MPH: The bullets Bottas dodged to win in Austria
“We dodged some bullets there,” said a relieved Valtteri Bottas after climbing out of his Mercedes the victor of the opening round of the 2020 world championship, a thrilling and…
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An afternoon of drama and chaos on Formula 1’s return ended with a Mercedes win after a manic 2020 F1 Austrian Grand Prix
The indication from Barcelona testing was that Mercedes would continue to set the pace, as it has done since the start of the hybrid era. Lockdown has done nothing to…
Every great Formula 1 driver has two things in common — and nothing else, according to Frank Dernie, the F1 engineer, who has worked with multiple world champions in his…
Stewards have rejected Red Bull’s protest and ruled that Mercedes can race at the Austrian Grand Prix with the DAS system used by Lewis Hamilton on Friday
Enzo Ferrari could be mulish: who on Earth would think it logical to place a prancing horse behind its cart? So surmised a man basking (from July 1960) in the…
A veteran of Williams, Lotus and Benetton, Frank Dernie knows what it takes to engineer the greatest drivers. In the latest of our podcast series, he recalls working alongside the likes of Piquet, Mansell and Schumacher.
Winning the 2020 world championship while campaigning for greater equality would mean more than any of his previous six titles, Lewis Hamilton has said. He described this year as momentous,…
There’s no other word to describe working at the Red Bull Ring this weekend than weird. Really, really weird. But weird is very much necessary. In Melbourne, I was pretty…
The 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix was a display of domination by Max Verstappen, but F1 rivals could well find themselves closer to Red Bull away from the Sakhir circuit, writes Mark Hughes
We know who could win the F1 championship in 2023, but who will have the car to maximise their talent? asks Mark Hughes. It won’t be long until we find out…
Motor Sport’s expert panel explore the big questions ahead of the first grand prix of 2023 — stream our Formula 1 season preview podcast now
Where did Aston Martin’s pace come from in the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix? Project F1 examines the data to uncover the advantage it held over Ferrari and Mercedes — and why Red Bull was on another planet
McLaren fell short of Alpine in last year’s F1 constructors’ battle but Project F1 data shows how its potential to perform much better in 2023
The tightest F1 team battle of 2022 ended with Aston Martin and Alfa Romeo on level points. With data from Project F1, we examine how Alfa lost its early edge and why older drivers showed their worth in the fight for sixth place
A wide variety of Lotus cars are often proffered as the ultimate F1 game-changer – but was the Lotus 76 an unusual candidate which trumps them all?
Finishing sixth in the Bahrain Grand Prix with broken wrists and a fractured toe, Lance Stroll is the latest racer to block out torturous pain rather than miss a race. Here are some of the most incredible stories
The hot pursuit of keeping up with Red Bull is causing serious headaches for Mercedes and Ferrari, with Aston Martin remaining realistic
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