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Formula E has hit its stride ahead of its new 2024/25 season
Jaguar is about to enter its ninth season in Formula E and I honestly can’t recall more anticipation and excitement…
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Formula Ford deserves better — Letters
Thoroughly enjoyed John Oreovicz’s November issue article on American icons [America’s golden greats]. My father covered auto racing in the…
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How good has the 2024 F1 season been?
Formula 1 is back to its best in 2024. But does that means this season should be bracketed among the…
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1958 F1 season: when gentleman Moss missed out on the world title
Faulty steps and tragic dark shadows cast the still-young world championship in a peculiar and troubled light, especially from this…
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1964 F1 season: Surtees, Clark and Hill fly the flag on a barnstorming season
What’s blue-and-white and red all under? John Surtees’ Ferrari 158 wore North America’s racing colours at a topsy-turvy Mexico City…
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1967 F1 season: How Brabhams, Lotuses and Coopers captivated a new generation
I’d been in the world 14 years and one month when, on January 4, 1967, I watched Donald Campbell’s fatal…
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1973 F1 season: Mutton-chopped grid drive through F1’s hairiest era
Few knew: ‘Uncle Ken’, firm of handshake and belief, kept a mean secret; and, with views to his past, present…
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1976 F1 season: Hunt vs Lauda in a battle that caught the attention of the world
In terms of Formula 1’s mass appeal, this was its genesis. A human story that catapulted the sport from minority…
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1986 F1 season: Prost, Piquet, Senna and Mansell take the championship to the wire
“And look at that!” exclaimed Murray Walker. Eighteen laps from home, we’ll never forget how Nigel Mansell’s world title hopes…
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1993 F1 season: Grid reaches a tech zenith as Williams wipes the floor
There was neither an epic world championship fight, with Alain Prost taking his fourth and final title at a canter,…
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1997 F1 season: Schumacher’s clumsy move that handed Villeneuve the title
The 1997 Formula 1 World Championship was a memorable contest that saw Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher fight for the…
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2007 F1 season: three-way title fight that announced the arrival of Lewis Hamilton
It all began so smoothly. Ron Dennis invited Formula 1 reporters to the McLaren executive dining room where, over a…
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2008 F1 season: F1 titles don’t come much closer – a first of seven for Lewis Hamilton
Just imagine that a Formula 1 team was fined nearly £50m by the FIA and disqualified from the constructors’ championship,…
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2012 F1 season: Vettel vs Alonso and a title decider in the final race
Every year yields a champion, many campaigns feature a spectacular title battle, but few produce legends of heroic failure. Fernando…
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2021 F1 season: Abu Dhabi drama as Lewis Hamilton’s dreams evaporate
Although it was impossible not to admire the combined brilliance of Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton in the first seven years…
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Ultimate barn find: McLaren rediscovers forgotten F1 car
Two McLaren Formula 1 chassis sit silently side-by-side in a workshop dazzlingly clean, orderly and unremittingly white in decor. Nothing…
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Return of the Max: Verstappen gives performance of the season in push for a fourth title
In Mexico Max Verstappen earned censure for his style of racing against title rival Lando Norris. In the rain of…
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Track limits outcry reins in F1 wide boys
Between Austin and Mexico, conversations between the drivers and the FIA led to a clarified understanding about how stewards would…
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Ferrari cooling problems vanish into thin air in Mexico
Although the Mexico City GP was an unambiguous one-stop race, the strategy challenge was based around the cooling levels chosen…
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F1’s kiwi conveyor belt of talent
New Zealand is fairly small. It’s also very far away. But, right now, its racing drivers are having a moment.…
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