This week in motor sport – November 7
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, as Michael Schumacher wins his maiden world title and the turbo era comes to a close. November 7 1956: Jonathan…
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Tommy Byrne is arguably the greatest lost talent of motor racing. He briefly got to Formula 1 with Theodore in 1982, but after a falling out with the team, his top-line…
Mike Costin will be joining the Motor Sport team for the next podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz. He with Keith Duckworth founded Cosworth, and they together produced the groundbreaking DFV. Comment submission is…
At the start of this year the FIA finally announced a set of regulations for F1 in 2017. The idea was to make the cars faster by some three seconds…
With the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix upon this weekend we look back at its formative years. It was first held in 1972, as a non-championship race, when Carlos Reutemann emerged victorious. …
The week’s motor racing milestones from the Database and Archive, featuring some dangerously wet Grands Prix and birthdays for two British gents. October 31 1941: Derek Bell is born. In profile…
Ahead of the Dewar Trophy and Simms Medal presentations the podcast team sat down with Williams’ chief technical officer Pat Symonds to discuss the winners of the two awards as…
The greatest driver never to win a Grand Prix? The unluckiest driver in the history of Formula 1? They are easy phrases with which to label Christopher Arthur Amon, who…
Mark Hughes explains the true extent of Mercedes’ advantage via secret data Perceived widom is that the advantage of Mercedes is down to its superior power unit. That Red Bull has the…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, as Michael Schumacher wins his maiden world title and the turbo era comes to a close. November 7 1956: Jonathan…
Tommy Byrne is arguably the greatest lost talent of motor racing. He briefly got to Formula 1 with Theodore in 1982, but after a falling out with the team, his top-line…
Mike Costin will be joining the Motor Sport team for the next podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz. He with Keith Duckworth founded Cosworth, and they together produced the groundbreaking DFV. Comment submission is…
At the start of this year the FIA finally announced a set of regulations for F1 in 2017. The idea was to make the cars faster by some three seconds…
With the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix upon this weekend we look back at its formative years. It was first held in 1972, as a non-championship race, when Carlos Reutemann emerged victorious. …
The week’s motor racing milestones from the Database and Archive, featuring some dangerously wet Grands Prix and birthdays for two British gents. October 31 1941: Derek Bell is born. In profile…
Ahead of the Dewar Trophy and Simms Medal presentations the podcast team sat down with Williams’ chief technical officer Pat Symonds to discuss the winners of the two awards as…
The greatest driver never to win a Grand Prix? The unluckiest driver in the history of Formula 1? They are easy phrases with which to label Christopher Arthur Amon, who…
Mark Hughes explains the true extent of Mercedes’ advantage via secret data Perceived widom is that the advantage of Mercedes is down to its superior power unit. That Red Bull has the…
Mark Hughes crunches the numbers on Aston Martin’s big upgrade for the Hungarian Grand Prix – and asks whether it can be enough to close a four-second deficit to near the front of the F1 pack
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
Kimi Antonelli delivered his sixth F1 victory of 2026 at the Belgian Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. But this year’s cars and their energy limitations made Spa-Francorchamps a shadow of the challenge it usually is
June 7, 1970 Spa-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium By F1’s Round 4 at Spa in 1970, Jack Brabham was at the top of the standings with eventual title winner Jochen Rindt trailing by…
Toyota returned to the top step of the podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a three-year absence. Finally, the Japanese manufacturer triumphed against factory opposition, which was not…
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
As F1’s power units run out of energy, the series’ response has been to hide the evidence rather than explain it, and fans are noticing
The 18-3 scoreline looks decisive, but a closer look at Haas’s season shows a car that hasn’t been giving both drivers the same chance to score
A three-way fight for the final point at Spa, decided in a small picture-in-picture window – is F1’s world feed built for the racing it actually has now?
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