Formula 1’s two-year return to Portimao may be less a long-term endorsement than a holding pattern, as the championship keeps calendar space open for future street races
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Chapman the designer; Chapman the race team manager; Chapman the business entrepreneur; we are used to these pictures of the charismatic Lotus supremo. But way back at the beginning, he…
Two Australian F1 drivers who came to Europe at the same time: one became world champion, the other faded from memory. But both Alan Jones and Brian McGuire have their place in racing history
Who stood out in Formula 1 this year? Vote now to have your say on the highlights of the 2025 season
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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Scalextric’s 1963 Monaco Grand Prix Twin Car Pack revives the legendary duel between Jim Clark’s Lotus 25 and Graham Hill’s BRM P57 in 1:32 scale
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The Cadillac V-Series.R No. 01 roared into the 2024 12 Hours of Sebring, and now, thanks to Scalextric, fans can bring this endurance racing powerhouse home in 1:32 scale
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In the same year that Ford has announced its return to Le Mans’ top echelon, Scalextric has chosen to honour one of its most famous drivers. We look back on the cars that defined Ken Miles
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From the Bathurst 1000 to the Fuji Speedway, the Ford Sierra RS500 was comprehensively dominant in its heyday — and its drivers enjoyed every second behind the wheel
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Sponsored by Colin McRae made legends of the cars that he took sideways through the dense forests and gravel roads that made up some of the world’s fiercest rally…
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We meet Guenther Steiner: ‘Would I return to F1 again? Never say never’
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It’s only rock’n’roll: Motor racing’s everlasting love affair with music
Godfather of ground effect: How Lotus legend Peter Wright redefined racing
Alain Prost has given his view on Renault exiting F1 as an engine manufacturer
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s has now been re-elected as FIA president, after a controversial first term. But how did he become the first non-European president in the FIA’s history?
Cadillac is in a race against time to get its new F1 car ready for 2026 – sim driver Pietro Fittipaldi explains how it’s running in the virtual world first
Rare letters sent by Ayrton Senna to a friend in Brazil are expected to fetch between £200,000 and £300,000 when they are auctioned
Alain Prost’s racing technique was so silky that rivals thought he was cruising as he set pole laps. At a Motor Sport celebration event celebrating, the four-time champion revealed the origin of his deceptively fast approach
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
Gresini Racing’s money man Carlo Merlini recalls the highs and lows experienced by MotoGP’s top indie team, from winning 26 MotoGP races and four world titles in the smaller classes to losing Daijiro Kato, Marco Simoncelli and Fausto Gresini
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín completed the 2025 season in 21st place, after a title defence destroyed by multiple injuries
Quickfire motor sport clips and stories from our short video vault
Where do you begin when you are interviewing a man who has started 322 Formula 1 grands prix, who has won 11 of them, who has stood on 68 F1…
Giancarlo Fisichella notched up more than 200 starts over a 14-season Formula 1 career that took him from Minardi to Ferrari via Jordan (twice), Benetton, Sauber, Renault and Force India.…
Christian Horner marks 20 years as team principal of the Red Bull Formula 1 team this year, flying high off four consecutive driver’s world championships for Max Verstappen. But we’re…
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Racing movies can be divisive – we run through the winners and losers for you in one handy list
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When the teaser trailer for F1 dropped during the British Grand Prix in July 2024, it included footage filmed at Silverstone the previous year, with Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt hustling…
It happened 10 years ago on the last lap of NASCAR’s traditional season-opening Daytona 500. Everyone was jammed together in a massive pack, feet flat on the throttle in typical…
Hear the stories behind the careers of motor sport’s greats and catch up on our full back catalogue including the latest series: Centenary Stories where we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Motor Sport with some very special guests
We only had an hour, so buckle in for a whirlwind recap of Sir Jackie Stewart’s dazzling career on and off the race track as he joins us to celebrate 100 years of Motor Sport
Le Mans legend Derek Bell commemorates 100 years of Motor Sport on this special edition podcast
Three-time Indy 500 champion Dario Franchitti commemorates 100 years of Motor Sport on this special edition podcast
Damon Hill is Rob Widdows’ latest guest in our special podcast series, celebrating 100 years of Motor Sport Magazine. The 1996 Formula 1 World Champion reflects on following his father’s…
Emerson Fittipaldi joins Rob Widdows in the latest episode of our centenary series, celebrating 100 years of Motor Sport through the eyes of some of its greatest characters. In a little over…
We only had an hour, so buckle in for a whirlwind recap of Sir Jackie Stewart’s dazzling career on and off the race track as he joins us to celebrate 100 years of Motor Sport
Le Mans legend Derek Bell commemorates 100 years of Motor Sport on this special edition podcast
Three-time Indy 500 champion Dario Franchitti commemorates 100 years of Motor Sport on this special edition podcast
Damon Hill is Rob Widdows’ latest guest in our special podcast series, celebrating 100 years of Motor Sport Magazine. The 1996 Formula 1 World Champion reflects on following his father’s…
