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THIS MONTH Giorgio Piola F1 technical expert • Giorgio Piola has been spotting and exquisitely illustrating Formula 1’s tech secrets for half a century. And the great thing about F1, he tells GP Racing, is that he’s still learning new tricks every race…

2020 A VIEW TO A THRILL • Formula 1 celebrates its 70th anniversary with an expanded calendar and the promise of an epic scrap for the world championship. With new rules coming in 2021 there’s still all to play for as the young guns take aim at Lewis Hamilton’s crown...

HAMILTON VS SCHUMACHER: THE PATH TO GREATNESS • Lewis Hamilton says he’s not interested in history, and that equalling or beating Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of seven world championships was never on his radar. And yet he stands on the cusp of doing just that. Prodigiously talented drivers both, Michael and Lewis enjoy plenty of similarities – but also key differences, not least in their eventful and often controversial routes to the top…

EYES ON THE PRIZE • Permanently under siege from the antsy Italian media and struggling to contain tensions between four-time champion Sebastian Vettel and rising star Charles Leclerc, Ferrari faces a challenging season ahead

YESTERDAY’S MAN? • Once a dominant force in Formula 1, Sebastian Vettel ended last season in the shadow of his young team-mate Charles Leclerc. Nigel Roebuck ponders whether number-two status awaits the four-time champ…

SIGNED, SEALED AND READY TO DELIVER • Max Verstappen and Red Bull surprised everyone by committing pen to paper on a lucrative new contract before any 2020 F1 cars turned a wheel. Here, we get to grips with exactly why both parties took the sting out of F1’s annual driver-market ‘silly season’ well before the actual racing began

IN CONVERSATION WITH LANDO NORRIS • McLaren’s young prodigy was an impressive rookie in 2019, but didn’t win universal admiration for his laidback attitude and sense of humour. This year, he’s going to tone down the larking about and show what he’s really made of. Lando’s even eschewed the trappings of Monaco and moved closer to the team’s Woking HQ. Look out for him locally – he still doesn’t mind the attention…

RACING UP THE MOUNTAIN • This season is Year Zero for Racing Point, a team that’s come back from the brink of financial collapse and is brimming with confidence under its new owners. But it’s a hard road back up to ‘best of the rest’ status…

DANIEL RICCIARDO • Renault’s Aussie star will be out of contract after 2020 so is likely to be hot property on the driver market as this season unfolds, but here he explains why he remains “100%” committed to his current team and that he believes he will get to swill champagne from the inside of his black and yellow boot before too long…

Master of the house • Alan Jones. Keke Rosberg. Nigel Mansell. Juan Pablo Montoya. Williams loves a hard-charging driver and, after a year of flying under the radar, George Russell (he’s a big Montoya fan, by the way) is determined to enter the team’s pantheon of go-getters…

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