Extra-heavy impacts, cars catching fire and high-speed punctures are causing leading NASCAR drivers to increasingly voice safety concerns
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On the Tuesday before the Dutch Grand Prix, Christian Horner gave a speech to the staff of the Red Bull factory in Milton Keynes. Half the team was not being…
The W Series will make a decision next week on whether it can finish its season due to financial issues, after a major investment deal collapsed. CEO Catherine Bond Muir…
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Fuji, October 23 1977. A year on from the heart-in-mouth climax that crowned him an…
On the Tuesday before the Dutch Grand Prix, Christian Horner gave a speech to the…
It is June 11, 1972 and what had always been a dream had come to…
Scott Dixon is one of the most successful IndyCar drivers of all time. The New…
The first thing you see upon entering the offices of PhysicsX is an 800cc two…
Looking just at this three-race sample, the Red Bull RB18’s pace advantage at Spa was…
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Big decisions made by Formula 1’s referees very often trigger controversy among both participants and fans, but nothing has set the world alight quite like the closing stages of last…
Six sprint races have been confirmed for the 2023 Formula 1 calendar to a mixed reaction. But for once, when it comes to scheduling, the series has got it right, says Chris Medland
Sometime before the end of the year someone is going to ask me to write a piece about the car that impressed me most over the previous 12 months. And…
Looking back on an incredible career at recent Group C celebrations, Derek Bell impressed upon Damien Smith how much his passion for racing remains
F1 returns to Singapore for the first time in three years this weekend – drivers explain why it’s one of the toughest on the calendar
Triple Eight’s Vauxhall Astra Coupe dominated the BTCC in the early 2000s – Jason Plato remembers a triumphant tin-top challenger
Daniel Ricciardo was explaining yesterday in Singapore that he doesn’t want to race outside of F1 next year if he cannot pick up a suitable race seat. That he feels…
Has Formula 1 been overlooking older talent in its constant search for the next junior star? Nyck de Vries makes the case for late developers, writes Mark Hughes
MotoGP’s minimum tyre pressure rules will be enforced for the first time in 2023, which will have a huge effect on the racing. For a start, top engineers believe there will be less overtaking and more crashes
It’s been a tough two weeks for MotoGP’s top title contenders: at Aragon it was Fabio Quartararo’s turn to crash out, at Motegi it was Bagnaia’s, while Aleix Espargaró had his own kind of bad luck
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’…
Belgian reader Edgar Regout began visiting the great Francorchamps circuit with his father and a small camera. These are memories of two special visits, to the 1964 sports car 500Kms…
Bob Sheppey had a friend working for TV-am at the 1988 Monaco GP who got him tickets, allowing him full access during practice. That was the year of Ayrton Senna’s…
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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
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There is a hoary old tale, almost certainly apocryphal, of a party being held with Brian Lister as its guest of honour. And the organisers naturally arranged for as many…
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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…
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
Kevin Magnussen tells Chris Medland about the make-or-break moments that saw him enter F1 with McLaren and return this year at Haas, in the My big break podcast series
“I want to be world champion,” says Pierre Gasly. “So now we need to get to work.” Newly confirmed in F1 with AlphaTauri for 2023, the 26-year-old grand prix winner…
If a young Valtteri Bottas and his dad hadn’t spotted the sign for a go-kart race in Finland, then the Alfa Romeo driver may never have got on track, let…
Kamui Kobayashi showed so much potential as a go-karting teenager that Toyota locked him into a ten-year racing contract at the age of 14. In our new My big break…
For most racing drivers, the chance to step up to Formula 1 is the opportunity of their careers, but Anthony Davidson says that his first grand prix start is something…
Kevin Magnussen tells Chris Medland about the make-or-break moments that saw him enter F1 with McLaren and return this year at Haas, in the My big break podcast series
“I want to be world champion,” says Pierre Gasly. “So now we need to get to work.” Newly confirmed in F1 with AlphaTauri for 2023, the 26-year-old grand prix winner…
If a young Valtteri Bottas and his dad hadn’t spotted the sign for a go-kart race in Finland, then the Alfa Romeo driver may never have got on track, let…
Kamui Kobayashi showed so much potential as a go-karting teenager that Toyota locked him into a ten-year racing contract at the age of 14. In our new My big break…
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