Opportunity of a lifetime: A fallen Indycar star’s Jaguar F1 test

An unlikely sequence of events led Townsend Bell to sample a Jaguar Formula 1 car at Valencia in 2003.
Runner-up to Scott Dixon in the 2000 Indy Lights championship, the Californian romped to the 2001 title and had made his top-flight debut in CART before the end of the year. A promising career lay ahead in Indycar racing, but after a scrappy half-season in 2002 with Pat Patrick’s team, Bell …Keep reading
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Ocon highlights ‘massive’ role of new engineers in recent F1 performances

Ocon has picked up points in four of the first five races of the year, leading Alpine’s charge by outscoring two-time world champion teammate Fernando Alonso 12-5 so far this season.
The French driver’s displays have drawn praise from across the F1 paddock, and has helped spark an early start to talks over extending his contract with Alpine beyond the end of the season. 
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Hamilton: “Childish” to get into war of words in F1 title battle

Hamilton lost the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time this season after finishing seventh in Monaco last Sunday, while Verstappen claimed victory for Red Bull.
The result came at the end of a week that had seen Hamilton say on Wednesday that Verstappen “feels perhaps he has a lot to prove” with aggressive on-track moves in wheel-to-wheel battles. 
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F1 keen to ensure sprint races aren’t “a blur” for fans

F1 announced in April that it would be holding ‘sprint qualifying’ at three events this year, running a 100km race on Saturday afternoons to set the grid for the grand prix on Sunday.
Silverstone will stage F1’s first sprint race in July at the British Grand Prix, rejigging its weekend schedule by running qualifying on Friday evening.
F1 has been working with AWS to provide in-race …Keep reading
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