This week in motor sport – September 5
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring no fewer than 19 Italian Grands Prix and much more. September 5 1954: Juan Manuel Fangio takes a lucky win…
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The tension had deeper roots than a mere motor race when teams and drivers gathered at Lyon in July 1914. Little more than a month afterwards, the world would be…
It’s easy to be cynical – men in suits exchanging assets, with the new chairman Chase Carey talking about the sport’s three ‘income buckets’ and its prospects for expansion. But…
This week’s fourth(!) and final podcast stars Jochen Mass. He’s a man who raced with success in just about everything, from Formula 1, sports cars to tin-tops. We’ll be recording the…
Lime Rock’s 34th Historic Festival took place over the last five days on Labor Day weekend, the traditional end of America’s summer vacation season. The event opens with an afternoon…
1. Nico Rosberg scored his first Italian Grand Prix victory, his 21st win overall and 50th podium finish – the same number as Jenson Button. 2. Rosberg has led 96 of the…
New Hall of Fame member Derek Bell will be helping the podcast team and Gary Watkins decide who should be on the list to join him in 2017. The five-time…
Formula 1 racer-turned-pundit Karun Chandhok will join the podcast team and Mark Hughes to decide who should be on the Hall of Fame 2017 shortlist from the world of F1. They’ll…
“Area under the curve, Nico,” was the congratulatory remark to Nico Rosberg from his race engineer on the Monza victory lap. And in that comment is: a) the encapsulation of…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring no fewer than 19 Italian Grands Prix and much more. September 5 1954: Juan Manuel Fangio takes a lucky win…
The tension had deeper roots than a mere motor race when teams and drivers gathered at Lyon in July 1914. Little more than a month afterwards, the world would be…
It’s easy to be cynical – men in suits exchanging assets, with the new chairman Chase Carey talking about the sport’s three ‘income buckets’ and its prospects for expansion. But…
This week’s fourth(!) and final podcast stars Jochen Mass. He’s a man who raced with success in just about everything, from Formula 1, sports cars to tin-tops. We’ll be recording the…
Lime Rock’s 34th Historic Festival took place over the last five days on Labor Day weekend, the traditional end of America’s summer vacation season. The event opens with an afternoon…
1. Nico Rosberg scored his first Italian Grand Prix victory, his 21st win overall and 50th podium finish – the same number as Jenson Button. 2. Rosberg has led 96 of the…
New Hall of Fame member Derek Bell will be helping the podcast team and Gary Watkins decide who should be on the list to join him in 2017. The five-time…
Formula 1 racer-turned-pundit Karun Chandhok will join the podcast team and Mark Hughes to decide who should be on the Hall of Fame 2017 shortlist from the world of F1. They’ll…
“Area under the curve, Nico,” was the congratulatory remark to Nico Rosberg from his race engineer on the Monza victory lap. And in that comment is: a) the encapsulation of…
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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