40 years ago the Dutch GP held its last F1 race, until the Verstappen phenomenon brought it back in 2021 – Matt Bishop remembers a fine contest between two grand prix legends

The final laps of the 1985 San Marino Grand Prix have gone down as some of the most bizarre in F1’s history — and the chaos didn’t end with the chequered flag

Keke Rosberg set a record for years to come with his smoking Silverstone lap of ’85 – Frank Dernie remembers the day and how the team got there

For all the F1 history that Ayrton Senna created, there’s some irony in the fact that many see his first win as his greatest. Never mind the Donington ‘93 masterclass,…

It’s a hot Thursday in late 1985, and the sleepy city of Adelaide is about to be changed forever. Nineteen eighty world champion Alan Jones, only the second Australian to…

Brands Hatch, October 6th One thing that the British sporting world is not short of is the ability to step in and take advantage of a “situation”. It was just…

In isolation the statistics look bleak. Between them, Formula 3000’s 20 international champions went on to win only nine Grands Prix, Juan Pablo Montoya taking seven of those while Jean…

Stefan Johansson is not the only Formula 1 driver of modern times who will forever be marked as a man who never won a race: Jean-Pierre Jarier, Eddie Cheever, Derek…

There’s little trace left of the Birmingham Superprix, but Jack Phillips managed to track down people that remember the event to cap off Motor Sport’s ’80s month Photos: Lyndon…

There are so many surprising things about Ari Vatanen it’s hard to know where to start. The first time I met him was at the Donegal Rally in 1975. Ari…

If you had to pick a single year in motor sport as the best ever, what would it be? One man thinks he has the answer Here’s a question that…

In most branches of professional motor sport, the man who is doing the driving is not the same as the man who is doing the engineering back at the workshop.…