Colin Chapman was very irritated. He was a day late arriving at the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix and during Friday qualifying, in Chapman’s absence, Mario Andretti had lapped 1.54sec faster…
Sergio Pérez has a contract with Red Bull Racing until the end of next year. But is he safe from being bumped? If you look at this team historically you’d…
Race report All the action from Lusail and Circuit of the Americas, including a win for Oscar Piastri Word on the beat McLaren £19m compensation claim and COTA blows cold…
F1 Retro – March 2019 As Felipe Massa builds a legal challenge to Lewis Hamilton’s debut F1 title in 2008 – the Brazilian claiming that season’s Singapore ‘Crashgate’ directly contributed…
GOOD MONTH Suits you sirs Despite its team boss’s woe-is-us protestations, Williams’ special Gulf livery plus its Stars ’n’ Stripes Austin trim cut a pretty sharp look – helped by…
There was an agonising decision on the Mercedes pitwall on lap 16 of the US Grand Prix which in hindsight they got wrong. It possibly cost Lewis Hamilton the team’s…
Alpine boss Bruno Famin has confirmed that the agreement with Michael Andretti’s team to supply it with Renault F1 power units lapsed in March of this year, the original terms…
The problem with the tyres at Qatar was announced on Saturday morning by the FIA. It would be more accurate to say it was a problem with the pyramid kerbs…
Amid this season of Max Verstappen domination, there are still moments when the chasers get a glimpse. Ferrari of course finally broke Red Bull’s domination at Singapore before Verstappen bounced…
Although the FIA, as the sport’s governing body, has given its all-clear for Michael Andretti’s IndyCar team to join F1 from 2025 or ’26, the arguments continue to rage about…
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Whoever wrote the programme notes for the 1950 GP d'Europe at Silverstone, the inaugural world championship Formula 1 race, was dearly not without a sense of humour. "Only by orderly…
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In terms of world championship races, the 1962 F1 season concluded with a 'New Year' fixture at South Africa's East London. But in those days there were also numerous non-title…
First we had Brad Pitt at Silverstone ahead of his upcoming F1 film and now we have Keanu Reeves ‘starring’ in a re-telling of the Brawn GP story. Brawn: The…
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The final round of the F1 World Championship Grand Prix season for 1968 took place at the Mexico City circuit in the outskirts of this huge city. The cars had…
The Perez F1 party was left well and truly deflated after just one lap of the 2023 Mexico City GP
2023 Mexico City GP diary: Perez's heartbreak, Ricciardo's return, the need for more paddock guidelines and Brazil's F1 scheduling problem — Chris Medland's view from the F1 paddock
