This week in motor sport – October 17
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, with Formula 1 in Japan, South Africa, Vegas and Mexico, and Senna and Prost coming to blows on track. October…
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Three years ago almost to the day Red Bull Racing broke the two-second barrier when they serviced Mark Webber’s car during the United States Grand Prix in 1.923s. To celebrate, RedBull.TV will be…
Ronnie Peterson made his F1 debut with March – and he gave it a final grand prix win, as Paul Fearnley remembers
Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth return to the Hall of Fame Formula 1 category shortlist for the second year in a row. They are joined by 11 other racing names…
Nothing was left to chance. Mercedes-Benz entered five cars – one more than Auto Union – and brought eight to the circuit. Team leader Rudi Caracciola arrived on the back of…
Rob Walker, his team owner, always reckoned that Stirling Moss’s victory at the Nürburgring in 1961 was his greatest drive, but Moss himself opts for Monaco the same year: “Without…
Mark Hughes compares the fortunes of Nico Hülkenberg and Mark Webber, as one moves teams and the other calls time on his career With Nico Hülkenberg’s switch of teams announced…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a title for Piquet and one of the greatest ever is born. October 10 1923: The irrepressible Murray Walker is…
Mark Webber’s career in photos, from Formula Ford to world champion Reigning sports car champion and Grand Prix winner Mark Webber has announced he will be retiring from racing at…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, with Formula 1 in Japan, South Africa, Vegas and Mexico, and Senna and Prost coming to blows on track. October…
Three years ago almost to the day Red Bull Racing broke the two-second barrier when they serviced Mark Webber’s car during the United States Grand Prix in 1.923s. To celebrate, RedBull.TV will be…
Ronnie Peterson made his F1 debut with March – and he gave it a final grand prix win, as Paul Fearnley remembers
Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth return to the Hall of Fame Formula 1 category shortlist for the second year in a row. They are joined by 11 other racing names…
Nothing was left to chance. Mercedes-Benz entered five cars – one more than Auto Union – and brought eight to the circuit. Team leader Rudi Caracciola arrived on the back of…
Rob Walker, his team owner, always reckoned that Stirling Moss’s victory at the Nürburgring in 1961 was his greatest drive, but Moss himself opts for Monaco the same year: “Without…
Mark Hughes compares the fortunes of Nico Hülkenberg and Mark Webber, as one moves teams and the other calls time on his career With Nico Hülkenberg’s switch of teams announced…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a title for Piquet and one of the greatest ever is born. October 10 1923: The irrepressible Murray Walker is…
Mark Webber’s career in photos, from Formula Ford to world champion Reigning sports car champion and Grand Prix winner Mark Webber has announced he will be retiring from racing at…
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
Kimi Antonelli looked like he’d have blasted to victory in the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, no matter what rules F1 was racing under, says Mark Hughes. However, the result was once again overshadowed by the shortcomings of the series’ new regulations
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…
There is a word for what happens when platforms stop serving the people who made them great. Should Formula 1 learn it?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Leading the world championship aged 19, Kimi Antonelli has proved he has the pace to win the title — and this could be his best shot. Plus: how GPs could be shortened over safety fears, and why Max Verstappen is serious in threatening to quit
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
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