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The top ten F1 drivers of 2024
Max Verstappen Across the entire 2024 season, there’s really no doubt that Max Verstappen has been the stand-out driver. This…
February 2025
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The F1 season that brought the best from the best: Max Verstappen in 2024
We’ve seen plenty of demonstrations of Max Verstappen brilliance on his way to a fourth straight title this season. But…
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F1’s unsung heroes of 2024
Flavio Briatore A few eyebrows were raised when in June it was confirmed that Flavio Briatore was returning not just to…
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F1 constructors’ battle goes down to the wire: 2024 Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi GPs report
Into the final three races Ferrari was expecting to be quick in Las Vegas. That long straight down the strip…
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The Qatar GP yellow flag that cost Lando Norris a chance of F1 victory
The major controversy of the Qatar Grand Prix was Lando Norris being awarded a 10sec stop-go penalty for not lifting…
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Why Mercedes had the right car at the right time in Vegas
Pre-race in Vegas, the expectation was unanimous: it would be a one-stop, just as it had been last year. Even…
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February 2025: Word on the beat
Speaking to the Daily Mail, former F1 czar Bernie Ecclestone gave his take on Lewis Hamilton’s lack of form and…
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Exclusive: Inside Bernie Ecclestone’s glorious grand prix and F1 car collection
So it’s finally happening. We always wondered when it might. Bernie Ecclestone is selling off his cherished and unspeakably precious…
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1975 Ferrari 312T
A quarter of a century before Jean Todt oversaw Ferrari resurgence with Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, Luca di Montezemolo set the…
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1983 Brabham BT52B
Created in short order after an outrageously late change to Formula 1’s aerodynamic regulations, Gordon Murray conjured his most beautiful…
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‘I marvelled at what I had been trusted to look after’
I worked for Bernie Ecclestone at the Brabham Formula 1 team back in the 1980s and then in 1995 he…
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2002 Ferrari F2002
By 2002, Ferrari’s axis of power – shaped by Rory Byrne, Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher – had gone full…
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1937 Auto Union Type-C V16
‘Replica’ is too often considered a dirty word, but it isn’t when it comes to the beautifully engineered masterpieces created…
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1978 Brabham BT46B ‘fan car’
Controversial? Yes, but only because it was so brilliantly clever. Gordon Murray’s marvel would have changed the game, which is…
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1957 Vanwall VW5
Before Cooper, Lotus and the 1960s British ‘takeover’ of F1, there was Vanwall. Active as a racing entity for a…
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Petrol vs electric: Battle of the Technologies in World Rallycross revolution
How do you turn a PR disaster into a winning strategy for the future of a racing series? Well, you…
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Montalegre or bust: two laps in an RX1
There are some opportunities in life that you shouldn’t pass up and one of those is the chance to cut…
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The forgotten 1939 Belgrade Grand Prix
It was September 3, 1939, an inauspicious date for Europe and the world; the day on which Britain and France…
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Car models on a different scale: How Amalgam creates its small wonders
Buried within a relatively small industrial estate in Bristol lies a workshop like few others. Replacing the potent smell of…
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Wish you were here?
At Motor Sport’s centenary gala in 2024, Formula 1’s most successful car designer, Adrian Newey, attributed the origins of his…
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