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FUEL IF YOU THINK IT’S OVER • Formula 1 has been heading – at times grudgingly – towards electrification for over a decade. But recent advances in sustainable fuel means it’s not over yet for internal combustion…

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY • The 36-year-old holder of one of F1’s most unwanted records might seem an unusual choice to help spearhead Audi’s entry into the category. But there’s a lot about Nico Hülkenberg you didn’t know…

JOKING APART • Gary Gannon, Hülkenberg’s race engineer, reveals the grafter behind the colourful persona

RETURN OF THE FLAV • Look who Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo has brought off the bench as an impact player. He might be 74 years old but Flavio Briatore is ready to crack some skulls…

THIS IS MIKE KRACK • Studious, calm, industrious but never ostentatiously so, Aston Martin’s team principal took a long break from Formula 1 after beginning his career at Sauber. The man who polished the rough edges off Felipe Massa as a race engineer is now trying to do the same for an entire team…

IN CONVERSATION WITH OSCAR PIASTRI • You can tell he’s made it – he’s moved to Monaco. But as McLaren’s new star is eager to point out, in all other respects success hasn’t changed him one bit…

THE SWAN’S SWANSONG • As he prepares to hang up his lenses after covering nearly 600 grands prix, award-winning sports photographer Steve Etherington – aka ‘The Swan’ – set himself a major challenge: to shoot the Monaco Grand Prix on a Hasselblad medium-format portrait camera…

10 THINGS I LOVE • Alpine’s departing driver on superheroes and his fascination with the odour of go-juice

THE SENNA VETO • For Ayrton Senna’s third season in Formula 1, at Lotus, he was due to get a new team-mate – and that man was to be Renault refugee Derek Warwick, one of Britain’s top prospects at the time. But as this exclusive extract from Derek’s autobiography Never Look Back reveals, the Brazilian superstar didn’t want another super-competitive driver in the garage next door…

THE DRIVER’S ESCAPE ROOM • Alex Albon’s physio Patrick Harding describes what goes where in the driver’s motorhome room

SHADOW DN11 • Celebrated at Goodwood this summer, the Shadow team and its mysterious owner captured the imagination of Formula 1 fans even when the cars were so scary that drivers feigned illness to avoid racing them…

ALTERNATIVE VIEW • The fickle Ardennes weather often plays a decisive role in Belgian Grands Prix at Spa. Perhaps that’s why, in days of yore, officials refused to start the race without enjoying a long lunch first…

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