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1993 European Grand Prix: Opportunity knocked for Senna
There have been some opportunist moves in Formula One over the years – Jacky Ickx passing Niki Lauda round the outside at Paddock Bend in the 1974 Race of Champions,…
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Peter Collins, Gilded Youth
There is still great warmth in the way Peter Collins is recalled, 48 years after his passing. It’s more than the fact that he was a successful driver, with three…
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Nigel Mansell: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
It is 21 years, I realise with some amazement, since I began covering Grand Prix racing for Autosport, and in that time I have come to know a good many…
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F1’s mercurial Rodriguez brothers: what could have been?
The inaugural Mexican Grand Prix of 1962 should have been a celebration. The country’s racing prodigy, Ricardo Rodriguez, was to perform in front of his adoring countrymen. These people, who’d…
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Lunch with… Tony Brooks
For today’s Formula 1 drivers, the glare of the media spotlight is relentless. TV cameras haunt every corner of the paddock, there are daily press conferences throughout a Grand Prix…
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Two sides of Ayrton Senna, the man in the yellow helmet
Ayrton Senna was the most committed man I ever met. The sheer depth of his approach to his profession was something few ordinary people could truly understand. We speak of…
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James Hunt, McLaren’s unlikely hero: “We didn’t know he was quick…”
A large Greek called Demis Roussos topped the charts. Water was rationed as Britain sweated in the hottest summer on record. Björn Borg beat Ilie Nastase to take the first…
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Team Lotus and Nigel Roebuck: ‘We go back a long way…’
The name of Lotus, absent since 1994, returns to Formula 1 this year, and if that name is all it shares with its legendary forbear still I think it something…
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My mate Ronnie Peterson: Knowing a ’70s F1 hero
Many of you, I’m certain, will remember him, head tilted slightly forwards, in the cockpit of that elegant gold pin-striped jet black JPS Lotus 72. Rear tyres chirping audibly as…
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1993 European Grand Prix: Opportunity knocked for Senna
There have been some opportunist moves in Formula One over the years – Jacky Ickx passing Niki Lauda round the outside at Paddock Bend in the 1974 Race of Champions,…
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Peter Collins, Gilded Youth
There is still great warmth in the way Peter Collins is recalled, 48 years after his passing. It’s more than the fact that he was a successful driver, with three…
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Nigel Mansell: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
It is 21 years, I realise with some amazement, since I began covering Grand Prix racing for Autosport, and in that time I have come to know a good many…
Great Read
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F1’s mercurial Rodriguez brothers: what could have been?
The inaugural Mexican Grand Prix of 1962 should have been a celebration. The country’s racing prodigy, Ricardo Rodriguez, was to perform in front of his adoring countrymen. These people, who’d…
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Lunch with… Tony Brooks
For today’s Formula 1 drivers, the glare of the media spotlight is relentless. TV cameras haunt every corner of the paddock, there are daily press conferences throughout a Grand Prix…
Great Read
Archive
Two sides of Ayrton Senna, the man in the yellow helmet
Ayrton Senna was the most committed man I ever met. The sheer depth of his approach to his profession was something few ordinary people could truly understand. We speak of…
Great Read
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James Hunt, McLaren’s unlikely hero: “We didn’t know he was quick…”
A large Greek called Demis Roussos topped the charts. Water was rationed as Britain sweated in the hottest summer on record. Björn Borg beat Ilie Nastase to take the first…
Great Read
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Team Lotus and Nigel Roebuck: ‘We go back a long way…’
The name of Lotus, absent since 1994, returns to Formula 1 this year, and if that name is all it shares with its legendary forbear still I think it something…
Great Read
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My mate Ronnie Peterson: Knowing a ’70s F1 hero
Many of you, I’m certain, will remember him, head tilted slightly forwards, in the cockpit of that elegant gold pin-striped jet black JPS Lotus 72. Rear tyres chirping audibly as…
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Mark Hughes: Hungarian GP was about driving – and Piastri was miles off Norris
F1 has heard it all before, but when Lando Norris insisted he was quicker than his leading team-mate Oscar Piastri in the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix, he had a point — and emphatically showed it in clean air. Could Lewis Hamilton have challenged him?
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Aston Martin’s giant leap? Alonso will fight McLarens if Newey & Honda F1 upgrades work perfectly
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
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MPH: Revealed – the fault behind Mercedes’ Belgian GP deployment chaos
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
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Pedro Rodríguez wins at Spa as Brabham leads the 1970 F1 title race
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…
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Toyota’s resourcefulness delivered a sixth Le Mans 24 Hours victory against the odds
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…
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Mighty Mondeo: how Rouse and Radisich made Ford’s touring car a world-beater
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.…
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How Ferrari wasted its big opportunity in Hungary
Ferrari’s Hungarian Grand Prix weekend proved an F1 masterclass in how not to cash in a form advantage
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F1 is drawing more attention to its 2026 flaws by trying to hide them
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
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F1’s worst-performing team-mate – why Esteban Ocon isn’t as bad as he looks
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
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