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Patrick Depailler’s pursuit of happiness over success
Ken Tyrrell is unequivocal on the subject of Patrick Depailler: “He loved being a racing driver more than any other driver I’ve ever known. He was a boy who was…
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Lotus 72: the most successful GP car ever?
On 19 April, 1970, a pair of Lotus 72s made their F1 debuts in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama. Striking and purposeful in the distinctive red, white and gold…
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The one that got away: Riccardo Patrese – 1983 San Marino GP
“There were many races when I was in the lead, like South Africa 1978 or Monza ’92, when the car broke down. But Imola ’83 was even sadder, because in…
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Michael Schumacher’s F1 comeback: “People think I can only be happy when I win races”
Was Michael Schumacher’s F1 comeback in 2010 as big a flop as many people have made it out to be? Certainly on the most basic measures of performance — comparisons…
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The Domination Game: How Mansell and Williams made 1992 their own
He had a reputation for not being keen on testing. But there he was pounding round Estoril, in February. At seven days, this was the longest pre-season evaluation Williams, the…
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Looking back on Stuart Lewis-Evans
“One of the season’s great moments for me came at Monza, during the second day’s practice for the Italian Grand Prix. I had already managed a respectable lap time, and…
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Little Belter: the Cooper F1 team
Pragmatists, not purists: That was Cooper compared to design-led Lotus, or the intensive engineering of BRM. While Colin Chapman was stripping out every gramme and making components double up, Cooper’s…
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Friends reunited: When Motor Sport drove the first ever March F1 car
It was like bumping into an old flame. Forty years ago, in our distant youth, we’d shared just one dance. In the intervening decades we’d both moved on; inevitably, we…
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Nigel Roebuck’s Legends: The brilliant Lancia D50 F1 car
Seeing it lined up, in the Goodwood paddock at the Revival Meeting, with such as the Dino 246, the 250F and the Mercedes-Benz W196, it struck me again how small is the Lancia D50, how astonishing…
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Patrick Depailler’s pursuit of happiness over success
Ken Tyrrell is unequivocal on the subject of Patrick Depailler: “He loved being a racing driver more than any other driver I’ve ever known. He was a boy who was…
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Lotus 72: the most successful GP car ever?
On 19 April, 1970, a pair of Lotus 72s made their F1 debuts in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama. Striking and purposeful in the distinctive red, white and gold…
Great Read
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The one that got away: Riccardo Patrese – 1983 San Marino GP
“There were many races when I was in the lead, like South Africa 1978 or Monza ’92, when the car broke down. But Imola ’83 was even sadder, because in…
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Michael Schumacher’s F1 comeback: “People think I can only be happy when I win races”
Was Michael Schumacher’s F1 comeback in 2010 as big a flop as many people have made it out to be? Certainly on the most basic measures of performance — comparisons…
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The Domination Game: How Mansell and Williams made 1992 their own
He had a reputation for not being keen on testing. But there he was pounding round Estoril, in February. At seven days, this was the longest pre-season evaluation Williams, the…
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Looking back on Stuart Lewis-Evans
“One of the season’s great moments for me came at Monza, during the second day’s practice for the Italian Grand Prix. I had already managed a respectable lap time, and…
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Little Belter: the Cooper F1 team
Pragmatists, not purists: That was Cooper compared to design-led Lotus, or the intensive engineering of BRM. While Colin Chapman was stripping out every gramme and making components double up, Cooper’s…
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Friends reunited: When Motor Sport drove the first ever March F1 car
It was like bumping into an old flame. Forty years ago, in our distant youth, we’d shared just one dance. In the intervening decades we’d both moved on; inevitably, we…
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Nigel Roebuck’s Legends: The brilliant Lancia D50 F1 car
Seeing it lined up, in the Goodwood paddock at the Revival Meeting, with such as the Dino 246, the 250F and the Mercedes-Benz W196, it struck me again how small is the Lancia D50, how astonishing…
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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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