Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John Watson’s 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with McLaren Heritage test driver Rob…
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take shape. The McLaren MP4 would famously laminate a new technology…
It is hard to imagine that the speed limit was only raised to a heady 20mph in 1903. With no motor sport activity allowed on British roads, Hugh Fortescue Locke…
Kevin Rice describes what you are seeing over these pages as “a barn find”, and it’s hard to disagree. The man who took these images, Charles Strickland Laird, was a…
Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic on land. To witness him holding court in the local,…
While Brad Pitt’s F1: The Movie failed to earn anything more than a best sound Academy Award back in March, 60 years ago the seminal film Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer,…
“We are delighted to confirm that the filming, on the Circuit Automobile de Montagne d’Auvergne, for the film Grand Prix, will take place from July 28 to August 6, from 8am…
Matt Bishop’s perceptive piece on the 1976 German Grand Prix and James Hunt’s victory [A frightened James Hunt’s brilliant win: the F1 victory that’s easy to forget, online, August 4]…
It is possible that I am going to look foolish writing this the day after the Belgian Grand Prix – thanks to summer schedules and my deadline being brought forward…
According to Niki Lauda, after he had named the fee – in Austrian schillings – that he wanted to sign up for the 1977 Formula 1 season, Mr Ferrari telephoned…
The centenary celebrations of the first grand prix to be staged in Britain were held recently at Brooklands, and the Halford Special was one of the star turns. Just as…
Racing trophies are a rare collectible, purely because they can be among the most unpredictable of Formula 1 ephemera. Values vary wildly. Are they investment pieces? They’re possibly worth more…
No writer is better in tune with international sports car racing than Motor Sport contributor Gary Watkins. So who better to tell the story of 20 Years of GT3 Racing?…
There’s always a bit more to be done to a car, however long you feel you’ve left a top engineering team to build it. You expect that satisfying closure of…
Here is a lost circuit, and a story, that often comes up when dedicated fans get together for one of those ‘do you know’ sessions that more senior folk enjoy.…
5. Pacific GP not by the Pacific The Seto Inland Sea GP doesn’t really hold the same cachet as Pacific GP, but that would have been a more accurate name…
