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Nelson Piquet: the underrated three-time F1 champion
Being a three-time Formula 1 world champion puts you in a select band. Only 10 have done it. And, of the 10, one stands apart, but for the wrong reasons.…
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MPH: F1's raft of innovations to tackle the coronavirus crisis
Project Pitlane – F1’s response to the call to arms by the British government for technology to alleviate the coronavirus pandemic – has had its first significant success. A breathing…
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Project pitlane: F1's combined response to ventilator challenge
Seven British-based Formula 1 teams are pooling their resources to boost the NHS's stock of ventilators, as coronavirus cases climb. The group, dubbed Project Pitlane, is using its engineering expertise…
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F1 in the 1980s: The game changers
Having been rejected both due to a lack of experience and thanks to his former employment at McLaren during the early 1970s – and unsure as to which scenario was…
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F1 in the 1970s: Money makes the world go round
Everything seems to be ‘in transition’. Hardly a news story goes by without mention of the British Government, the Royal Family, Brexit, or even Formula 1 as it heads towards…
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F1 in the 1960s: The end of innocence
Looking back, we were very spoiled in the 1960s. Whether it was the music or the movies – or the motor racing – there was a feeling of enchantment in…
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F1 in the 1950s: On the edge
Just bear with me a moment, and think back to 2010. Nineteen grand prix races to decide the Formula 1 titles, and Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull-Renault wound up as…
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Seven decades of Formula 1 racing. These were the times of our lives
1950s Doug Nye Our finest historian goes back to where it all began, and the rise of Britain’s unstoppable garagistes Read more 1960s Nigel Roebuck Esteemed F1 commentator on…
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Lunch With... Christian Horner
There is quite a pleasing functionality about Red Bull’s base on an industrial estate in Milton Keynes. It has an opulent trophy cabinet, of course, and there’s a show car…
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Fill the motor sport void
The lack of live racing has left a vacuum in the weekend of motor sport fans and plugging the gap will be a serious undertaking. Up steps Amazon Prime’s The…
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Drive to Survive 2: Netflix's second smash hit?
Lewis Hamilton casts a distressed look across his team's briefing area, observing a room that has taken on the atmosphere of a funeral parlour. The drivers are ashen-faced, Toto Wolff…
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F1's crisis plan: restrain teams for their own good
You may have noticed a hint of criticism over Formula 1’s handling of the Australian Grand Prix cancellation, and the complete lack of a ready-made response to the situation. It…
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Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix postponed due to spread of coronavirus
The 2020 Formula 1 season will not begin before mid-June as the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has become the latest race to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It means…
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MPH: F1 is in survival mode and the effects could be long-lasting
The concerns of F1 are insignificant in this unprecedented time, but with Baku expected later today to be the eighth 2020 grand prix either cancelled or postponed, we should probably…
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Senna: 60 years
Born on 21 March 1960, Ayrton Senna would be celebrating his 60th birthday this year. His status as one of the sport's greats remains undimmed, more than 25 years after…
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Ayrton Senna: the forgotten great drives
Ayrton Senna's great drives trip off the tongue. Monaco 1984; Portugal ’85; Japan ’88; Brazil ’91; Donington ’93; qualifying for Monaco in ’88; holding off Nigel Mansell in those scintillating…
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1984 Monaco Grand Prix: the arrival of Senna
For the third lap in a row, Alain Prost gestured from his McLaren as he raced past the pitlane. The Frenchman believed the race he was leading was too dangerous…
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