This week in motor sport – November 21
Motor racing’s major milestones from this week on the Archive and Database, featuring Ferrari’s winner on debut and ABBA’s racing driver drummer. November 21 1943: Jacques Laffite is born. In…
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As Felipe Massa heads into his final Formula 1 weekend as a driver, he ponders his retirement and what he has acheived.
Mike Costin, as half of the revolutionary Cosworth, all but dominated Formula 1 during the late ’60s and throughout the ’70s. The Cosworth DFV won 12 drivers’ titles, helped win 10…
Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo swapped his Yamaha for a Mercedes at Silverstone in October, getting behind the wheel of a Mercedes W05 to realise one of his childhood dreams. Tackling the International circuit,…
Mark Hughes looks at the effect Zak Brown’s McLaren appointment will have on the team’s fortunes The news that Zak Brown has accepted a role in the running of the…
Fernando Alonso’s rumoured switch to Porsche may have moved a step closer The rumours have been circulating for the past few years, but Fernando Alonso has implied he is to move to the…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring the birth of one of the sport’s greatest November 14 1945: The man one spot behind Luca Badoer in…
After Ron Dennis was ousted from his role at the McLaren F1 team, Nigel Roebuck examines the fallout, and the fallings out
Max Verstappen had Paul Fearnley enthralled at Interlagos, bringing to mind some of the sport’s most gifted Not since Villeneuve. I refer to Gilles, although Jacques to be fair had his…
Motor racing’s major milestones from this week on the Archive and Database, featuring Ferrari’s winner on debut and ABBA’s racing driver drummer. November 21 1943: Jacques Laffite is born. In…
As Felipe Massa heads into his final Formula 1 weekend as a driver, he ponders his retirement and what he has acheived.
Mike Costin, as half of the revolutionary Cosworth, all but dominated Formula 1 during the late ’60s and throughout the ’70s. The Cosworth DFV won 12 drivers’ titles, helped win 10…
Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo swapped his Yamaha for a Mercedes at Silverstone in October, getting behind the wheel of a Mercedes W05 to realise one of his childhood dreams. Tackling the International circuit,…
Mark Hughes looks at the effect Zak Brown’s McLaren appointment will have on the team’s fortunes The news that Zak Brown has accepted a role in the running of the…
Fernando Alonso’s rumoured switch to Porsche may have moved a step closer The rumours have been circulating for the past few years, but Fernando Alonso has implied he is to move to the…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring the birth of one of the sport’s greatest November 14 1945: The man one spot behind Luca Badoer in…
After Ron Dennis was ousted from his role at the McLaren F1 team, Nigel Roebuck examines the fallout, and the fallings out
Max Verstappen had Paul Fearnley enthralled at Interlagos, bringing to mind some of the sport’s most gifted Not since Villeneuve. I refer to Gilles, although Jacques to be fair had his…
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
Ferrari’s latest leadership rumour ignores two decades of history: swapping team principals won’t work until Maranello hands real power to the person in the role, says Mark Hughes
George Russell had it his way for most of the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to an underwhelming McLaren and rare error from Kimi Antonelli. But then came the late safety car
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy – established a decade ago by the seven-times MotoGP king to create a new generation of Italian talent – has so far produced one MotoGP…
Hamilton backed Vasseur at Sepang while saying the hierarchy above him is “a question”. A day later, Vasseur’s answers were only about relationships and unity
Tropical storms, team orders and some legendary drives. We pick the best F1 races in Malaysia, plus a bonus two-wheel spectacular
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