The F1 champion over the Hill
F1 Retro July 2008 It’s 25 years this month since Damon Hill, after several near misses, finally stepped out of his father’s shadow and claimed the drivers’ title for himself…
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Illustration by Craig Scarborough Some time before the Belgian Grand Prix, Red Bull submitted a query to the FIA regarding the placement of the heat sensors within the Mercedes power unit’s…
The Monza win was massive for Daniel Ricciardo. His problems this year at McLaren were just starting to chew away at him and you could see he was thinking ‘what…
Mercedes’ attempt at using a two-stopping Lewis Hamilton and a one-stopping Valtteri Bottas to ‘pincer’ Max Verstappen’s faster Red Bull in the Dutch Grand Prix was based around the calculated…
2021 Belgian GP | 2021 Dutch GP | 2021 Italian GP Only two of these events were actually races. In Belgium, for the first time in the championship’s history, points…
Ferrari was the first to introduce ‘intelligent wheelguns’ around three years ago and many of the other top teams quickly followed. These ‘smart’ guns had software that runs a series…
● Asked by a fan when he first drove a car, Yuki Tsunoda, at Spa-Francorchamps, replied that he was eight years old, “a bit illegal in Japan”. An amused Fernando…
Race report Belgian washout gives way to a Dutch party, and McLaren’s Monza Word on the beat Driving violations, Alpine all-nighters, and who’s in at Alfa? Tactical analysis Zandvoort turned…
With the long-overdue confirmation that George Russell will replace Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes next year, a sequence of other driver moves was triggered. One of these – the recruitment of…
Red Bull is still agonising over whether to keep or ditch Sergio Perez for 2025 – will it look to one of its old drivers for help?
At least four rookie drivers are set to join the F1 grid in 2025 — potentially joined by Liam Lawson and Franco Colapinto. Mark Hughes explores why youth has overtaken experience in the world championship
Max Verstappen all but clinched this year’s Formula 1 championship with a masterful drive in the wet 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, while Lando Norris was left rueing a red flag that ended his hopes of victory
Sergio Perez’s future looks bleak after another underwhelming performance, while George Russell can be upbeat despite his disqualification: 2024 Belgian GP diary
Christian Horner dominated the headlines in the run-up to — and during — the 2024 Bahrain GP weekend despite the best efforts of Alpine, Yuki Tsunoda and a glorious V8
2023 US Grand Prix diary: More lengthy post-race investigations, the challenge of COTA and Ricciardo returns with the stars — Chris Medland’s view from the F1 paddock
An “aggressive” Las Vegas GP schedule last year saw F1 drivers ill and exhausted after a week in the dark, juggling “showbiz” commitments before travelling on the longest flight in the world. It’s part of the job, they say
He won GP titles with Benetton, Ferrari and his own Brawn team, then helped steer F1 to unprecedented popularity. As Ross Brawn turns 70, Matt Bishop looks back at a remarkable career — plus the multiple times he antagonised the engineer
Over the last three Formula 1 race weekends, no driver has scored more F1 Fantasy points than Max Verstappen. With the title stakes at their highest, the Dutchman has delivered:…
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