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2014 Austrian GP report
Even within what is a densely technical new formula, this was an intensely technical race. To the watching 100,000-plus fans gathered at Spielberg after the race’s 11-year absence here, it…
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Purley’s LEC lives
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Ӧsterreich remnants
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Silverstone’s GP challenge
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Reflections on Montreal
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2014 Austrian GP report
Even within what is a densely technical new formula, this was an intensely technical race. To the watching 100,000-plus fans gathered at Spielberg after the race’s 11-year absence here, it…
F1
Purley’s LEC lives
A long-forgotten, but much treasured, Grand Prix car will make its first run in anger for more than 35 years at the Goodwood Festival of Speed at the end of…
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Ӧsterreich remnants
After an 11-year absence we’re back at Spielberg; the old A1-Ring has been renamed the Red Bull Ring and the press room has been moved to the opposite side of…
Opinion
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Are F1’s new rules working?
Join Motor Sport and Formula Student for a live lecture and podcast examining the most radical rule changes in Formula 1 for a generation. Hear from two of the sharpest technical…
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Podcast with Perry McCarthy
Anyone who’s read Perry McCarthy’s book Flat Out, Flat Broke will know that he’s got a knack for telling a story – and he’s got a lot of them. Perry’s…
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Favourite first-timer
Formula 1 can tend to be a cruel, cold place: a glamorous grind. But moments like Sunday’s light it up. And that’s before Daniel Ricciardo flashed his pearlies. Few things are…
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Silverstone’s GP challenge
On Friday evening ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix the BBC’s Andrew Benson posted a story that quickly set Twitter alight – with a little gentle stoking by, among many others, yours…
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From joy to despair
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MPH: If F1 wants equal engines, where does artificial competition stop?
Fears that one engine manufacturer will dominate F1 from 2026 are likely to see strugglers allowed to catch up. If power units are to be artificially equalised, how much of a technical competition will it be? asks Mark Hughes
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MPH: Will youth trump experience in Saudi GP with a tyre twist?
When does a rookie have the edge over an F1 world champion? Perhaps in Jeddah, says Mark Hughes, where the unsettling effect of a softer tyre compound is less likely to faze younger drivers than the likes of Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton
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MPH: F1 in ‘crisis meeting’ as engine civil war threatens to erupt
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McLaren drivers swapped tips ahead of Chinese GP. Norris also quietly planned attack
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One race to prove himself at Alpine? Heat is on Jack Doohan as Ocon signs off
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Axe hangs over Perez as Marko jets in to discuss Red Bull replacement
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Ferrari ‘scrapyard’ F1 livery and other one-off designs for 2025 Miami GP
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F1 Fantasy: top picks & predictions for the 2025 Miami GP
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Lando Norris’s long list of mistakes that makes Piastri the new F1 title favourite
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