Emilia Romagna GP Date: Sunday, 18 May 2025 Track: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari ♔ 75 years ago, on May 13, 1950, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret watched Giuseppe Farina win the first ever Grand Prix of the F1 drivers’ championship at Silverstone. ♖ Helmut Marko thinks Yuki Tsunoda is Verstappen-level fast—until […]
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‘If Senna was a flamethrower, Prost was a scalpel. One burned everything. The other made exact clinical incisions.’ Alain was born in Lorette, France, in 1955. He wanted to be a footballer, but thank God he had discovered karting. Come 1975, he won the French senior karting championship. A sign of things to come. Like
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Emilia Romagna GP Date: Sunday, 18 May 2025 Track: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari ♖ Franco Colapinto partners with Gasly for five races as Briatore weighs Jack Doohan’s future pre-Silverstone. ♖ Jack Doohan backs Alpine, even after losing his race seat to rising star Colapinto. ♖ Red Bull’s contract clock with Tsunoda is ticking—could young