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Standings – 2026 F1 World Championship
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Mass frustration at the US GP – but Kimi just looked like a kid having fun
Kimi Antonelli all but secured the Formula 1 title with a champion’s drive at the 2026 United States Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. Behind him, forlorn rivals failed to make their superior pace stick
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MPH: The revelation in Horner’s book – how he turned Red Bull from no-hopers into F1 winners
Christian Horner details how he rebuilt Red Bull from the ashes of Jaguar, and hired F1’s greatest designer from under the noses of rivals in his new autobiography, Drive. Mark Hughes found it fascinating
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Mark Hughes: Did Ferrari have pace to beat Red Bull? We’ll never know…
Mark Hughes analyses how Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to victory in Singapore, and how Lewis Hamilton’s strategic gamble turned a promising Ferrari result into a costly disappointment
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Do safety cars make races boring or more exciting? Dilemma for US series as it considers cutting back cautions
When it comes to sports car racing, it’s not just the American tracks that are markedly different from most of their international counterparts. The overall philosophy used by the FIA…
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Two corners from becoming champion: Oliver Solberg’s heartbreaking crash tops the most thrilling WRC deciders
5. 2003: Solberg vs Loeb vs Sainz Subaru’s Norwegian star Petter Solberg, above – ‘Hollywood’ – lay a point adrift of Citroën pair Carlos Sainz and Sébastien Loeb going into…
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Race leader runs out of fuel on the last lap in ‘crazy’ finish to Bathurst 1000
Who to choose for our Drive of the Month after the pure theatre and sensational finish of the Bathurst 1000 at the Mount Panorama Circuit? How about Zach Bates and…
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The Porsche racing cars that time forgot
1962 Porsche 804 December 1960: a gloomy silence descends on a test cell in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. A still relatively small – approximately 1250 staff – but realistically effective car company renowned…
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Letters: 101-year-old airman races down Santa Pod drag strip – where he flew WWII missions 80 years before
A most interesting item in the November 2026 issue about drag racing at Santa Pod [Playing with fire]. Exactly a year ago we achieved one of the longer times down…
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‘I watched YOU racing’ – Clay Regazzoni’s surprise revelation to Motor Sport’s Denis Jenkinson
Denis Jenkinson wasn’t impressed with the diminutive Dijon-Prenois circuit, which had just staged its first world championship grand prix – and offered up sub-one-minute lap times. “The mini-Grand Prix of…
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