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Oleg has co-authored this month’s Charles Leclerc cover feature (p32) as well as talking to Paddy Lowe for a Long Interview (p62) In addition to his column (p24), Pat explains why some teams have introduced less-than-successful upgrades this season (

Having watched Friday’s track action in Baku, you wouldn’t necessarily have put money on a McLaren winning. Neither car topped the times in practice and Lando Norris had a very scrappy FP2. I wasn’t on hand in the right spot to capture him giving Pie

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If the weather’s with you in Baku then you get some great light for the late-afternoon track sessions. It takes on a slightly warm cast. Among the quirks, the alignment of the pit buildings overlooking the main straight is slightly south-south-east s

It’s been interesting to watch Williams rookie Franco Colapinto grow through his first three grand prix weekends. He’s obviously pretty confident and not afraid to explore the car’s limits, but he gets there in quite a methodical way. Obviously in Si

We like to capture all possible angles of the Singapore Grand Prix and, this being a street circuit, that takes a lot of planning and co-ordination. To get away from street level we work with the race organisers to have at least one photographer in t

Ricciardo loses out to Lawson Renault shutters F1 engine programme Sprint idea postponed 01 Odds of seeing sparkling white wine gulped straight from a shoe on a Formula 1 podium any time soon have diminished considerably following the official announ

Elsewhere in this issue we discuss the difficulties of relating experimental aerodynamics to what is happening to the physical car on track, and how our tools for aerodynamic research all have their limitations (p52). During this we refer to computat

@benedwardstv The final quarter of the 2024 F1 season is about to kick off with a particularly intense burst of action. A triple-header in the Americas is followed by a two-week gap before the last three races are held on consecutive weekends, travel

@_markgallagher Don’t feel too sorry for Daniel Ricciardo. Having survived the risks and rigours of 14 seasons competing in Formula 1, the ever-likeable Aussie can now enjoy the freedoms which come with a fortune most people can only dream of. On top

Whisper it – but sharing a garage with a seven-time world champion could mean less rather than more pressure on Charles Leclerc in 2025. That’s because Leclerc, according to those close to the team, has nothing to lose unless Hamilton regularly beats

Obfuscation is an innate part of the F1 game. Teams are, utterly understandably, unwilling to allow any more insight into their designs or decisions than is strictly necessary into the public realm. Lest rival squads use any of that information for t

The sophistication of aerodynamic research techniques has grown immensely in recent years. When I started windtunnel testing in the 1980s, the models were crude, the tunnels small and the instrumentation limited to a simple balance to measure forces

MANY YEARS AGO, there was a Swedish motor sport journalist whose specialist subject was ‘The Graves of Dead Racing Drivers’. Rather than being a reverential journey of respect, this was a mission, an assemblage of headstones from far and wide. He wou

In the fortnight after Monza, there was much chatter about McLaren’s so-called ‘papaya rules’ – the guidelines for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. In essence, they’re the same rules that govern motor racing. Appendix L of the International Sporting C

Lando Norris’s third Formula 1 victory was his most dominant yet – if perhaps not his easiest. Twice he came close to disaster, just managing to avoid race-ending contact with Singapore’s unyielding barriers. Such was the dominance of his McLaren, he

18-20 October 2024 Circuit of The Americas For a while the Circuit of The Americas was considered something of a white elephant – not quite along the lines of the facilities which hosted the here today, gone tomorrow Korean and Indian GPs but it stil

25-27 October 2024 Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Originally opened as the Magdalena Mixhuca circuit, this track’s initial foray into F1 – a non-championship race held in 1962 ahead of Mexico’s inclusion in the main calendar from ’63 onwards – was marr

1-3 November 2024 Autódromo José Carlos Pace For several years Interlagos was an outlier on the F1 calendar as the only circuit flowing anticlockwise, putting a greater strain than normal on drivers’ necks. Now it’s part of a small but select club wh

Author Andrew Benson Price £25 pavilionbooks.com There have been plenty of books about races and race tracks. But none with the depth and scope of this one, the first book by regular GP Racing contributor Andrew Benson. As F1 has proved in recent yea

@Nauckas facebook.com/gpracingonline ‘WTF?’ Seems the appropriate response to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem revealing recently that he wants Formula One Management to limit bad language in live broadcasts. It certainly had that effect during the

One of the perks of being a team photographer is that you get to be in parc fermé when it wins. In some circumstances this limits your angles on the podium but in Singapore you get a pretty good shot from below, provided your driver stands in the rig