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This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, as Ligier begins the season with victory, plus nods to Gilles, Pedro and Foyt and more. January 16 1903: Resistance fighter and…
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…
One eagle-eyed reader has spotted what may offer a clue to what happened on that fateful day at Hockenheim Following the recent Kurt Ahrens interview in the November issue of…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, as Ligier begins the season with victory, plus nods to Gilles, Pedro and Foyt and more. January 16 1903: Resistance fighter and…
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…
Charles Leclerc has mastered F1’s new regulations by rooting out the best deployment tricks, while Max Verstappen has been stripped of his advantage, writes Mark Hughes
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
He’s only 19, but Kimi Antonelli has shown F1 championship-winning pace and may never get a better title shot. The ingredients are there for another historic battle between one experienced team-mate and a thrusting newcomer, says Mark Hughes
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
March 21, 2026 Sebring, Florida, USA Porsche Penske Motorsport trio Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich completed a double in the ‘36 Hours of Florida’ when they added Sebring…
The 2026 regulations have not just changed how Formula 1 cars are driven, they have changed what it is possible to see
McLaren has quietly acquired a significant part of the human architecture behind Red Bull’s F1 dynasty
For a decade, Lambiase was the fixed point around which Verstappen’s career at Red Bull turned. Now the race engineer is leaving
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