Read Nigel Roebuck’s exclusive interview with new World Champion Lewis Hamilton, in our December Issue
What a landmark. Motor Sport’s December issue, on sale now, is our 1000th edition. Quite an achievement for any magazine, I’m sure you’ll agree. And we’ve decided to celebrate in style.
In the best spirit of ‘the original motor racing magazine’, the big 1000th features great stories from today and yesterday. Topping the bill has to be Nigel Roebuck’s exclusive interview with new World Champion Lewis Hamilton. The constant demands on Lewis’s time make one-on-one interviews a rare occurrence these days, but he was happy to oblige for Motor Sport – particularly as Nigel wanted to talk to him about his hero Ayrton Senna. The interview offers a revealing insight into Hamilton’s approach to racing, his super-confident psyche and the strength he believes he has drawn from the great Brazilian.
The 1000th issue also features another exclusive interview, with the man who is quite simply the biggest superstar in motor sport today. Valentino Rossi is so much more than an eight-time world motorcycling champion – he is a racing colossus who inspires his fans all over the world. And as he tells Mat Oxley in Motor Sport, he intends on enjoying a long career in car racing when he is finally finished with bikes…
Porsche is celebrating its own special landmark in 2008, and we thought it would be fitting to acknowledge its 60th anniversary in our 1000th issue. Porsche connoisseur Michael Cotton, who is also a former deputy editor of Motor Sport, picks his choice of the 10 most significant racing Porsches to have graced the race tracks of the world.
We also celebrate Williams hitting its 500th Grand Prix mark this year, I meet the men behind the world’s largest racing car constructor and Simon Taylor enjoys lunch with one of the most fascinating figures to have worked in racing – legendary F1 doctor Professor Sid Watkins.
And last, but certainly not least, we celebrate our own heritage and the three men who made Motor Sport what it is today: Founding Editor Bill Boddy (still writing for us today at 95 years old!), our late, great Continental Correspondent Denis Jenkinson and our former (eccentric, irascible) proprietor Wesley J Tee. The stories, including the tale of Jenks’s 1949 World Sidecar Championship with Eric Oliver, will keep you riveted – and amused – throughout.
We’re all very proud of our 1000th issue. I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Well done to all involved, for your 1,000th issue was indeed and issue to savour – and a permanent reminder of Motor Sport’s own glory days.
However are you going to top it in 2014 when you’ll be 90 and 2024 when you’ll be 100?