It began with a high-profile defection: Ben Hodgkinson, the technical director of Mercedes’ HPP engine division would be switching to Red Bull’s new engine department. Following news that Red Bull…
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“You go to Bonneville and you take a really heavy car with narrow wheels. We turned up with a really light car with big balloon tyres, and the first time…
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A new shake-up in qualifying led to an intriguing race and F1 might have something brilliant in the works
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Jim Glickenhaus used to be best known as a film director, producer and writer. The…
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Bespectacled, portly and soberly overdressed –raincoat (often even come shine) and a penchant for Borsalino…
At the start of this year Stefano Domenicali joined the Formula 1 organisation as its…
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F1 says the naming conventions for its future sprint races won’t be changing despite fan outcry
The first Sprint qualifying is in the books and F1 believes it can be even better
A race winner in Porsche’s 917, Tim Schenken also started 40 F1 races and was a works driver for Ferrari and Jaguar. He joins us for our latest Porsche’s winning formula podcast
19 years ago today, Michael Schumacher completed a devastating title assault by winning the F1 drivers’ crown faster than anyone else, a season which the maestro himself said couldn’t be improved upon
While W Series hopes to find the next female F1 talent, Lorraine Peck could have been a star says Mark Hughes
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KTM test rider Dani Pedrosa will contest the Styrian GP on 8th August – what’s the point of the outing and will he finish in the points?
Fabio Quartararo’s crew chief Diego Gubellini helps explain why his rider is ruling the 2021 MotoGP world championship – it’s a combination of technology, feel and dancing
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’…
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Give me Goodwood on an Easter day… Some 55,000 people came to the Sussex track for this opening 1960 meet. Colin Weston was there too, capturing all the action Send us your…
Le Mans had a new look in 1990, with two chicanes bisecting the Hunaudières Straight to cap top speeds. Mick Miller was there to see Jaguar’s most recent win Send…
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I don’t think the idea ever was to make money. It was to make an art piece, an active art piece which was not only attractive but high performing, and…
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At the end of a bright spring day at Monza, the timing sheets told the story. For Alfred Neubauer, studying the meticulously compiled chart headed Nachwuchsfahrer Ausbildung (New Driver Training),…
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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…
Hear the stories behind the careers of motor sport’s greats and catch up on our latest podcast series: Engineering the Greats, which includes Adrian Newey, Patrick Head and Gordon Murray amongst the guests
Brian Redman took a multitude of elite-level endurance wins with Porsche – Daytona, Nürburgring and Le Mans to name but a few. As part of our Porsche’s winning formula podcasts, he reveals what made the brand a legendary name in motor racing
With over 20 years of racing experience at Le Mans — much with Porsche — Romain Dumas reveals more of the marque’s winning formula in our latest podcast
Jochen Mass spent a decade with Porsche, hurling Group C cars around the Nürburgring, winning races across Europe and driving alongside other sports car greats. In the first podcast of our new series, he reveals Porsche’s winning formula
Martin Brundle is one of this year’s inductees to the Motor Sport Hall of Fame and joins us in our final podcast of 2020 to look back
A race winner in Porsche’s 917, Tim Schenken also started 40 F1 races and was a works driver for Ferrari and Jaguar. He joins us for our latest Porsche’s winning formula podcast
Brian Redman took a multitude of elite-level endurance wins with Porsche – Daytona, Nürburgring and Le Mans to name but a few. As part of our Porsche’s winning formula podcasts, he reveals what made the brand a legendary name in motor racing
With over 20 years of racing experience at Le Mans — much with Porsche — Romain Dumas reveals more of the marque’s winning formula in our latest podcast
Jochen Mass spent a decade with Porsche, hurling Group C cars around the Nürburgring, winning races across Europe and driving alongside other sports car greats. In the first podcast of our new series, he reveals Porsche’s winning formula
Martin Brundle is one of this year’s inductees to the Motor Sport Hall of Fame and joins us in our final podcast of 2020 to look back
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All the talk since the British Grand Prix has, quite understandably, been about Max Verstappen v Lewis Hamilton and THAT crash. And in many ways, that’s been great for the…
Some believe Formula 1 enjoyed its golden era during the ’70s and ’80s. If that’s when you grew up, there’s a good chance you spent more than a few summer…
After a 1987 trip to Ferrari’s base at Maranello, Tim Latham and his friend Ray began to get invitations to join the team at Silverstone F1 tyre testing sessions, with…
KTM test rider Dani Pedrosa will contest the Styrian GP on 8th August – what’s the point of the outing and will he finish in the points?
Fabio Quartararo’s crew chief Diego Gubellini helps explain why his rider is ruling the 2021 MotoGP world championship – it’s a combination of technology, feel and dancing
The hugely popular 1993 500cc world champion tells us about some of his scariest moments, some of his nastiest crashes and his greatest victories
Brian Redman, a four-time winner of the Spa 1000kms, has described the initial sheer terror that driving a Ford GT40 around the famous circuit induced in 1966
This month’s cover image The Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus 007 Hypercar shot for Motor Sport on its race debut in Portimão Photography by Drew Gibson
It’s a glorious day at Dijon- Prenois, the French Grand Prix’s former home that sweeps through the Burgundy countryside. Formula 1 has not raced here since 1984, but the venue…
Follow the emotions of competitors in two of racing’s most challenging events: the Nürburgring 24 Hours and Le Mans 24 Moto in a new video documentary, 2+4=24
Although the return of the Dutch Grand Prix is on hold for the foreseeable future, Red Bull has released a video to show what fans have to look forward to,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07CiCpf9kek With the help of archive footage from the 1955 Mille Miglia, Stirling Moss looks back at the race which is widely considered one of the greatest wins in motor…
Sixty years ago, Graham Hill won with a Jaguar E-type in the car’s debut race. To mark the occasion, Damon Hill gets behind the wheel of the very same car
Follow the emotions of competitors in two of racing’s most challenging events: the Nürburgring 24 Hours and Le Mans 24 Moto in a new video documentary, 2+4=24
Although the return of the Dutch Grand Prix is on hold for the foreseeable future, Red Bull has released a video to show what fans have to look forward to,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07CiCpf9kek With the help of archive footage from the 1955 Mille Miglia, Stirling Moss looks back at the race which is widely considered one of the greatest wins in motor…
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