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Jake Boxall-Legge

@jakeybl.bsky.social

F1 Writer at Autosport. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.

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I wish I could be half the interviewer that Roddick is - this is great.

29.07.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Favourite F1 Season - Jake Boxall-Legge's 1999 Welcome back to Episode 7 of "My Favourite F1 Season" on Autosport Retro, the series where Autosport Editor-In-Chief Kevin Turner sits down with journalists and broadcasters from around the ...

We've been discussing our favourite F1 seasons on our Retro podcast.

Here's mine; you can listen to it during a variety of different situations:

- In the car
- While doing the washing up
- Walking the dog
- Audio testing at Glastonbury
- Funerals
- and more!

audioboom.com/posts/873749...

27.06.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! I'd certainly love to in the future, time-permitting - it would take months to do

20.06.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe in a fair and transparent system for teams to lodge protests against genuine wrongdoing, illegalities, and everything that fails to uphold F1's integrity.

I do not believe in teams cynically attempting to change results based purely on conjecture.

17.06.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Red Bull crying foul after Canadian GP underlined the need for bigger F1 protest fees

Done a bit on Red Bull's Montreal appeal. As you can probably tell, it wound me up a bit: www.autosport.com/f1/news/red-...

17.06.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we learned in Friday practice for the F1 Canadian GP

www.autosport.com/f1/news/anal...

14.06.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PSG cinq, Inter sank #UCLFinal

31.05.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It would be amusing if the hotel brand became increasingly budget each time it changed hands...

"Out of Mirabeau, and down into Ibis Styles we go..."

25.05.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like my default is Loews - you can definitely identify fans of a certain vintage by what they call the hairpin...

25.05.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I might be overthinking this but I genuinely don't know how to refer to Monaco's hairpin in copy. I think we need an arbitration board to decide if it's Station, Loews, Fairmont, Grand Hotel, Leclerc Corner, or Tighty Lefty Roundy-Round.

#MonacoGP

25.05.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we learned from Friday practice at Imola

Crunched the numbers from #ImolaGP practice. Feel free to read it right now. Or whenever's convenient for you...maybe next year?

www.autosport.com/f1/news/what...

16.05.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I swear I can spell my employer's name, autocorrect adding the extra "s" I've forgotten in the rare scenario I've written about United Autosports

09.05.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hoping there's some in a local WHSmith (or whatever it's going by now) - if you find a few copies, please do feel free to shuffle them to the front!

09.05.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Penned this week's Autosports cover feature on the situation at Red Bull - the SchrΓΆdinger's title contender this season.

Pop down to your local papyrus merchant and trade a few mere gold coins for the latest edition ⬇️

#F1

09.05.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Verstappen recovered from Miami GP qualifying mis-step to claim pole

Verstappen was over a tenth down on his previous best in the opening seven corners of his #MiamiGP pole lap.

Wanna know how he recovered to do the job, and where Lando Norris just missed out? This might help:

www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-...

04.05.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"See the boy, five dollars - or call him 24 hours a day on KimiChat"

29.04.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Problem child or mercurial genius? Red Bull's RB21 is flighty, but can be faster than the McLaren

Honestly believe Red Bull has a much better car than it says it does - but it's making Verstappen work harder to reach the extremities of its performance level.

Here's a bit on that:

www.autosport.com/f1/news/prob...

22.04.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis: The compromises involved with Jeddah's lower-drag F1 technical updates

And further analysis - there was plenty of lower-drag updates for Jeddah as teams chased aero efficiency. Here's what's up: www.autosport.com/f1/news/anal...

18.04.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we learned in Friday practice for the 2025 Saudi Arabian GP

No real long runs to go on after the #SaudiArabianGP red flag in FP2, but there's a few things we can read into it:

www.autosport.com/f1/news/what...

18.04.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nightmarish - and the amount of faffing! 15 minutes later out of Haneda purely because a woman couldn't find space for the FOUR bags she brought on board...

08.04.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grumpy opinion: I genuinely believe people should only get to take one piece of hand luggage on board a plane - and it should only be backpack sized.

The amount of time lost to people trying to stuff their little wheely suitcase into an already full overhead bin is wild...

08.04.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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That won't buff out

04.04.2025 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Can't believe they've not renamed it "Tsunoda Station" yet

03.04.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the aero problems that will keep Haas near the back of the F1 field

Could you tell I've been binge-watching House over the past few days?

A bit on why Haas' VF-25 isn't going to plan:

www.autosport.com/f1/news/insi...

20.03.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Post-grand prix fun complete: hard not to have enjoyed that race. Start as you mean to go on; if that maxim is true, 2025 should be quite a lot of fun

16.03.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I will continually die on the hill that Australia '99 has that honour

16.03.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jake Boxall-Legge: Drive to Survive has been brilliant for F1 - but I won't watch it

Some musings on Drive to Survive, Death in Paradise, and tales of the F2 paddock in 2018.

(Don't ask why my name is in the headline, I didn't do it)

www.autosport.com/f1/news/jake...

07.03.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why suggestions that F1 should return to V10 engines simply won't work Get quick access to your favorite articles

Drop intro? Go on then.

Why V10s can't be, for want of a better phrase, brought back...

www.autosport.com/f1/news/why-...

04.03.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What it takes to be an F1 mechanic

For Autosport, I interviewed Calum Nicholas about the intense demands of being an F1 mechanic, why soft skills are crucial in such a high-pressure environment, and how having the option to take races off is essential to preventing burnout. #F1

www.autosport.com/f1/news/what...

23.02.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every F1 team’s seven minutes at F175 ranked

Codders has excelled himself here - he's reviewed all 10 of the teams' presentations at last night's F1 75 event. A must read:

www.autosport.com/f1/news/ever...

19.02.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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