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The Best Knows Best
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Once more, the weather at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps provided controversy in the Formula 1 paddock and the fandom. As had been the case in the infamous 2021 event, rain arrived shortly before the start of the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix and race control decided to abort the start sequence. Thankfully, unlike the 2021…
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Reject Games: Prost Grand Prix
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Before the start of exclusive licensing agreements in 2003, anyone could produce a game based on Formula One. As computer and video game systems matured in the 1990s, the amount of games produced increased exponentially. Some had a full official licence featuring all of the real-life teams, drivers and circuits, while at the other…
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2024 Season Review
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What a difference twelve months makes. When Max Verstappen cruised to back-to-back victories to begin the 2024 F1 season, a feeling of déjà vu gripped the fandom of this sport. Lest we forget, F1 was coming off a 2023 season which rewrote the definition of “dominant”, Max Verstappen’s magnum opus making seasons like 2002,…
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Gloria Garantita
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We are a little more than a week away from Sir Lewis Hamilton entering his first Grand Prix as a driver of the famous Scuderia Ferrari. The Italian team signed the seven-time world’s champion to a multi-year contract at the start of 2024, finishing his long run with Mercedes. He becomes the fifth former…
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To B or Not to B(-Team)
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The 2024 Singapore Grand Prix was a dominant victory for Lando Norris. The British driver easily defended his pole position into T1 and proceeded to lead all 62 laps of the race. Norris’s control of the Grand Prix was so absolute that he needed to scare his fans and team a few times to…
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Schumacher’s Seventh
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On this day 20 years ago, Michael Schumacher accomplished a then unprecedented feat in Formula 1 history by clinching his seventh Driver’s World Championship at the legendary Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. To celebrate this accomplishment, this month’s Gravel Trap will re-watch the ITV coverage of this historic event and take a look at the observations…
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