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Spa’s old circuit still popular as ever
For the last month or so we’ve run a poll asking what your favourite Grand Prix circuit of all time was. Some of you were rather liberal with the criteria…
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Rating Hamilton’s move from McLaren
They insist that they didn’t offer him more money and that he did not seek priority status. The other ‘they’, meanwhile, insist that they fought hard to keep him. So…
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October’s podcast with Tiff Needell
This month we sit down with Tiff Needell – the star of Fifth Gear and Top Gear. He made it, briefly, to Formula 1, but his success came afterwards in…
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Will Schumacher go to Sauber F1?
Finally it’s been confirmed. Lewis Hamilton will move to Mercedes next year, taking the seat of the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time – Michael Schumacher. Replacing Lewis…
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Ron Dennis: still ‘the Man’ at McLaren
Optimising the interaction between two individuals at the appropriate moment of interface can be a challenge – especially when one of them is Ron Dennis. Sorry, I’ll drop the ‘Ronspeak’.…
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Motor Sport’s McLaren Special
November’s edition of Motor Sport is a McLaren special, looking back at the Woking team’s time under Ron Dennis. Dennis took control before the 1981 season, with John Watson winning…
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‘Dan Gurney for President’
When you arrive at the Goodwood Revival this week you maybe intrigued, depending on your age, by a banner on the footbridge that leads from the car parks to the…
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Lunch with… Professor Sid Watkins
Professor Sid Watkins has passed away, aged 84, after a long battle with cancer. His efforts helped transform the safety in Formula 1, to the benefit of us all, and…
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Patrick Depailler at Long Beach
Formula 1 returns to Singapore in 11 days, so now seems as good a time as any to look back at one of the sport’s great forgotten street circuits: Long…
F1
Spa’s old circuit still popular as ever
For the last month or so we’ve run a poll asking what your favourite Grand Prix circuit of all time was. Some of you were rather liberal with the criteria…
Opinion
F1
Rating Hamilton’s move from McLaren
They insist that they didn’t offer him more money and that he did not seek priority status. The other ‘they’, meanwhile, insist that they fought hard to keep him. So…
Opinion
F1
October’s podcast with Tiff Needell
This month we sit down with Tiff Needell – the star of Fifth Gear and Top Gear. He made it, briefly, to Formula 1, but his success came afterwards in…
Opinion
F1
Will Schumacher go to Sauber F1?
Finally it’s been confirmed. Lewis Hamilton will move to Mercedes next year, taking the seat of the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time – Michael Schumacher. Replacing Lewis…
Opinion
F1
Ron Dennis: still ‘the Man’ at McLaren
Optimising the interaction between two individuals at the appropriate moment of interface can be a challenge – especially when one of them is Ron Dennis. Sorry, I’ll drop the ‘Ronspeak’.…
Opinion
F1
Motor Sport’s McLaren Special
November’s edition of Motor Sport is a McLaren special, looking back at the Woking team’s time under Ron Dennis. Dennis took control before the 1981 season, with John Watson winning…
F1
‘Dan Gurney for President’
When you arrive at the Goodwood Revival this week you maybe intrigued, depending on your age, by a banner on the footbridge that leads from the car parks to the…
F1
Lunch with… Professor Sid Watkins
Professor Sid Watkins has passed away, aged 84, after a long battle with cancer. His efforts helped transform the safety in Formula 1, to the benefit of us all, and…
F1
Patrick Depailler at Long Beach
Formula 1 returns to Singapore in 11 days, so now seems as good a time as any to look back at one of the sport’s great forgotten street circuits: Long…
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Mark Hughes: Hamilton chose wrong F1 track for simulator gamble
Hamilton decided not to use the simulator to prepare for the Canadian GP, but as Mark Hughes explains, Montreal may be exactly the wrong place to ditch it
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MPH: What Verstappen did at the Nürburgring is everything F1 can’t offer
Verstappen’s stunning Nürburgring 24 Hours assault exposed the gap between what Formula 1 is and what racing can be, Mark Hughes argues
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MPH: Still sandbagging? The crafty reason Mercedes and Ferrari may be hiding true F1 pace
F1’s new mechanism to help struggling engine manufacturers catch up with the leaders could be more powerful than first thought, writes Mark Hughes. Are Mercedes and Ferrari masking their true performance for long-term advantage?
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Nico Rosberg celebrates victory at Suzuka in 2016
October 7, 2016 Suzuka, Japan By Round 17, Nico Rosberg led Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 23 points. Here’s Rosberg in practice dramatically demonstrating the concept of lateral load transfer.…
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Derek Daly: why the numbers prove Williams sabotaged my 1982 F1 season for Rosberg
I raced in Formula 1 for five years at a dangerous time when you knew that at least one driver on average would probably be killed or maimed each year.…
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Ferrari’s bid for four straight Le Mans wins faces a tougher field and stricter BoP rules
Ferrari is bidding for a fourth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours win this year. Or to put it another way, to continue an unbeaten run since it ended its 50-year exile from…
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Why Hamilton ditched the F1 sim – and why he thinks it was making him slower
Hamilton arrived in Montreal having skipped the simulator entirely in his preparation, but it wasn’t an oversight
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Too successful to be dangerous: Why F1 had to leave great circuits behind
Verstappen’s Nürburgring masterclass was a reminder of everything Formula 1 gave up – and why it can never get it back
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Podcast: Verstappen’s Nürburgring blast was awe-inspiring in a way F1 can’t be
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Audacious overtakes and relentless pace: why Max Verstappen was mesmerising at the Nürburgring. Plus what makes the Canadian Grand Prix unmissable
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