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’…

As Goodyear’s technical director, Peter Bradbury arrived early at Silverstone for the 1987 Grand Prix “to help the Stringfellow F3 team settle in, and somehow we overstayed our tickets…” But…

An enthusiast since watching Jim Clark in a Cortina in 1966, David Simpson especially liked Brands Hatch because of the great shots its elevation gave. Here’s a selection of his…

In her mail to us Jean Dawkins, then with the Antique Automobiles race team, says she wishes she’d had today’s cameras back in her day. We think Jean did pretty…

A scheming team boss, a bitter team ripped apart by rivalry and one conflagrated Vauxhall – Jason Plato recalls how he somehow came through it to win the 2001 BTCC title

No breed is more effective – or deadly – than the poacher turned gamekeeper. As the ‘M’ of March, that arch ‘disruptor’ of constructors, Max Mosley served the ideal apprenticeship…

Back in what some like to call the ‘good old days’ racing drivers were freelancers, heroes for hire, hustling a grand prix car round Monte Carlo one weekend and taking…

When Fernando Alonso speared off the road during qualifying for the Australian GP, the result of an oil pressure drop triggering a fail-safe mode that shut down the car, there…

When I was racing, what I most enjoyed about new tracks was the differences they offered. The surfaces were usually tricky, whereas now there’s this expectation that they’ve all got…

Can you explain what tyre graining is and how it affects car performance? Is it different to tyre deg that we hear so much about? Geoff Hill, Ealing Hi Geoff.…

Two weeks after a processional Spanish GP at Jerez there were just two overtaking manoeuvres among the top four at Le Mans. Why is this and what needs to be done?

Joan Mir and Alex Rins were super-fast at Le Mans but the doomed Suzuki team went home with nothing but broken bikes

Le Mans marked one-third distance in the 2022 MotoGP world championship and should confirm Enea Bastianini as a title contender, even for the non-believers. The 23-year-old Italian’s latest ride in…

Richard Adams only met John Piper through a mutual friend, but it didn’t take much to convince this serial classic car owner that Piper Special Vehicles should be entrusted with…

Amid the excitement about electric power, hybrid tech and synthetic fuels, the technology that was once seen as the future seems to have been forgotten. That’s something that a ground-breaking…

These are none other than the first and last Porsches to win the Le Mans 24 Hours during the legendary Group C era. Not examples of those cars, but the…