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Seeing the dynamic of power shift within a Formula 1 team is rather like watching the sun rise at dawn. You first become faintly aware of a brightening of the sky as time ticks by, before the new day is suddenly there in all its glory. We’ve been awa

For the podium ceremony at the Italian Grand Prix, I managed to photograph the celebrations from a very special vantage point: the Paddock Club suite that belonged to Mercedes. It’s always a great moment, but that is increased to the power of ten whe

Twelve months on from the doomed handshake between Mercedes’ Toto Wolff and Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul that left Esteban Ocon on the Formula 1 sidelines for 2019, the two team bosses have buried their differences and sorted a deal for the French young

Formula 1 teams have always coveted the next big thing; the new Senna, Schumacher or Hamilton who will lead them to the promised land of domination. But the strike rate for those who have attempted what often seems akin to alchemy by ‘growing their o

In 1999, when I was technical director at Benetton, I started a project to apply linear neural networks – the keys to teaching computers to classify information in the same way as a human brain – to investigate the relationship between car set-up and

The art of engineering a Formula 1 car to improve its performance was traditionally a job carried out by a team’s race drivers. From the countless laps of Ferrari’s proving ground at Modena in the 1950s, to the weeks of running in Rio de Janeiro ahea

RACING DRIVERS who are the ‘sons of’ are nothing new. On today’s Formula 1 grid Carlos Sainz, Max Verstappen and Kevin Magnussen have descended from highly successful drivers in their own right. But there is another current F1 racer who is the son of

HAD I BEEN A KID IN THE 1930s, there isn’t a doubt in my mind that my hero would have been Bernd Rosemeyer. He was ferociously quick in the treacherous rear-engined Auto Unions, single-handedly taking on the might of Mercedes, and always, apparently,

I’m writing in response to the letter in your August issue from Jem Bruce, who states F1 races only being shown live on Sky Sports F1 “dampens the enthusiasm of fans unwilling to pay” to watch F1. Fans of other sports such as football, rugby and cric

At Spa-Francorchamps the Monegasque national anthem rang out on a Formula 1 podium for the first time in world championship history. But this historic occasion was tinged with solemnity following the death of F2 driver Anthoine Hubert on Saturday, an

A sea of red swamped the start/finish straight in the minutes after the end of the Italian Grand Prix. After nine long years the Monza faithful was finally rewarded when Charles Leclerc crossed the line to record his second straight victory and Ferra

As the record breaking 22-race 2020 calendar has been announced, it’s time to start planning which destinations you plan to watch Formula 1 at next year. And where better to start than the first race in Melbourne, Australia. Most fans stay in downtow

Pete Lyons Price £50 evropublishing.com It is perhaps one of the most revered cars in the history of Formula 1. Iterations of the Lotus 72 competed in grands prix from 1970 to 1975 – claiming 20 wins and two drivers’ championships – and it’s apt

Whether or not the prospect of 24 races appeals, how about more teams? That was the tantalising post-2020 possibility Ross Brawn dropped in casually during an interview with Sky Sports F1 recently. Brawn described the number of entities who have expr