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Mercedes 1-2 finishes: just like the '50s
Mercedes is getting back to its dominating ways, and its strike rate of 1-2s this decade eclipses that of Williams and McLaren at their peaks Valtteri Bottas takes pole at…
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How F1's high-wing era came to a dramatic end
Fifty years ago, Lotus team-mates Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt survived two of the more spectacular shunts in Formula 1’s history. Both suffered a sudden collapse of a ‘skyscraper’ rear…
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F1 and the Indy 500's separate worlds
The Chinese Grand Prix wasn't the 1000th ever for F1; there were Indianapolis 500s with which it rarely had much in common Bill Vukovich's Formula 1 strike rate was striking: two…
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Leclerc in Bahrain shows he's Stewart not Alesi
Charles Leclerc is just the latest to have a debut F1 win cruelly dashed, but he showed that he'll be world champion before Max Verstappen Poor young Charles Leclerc is…
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From Bottas to badass
How Bottas followed other Finns and harnessed sisu to ensure success at the Australian Grand Prix Valtteri Bottas 2.0 won by more than 20sec in Melbourne. The wingman took flight having re-emerged…
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When F1 had its first tobacco spat
You'll have heard about the Ferrari fuss with 'Mission Winnow'. Yet Formula 1's relationship with tobacco sponsorship was difficult from the very start... Winnow, verb: blow air through (grain) in order…
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When F1 teams were fashionably late
Teams used to regularly deliver their Formula 1 cars late, including Williams. Nowadays it's a different story... Alarm bells are ringing for Williams. Not that it’s slept much, I don’t…
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The original Merc vs Alfa grand prix battle
Mercedes versus Alfa Romeo is reconveined in grand prix racing this year - but it will have to go some to beat that from pre-war racing Merc versus Alfa; Three-pointed…
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When the Stratos showed there's life in an old dog
At the Monte 40 years ago, the legendary Lancia Stratos pulled off a stunning comeback – in more than one sense Lancia’s Stratos was yesterday’s news, according to Big Brother Fiat. The…
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The good (and bad) times of Eddie Cheever
Looking back at Eddie Cheever's rocky journey to Formula 1, which saw the young hotshot turn down Ferrari and end up in an Osella
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Jean-Pierre Van Rossem: F1's wildcard Onyx backer
“It’s easy to forget that he spent barely a year in Formula 1 because everybody remembers him.” Stefan Johansson refers to the Belgian academic (slash economist/financier/novelist/philosopher/politician/self-publicist) – and convicted fraudster…
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'None would be as great as Bill Vukovich'
Bill Vukovich would have turned 100 on December 13 – here's what made the 'Mad Russian' so great Images courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway “He was madder than a wet…
