On paper, it had the potential to be one of the most romantic of all motor racing fairy tales: the schoolboy who was given an unexpected opportunity to sit at the…

Dumb and dumber. That’s how Sky Formula 1 presenter Simon Lazenby once chose to refer to our guests for lunch this month. The question is, which one is which? Let’s…

Was that really so long ago?” Jonathan Palmer shakes his head in disbelief at the rapidity of time’s passage. It was in 2006 that Motor Sport commenced its monthly ‘lunch’…

My racing aide-mémoire: “Photographs are my diaries – I’d forget it all without them,” says Philippe Gouvet of his 50 years capturing motor sport on film. As a Pau resident,…

Shortly after the death of his father, Rick Jackson was sifting through some old photographs when he came across a few that dad Len – who had raced in the…

Before he became an F1 commentator, PR guru and race and rally driver, Tony Jardine was an ordinary enthusiast, queueing for autographs and taking pictures of his heroes, including Jackie…

From the first loose-surfaced tracks of 1931 to staging four grands prix, Donington Park’s expansion in just a few years was astonishing. The unlikely but formidable partnership of John Gillies…

First, the facts: 40 years ago on 17 December, Barrett – a Hollywood stunt man with no motor sport experience – wriggled into the cramped cockpit of a long, slender…

In a sport where there can only be one winner, it’s natural that rivalries develop when two different factions are battling to become top dog. The duel over the alpha…

McLaren will fight with Ferrari right to the end of the 2021 Formula 1 season but whatever happens there, the progress is clear

F1’s 2021 title battle has captured the imagination of many but the refereeing has been suspect. It may never have been the case years ago

Race report Max Verstappen rules in Austin and Mexico City, but was crushed by Hamilton in Brazil Word on the beat China set to double up, McLaren and Audi rumours…

MotoGP bikes will run entirely on green, sustainable fuel from 2027 after manufacturers and fuel companies signed up to a new environmental strategy that will eliminate fossil fuels from top-level…

The most remarkable grand prix career – in Formula 1 or MotoGP – came to an end at Valencia, Spain, at 2.42pm on November 14. Valentino Rossi finished his 432nd…

Finally, France has its first premier-class motorcycle world champion. A hundred and twenty seven years since the world’s first autocycle racer spluttered out of Paris, en route to Rouen, Fabio…

James Calado seemed set for F1 at once upon a time but now, as he tells Damien Smith, life couldn’t be better winning WEC GT titles for Ferrari with one eye on its Hypercar future

At the end of a year in which Honda of Japan have shone so brightly in Formula 1, let’s spool back some 30 years to the Group C World Sportscar…

Fans of that age-old rivalry between Porsche and Ferrari got a dose of nostalgia during the FIA World Endurance Championship season finale in Bahrain recently when the two marques went…