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• Hadjar proves second Red Bull car is no longer a weakness - Mekies

  Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies believes Isack Hadjar’s peformances and results show the team is successfully addressing a past weakness with its second car.Hadjar was promoted after just one year at Racing Bulls to partner Max Verstappen this year, following a high turnover that saw Sergio Perez, Liam Lawson...

• For F1 drivers, even the summer break is something to be optimized

  F1's summer break isn’t a time of year where drivers are solely heading off on holiday with no consequence. While it offers a chance to both reset and refresh mentally in order to tackle the rest of the season, there’s much more science to that than you might think.

• From the pages of RACER: The Formula 1 season, reimagined

  What race fan hasn’t looked at the Formula 1 schedule and thought they could do better? We do it every year, especially as the calendar slips ever further away from “traditional” courses to attend indistinct venues with vanilla layouts and runoff areas that have their own ZIP codes and trigger...

• Turning a worm into a butterfly: Cadillac's debut year to date

  Cadillac F1's Dan Towriss shares the good and the bad from the first half of the team's debut season.

• Hamilton says it's on him to avoid more penalties in remaining GPs

  Lewis Hamilton expects a stronger second half of the season for himself and Ferrari, but acknowledges he needs to avoid penalties after Formula 1’s mid-season break.Ferrari has been the most consistent challenger to Mercedes so far this year, with Hamilton sitting second in the drivers’ championship, 50 points adrift of...