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Back in June 1980 I interviewed Patrick Depailler at Brands Hatch. He was a lovely fellow, a man out of his time, I always felt, very much a throwback to…
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If a racing driver has to die young, there is an almost gladiatorial rightness that he do so in his element on the track. Gunnar Nilsson was denied even that,…
This was one of those moments Spa seems to produce. It ranks with Mika Hakkinen’s move on Michael Schumacher last year, or the first lap of the 1963 GP when…
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When we speak of legendary partnerships in motor racing, perhaps the one that would spring first to most minds is that of Colin Chapman and Jim Clark: throughout his eight-year…
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With his dark features and thick, curly, slightly receding hair, Gabriele Tarquini looked not unlike American comedian John Belushi during his time in Formula One. Sadly, the Italian’s machinery often…
After leaving BRM at the end of the 1970 season, Jackie Oliver had joined Don Nichols’ Shadow racing organisation in the USA to race its Can-Am sports-racing cars. Jackie was…
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When I say there will never be another track test like this, I say so with a confidence inspired not simply by the subject’s unique, six-wheeled selling point. It’s also…
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Their laughter fills the place. Morning in the Goodwood pitlane. Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are a couple of shop floor boys, trading gentle insults. Dick Scammell feels as easy…
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Karl Kling, who died recently, may never have been a great racing driver but he was certainly one who had his days. I interviewed him only once, appropriately close by…
Back in June 1980 I interviewed Patrick Depailler at Brands Hatch. He was a lovely fellow, a man out of his time, I always felt, very much a throwback to…
Great Read
If a racing driver has to die young, there is an almost gladiatorial rightness that he do so in his element on the track. Gunnar Nilsson was denied even that,…
This was one of those moments Spa seems to produce. It ranks with Mika Hakkinen’s move on Michael Schumacher last year, or the first lap of the 1963 GP when…
Great Read
When we speak of legendary partnerships in motor racing, perhaps the one that would spring first to most minds is that of Colin Chapman and Jim Clark: throughout his eight-year…
Great Read
With his dark features and thick, curly, slightly receding hair, Gabriele Tarquini looked not unlike American comedian John Belushi during his time in Formula One. Sadly, the Italian’s machinery often…
After leaving BRM at the end of the 1970 season, Jackie Oliver had joined Don Nichols’ Shadow racing organisation in the USA to race its Can-Am sports-racing cars. Jackie was…
Great Read
When I say there will never be another track test like this, I say so with a confidence inspired not simply by the subject’s unique, six-wheeled selling point. It’s also…
Great Read
Their laughter fills the place. Morning in the Goodwood pitlane. Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are a couple of shop floor boys, trading gentle insults. Dick Scammell feels as easy…
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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