How 2016 convinced Rosberg to retire
Mark Hughes on the reasons – and seasons – behind Rosberg’s decision to retire Nico Rosberg has retired with immediate effect, just a few days after clinching the world title…
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Nico Rosberg has announced that he is retiring from Formula 1 less than a week after being crowned world champion. The 31-year-old German took the racing world by surprise with…
Here is the statement issued by new world champion Nico Rosberg a few minutes ago, announcing his retirement from F1, with immediate effect. “Since 25 years in racing, it has…
This week’s motor racing milestones from the Archive and Database, with Graham Hill Racing and DSJ remembered, plus Bellof takes his world title. Novermber 28 1990: Chico Godia, Spain’s most succesful Formula 1…
Germany has fallen off the Formula 1 calendar once again, despite the country providing the newest World Champion. The calendar is reduced to 20 Grands Prix, with question marks still…
Paul Fearnley marks F1’s second-ever father and son World Champions by looking back on 1982, the year of Keke Keijo Erik and Nico Erik. Father and son. And Formula 1 world…
The new issue of Motor Sport is now available, featuring ‘Lunch with’ Jean Alesi By a strange quirk of history Jean Alesi’s CV includes just a single Grand Prix victory, achieved…
Nothing is a safe from the steamrolling rate of development in Formula 1. Not even the steering wheel. Trace it from 1957 to today in three minutes with the excellent video…
The records that fell following the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 1. Nico Rosberg secured the World Championship after 206 Grands Prix, the longest wait in terms of race starts.…
Mark Hughes on the reasons – and seasons – behind Rosberg’s decision to retire Nico Rosberg has retired with immediate effect, just a few days after clinching the world title…
Nico Rosberg has announced that he is retiring from Formula 1 less than a week after being crowned world champion. The 31-year-old German took the racing world by surprise with…
Here is the statement issued by new world champion Nico Rosberg a few minutes ago, announcing his retirement from F1, with immediate effect. “Since 25 years in racing, it has…
This week’s motor racing milestones from the Archive and Database, with Graham Hill Racing and DSJ remembered, plus Bellof takes his world title. Novermber 28 1990: Chico Godia, Spain’s most succesful Formula 1…
Germany has fallen off the Formula 1 calendar once again, despite the country providing the newest World Champion. The calendar is reduced to 20 Grands Prix, with question marks still…
Paul Fearnley marks F1’s second-ever father and son World Champions by looking back on 1982, the year of Keke Keijo Erik and Nico Erik. Father and son. And Formula 1 world…
The new issue of Motor Sport is now available, featuring ‘Lunch with’ Jean Alesi By a strange quirk of history Jean Alesi’s CV includes just a single Grand Prix victory, achieved…
Nothing is a safe from the steamrolling rate of development in Formula 1. Not even the steering wheel. Trace it from 1957 to today in three minutes with the excellent video…
The records that fell following the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 1. Nico Rosberg secured the World Championship after 206 Grands Prix, the longest wait in terms of race starts.…
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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