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’…

Born in Northern Ireland, Neville Armstrong attended many Dundrod races in the era of Moss and Hawthorn. These are just some of his excellent photos…

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…

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…

Gilles Villeneuve had barely been heard of on the international stage when McLaren entered him in a third car for the 1977 British Grand Prix. ‘Who?’ was not an uncommon…

It was a momentous decision. The Team Sauber Mercedes entries in the 1989 World Sports Car Championship would run as Silver Arrows, just like the W125 grand prix cars before…

Ferrari has changed its plans to use a 2021 car for its private test following a lack of clarity over F1’s sporting regulations

FIA communications are famously impenetrable; legal language that’s cold and tricky to unpick. Hazel Southwell says it’s about time F1 modernised with the rest of the sporting world

The Red Arrows are exempt from F1’s new ban on military aircraft displays at grands prix, Silverstone has confirmed

KTM was the hero of the 2020 MotoGP season, then struggled in 2021. Team engineers tell us they need to improve qualifying speed and corner-exit performance to get back to the front in 2022

Aprilia’s technical director Romano Albesiano talks openly about the factory’s fight to get to the front of and the challenges of MotoGP engineering in general

Marc Márquez has conducted a successful private test as he continues to recover from his eye injury

Peugeot has revealed more images of its radical 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar, which is confirmed for entry at an unspecified point this year in WEC

Canadian Robert Wickens, who was paralysed from the chest down in a ghastly IndyCar wreck three years ago, will return to professional racing later this month at Daytona International Speedway…

What counts in motor racing? Just the taking part? No one really buys into that. Winning. That’s what matters when you get down to the grain. Except in some cases…