The week in motor sport, 16/04/15
On a charge World Endurance Championship The WEC got off to a great start at Silverstone, with Audi taking a close win over Porsche. Audi’s 2014 season got off to…
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Main image: Angela George It had to be De Niro. The Taxi Driver playing The Godfather of motor racing. A generation’s greatest actor has announced that his biopic of Enzo Ferrari will take precedence over…
By Lee McKenzie I’m sitting in Bahrain having landed in a storm. The winds have whipped up the sand and unsettled the calm that is the norm here. As I…
What did you think of the race on Sunday? If you found it anything other than utterly spellbinding from flag to flag, it is possible you and I were tuned…
In Shanghai on Sunday there were echoes of Malaysia in how Ferrari’s tyre usage applied pressure to Mercedes – but only faint ones. They were heard mainly when Lewis Hamilton…
As Rob mentions when introducing the podcast Mike Earle has spent five decades in the sport. I knew we were covering a lot of ground during the recording so when…
José Froilán González did a good grumpy. His emotions tended to run close to the surface: the unbridled joy of winning the 1951 British Grand Prix; the inconsolable tears after…
It’s not your usual month here at Motor Sport – hence my appearance at the helm of this newsletter. Our editor Damien Smith’s absence is wholly excusable because he has just become…
Sebastian Vettel’s victory this weekend was not the first time Ferrari has unexpectedly beaten a dominant Mercedes-Benz racing team, but it was the first I can recall in which Ferrari…
On a charge World Endurance Championship The WEC got off to a great start at Silverstone, with Audi taking a close win over Porsche. Audi’s 2014 season got off to…
Main image: Angela George It had to be De Niro. The Taxi Driver playing The Godfather of motor racing. A generation’s greatest actor has announced that his biopic of Enzo Ferrari will take precedence over…
By Lee McKenzie I’m sitting in Bahrain having landed in a storm. The winds have whipped up the sand and unsettled the calm that is the norm here. As I…
What did you think of the race on Sunday? If you found it anything other than utterly spellbinding from flag to flag, it is possible you and I were tuned…
In Shanghai on Sunday there were echoes of Malaysia in how Ferrari’s tyre usage applied pressure to Mercedes – but only faint ones. They were heard mainly when Lewis Hamilton…
As Rob mentions when introducing the podcast Mike Earle has spent five decades in the sport. I knew we were covering a lot of ground during the recording so when…
José Froilán González did a good grumpy. His emotions tended to run close to the surface: the unbridled joy of winning the 1951 British Grand Prix; the inconsolable tears after…
It’s not your usual month here at Motor Sport – hence my appearance at the helm of this newsletter. Our editor Damien Smith’s absence is wholly excusable because he has just become…
Sebastian Vettel’s victory this weekend was not the first time Ferrari has unexpectedly beaten a dominant Mercedes-Benz racing team, but it was the first I can recall in which Ferrari…
Charles Leclerc has mastered F1’s new regulations by rooting out the best deployment tricks, while Max Verstappen has been stripped of his advantage, writes Mark Hughes
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
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…
The 2026 regulations have not just changed how Formula 1 cars are driven, they have changed what it is possible to see
McLaren has quietly acquired a significant part of the human architecture behind Red Bull’s F1 dynasty
For a decade, Lambiase was the fixed point around which Verstappen’s career at Red Bull turned. Now the race engineer is leaving
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