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Jim Clark’s racing debut: Birth of a Legend
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you might not at first realise that there was anything of…
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Nigel Roebuck’s Legends: Patrick Depailler
Going through some old tapes recently, I came across an interview with James Hunt in the early ’80s. It was typical James, forthright but well-reasoned, and I smiled often as…
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1958 Belgian Grand Prix race report: Brooks becomes an F1 winner
After spending a great deal of money last year rebuilding the pits and paddock and modifying the circuit considerably, easing corners, removing bumps, widening the road and re-surfacing, all the…
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The incredible racing life of Jacky Ickx: Hard and fast
Jacques-Bernard Ickx is a complicated man. The thinking man’s racing driver, the thinking woman’s idol. Here is a man who is many things to many people. An emotional, soulful and…
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Patrick Tambay remembers replacing his friend Gilles Villeneuve at Ferrari
In a few months’ time comes the 25th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Tragedies of this kind are mercifully rare these days, but during my first year of…
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Nigel Roebuck’s Legends: A lap with Mario Andretti – in a VW Passat
Twenty years ago this month, found myself a week before Christmas in a place to which ordinarily wild horses would not drag me. Sao Paulo I find about the least…
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Ayrton Senna’s brilliant F1 test debut: White light, white heat
Purity of line is the first thing that strikes you. Every time the Formula 1 rules shift, it takes only a matter of laps to accept a new look as…
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Ron Tauranac: F1’s most underrated designer?
If it were possible to pinpoint where the old Formula 1 became the new, it might well have been on the deck of a yacht at Monaco in May 1971.…
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Ingenuity quashed: Jenks on the doomed Lotus 88
One thing about Colin Chapman and his staff at Ketteringham Hall, the Research and Development centre of Team Lotus, is that they do have a go and do not sit…
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Jim Clark’s racing debut: Birth of a Legend
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you might not at first realise that there was anything of…
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Nigel Roebuck’s Legends: Patrick Depailler
Going through some old tapes recently, I came across an interview with James Hunt in the early ’80s. It was typical James, forthright but well-reasoned, and I smiled often as…
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1958 Belgian Grand Prix race report: Brooks becomes an F1 winner
After spending a great deal of money last year rebuilding the pits and paddock and modifying the circuit considerably, easing corners, removing bumps, widening the road and re-surfacing, all the…
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The incredible racing life of Jacky Ickx: Hard and fast
Jacques-Bernard Ickx is a complicated man. The thinking man’s racing driver, the thinking woman’s idol. Here is a man who is many things to many people. An emotional, soulful and…
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Patrick Tambay remembers replacing his friend Gilles Villeneuve at Ferrari
In a few months’ time comes the 25th anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve. Tragedies of this kind are mercifully rare these days, but during my first year of…
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Nigel Roebuck’s Legends: A lap with Mario Andretti – in a VW Passat
Twenty years ago this month, found myself a week before Christmas in a place to which ordinarily wild horses would not drag me. Sao Paulo I find about the least…
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Ayrton Senna’s brilliant F1 test debut: White light, white heat
Purity of line is the first thing that strikes you. Every time the Formula 1 rules shift, it takes only a matter of laps to accept a new look as…
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Ron Tauranac: F1’s most underrated designer?
If it were possible to pinpoint where the old Formula 1 became the new, it might well have been on the deck of a yacht at Monaco in May 1971.…
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Ingenuity quashed: Jenks on the doomed Lotus 88
One thing about Colin Chapman and his staff at Ketteringham Hall, the Research and Development centre of Team Lotus, is that they do have a go and do not sit…
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MPH: What Verstappen did at the Nürburgring is everything F1 can’t offer
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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MPH: Still sandbagging? The crafty reason Mercedes and Ferrari may be hiding true F1 pace
F1’s new mechanism to help struggling engine manufacturers catch up with the leaders could be more powerful than first thought, writes Mark Hughes. Are Mercedes and Ferrari masking their true performance for long-term advantage?
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MPH: Antonelli is ravaging Russell’s golden chance of F1 title — Canada is critical
Outperformed in Miami, George Russell fell further behind his teenage team-mate Kimi Antonelli in the F1 title race. It makes the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix vital for his championship hopes, says Mark Hughes, even though there’s a long season ahead
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Nico Rosberg celebrates victory at Suzuka in 2016
October 7, 2016 Suzuka, Japan By Round 17, Nico Rosberg led Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 23 points. Here’s Rosberg in practice dramatically demonstrating the concept of lateral load transfer.…
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Derek Daly: why the numbers prove Williams sabotaged my 1982 F1 season for Rosberg
I raced in Formula 1 for five years at a dangerous time when you knew that at least one driver on average would probably be killed or maimed each year.…
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Ferrari’s bid for four straight Le Mans wins faces a tougher field and stricter BoP rules
Ferrari is bidding for a fourth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours win this year. Or to put it another way, to continue an unbeaten run since it ended its 50-year exile from…
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Deadline looms for F1’s invisible fight in Montreal
Canadian GP briefing
As the FIA’s first ADUO phase ends, Montreal’s data will shape the future of F1’s 2026 engine race
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2026 Canadian GP start time: how to watch, live stream and F1 schedule
Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and start time for the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix
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‘They screamed, howled or thundered’: intoxicating sound of F1’s greatest age
Sixty years ago this week, Jackie Stewart claimed victory in one of the strangest grands prix to launch the finest era in Formula 1 history, as Matt Bishop recounts
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