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Gilles Villeneuve is quite rightly back on the nominee list for the 2017 Hall of Fame Formula 1 category. He’s joined by 11 other racing luminaries who you can find…
Andrew Frankel wonders whether it is championships that make a champion or whether it’s the likes of Stirling Moss fighting for Hawthorn’s second place in the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix…
Mark Hughes on Nico Rosberg’s controlled win, and team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s continued woes Mercedes-Benz left Suzuka as world champion constructors. Its race-winning driver Nico Rosberg left there walking on the air cushion…
In August 1954 Juan Manuel Fangio won the German Grand Prix in a Mercedes-Benz W196. The following year the race was cancelled, following the Le Mans disaster, but in 1956…
In July 1979 Jean-Pierre Jabouille won his, and Renault’s, first World Championship Grand Prix, and did it, what’s more, in France. It is his tragedy that anyone at Dijon that…
This week’s motor racing milestones from the Database and Archive, with Formula 1 in North America and a handful of maiden wins
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The past 20 years have not been kind to Formula 1 newcomers. Of the three that arrived in 2010 only Manor survives – and then in much-recycled form. BMW’s brief…
Why the manufacturers are being lured to Formula E Another month, and another announcement that a major manufacturer is jumping on the Formula E bandwagon. The news that Mercedes has…
How Nelson Piquet moved from the European F3 midfield to the fringe of Formula 1 points in 1978 Career in brief Nationality: Brazilian Teams: Liggett Group with BS Fabrications, Team Tissot…
Gilles Villeneuve is quite rightly back on the nominee list for the 2017 Hall of Fame Formula 1 category. He’s joined by 11 other racing luminaries who you can find…
Andrew Frankel wonders whether it is championships that make a champion or whether it’s the likes of Stirling Moss fighting for Hawthorn’s second place in the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix…
Mark Hughes on Nico Rosberg’s controlled win, and team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s continued woes Mercedes-Benz left Suzuka as world champion constructors. Its race-winning driver Nico Rosberg left there walking on the air cushion…
In August 1954 Juan Manuel Fangio won the German Grand Prix in a Mercedes-Benz W196. The following year the race was cancelled, following the Le Mans disaster, but in 1956…
In July 1979 Jean-Pierre Jabouille won his, and Renault’s, first World Championship Grand Prix, and did it, what’s more, in France. It is his tragedy that anyone at Dijon that…
This week’s motor racing milestones from the Database and Archive, with Formula 1 in North America and a handful of maiden wins
Great Read
The past 20 years have not been kind to Formula 1 newcomers. Of the three that arrived in 2010 only Manor survives – and then in much-recycled form. BMW’s brief…
Why the manufacturers are being lured to Formula E Another month, and another announcement that a major manufacturer is jumping on the Formula E bandwagon. The news that Mercedes has…
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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