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Will F1 2024 go back to 'normal' as Red Bull flexes its Barcelona muscle?

The 2024 Formula 1 season has become a two or three or even four-horse race in recent races, but Red Bull is keen to re-assert its dominance on circuits that suit its car much better. McLaren and Ferrari had both been closing the gap to Red Bull since their respective…

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How teams are solving the logistical puzzle of F1's triple-headers

Once an anomaly during the pandemic, triple-headers have now become a standard fixture of the Formula 1 calendar.

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Ferrari's WEC title hopes "back on track" after Le Mans win

Ferrari believes it is back in the hunt for the 2024 World Endurance Championship after claiming its first win of the season at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

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How Mercedes tamed its troublesome W15 F1 car

Mercedes started the season with a W15 that proved a tricky beast for both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.

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Albon: I "had to bite my lip" on overweight Williams F1 car

As it ran late with the production of its 2024 launch car, Williams started the season with a chassis that was significantly overweight. And while Williams had already taken 14kg out of the car over the off-season, its 2024 FW46 was still four, five-tenths per lap slower than it should…

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Albon "had to bite my lip" on overweight Williams F1 car

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Le Mans 24 Hours: What's changed for WEC's main event in 2024?

The world’s most prestigious endurance race is back as this weekend drivers will tackle Circuit de la Sarthe for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Ferrari are the defending champions having won the race’s centenary edition in 2023, which was its first overall victory at Le Mans since 1965. But the…

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Red Bull might not take Yuki Tsunoda seriously yet, but RB does

Tsunoda was labelled a fast but slightly inconsistent hothead upon his F1 arrival in 2021 at the tender age of 20, going viral because of his expletive-laden radio messages. But with it being easier to calm a fast driver down than it is to make a consistently average driver faster,…

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How Crawford can turn the F2 tide after “super-unlucky” streak

Crawford was one of the standout performers across the first two weekends of the season with a trio of top-five finishes, including a second place in the first sprint race in Sakhir. But since then, a series of issues in qualifying have seen the DAMS driver drop to 11th in the…

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Le Mans 24 Hours to clash with F1 Canadian GP in 2025 as WEC calendar announced

The Le Mans 24 Hours is scheduled for 14-15 June, with the pre-event Test Day on the preceding Sunday. It means the race will clash with the F1 Canadian GP and IndyCar's St Louis round at Gateway.

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WEC announces 2025 calendar, Le Mans clashes with F1 Canada, Imola retained

The Le Mans 24 Hours is scheduled for 14-15 June, with the pre-event Test Day on the preceding Sunday. It means the race will clash with the F1 Canadian GP and IndyCar's St Louis round at Gateway.

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Leclerc: Red Bull's F1 strength will be more visible in Barcelona

Red Bull's weakness over kerbs and bumps was on display over the past four races in Miami, Imola, Monaco and Canada, with the RB20 inheriting some flaws from its predecessors that the team has yet to resolve.

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What is BoP? The regulation that's part of sports car racing

BoP is a part of how sports car racing is governed, but making sense of it is not always easy given much of it is hidden from the public domain. Manufacturers in the World Endurance Championship are even forbidden from discussing BoP, however some facts are still known. What is…

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Makowiecki shrugs off "politics" after Toyota names Porsche as Le Mans favourite

The 2024 World Endurance Championship has got off to a remarkable start for the Porsche brand, with its cars taking a 1-2-3 in Qatar, a double podium at Imola and a 1-2 at Spa-Francorchamps.

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Verstappen: 'Red Bull must deliver cleaner F1 weekends'

Verstappen suffered an issue with a brand-new hybrid component of his Red Bull - Honda which left him sidelined through most of Friday's second free practice. The additional MGU-K element added to Verstappen's pool of components might come back to haunt him later in the 2024 season in the form…

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Red Bull must deliver cleaner F1 weekends - Verstappen

Verstappen suffered an issue with a brand-new hybrid component of his Red Bull-Honda, which left him sidelined through most of Friday's second free practice. The additional MGU-K element added to Verstappen's pool of components might come back to haunt him later in the 2024 season in the form of grid…

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F1 team-mates' qualifying battles: Canadian GP

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.

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How exposed is Red Bull’s F1 campaign to its kerb and bump weakness?

After the challenges of Miami, Imola and Monaco where the clear weakness of the RB20 in dealing with bumps and kerbs was made evident, it is little wonder that the world champion has spent time in Red Bull's simulator since the last race trying to work through things ahead of…

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Peugeot receives biggest BoP break for Le Mans in WEC Hypercar class

The revised Peugeot 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar introduced at the Imola WEC in April has received an 18kg weight break down to 1047kg while retaining the maximum power of 508kW (681bhp) at which it raced last time out at Spa in May.

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Ferrari is back, but don't tell Vasseur: "If you think you are good, you are dead"

After McLaren announced its arrival at the top echelon of F1 in Miami and Imola, Ferrari officially joined the three-way fight in Monaco. While Monaco's cramped street circuit will always remain an outlier, it has confirmed trends that Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari have all closed up to within a…

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Ferrari is back, but don't tell Vasseur: 'If you think you are good, you are dead'

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Banning tyre warmers at Le Mans an "unsafe" choice, say Ferrari WEC drivers

Teams across both Hypercar and LMGT3 categories will not be allowed to artificially heat their tyres in the blue riband round of the World Endurance Championship on 15-16 June as per the updated sporting regulations for 2024. The WEC had originally imposed an outright ban on tyre warmers at the…

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Alonso: Last two F1 races a "big wake-up call" for Aston Martin

Aston Martin brought an upgrade package to Imola, alongside many of its direct rivals, which meant that in the relative game of in-season development, the Silverstone-based squad hasn't been able to make much progress.

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The "butterflies" that are the saving grace of F1's Monaco Grand Prix

Long before the advent of Las Vegas or Miami, Monaco was F1's stereotypical marquee event that basked in its own glamour. Monaco, which first saw grand prix racing in 1929, and Formula 1 helped put each other on the map in the 50s and 60s, with the grand prix building…

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