F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was held on the same weekend as the Oscars, so it was appropriate for one standout performance to be singled out for high praise. And it wasn’t Max Verstappen’s dominant win; instead the plaudi

F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 3 22-24 March 2024 Albert Park The Australian GP promoters have accepted the event’s demotion from its traditional slot as the season’s curtainraiser (logistics dictate two rounds in the Middle East up front now), but driv

I like fashion. I like to choose my outfit according to my mood or where I’m going. And I like to show my colours, if you like. In short, it feels good to look good. There’s no particular cuisine I like, but for me a good meal is a kind of tool to re

Time was when politicians and other public figures touched by the merest whiff of scandal would make a principled resignation and shimmy out of the public eye for a while. That was then; this, indubitably, is now. Over the past couple of decades comp

Authors Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg Price £22 octopusbooks.co.uk Another facet of Formula 1 to receive a boost from ‘the Netflix effect’ is the book world as publishers rush to exploit the burgeoning interest. This book straddles the divide betwe

Ayao, how many meetings did you have with Haas F1 staff before the season started? Loads. As soon as it was announced on the 10th of January, in the next few days I just tried to have as many one-on-one meetings at our UK base with as many managers,

F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 1 F1 statistician Jacques Deschenaux’s annual Grand Prix Guide lists 68 occasions since 1950 where a driver has achieved a grand chelem or, in other words, pole position, fastest lap, victory and every lap of the race led.

Analytics and the science of marginal gains drives performance in a plethora of professional sports – including stick-and-ball pursuits as well as ones relying on wheels. SAP joined McLaren as a sponsor in 1997 and has now joined Mercedes – formerly

SIX racing drivers are playing beach volleyball – and it’s painful to watch. Gabriele Minì, who will spend the 2024 season racing for Prema in F3, wins six points in a row for his team through only his serve. And it’s not that his serve is that good

When I look back over the years I’ve been involved in motor racing and in particular Formula 1, it’s amazing to see the extent of the changes. Whether those were for good or bad, or somewhere between those points, depends on your perspective. I stepp

While Formula 1’s launch season tends to be awash with commentary about car concepts, masked innovations and garish liveries, some of us pore over the thing that fuels our sport. Money, and more precisely who has secured which sponsor and for how muc

“This is roughly what my workspace looks like during a race weekend. Of course, all the assembly work is done before the helmets are delivered to the track, and only the maintenance needs to be done on site. I don’t have a workstation as such. Most o

Rare it is indeed in modern Formula 1 for a team to race a car virtually identical to the one with which they contested the previous season. Rarer still for such a car to have been effectively signed off by technical leaders gone from the factory for

Gerhard Berger’s Ferrari 512LM, stolen at the San Marino GP in 1995, has been found by the Metropolitan Police in London. It is believed the car, worth around £350,000, was initially shipped to Japan before turning up in the UK late last year. Two wh

While we absorb the revised car liveries (or, rather, colour splashed on naked carbonfibre) now the season is under way, there’s also the fun of seeing different helmet designs. Individual paint schemes have always mattered, particularly when identif

“THE MOST EXCITED PEOPLE WHEN DANNY RICC CAME BACK WAS NETFLIX.” Nestling nicely in amongst Williams driver Logan Sargeant’s torturing of the English lexicon is a good point. One the American was making to a Netflix camera in the latest series of Dri

IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT Lewis Hamilton’s forthcoming move to Ferrari that BBC TV felt it worthy of inclusion in the Six O’Clock News. This was welcome after grim bulletins from war-torn corners of the world, followed by the daily grind of British politic

At night, under the lights, the Jeddah Corniche circuit can sometimes seem like a pretty surreal environment. I had in mind a shot that would evoke some of the qualities of a roller coaster ride with the car almost seeming to be on the rails. It was

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SITTING IN FRONT OF A MONITOR, ESTEBAN OCON STARES INTENTLY AHEAD. On screen is something video game-like, and Ocon is in the process of zapping enemy vessels while trying to protect his own starship in the middle of the screen. The catch is – he’s o

Q1 Charles Leclerc’s fastest lap in Saudi Arabia was his first since which race in 2022? Q2 What is the highest position Zhou Guanyu has run in a GP and at which race was it? Q3 Including Oliver Bearman, how many drivers have scored points on debut t

Tourism bodies in Osaka have confirmed that permanent track or hybrid circuit at Netflix is working on a biographical career of the three time world champion, on this year. Formula 1 owner Liberty Media has retained its place at the top of the presti