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When a journeyman driver's F1 career lasted just 800m

Marco Apicella was an F1 driver for just 800m before a first corner fracas ended his career. Here’s the story of his very short tenure at the pinnacle of motorsport

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Inside the McLaren that won its first and only race at Le Mans

Watch our video covering the history of McLaren's F1 GTR Le Mans winner from 1995, featuring insights from driver JJ Lehto himself

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Autosport 75: Toyota's Le Mans legend that couldn't win

Somehow the Toyota GT-One contrived never to win a race. Yet the car that moved the goalposts in the GT1 category from which it derived its name might well have triumphed in every one of the three events it contested.

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Everything Cadillac must learn from the new teams that thrived or failed in F1

Sometimes, Formula 1 needs a hint of acidity to cut through some of its more cloying elements; a little lemon sorbet, perhaps, or a raspberry coulis.

Motorsport

What Cadillac can learn from other teams' first year approaches in F1

Sometimes, Formula 1 needs a hint of acidity to cut through some of its more cloying elements; a little lemon sorbet, perhaps, or a raspberry coulis.

Autosport

McLaren Is Milking Its Le Mans History Again. But We're Here for It

Thirty years ago, McLaren won Le Mans on its debut, with JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas, and Masanori Sekiya piloting an F1 GTR to victory ahead of heavily favored protoypes. It helped seal the legend of the F1, and made McLaren the only constructor to win motorsport's triple crown, with victories at…

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Autosport 75: Victory for Hill lifts Williams spirits

It was on this day that Williams folk began to smile again. When Damon Hill climbed the top step of the podium, the throng beneath cheered with a vigour not heard in a very long time. The length of the pitlane was represented – everyone appreciated what Frank’s team had…

Autosport

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Sauber's 600th GP: The team's 10 most important moments in F1

Sauber will, across its various guises, celebrate its 600th Formula 1 grand prix at the Imola weekend – if we count the races between 2019 and 2023 when it competed as Alfa Romeo. And we should, given it was still ostensibly operated by Sauber Motorsport AG...

Autosport

Sauber's 10 key moments across its 600 F1 grands prix

Sauber will, across its various guises, celebrate its 600th Formula 1 grand prix at Imola – if we count the races between 2019 and 2023 when it competed as Alfa Romeo. And we should, given it was still ostensibly operated by Sauber Motorsport AG...

Motorsport

McLaren to fight for Le Mans 24 Hours win with WEC 2027 entry

McLaren will chase overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time in nearly 30 years as part of a World Endurance Championship campaign in 2027.

Autosport

Finland is out of F1 drivers for the first time since the 1980s – but why?

Finland may have just 5.6 million inhabitants – just 0.07% of the world’s population – yet it has immensely contributed to Formula 1’s history.

Autosport

Help wanted: The least useful team-mates in F1 history

Red Bull's Sergio Pérez had a horrible 2024 season, but where does he stack up among the worst #2 drivers on good teams?

Motorsport

Friday favourite: When an Audi cameo transformed a Le Mans winner’s career

Marco Werner identifies the Audi R8 prototype as the car that changed his career and his life. And he’s not wrong.

Autosport

Friday favourite: When BMW partners hit the ground running

To make a winning start with a brand-new car and team-mate partnership, everything must go right. But Jorg Muller didn’t especially fancy his chances heading into the 1999 Sebring 12 Hours in the Williams-designed BMW V12 LMR after testing at Homestead was blighted by gearbox problems. “The diff always blew…

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Nelson Piquet – one of F1’s most formidable champions

After giving up on a promising tennis career, Piquet rose through the single-seater ranks following the advice of another Brazilian great, Emerson Fittipaldi, and came to Europe to follow his F1 dream.

Autosport

How to be an ace engineer: McLaren Automotive motorsport director Ian Morgan

Given he’s now in his third stint at McLaren, it should come as little surprise that Ian Morgan has a deep passion for the Woking-based giant he first worked for over 25 years ago.

Autosport

Neil Brown obituary: Leading engine builder dies aged 74

Few can match the record of his Lincolnshire-based Neil Brown Engineering company, which built engines that were victorious in European and British Formula Ford 2000 in the 1980s, via domination in British Formula 3, a host of DTM and British Touring Car Championship title successes, to servicing the spec engines…

Autosport

Verstappen vs Senna - wins, poles, podiums and more stats compared

Max Verstappen can draw level with Ayrton Senna for wins in Canada this weekend, but how do their other stats compare? Find out here.

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Motorsport.com writers' favourite Imola Grands Prix

Formula 1's inaugural visit to the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in 1980 began an unbroken 27-year run on the calendar for Italy's 'other' circuit, before it dropped off the schedule in 2006. But the onset of the COVID pandemic and an increased demand for European venues to meet F1's required…

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Autosport writers' favourite Imola Grands Prix

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Ranking the top 10 Le Mans races of all time

Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hours, Autosport has revisited and updated a top 10 list which first ran ahead of the 2019 race covering the greatest editions of the race in its history.

Autosport

Autosport writers' favourite F1 Italian Grands Prix

No circuit has held more Formula 1 races than Monza, part of the original calendar in 1950 and a virtual ever-present since. Ahead of this year's 73rd Italian Grand Prix, Autosport's writers pick their favourite editions of the stalwart race.

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