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Cosworth DFV – Horses for courses
The DFV was the world’s most successful F1 engine – but it was much more than that. For more than 30 years it, and its derivatives, won in almost every…
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Jenson Button’s incredible first year in F1
It might seem impudent to run a feature in the pages of Motor Sport on Jenson Button, a 20 year-old Formula 1 new boy yet to score a podium place.…
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Why were Rudolf Caracciola’s trophies in Indianapolis?
About the last thing you’d expect to see in the Indianapolis Speedway museum is Rudolf Caracciola’s pre-war Grand Prix trophies, won when he raced for Mercedes in Europe. Yet they…
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Jack Brabham’s champion team building: Working for an F1 legend
My spell with Brabham, at the time when Jack started building racing cars, came about after mechanical and production engineering training on a student apprenticeship at Hawker Aircraft in Kingston,…
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Where is Paul Ricard’s electronic wizardry taking F1? Jenks on the circuit’s first French GP
With the Grand Prix of France taking place on the newly-built multi-million-pound Paul Ricard circuit alongside the Castellet aerodrome, about equi-distant from Marseilles and Toulon, it was natural that the…
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Phil Hill – America’s first F1 champion: ‘No regrets?’
Time was when Phil Hill would speak and write with some vitriol about Ferrari — both man and team. Despite bringing Ferrari a world title and three Le Mans victories,…
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When Eddie Cheever turned down Ferrari: ‘The most stupid thing I ever did’
Eddie Cheever is the oldest driver competing in top-line single-seater racing today; 30 years ago he was among the youngest. He was racing in Formula Two just a year after…
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Ferrari 641: V12 furore
Ferrari’s F1 Finest 4th, 641 << Ferrari 246 Dino: Front runner >> Ferrari 312T: Central figure No doubt about it, John Barnard’s 640 had caused a stir in 1989, with its semi-automatic gearbox, svelte…
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The world according to Stirling Moss: From Fangio to Ferguson
1 Alberto Ascari I didn’t know Alberto that well. I can remember seeing Alberto and Fangio driving. At a corner Ascari would nearly touch the straw bale, whereas Fangio would…
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Cosworth DFV – Horses for courses
The DFV was the world’s most successful F1 engine – but it was much more than that. For more than 30 years it, and its derivatives, won in almost every…
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Jenson Button’s incredible first year in F1
It might seem impudent to run a feature in the pages of Motor Sport on Jenson Button, a 20 year-old Formula 1 new boy yet to score a podium place.…
Great Read
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Why were Rudolf Caracciola’s trophies in Indianapolis?
About the last thing you’d expect to see in the Indianapolis Speedway museum is Rudolf Caracciola’s pre-war Grand Prix trophies, won when he raced for Mercedes in Europe. Yet they…
Great Read
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Jack Brabham’s champion team building: Working for an F1 legend
My spell with Brabham, at the time when Jack started building racing cars, came about after mechanical and production engineering training on a student apprenticeship at Hawker Aircraft in Kingston,…
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Where is Paul Ricard’s electronic wizardry taking F1? Jenks on the circuit’s first French GP
With the Grand Prix of France taking place on the newly-built multi-million-pound Paul Ricard circuit alongside the Castellet aerodrome, about equi-distant from Marseilles and Toulon, it was natural that the…
Great Read
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Phil Hill – America’s first F1 champion: ‘No regrets?’
Time was when Phil Hill would speak and write with some vitriol about Ferrari — both man and team. Despite bringing Ferrari a world title and three Le Mans victories,…
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When Eddie Cheever turned down Ferrari: ‘The most stupid thing I ever did’
Eddie Cheever is the oldest driver competing in top-line single-seater racing today; 30 years ago he was among the youngest. He was racing in Formula Two just a year after…
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Ferrari 641: V12 furore
Ferrari’s F1 Finest 4th, 641 << Ferrari 246 Dino: Front runner >> Ferrari 312T: Central figure No doubt about it, John Barnard’s 640 had caused a stir in 1989, with its semi-automatic gearbox, svelte…
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The world according to Stirling Moss: From Fangio to Ferguson
1 Alberto Ascari I didn’t know Alberto that well. I can remember seeing Alberto and Fangio driving. At a corner Ascari would nearly touch the straw bale, whereas Fangio would…
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Mark Hughes: Tyre-wrecking Sepang threatens an F1 upset
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
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MPH: Will Ferrari dare to hire Horner AND fix its biggest issue?
Ferrari’s latest leadership rumour ignores two decades of history: swapping team principals won’t work until Maranello hands real power to the person in the role, says Mark Hughes
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Mark Hughes: Epic Baku battle a flashback to when F1 was flat-out
George Russell had it his way for most of the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to an underwhelming McLaren and rare error from Kimi Antonelli. But then came the late safety car
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Max Verstappen: ‘Why I’m staying to rebuild Red Bull rather than quitting’
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…
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The wreck of Red Bull… and how the F1 team is fixing it
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…
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VR46 Academy’s latest title hope: how Marco Bezzecchi found his MotoGP edge
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…
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F1’s ten most controversial team orders
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
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Hamilton’s cutting question that Vasseur failed to answer
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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The best Malaysian Grands Prix: Sepang’s greatest F1 races
Tropical storms, team orders and some legendary drives. We pick the best F1 races in Malaysia, plus a bonus two-wheel spectacular
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