Let battle commence
By Lee McKenzie It’s a battle, a fight and there will only be one winner. Talk of friendship is being replaced by talk of rivalry. Fun and games is old…
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Henry Hope-Frost hosts the Credit Suisse Drivers’ Forum over the Grand Prix Historique de Monaco weekend. His panelists include Stirling Moss, Jochen Mass, Derek Bell and current factory Porsche driver…
“No more feedback please,” said Lewis Hamilton to his engineer Pete Bonnington as he went into the last couple of laps, team-mate Nico Rosberg hard on his tail and on…
The whines having long been uncorked, I’d heard plenty about the allegedly ‘disappointing’ spectacle the latest Formula 1 cars provide. There was no point drawing any conclusions, though, until I’d…
The Ecclestone Era is nearing its end: death and taxes and all that. But when did it start? Forty years ago next Monday, I reckon. Even our esteemed Continental Correspondent…
McLaren’s apparent competitiveness in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix has turned out to be a false dawn. Now that we’ve been to a couple more aerodynamically demanding tracks than Albert Park it’s…
Motor racing was spiritual for Ayrton Senna and Monaco was his cathedral: a special race in a special place for a special driver. He was ‘baptised’ there (in 1984). Explored…
It seems to me appropriate – with May 1 upon us – to take a break from the current Formula 1 scene, from bickering about not enough noise and too…
“Did you ever meet him?” This is a question I am often asked. Almost every time us fans get round a few beers his name always comes up. “Did you…
By Lee McKenzie It’s a battle, a fight and there will only be one winner. Talk of friendship is being replaced by talk of rivalry. Fun and games is old…
Henry Hope-Frost hosts the Credit Suisse Drivers’ Forum over the Grand Prix Historique de Monaco weekend. His panelists include Stirling Moss, Jochen Mass, Derek Bell and current factory Porsche driver…
“No more feedback please,” said Lewis Hamilton to his engineer Pete Bonnington as he went into the last couple of laps, team-mate Nico Rosberg hard on his tail and on…
The whines having long been uncorked, I’d heard plenty about the allegedly ‘disappointing’ spectacle the latest Formula 1 cars provide. There was no point drawing any conclusions, though, until I’d…
The Ecclestone Era is nearing its end: death and taxes and all that. But when did it start? Forty years ago next Monday, I reckon. Even our esteemed Continental Correspondent…
McLaren’s apparent competitiveness in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix has turned out to be a false dawn. Now that we’ve been to a couple more aerodynamically demanding tracks than Albert Park it’s…
Motor racing was spiritual for Ayrton Senna and Monaco was his cathedral: a special race in a special place for a special driver. He was ‘baptised’ there (in 1984). Explored…
It seems to me appropriate – with May 1 upon us – to take a break from the current Formula 1 scene, from bickering about not enough noise and too…
“Did you ever meet him?” This is a question I am often asked. Almost every time us fans get round a few beers his name always comes up. “Did you…
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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