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1 week ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
It couldn’t have been a worse start to the season. Lap one of the first race of the 2025 F1 world championship, and Jack Doohan’s Alpine F1 car lay in pieces after a fifth corner smash at his home race. The rookie knew that he had needed the best possible performance to shut down doubts about his ability, but his mistake in wet conditions only fuelling the belief of some that Alpine should replace him with newly-signed reserve driver Franco Colapinto. Seven weeks on and the doubters have won.
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2 weeks ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
Oscar Piastri is now the fourth-most owned F1 Fantasy driver asset at 35%, and at the Saudi Arabian GP the ice-cool Aussie showed exactly why. The Fantasy points payout was sizeable as Piastri took a consummate grand prix win in Jeddah, while his far more expensive team-mate Lando Norris floundered again by crashing in qualifying.
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3 weeks ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
“At the end of the first lap, Senna led by 2.65sec. The gap extended by roughly the same amount on each succeeding lap. A clear track played its part but Senna was about to prove that the benefit of unimpeded vision was not as valuable as his surging pace seemed to suggest. Within five laps, he was among the backmarkers – and slicing through as if they were standing still.
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4 weeks ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Pablo Elizalde |James Elson |Mark Hughes
Former FIA deputy president for sport Robert Reid says he paid the price for speaking out about his concerns about the ruling body, but felt “fundamental principles were being eroded”. Former WRC champion co-driver Reid announced last week that he had resigned amid “growing alarm over critical decisions being made without due process or proper consultation”.
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4 weeks ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
To join the official Motor Sport magazine 2025 F1 Fantasy league, click here. Oscar Piastri’s 2025 Bahrain GP was a masterclass in showing your F1 mettle, while his team-mate and main rival Lando Norris went to pieces. It paid off for those that took Motor Sport’s Fantasy advice, the points flying in for McLaren’s Melbourne charger and others in our team – giving us crucial information on who to pick for this weekend’s Saudi Arabian GP.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
Almost five decades ago, McLaren shot into the racing record books by winning on both sides of the pond on the same day. On May 2 1976 F1 dynamo James Hunt tasted champagne at Jarama’s Spanish GP, before ‘Lone Star JR’ Johnny Rutherford triumphed for McLaren’s IndyCar team at the Trenton oval just a few hours later. They say that history doesn’t repeat itself but rather rhyme, and it’s a sentiment not lost on new McLaren IndyCar star Christian Lundgaard.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Pablo Elizalde |Katy Fairman |James Elson |Mark Hughes
Ferrari has revealed all the updated car parts it will introduce in the Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton hopes they will solve the issues that he has been having. Hamilton said during the Japanese GP that his SF-25 was “underperforming” compared to team-mate Charles Leclerc‘s, and that he was losing over a tenth of a second per lap to the Monegasque. “We have found something in the car that has underperformed in the last three races.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Mark Hughes |Pablo Elizalde |Katy Fairman |James Elson
The discussions centred around reducing the costs of research and development of F1 engines, reducing the complexity of the power units, and considerations on sustainability, weight reduction, performance, road car relevance and sound appeal. The gathering was seen as a ‘crisis meeting’ amid concerns that the regulations could result in a huge disparity in performance between some of the manufacturers.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
To join the official Motor Sport magazine 2025 F1 Fantasy league, click here. Each of the four F1 races so far in 2025 has been won by different drivers – we did say it would be competitive, after all…That’s meant making your crucial F1 Fantasy choices even trickier. Now’s the time to pay ever more attention to our race-by-race guide. Max Verstappen was superlative at Suzuka, paying back just the 17% of those who owned him with a 36-point Fantasy haul.
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1 month ago | 
motorsportmagazine.com | James Elson
“And now with this exciting news, we’re going to try and win all three of these big races, and in the same year, we’re up for it. We’re ready. We’ll see you at the track.”Brown’s United Autosports team currently runs McLarens in WEC’s LMGT3, but now the marque will run in the top class for the very first time. It is thought that squad will run the Hypercar concern, and that Dallara – who already supplies BMW and Cadaillac – will provide the chassis.
