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Twenty Australian Grand Prix facts
Click here to buy the lead image. 1) Nico Rosberg made it four wins in a row to start the new season. 2) There was barely a dissenting voice from…
Mark Hughes
Grand Prix editor
In previous lives Mark raced cars, worked at Jim Russell racing school, got a university degree which he never used, tried working in industry, didn’t like it, left and joined Motoring News in 1988 as a junior club race reporter. Went freelance in ’96, concentrated on F1 from 2000. Grand Prix editor of Autosport for 10 years.
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2016 Australian GP report: winning start for Rosberg despite rocket-ship Ferraris
Nico Rosberg led a Mercedes 1-2 at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, but Ferrari's pace will have the SIlver Arrows worried: Sebastian Vettel looked on course for victory until he lost out at a restart after Fernando Alonso's enormous 200mph crash
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Analysing Australian GP tyre choices
To buy the lead image click here. For those fans that feel F1 is too complex, that it has regulated itself up its own slot gap, the new-for-2016 tyre choice…
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Alan Henry: A Personal Appreciation
Alan Henry is gone. In motorsport journalistic terms that’s like saying the sky has gone, the wind has gone or the ground has gone: it just doesn’t make sense. For…
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Why mid-grid could steal a march in 2016
Click here to buy the lead image. So… depending on whether the proposed new qualifying system is adopted for Melbourne or Barcelona, or sometime later or not at all, we…
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Qualifying change could have been much worse
Click here to buy the lead image. Subject to FIA approval and any sporting director spotting an operational flaw in the plan, qualifying will now become a timed elimination event,…
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Red Bull – this year's dark horse
Click here to buy the lead image. Most of the hopes for the competitiveness of the Formula 1 season ahead seem to rest upon how much Ferrari might have eaten…
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Why Luca preferred Vettel over Alonso
To buy the lead image click here. Last week I was in Rome for an exclusive interview with Luca Montezemolo that will appear in the April issue of Motor Sport.…
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Is Honda's 'size zero' obsolete?
It would be a major surprise if the 2016 McLaren-Honda was not a huge competitive step forward from its woeful forebear. Honda has understood the limitation in the energy recovery…
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Renault’s Formula 1 return
That was too close for comfort. The multiple world championship-winning Enstone team came perilously close to extinction towards the end of last year as financial brinkmanship – both from its…
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Drivers demanding a return to flat-out F1
Compromise solution for this season Here’s what GPDA President Alex Wurz said to the BBC last week when articulating the F1 drivers’ frustration with the current heat-degrading concept of Pirelli…
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Peace In Our Time? Maybe...
Is there one more act still to play out in the F1 engine drama? The F1 strategy group meeting on Monday and the F1 Commission the following day seems to…