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Matters of moment, November 2014
Lewis Hamilton vs Nico Rosberg is great box office, offering Formula 1 a much-needed narrative at a time when it…
Lewis Hamilton vs Nico Rosberg is great box office, offering Formula 1 a much-needed narrative at a time when it…
Born close to London but based in Belgium, Adam Cooper isn’t quite as itinerant as Jonathan Williams, the unsung former…
A sense of perspective The Ferrari conundrum Farewell to a friend Back in 1964 three British drivers – Jim Clark,…
Twenty-three years on and Ferrari’s saviour Luca di Montezemolo has left the building, with more than a little urging by…
Racing folk are aware of his existence, but less sure about the precise role Piero Ferrari plays in the globally…
Belgium & Italy Rd 12 Spa-Francorchamps, Aug 24 2014 1 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull RB10 1hr 24min 36.556sec 2 Nico…
The electric age dawns Prost/Heidfeld shunt provides talking point in China | By Gary Watkins The new FIA Formula E…
Full power, brittle calendar... After knocking on the door for five years, Will Power (above) has at last won the…
Talented racing car designer Len Terry has died after a short illness, at the age of 90. Though involved with…
Jonathan Williams A prolific F3 and F2 competitor during the 1960s, this Cairo-born Englishman has passed away aged 71. Although…
The founder of the world’s longest-established racing car-building firm died on August 31. He was 83. The Scotland-born, County Tyrone-raised…
In Swedish, “björn” means “bear”. And in many ways that suited Björn Waldegård, whose physique – especially in his later…
Hidden Glory, The Story of the Crosslé Car Company Alan Tyndall Other volume racing car manufacturers have cultivated higher profiles…
“It was dangerous but great” Lately there has been much talk about safety in MotoGP. Even before Andrea Iannone’s Ducati…
F3 back at Goodwood 1-litre screamers to return in 2015 | by Paul Lawrence For the first time since it…
An original road test taken from the Motor Sport archives, August 1961 | by Michael Tee Introduced in 1953 the…
Merc targets the 911 AMG GT set for UK sales from April | by Andrew Frankel There will be a…
Fast and fruity, but not without flaws | by Andrew Frankel You might not have heard of Andy Palmer and,…
Meet the 180mph dog-carrier that’s blessed with many other fine features The market’s constant craving for more of everything has…
Swift and sophisticated, the best in breed has just got better There’s a smattering of smoke and mirrors surrounding this…
It’s difficult to measure Alexander Rossi’s remarkable achievement in winning the Indy 500 on his first try. He certainly benefitted from the advice of co-team owners Michael Andretti and Bryan Herta. Both…
MotoGP’s new 850cc engine rules are expected to be announced at next month’s Spanish GP but there’s another way of slowing race bikes and the British Superbike series is already doing it
The Lotus Elan broke cover in 1962. It measured 3.68m long, 1.42m wide and 1.15m high. Even by ’60s standards it was a small car. The modern Lotus Elise, itself…
MotoGP is between a rock and a hard place: performance needs to be reduced but then the bikes could be slower than World Superbikes. So it’s time to listen to the fans and get radical…