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…

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…

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),…

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…

Will there be more contact between Hamilton and Verstappen in Hungary?

Formula 1 is about to head off on its traditional summer break, one that was obviously lacking last year thanks to the delayed start to the season caused by the…

The FIA has summoned Red Bull and Mercedes to a hearing after the former successfully petitioned the F1 governing body for a review of the Hamilton-Verstappen incident

Cal Crutchlow will be back in the saddle for Petronas Yamaha at the Styrian, Austrian and British GPs as a substitute for Franco Morbidelli, who is recovering from surgery

It’s time that motorcycle racing had a debate about children racing grand prix motorcycles in a professional arena. The death of 14-year-old Spaniard Hugo Millán during Sunday’s European Talent Cup…

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?

Le Mans Hypercars will be permitted to run against LMDh cars in IMSA from 2023, prompting fears the former could dominate – some aren’t scared though, with team boss Wayne Taylor relishing the challenge

The French sports car driver Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, part of two of France’s most celebrated Le Mans victories, died on July 21

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