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‘No panic’: F1 testing took place in Barcelona this week while Ferrari took precautions against Codiv-19 at its headquarters in Maranello, Italy, an area affected by the coronavirus.  (Florent Gooden/DPPI)

F1’s African Return via Rwanda Offers Hope, but South Africa Must Push Harder

Rwanda is closing in on a deal to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix from 2030, raising questions about whether South Africa should push harder to bring F1 back to Kyalami.

Formula 1's luxury makeover is about more than champagne

Formula 1 is increasingly selling luxury, a shift prominently displayed at the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix. Moët & Chandon, in its second year as title sponsor under LVMH's…

Lewis Hamilton is moving to Ferrari in 2025.

How Hamilton’s move to Ferrari will affect the sports betting market

Nobody is sure how he will cope with the Italian team and cars

Max Verstappen won the Belgian GP.

Belgian F1 review: The untouchables

Red Bull exerted dominance, with Ferrari still scratching their heads over strategy calls, in an action-packed race. The holidays are over and we’ve missed F1 …

Formula 1 flashback: Hometown disadvantage at Austrian Grand Prix

A Ferrari on fire, a strickened Sainz and a possible chink in the Red Bull armour exposed

Beware: ‘The Wall of Champions’ awaits

Montreal is fast and flat but its tricky chicanes tempt drivers to try to obtain some form of advantage

Global lockdowns owing to the coronavirus epidemic may have directed traditional sports fans towards their virtual replacements, but the future of both industries remains uncertain.

Coronavirus and the virtual sports revolution

In a country with more than 35 000 Covid-19-related deaths at the time of writing and an economy staring into an uncertain abyss, the fate of an incomplete football season really…

Changing tracks: The Yellow Pages South African Grand Prix in 1993 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Kyalami drew the crowds. (Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images)

F1 flirts with a return to SA

Motosport’s top competition is dropping hints of coming back, but would we want this to happen?

Formula One faces testing times over coronavirus

The F1 world championship, which gets under way in Melbourne on March 15, had already lost the Chinese Grand Prix from its schedule

Pride and prejudice: South African racing driver Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race. She, just like other women after her, battled to secure the vast sponsorships needed in the ‘rich man’s sport’. (Graham Morris/
Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Desiré Wilson: Fast but forgotten

The South African is the only woman to ever win an F1 race, but her career was slowed down by political and financial barriers

Animal lover: Lewis Hamilton previously drew ire on social media when he posted a picture of himself cuddling a lion cub.

Hamilton stirs up social media storm with pro-vegan post

The five time world champion said that the only way to save the planet is to go vegan

Niki Lauda won the Formula One drivers’ world championship three times, in 1975 and 1977 for Ferrari and in 1984 with McLaren. (Getty)

Sporting world mourns death of ‘true legend’ Niki Lauda

The legendary formula one driver died at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland on Monday night surrounded by his closest family members

A Brazilian flag with an image of late Brazilian former Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Ayrton Senna: Brazil mourns ‘superhero’ 25 years after his death

Apart from his exceptional driving skills, his attention to other elements of the sport set him apart from other drivers

US giant Philip Morris International, whose Marlboro brand was long associated with Ferrari, re-entered the sport last October. (Gallo Images)

No smoke without fire: Tobacco companies in quiet return to Formula One

​Tobacco giants Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have formed partnerships with scientific research subsidiaries and Formula 1 teams

The seven-time world champion — a record that still stands — will turn 50 on Thursday. (Getty)

Brawn understands wall of secrecy around stricken Schumacher

Schumacher suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since