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How Reutemann’s 1981 F1 season unravelled: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
In a book shop the other day, I noticed by chance a volume on the life and, for want of a better word, works of Mark Thatcher (no, please, stay…
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Mike Spence: Racing’s ‘Quiet Man’
The lights blinked yellow before the day-glo car hit the wall. The puff of dust as it dived into Turn 1 had told USAC chief observer Walt Myers all he…
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F1’s only female winner: Why Desiré Wilson could have been world championship star
A few weeks after storming the Brickyard in May, Dan Wheldon arrived for the Indycar race at the Texas Motor Speedway wearing a T-shirt announcing, ‘Actually, I won the Indy 500’.…
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The Long & Winding Road
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport rivalled even that of Enzo Ferrari, and when he and…
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The other life of Brian Redman: why he turned down a Ferrari F1 drive
As a sportscar driver, on his day Brian Redman was a match for the very best: Ickx, Siffert or Rodriguez. But there is an incongruity in his CV. At a…
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Why Life F190 may be the worst F1 car of all time: ‘I realised right away it would be a disaster’
The worst car I ever drove Bruno Giacomelli, 1990 LIFE F190 There are many contenders for the worst F1 car of all time, but surely none comes dose to matching…
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Zandvoort circuit: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
In recent years there’s been a spate of new circuits in world championship use, and I mean tracks not merely new to Formula One, but tracks new, period, built in…
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Rubens Barrichello: ‘losing the passion for racing is the only thing that scares me’
No one got hurt in the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2005, but otherwise it was one of the most disastrous days in the history of Formula 1. Michelin,…
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Echoes of Glory: Mercedes hero Karl Kling looks back
Not even the brilliance of Michael Schumacher, who sat in the wheel tracks of the Williams for the last 20 laps of the European Grand Prix, could deprive Jacques Villeneuve…
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How Reutemann’s 1981 F1 season unravelled: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
In a book shop the other day, I noticed by chance a volume on the life and, for want of a better word, works of Mark Thatcher (no, please, stay…
Great Read
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Mike Spence: Racing’s ‘Quiet Man’
The lights blinked yellow before the day-glo car hit the wall. The puff of dust as it dived into Turn 1 had told USAC chief observer Walt Myers all he…
Great Read
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F1’s only female winner: Why Desiré Wilson could have been world championship star
A few weeks after storming the Brickyard in May, Dan Wheldon arrived for the Indycar race at the Texas Motor Speedway wearing a T-shirt announcing, ‘Actually, I won the Indy 500’.…
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The Long & Winding Road
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport rivalled even that of Enzo Ferrari, and when he and…
Great Read
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The other life of Brian Redman: why he turned down a Ferrari F1 drive
As a sportscar driver, on his day Brian Redman was a match for the very best: Ickx, Siffert or Rodriguez. But there is an incongruity in his CV. At a…
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Why Life F190 may be the worst F1 car of all time: ‘I realised right away it would be a disaster’
The worst car I ever drove Bruno Giacomelli, 1990 LIFE F190 There are many contenders for the worst F1 car of all time, but surely none comes dose to matching…
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Zandvoort circuit: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
In recent years there’s been a spate of new circuits in world championship use, and I mean tracks not merely new to Formula One, but tracks new, period, built in…
Great Read
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Rubens Barrichello: ‘losing the passion for racing is the only thing that scares me’
No one got hurt in the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2005, but otherwise it was one of the most disastrous days in the history of Formula 1. Michelin,…
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Echoes of Glory: Mercedes hero Karl Kling looks back
Not even the brilliance of Michael Schumacher, who sat in the wheel tracks of the Williams for the last 20 laps of the European Grand Prix, could deprive Jacques Villeneuve…
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MPH: Did Piastri really sabotage Norris’s lap? The paranoia of F1’s towing game
A perfectly executed tow gave Pierre Gasly pole at Monza, but behind it lay a familiar F1 story of team-mate distrust, which is sometimes justified, as Mark Hughes explains
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Mark Hughes: The new Jim Clark? Antonelli’s Monza win was one of the greatest F1 has seen
The power unit, the passing zones, the red flag – strip them all away and what’s left is still one of the greatest drives in F1 history. Mark Hughes analyses Kimi Antonelli’s Monza masterclass
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Mark Hughes: Monza tow is worth a massive 1.5sec – prepare for F1 qualifying controversy
Under 2026’s energy-starved rules, Monza’s tow is way too valuable, and that, Mark Hughes writes, is set to make controversial qualifying shenanigans for the 2026 Italian Grand Prix almost inevitable
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McLaren’s short gearing explains its Zandvoort advantage over Mercedes
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
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Karun Chandhok: McLaren’s pace puts Norris back in the F1 title fight
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
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Kimi Antonelli’s mid-season charge reshapes Formula 1’s 2026 title fight
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
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2026 Spanish 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 Spanish Grand Prix
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Who is Lawrence Stroll? How Aston Martin owner became a billionaire
Who is Lawrence Stroll, the Aston Martin chairman in 2026? How the billionaire made his fortune, the F1 team investment deal that raises his stake – and the car collection he built along the way.
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F1 races shortened for 2027 – trivial tweak or fundamental change?
F1 will cut around three laps off each race in 2027 – the latest chapter in a 75-year habit of using fuel rules to quietly fix what the engine formula got wrong
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