Baku: F1’s latest left-handed circuit
Image courtesy of Williams Martini Racing’s trackwalk Cor! Baku City Circuit looks a bit quick. Not its average lap speed – a sequence of square corners and the narrowest section…
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1) In the seven races so far the pole-winner has only led the opening lap twice – Russia (Nico Rosberg) and Monaco (Daniel Ricciardo). 2) Sebastian Vettel qualified within 0.2 seconds of pole, the…
Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari took off from the line way quicker than anyone expected, up from third into the lead within two seconds of the lights going out. But it came…
Suzuka, Sunday October 21 1990. The two engineers, formerly colleagues on the same team, were walking through the day’s events. “Well,” said Tim Wright of McLaren, “that was a bloody…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Modern racing is still capable of throwing up surprises now and again, and ground-breaking designs like…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). If you asked anyone in F1 at the time, plenty would have said that Michael Schumacher…
Inevitably, being mid-June, there’s plenty from Le Mans in this week’s round-up from the Archive. José Froilán González went without sleep and food during the epic in 1954, but still managed…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). As expected the title protagonists and ‘team-mates’ qualified 1-2, with Ayrton Senna ahead, but Alain Prost quietly…
The reward for an early start for the podcast team was an hour-long chat with David Richards, chairman of Prodrive. Winner of the World Rally Championship as co-driver for Ari Vatanen, he…
In the new book Inside Mercedes F1: Life in the Fast Lane by Matt Whyman, Toto Wolff says that he liked the situation of Lewis Hamilton informing him at the…
Mercedes hit the jackpot at the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix, where the track surface and temperature gave a double boost to its W15 F1 car. The rest didn’t stand a chance, writes Mark Hughes
McLaren was in the F1 doldrums six years ago, but now heads the constructors’ championship, led by Andrea Stella, who’s created a very different atmosphere to the Ron Dennis era, says Mark Hughes
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
Two McLaren Formula 1 chassis sit silently side-by-side in a workshop dazzlingly clean, orderly and unremittingly white in decor. Nothing unusual about such a scene at the McLaren Technology Centre,…
What’s in a name? When it comes to F1, the answer is $1bn or more: Cadillac has won a lucrative 2026 grid place with a bid barely changed from the Michael Andretti proposal rejected by F1. Adam Cooper investigates the change of heart
Although it was impossible not to admire the combined brilliance of Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton in the first seven years of the hybrid formula, it had been dragging on a…
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