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When it comes to birthday parties, the 70th for Formula 1 at Silverstone was a non-event. There were no guests, no cake and a lot of people seemed to be rather grouchy because the whole affair was overshadowed by the quibbling and mud-slinging over the rear brake ducts on the

Spain in August can be stifling hot and, as Formula One arrives in Barcelona for round six of this year’s championship, the formerly-invincible Mercedes-AMG team is suddenly finding things a bit too hot. Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing applied the blow torch to end their winning streak at

Rear brake ducts might seem trivial to a Formula One fan but they are a very big deal right now in the grand prix pitlane. The dodgy ducts are on a Racing Point, a car variously described as the ‘Pink Mercedes’ and ’Tracing Point’, and are causing a fair amount

My first grand prix in 1982 was also the last one for Gilles Villeneuve. It was the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, I was a guest of Alfa Romeo on a new-car preview in Italy, and the race was epic in so many ways. I can still recall a

The best car in Formula One is not enough to win the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone. Instead, it is the best strategy on the best tyres that allows the number-two team, Red Bull, to scoop top prize. While the Mercedes-Benzes are frying their tyres, and their drivers are

When grand prix teams are burning through soft-compound Pirelli tyres like a toddler demolishing Smarties then you know something is wrong at Silverstone. The second race in the British double-header – officially a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the world championship – is shaping as a tyre battle to rival anything