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This year Henri Pescarolo did not take part in the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time since 1969, when injuries sustained in a testing crash kept him away.…
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A long time ago there was a racing driver, a fantastic driver, who did many impossible things. He took his first GP victory — at the end of his first…
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In 1950 Giuseppe ‘Nino’ Farina became Formula 1’s first world champion, yet he remains among the least known. In his day sportsmen were rarely interviewed, and besides, he was an…
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Denis Jenkinson had Catholic tastes in music, as in much else. If his particular devotion was to traditional jazz – Sidney Bechet was up there with Rosemeyer, Gilles Villeneuve, Senna…
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When some people talk about their attitude to motor racing, they say they were ‘bitten by the bug’. Some talk of it as a religion, others say it’s like a…
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At the end of one of the strangest races ever held at the Nürburgring, only one Mercedes-Benz, and one Auto-Union was left running in the German Grand Prix, out of…
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I remember talking to a driver just out of hospital after a major accident. He was recovering well, but for a while, his pain had been so acute that they…
1999 Brazilian at Interlagos How did you hear about the Minardi drive at Interlagos? I was at Barcelona testing for Prost. Alain Prost called to tell me that Luca Badoer…
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Elio de Angelis, whose death from race-track injuries 25 years ago will be commemorated on May 15, is remembered with endearing fondness by almost everyone who knew him during his…
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This year Henri Pescarolo did not take part in the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time since 1969, when injuries sustained in a testing crash kept him away.…
Great Read
A long time ago there was a racing driver, a fantastic driver, who did many impossible things. He took his first GP victory — at the end of his first…
Great Read
In 1950 Giuseppe ‘Nino’ Farina became Formula 1’s first world champion, yet he remains among the least known. In his day sportsmen were rarely interviewed, and besides, he was an…
Great Read
Denis Jenkinson had Catholic tastes in music, as in much else. If his particular devotion was to traditional jazz – Sidney Bechet was up there with Rosemeyer, Gilles Villeneuve, Senna…
Great Read
When some people talk about their attitude to motor racing, they say they were ‘bitten by the bug’. Some talk of it as a religion, others say it’s like a…
Great Read
At the end of one of the strangest races ever held at the Nürburgring, only one Mercedes-Benz, and one Auto-Union was left running in the German Grand Prix, out of…
Great Read
I remember talking to a driver just out of hospital after a major accident. He was recovering well, but for a while, his pain had been so acute that they…
1999 Brazilian at Interlagos How did you hear about the Minardi drive at Interlagos? I was at Barcelona testing for Prost. Alain Prost called to tell me that Luca Badoer…
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
Back in Malaysia for the first time in nine years, plenty of Formula 1 teams were caught out by the unique characteristics of the Sepang circuit where one decision had a devastating effect on their whole Bahrain GP weekend
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy – established a decade ago by the seven-times MotoGP king to create a new generation of Italian talent – has so far produced one MotoGP…
A software bug, a long wait for the rain to clear and a track that produced better racing than the streets: Sepang reminded Formula 1 of some of the things it has lost
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
Hamilton backed Vasseur at Sepang while saying the hierarchy above him is “a question”. A day later, Vasseur’s answers were only about relationships and unity
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