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Thinking Forward: WRC focused on Chinese manufacturers and hybrids For the first #ThinkingForward of 2021, WRC director Peter Thul speaks about qualities needed to excel in rally, why WRC backs F1's strategy on hybrid engines and why so many co-drivers end up running teams and federations

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Magazine: Our 1991 retrospective Ayrton Senna's battle for his third Formula 1 world title in 1991 is part of a special issue of Autosport magazine, out today (14 January).

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Thinking Forward: WRC focused on Chinese manufacturers and hybrids For the first #ThinkingForward of 2021, WRC director Peter Thul speaks about qualities needed to excel in rally, why WRC backs F1's strategy on hybrid engines and why so many co-drivers end up running teams and federations

Tank Slappers Podcast: How will Suzuki move on from Brivio? In the latest edition of the Tank Slappers Podcast, Oriol Puigdemont joins Lewis Duncan to discuss how Davide Brivio's departure will affect Suzuki and why it hasn't replaced the Italian

Magazine: Our 1991 retrospective Ayrton Senna's battle for his third Formula 1 world title in 1991 is part of a special issue of Autosport magazine, out today (14 January).

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The key mistakes behind a lost Williams title Formula 1 history is full of should'ves, could'ves and would'ves, but it's easy to see 1991 as the greatest missed opportunity in the illustrious history of Williams, allowing Ayrton Senna to steal his last and perhaps greatest world championship title F1

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