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The Founding · 1950–1958
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
A disused airfield, four red cars, a kidnapped maestro, and the decade that built a world championship — and counted its dead.
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The Rear-Engine Turn · 1958–1959
THE ENGINE MOVED BACKWARD
A whisky heir, a backyard garage in Surbiton, and a quiet Australian overturned half a century of how a racing car should be built.
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The Rear-Engine Revolution · 1962–1967
ENGINE BEHIND THE DRIVER
A bathtub of riveted aluminium, a £100,000 Ford engine, and a Scottish farmer who drove like no one before — the decade that built the modern racing car, and counted its dead at Monza.
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Sponsorship & FOCA · 1968–1980
THE COLOUR OF MONEY
The decade a Grand Prix car stopped wearing its country's colours and started wearing a cigarette packet — and a used-car dealer turned the whole sport into a business.
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Power and Grief · 1966–1969
WINGS, POWER AND LOSS
Power came back, wings sprouted and then tore themselves apart, money arrived painted on the cars — and on a damp morning at Hockenheim the sport lost the finest driver it had.
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Fire and Return · 1976
SIX WEEKS, ONE POINT
Niki Lauda burned at the Nürburgring, took the last rites, came back in six weeks — and lost the title by a single point in the rain, to a playboy who would never win another.
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Ground Effect · 1976–1978
THE GROUND BENEATH THE WING
Lotus found downforce not above the car but beneath it, a rival answered with a giant fan, a six-wheeler stole a win — and a championship season ended in a fire at Monza.
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The Turbo Years · 1977–1984
BOOST
A mocked little engine that trailed white smoke became a thousand-horsepower war — fought in the paddock, paid for on the track, and settled by half a point.
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McLaren-Honda · 1988
FIFTEEN FROM SIXTEEN
Fifteen wins from sixteen races, two of the finest who ever lived sharing one garage, and the season that lit the Senna–Prost war.
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The Active Era · 1992
THE COMPUTER THAT DROVE
For three seasons a Williams thought faster than the men inside it — then a sport, and a single black weekend, took the steering back.
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The Safety Reset · 1994
IMOLA, AND AFTER
One weekend at Imola, the contested season it scarred, and the long, deliberate work of making the sport survivable.
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Ferrari Dynasty · 2000–2004
THE RED EMPIRE
Todt, Brawn and Schumacher turned Ferrari into the closest thing Formula One had to an empire — a podium in every race, a points haul to rival the whole grid, and a fine for winning too well.
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The Fairy Tale · 2009
BRAWN FROM THE ASHES
A manufacturer walks away, an engineer buys the wreckage, and a hidden trick in the floor wins two world titles in a single season.
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Article III · Hybrid Era
THE SILVER MACHINE
How Brackley built eight.
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Article II · Hybrid Era
THE 2014 RESET
The rulebook that rewrote the grid.
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Article IV · Hybrid Era
ISTANBUL 2020
Seven.
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Article V · Hybrid Era
2021
The War
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Article I · Hybrid Era
ABU DHABI 2021
The race that changed Formula 1.
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Race Recap · Round 6 · Hybrid Era
MONACO 2026
Antonelli leads every lap. Behind him, Monaco comes apart.