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Hamilton looks to Schumacher’s record after third Championship

Once. Twice. Three times a World Champion. This is now what Lewis Hamilton can tell both himself and the world at large. Following victory at the United States Grand Prix in Austin last weekend, Hamilton secured his second World Championship in a row and third overall. This in itself is not news. Hamilton’s dominance this […]

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Why Bernie’s Formula One has fallen asleep at the wheel

In the early days of the Bernie Ecclestone reign in Formula One someone decided that it would be good for public relations to define the sport as ‘the pinnacle of motorsport’. Presumably, Formula One (F1) would then become the only vehicle-based sport pushing to the extremes the technology, speed, aerodynamics, and track design which had […]

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Melbourne greets the second coming of the Verstappen family

Seventeen years ago a sweeping referendum secured Scotland its own parliament and forever altered the United Kingdom’s political landscape. Princess Diana died, Steve Jobs returned to a struggling Apple and Mike Tyson infamously bit a chunk out of Evander Holyfield’s ear. Britain officially returned Hong Kong to China, ending a 99-year lease of the island […]

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Hamilton makes history as historic F1 season fizzles out

“There has been no other season like it” claimed many fans before Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the last of the 2014. With immense wheel to wheel racing in Bahrain, controversy in the glitz and glamour of Monaco’s qualifying, to the clipping of wheel by wing in Belgium, the 2014 season has been on for […]