We are at an intriguing point in the season, given what became apparent in the opening round last week: a race-winning, pole-setting Ferrari, a super-fast Red Bull and a struggling…
Ferrari had the race pace but a missed test during pre-season cost Red Bull a chance of Bahrain GP victory says Mark Hughes
Supersub Nico Hülkenberg gets his fourth covid stand-in this weekend, this time for Sebastian Vettel, having been deployed by the same team back in its Racing Point days of 2020…
With just two days of testing left, there is less readiness from teams than would be normal at this point. The Bahrain circuit is inducing more extreme porpoising in the…
As 37-year-old Lewis Hamilton returns for his assault on what would be a record eighth world championship he faces a subtly different challenge to last year. His age is not…
Formula 1's big aero problem has rendered testing almost impossible to read into says Mark Hughes
The seven-time world champion has denied it but Mark Hughes says Lewis Hamilton will have been seriously considering his F1 future during the break
Today we’ll see the car on which Lando Norris – whose contract McLaren has recently extended to the end of 2025 – will stake his future. Let’s hope it’s a…
Lewis Hamilton's staggering win count leaves him far in front of other F1 champions – but do his stats prove him to be the best?
As F1 prepares to embark upon a brave new era in which the cars are specifically regulated to provide closer wheel-to-wheel racing, Pat Symonds, the man in charge of formulating…
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Fifty years ago when a BRM P160 burst out of a giant cigarette packet at Paul Ricard to signify Marlboro’s first F1 sponsorship deal, smoking was synonymous with glamour –…
Innovations from a minority completely shook up the F1 order during the last major rule changes – might more lateral thinking cause a similar situation in 2009?
The ‘will he/wont he’ saga of whether Lewis Hamilton will take part this season took another turn a few days ago with the FIA statement about its ‘detailed analysis’ of…
The equation between driver and car and car performance is a complex one. At F1 level the drivers are close enough in their basic speed that it’s often a fallacy…
There was a weird positive tactical implication for Red Bull of the five-place grid penalty taken by Max Verstappen in Qatar. He received the penalty for having not slowed at…
In the end Mercedes withdrew its appeal contesting the result of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but what happened there was wrong. There may be ways of justifying it with…
