
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2015 Belgian GP report
Mercedes finishing 1-2, Lewis Hamilton from Nico Rosberg, was just a routine story. Romain Grosjean running fourth in an impounded Lotus, pressuring the one-stopping Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel for the…
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Simon’s snapshots #21
When Formula 1 cars are unleashed at Monza this weekend, there will be few architectural surprises. Grand Prix racing has been like that for some time. There will be design…
F1
Your opinion: The National Motor Museum
The passing of Lord Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu of Beaulieu on August 31 made me think for the first time in many years about the National Motor Museum he founded back in…
Opinion
F1
F1’s tyre controversy
As the F1 circus prepares for Monza, with the highest speeds of the season, the elephant in the room is that there is still no full explanation for the tyre…
Archive
Lella Lombardi: She made her point
Formula 1 was at its most macho: James Hunt was having sex for breakfast; the ‘Monza Gorilla’ was muscling a works March; and, on a hill overlooking Barcelona, officials, team…
Opinion
F1
Lord Hesketh in 1979
We’ve dug out and digitised Rob Widdows’ old tapes from when he presented a show called Track Torque on Radio Victory in the late 1970s and early ’80s. The first…
Opinion
F1
Kimi Räikkönen: “a misunderstood individual”
The ‘silly season’ has been intrinsic to Formula 1 since Job was a boy, and traditionally goes on and on. Occasionally we get a year where no major contracts are…
Opinion
F1
Room for improvement in motor sport safety
There are occasions when, even before you ask a driver a question, you know the answer you’ll get. You can almost go through it word for word, with the facial…
Opinion
F1
Guy Ligier, 1930-2015
Ex-Formula 1 team principal Guy Ligier died on Sunday at the age of 85. An accomplished sportsman and racing driver in his own right, Ligier bought the assets of the…
F1
2015 Belgian GP report
Mercedes finishing 1-2, Lewis Hamilton from Nico Rosberg, was just a routine story. Romain Grosjean running fourth in an impounded Lotus, pressuring the one-stopping Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel for the…
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Mark Hughes: McLaren F1 driver falls for Montreal trap… again
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Mr Saturday: How scorching pole secured Russell’s Montreal win
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MPH: Ferrari to sack Vasseur? It’s the same cycle of F1 failure
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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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Axe hangs over Perez as Marko jets in to discuss Red Bull replacement
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‘It was like a mafia scene’ – Scheckter recalls Ferrari meeting that shaped 1979 F1 season
“An old man with white hair, in a suit, wearing dark glasses, in a dark office, with bodyguards all around.”
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MPH: Emotional Norris is making bad calls in fight with cool-headed Piastri
A third of the way through the 2025 F1 season, McLaren’s title fight is shaping into a psychological duel as much as a physical one — with one key element giving Oscar Piastri’s the edge over Lando Norris, says Mark Hughes
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