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The key staff who quit Red Bull: Horner pushed out after mass exodus
Christian Horner’s dismissal as Red Bull’s team principal follows a race to the exit by high-ranking staff, including Adrian Newey. Can it regroup?
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Matt Bishop: The wild French GP circuit that was too dangerous for F1
France’s narrow Clermont-Ferrand circuit threaded through volcanic rock faces, sheer drops, and untamed countryside, posing one of F1’s greatest-ever tests of nerve. No wonder only the very best drivers won there, says Matt Bishop
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All the F1 drivers and teams expected at 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed
The 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature enough F1 drivers to fill almost two GP grids as it celebrates 75 years of the world championship. Here are all of the confirmed attendees and F1 teams
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McLaren’s unstoppable force: Neil Oatley designed Senna’s F1 title winners. Now he’s targeting Le Mans
Here is a bold claim with which to kick off an interview/profile: no one has ever devoted to motor sport so great a proportion of such a long working life…
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Aintree: Britain’s forgotten F1 circuit
Just how good was Aintree, the circuit situated six miles north of Liverpool’s city centre? Created on the hallowed precincts of the Grand National horse race, it opened to international-class…
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Was Stirling Moss’s 1955 British Grand Prix win a fix?
This was a race which has been the subject of debate and argument almost since the flag fell on it. Not that it had been a particularly complex duel on…
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Word on the beat
On the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix, Derek Warwick was handed a one-race suspension from his role as an FIA steward by the governing body for quotes attributed to…
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How McLaren played the long game as Verstappen raced away in Spain
Barcelona: it was the third lap, as race leader Oscar Piastri pulled himself out of Max Verstappen’s DRS range, which gave the first indication to Verstappen and Red Bull that…
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Norris was lucky, Piastri was better driver – British GP Up/Down
Was Oscar Piastri the real winner in the long run after Silverstone? asks James Elson
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The key staff who quit Red Bull: Horner pushed out after mass exodus
Christian Horner’s dismissal as Red Bull’s team principal follows a race to the exit by high-ranking staff, including Adrian Newey. Can it regroup?
F1
Matt Bishop: The wild French GP circuit that was too dangerous for F1
France’s narrow Clermont-Ferrand circuit threaded through volcanic rock faces, sheer drops, and untamed countryside, posing one of F1’s greatest-ever tests of nerve. No wonder only the very best drivers won there, says Matt Bishop
F1
All the F1 drivers and teams expected at 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed
The 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature enough F1 drivers to fill almost two GP grids as it celebrates 75 years of the world championship. Here are all of the confirmed attendees and F1 teams
Archive
McLaren’s unstoppable force: Neil Oatley designed Senna’s F1 title winners. Now he’s targeting Le Mans
Here is a bold claim with which to kick off an interview/profile: no one has ever devoted to motor sport so great a proportion of such a long working life…
Archive
Aintree: Britain’s forgotten F1 circuit
Just how good was Aintree, the circuit situated six miles north of Liverpool’s city centre? Created on the hallowed precincts of the Grand National horse race, it opened to international-class…
Archive
Was Stirling Moss’s 1955 British Grand Prix win a fix?
This was a race which has been the subject of debate and argument almost since the flag fell on it. Not that it had been a particularly complex duel on…
Archive
Word on the beat
On the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix, Derek Warwick was handed a one-race suspension from his role as an FIA steward by the governing body for quotes attributed to…
Archive
How McLaren played the long game as Verstappen raced away in Spain
Barcelona: it was the third lap, as race leader Oscar Piastri pulled himself out of Max Verstappen’s DRS range, which gave the first indication to Verstappen and Red Bull that…
Opinion
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Norris was lucky, Piastri was better driver – British GP Up/Down
Was Oscar Piastri the real winner in the long run after Silverstone? asks James Elson
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MPH: Decoded – why Russell and Piastri can’t keep up with their F1 team-mates
Hungary revealed how wind and worn tarmac are rewriting the rules of 2026 F1 performance, and why some of the grid’s best drivers are struggling to keep up. Mark Hughes explains
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Formula 1 2026 half-term report. Every driver rated – who deserves an A+?
Kimi Antonelli Astonishing progression from his patchy and underprepared rookie season. Yes, he’s in the best car but he’s doing things with it that stand comparison with the finest. In…
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‘Kimi Antonelli was 11 when I saw him race. He amazed me’: when Mercedes’ talent scout discovered the F1 sensation
To call Gwen Lagrue a ’scout’ is reductive. Identifying talent is just part of the equation; he supplements that by developing it, playing a central role in nurturing a plethora…
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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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Madring’s La Monumental gives Madrid’s new F1 circuit a distinctive challenge
There was a time when circuit corner names were utilitarian labels, nothing more. Even for the greatest curves, inspiration was drawn from local landmarks or topography: think of Eau Rouge…
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Scott Dixon leaves Ganassi after 25 years as Arrow McLaren reshapes its IndyCar future
The 2025 IndyCar championship was a snoozer, as Álex Palou clinched the title with several rounds remaining. The most compelling storyline in the closing weeks of the season was whether…
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‘It was the day Niki Lauda almost died. Who remembers a frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win?’
Niki Lauda’s blazing Ferrari cast a pall over the 1976 German Grand Prix, so it’s easy to overlook what happened in the F1 race. Matt Bishop recognises James Hunt’s masterful and brave victory at the Nürburgring
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The Beatle who predicted F1’s TV boom decades early
Long before Drive to Survive, an ex-Beatle and lifelong racing obsessive told Barry Sheene how F1 would find its biggest audience
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The bizarre bug that cost Frentzen his F1 title shot – and why he’s made peace with it
A software bug cost Heinz-Harald Frentzen his best shot at the world title, but he explains why it never actually cost him much at all
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