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Norris quickest in FP2 after big Stroll shunt – 2025 Dutch GP practice results
McLaren’s Lando Norris set the pace once more in an eventful FP2 interrupted several times
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Norris tops FP1 as McLaren dominates – 2025 Dutch GP practice results
Norris leads first practice from Piastri; Aston Martin shines again and Verstappen goes off
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1985: a classic F1 season reviewed
Ah, 1985: heart of the decade of Cold War superpowers and Dayglo socks. The year of Marty McFly and Back to the Future – “You made a time machine –…
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Motor Sport Interview: Eric Boullier
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Lewis Hamilton’s dejected comments after qualifying and then the race at the Hungaroring – when he described his performances as “useless” and that Ferrari probably needs “a new driver” –…
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Ferrari walks the plank
Ferrari reckoned the Hungaroring’s layout offered one of its best chances of being competitive in the remaining races after a dispiriting first half of the season in which it had…
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F1 race report: Hungarian Grand Prix
In the last race before Formula 1’s summer break, McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a definitive confirmation that the second half of the season is going to…
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When Renault ruled F1
I remember an early 1978 argument over the chassis of the RS10 and the use of the engine,” said Renault Formula 1 team driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille. “Whether to put a twin…
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Should David Coulthard have been Williams’ world champion?
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Norris quickest in FP2 after big Stroll shunt – 2025 Dutch GP practice results
McLaren’s Lando Norris set the pace once more in an eventful FP2 interrupted several times
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Norris tops FP1 as McLaren dominates – 2025 Dutch GP practice results
Norris leads first practice from Piastri; Aston Martin shines again and Verstappen goes off
Archive
1985: a classic F1 season reviewed
Ah, 1985: heart of the decade of Cold War superpowers and Dayglo socks. The year of Marty McFly and Back to the Future – “You made a time machine –…
Archive
Motor Sport Interview: Eric Boullier
The French expression mon brave – literally ‘my brave’ – more accurately equates to the English phrase ‘my good fellow’. However, both the literal meaning and the common usage apply…
Archive
Word on the beat
Lewis Hamilton’s dejected comments after qualifying and then the race at the Hungaroring – when he described his performances as “useless” and that Ferrari probably needs “a new driver” –…
Archive
Ferrari walks the plank
Ferrari reckoned the Hungaroring’s layout offered one of its best chances of being competitive in the remaining races after a dispiriting first half of the season in which it had…
Archive
F1 race report: Hungarian Grand Prix
In the last race before Formula 1’s summer break, McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a definitive confirmation that the second half of the season is going to…
Archive
When Renault ruled F1
I remember an early 1978 argument over the chassis of the RS10 and the use of the engine,” said Renault Formula 1 team driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille. “Whether to put a twin…
Great Read
Archive
Should David Coulthard have been Williams’ world champion?
Thirty years ago, in September 1995, David Coulthard scored the first of his eventual 13 grand prix wins at only his 21st attempt, and what turned out to be his…
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MPH: Lando Norris’s F1 magic deserves more appreciation
Lando Norris’s soaring confidence and an improved McLaren mean we’re witnessing a Formula 1 driver at his outer limits, Mark Hughes argues
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Mark Hughes: Too fast to win. How Norris lost Spanish GP to slow-driving Antonelli
Fast enough to build an unassailable lead, Lando Norris was too quick to catch the VSC pit window. And so his flawless F1 Madring weekend ended cruelly, as even the winner acknowledged, Mark Hughes says
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Mark Hughes: Super-smooth Madrid circuit is an F1 minefield
With a brand new surface and a tyre-punishing banked Turn 12, Madrid’s inaugural Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix weekend could reshuffle the Mercedes-McLaren-Ferrari pecking order once again, writes Mark Hughes
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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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The secret wind tunnel test that found flaw in McLaren’s radical F1 car
A secret Teddington wind tunnel shared with torpedo tests and a particle accelerator gave McLaren its first taste of porpoising four decades before the sport rediscovered it
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Is Formula 1’s VSC problem actually fixable?
There’s no version of the VSC rule that’s fair to everyone, and the Spanish GP just proved it again
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How sprint races will work in 2027
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