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Johnny Herbert: “If Red Bull F1 door opens for Lando Norris, should he take it?
Sergio Pérez has a contract with Red Bull Racing until the end of next year. But is he safe from…
December 2023
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2023 Alpine A110 R review: Can perfection be upgraded?
In 2017 Alpine launched a new small sports car and it changed the world. Or at least it should have…
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2023 Polestar 2 review: Stellar performer
Bit by bit, almost car by car, EVs are starting to make more sense. More sense that is, if you’re…
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2023 Land Rover Defender 130 review
This is the biggest Defender yet. In fact it’s enormous. An additional 600mm in length, it is longer than a…
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Copper X-Prix promises gold in Extreme-E 2023 finale
Extreme E – Copper X-Prix, Antofagasta, Chile, December 2-3 Chile will host the Extreme E season finale with five teams…
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Benetton — Rebels of Formula 1 book review
When in 1985 an Italian sweater firm bought a complete Formula 1 team, new ground was broken, a hint of…
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Jimmie Johnson: The Motor Sport Interview
Jimmie Johnson is a true American hero, a NASCAR legend with his own chapter in the sport’s history. Born and…
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David Brabham: My life in cars
My family car as a child... The first family cars I remember were a Ford Falcon and a Ford Fairlane.…
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Eddie Jordan and Jean Alesi boating in Sydney Harbour: Flashback
For nine successive years, the F1 season ended with Suzuka and Adelaide a fortnight apart. Sydney was a favourite place…
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Letters, December 2023
Doug Nye seems to accept Felipe Massa’s legal claim that he might have won the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix had…
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The ‘secrets’ behind Red Bull’s F1 ground effect advantage… and the Lotus that started it all
Colin Chapman was very irritated. He was a day late arriving at the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix and during Friday…
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Viva Las Vegas? Grand Prix racing’s return to The Strip
The house always wins in Las Vegas. That’s why Formula 1 is the house for its return to Sin City, four decades…
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Riding the “F1 new wave” in Las Vegas
Williams isn’t at Formula 1’s cutting edge performance-wise, but it is one of the most active teams in the United…
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Designing an F1 city circuit — the challenges facing Las Vegas GP engineers
The best street circuits require three defined sequences to offer a proper challenge for teams and drivers. So says Clive…
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Driving the new F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix circuit
Turn 1 There’ll be some good action going into the first turn on the race start because it’s so wide…
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‘How I almost got the first Las Vegas GP cancelled’
Forty-two years ago, staging a Formula 1 race in Las Vegas was yet another example of Bernie Ecclestone’s fabled ingenuity.…
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Aston Martin’s DP155: grand prix pioneer
Aston Martin’s ownership structure and commercial fortunes have had more twists than a Federico Fellini movie in the 110 years…
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Schlegelmilch: his finest images of Porsche sports cars
German master Rainer W Shlegelmilch is best known for his photograhic work on the grand prix circuit, but a sumptuous…
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Motoring Literary & Art Festival: Silverstone hosts world-first showcase
"In the time-honoured words of John Cleese, ‘and now for something completely different’,” says book publishing tsar Philip Porter, the…
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Precision - Winter 2023
RICHARD MILLE A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Richard Mille at his home in Brittany where,…
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