August 2025

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Electrifying in the rain: How Jaguar fought back with Shanghai Formula E win

The second part of our Asian leg in the 2025 schedule really brought some special memories throughout June as we…

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Letters - August 2025

In recent issues you’ve dealt with the dark days when safety didn’t match the standards of today. In the ’50s…

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Lando Norris vs Oscar Piastri: it’s crunch time in F1 title race

Oscar Piastri or Lando Norris? Unless Max Verstappen pulls off an Alain Prost 1986-style miracle, this year’s world championship battle…

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Oscar Piastri is probably the next F1 champion, thanks to a dose of Aussie grit

Cricket’s inaugural Test of March 1877 set the tone. An England party that was already exhausted by a hectic schedule…

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Ollie Bearman’s ‘shocking’ F1 history lesson with Martin Brundle

Gosh!” comes the ever-so-polite exclamation from Britain’s newest Formula 1 star. “I was scared I wouldn’t fit, but then again…

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McLaren dodges pitfall to tighten grip on F1 title

With McLaren’s advantage very apparent into the nitty-gritty mid-part of the season, there was hope among rivals that the new…

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Norris and Piastri F1 clash was only a matter of time

“Yes, we said a few times that it wasn’t a matter of ‘if’ there was going to be contact between…

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How McLaren played the long game as Verstappen raced away in Spain

Barcelona: it was the third lap, as race leader Oscar Piastri pulled himself out of Max Verstappen’s DRS range, which…

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Word on the beat

On the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix, Derek Warwick was handed a one-race suspension from his role as an…

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F1’s most successful female racer: Was Lella Lombardi too far ahead of the times?

It’s a popular quiz question – “Who is the only woman to have scored points in an F1 grand prix?”…

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Was Stirling Moss’s 1955 British Grand Prix win a fix?

This was a race which has been the subject of debate and argument almost since the flag fell on it.…

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Aintree: Britain’s forgotten F1 circuit

Just how good was Aintree, the circuit situated six miles north of Liverpool’s city centre? Created on the hallowed precincts…

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George Russell’s private tribute to Aintree F1 masters Moss and Fangio

Seventy years on from its first post-war grand prix win, Mercedes-Benz hasn’t forgotten the significance of Stirling Moss’s landmark Aintree…

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McLaren’s unstoppable force: Neil Oatley designed Senna's F1 title winners. Now he’s targeting Le Mans

Here is a bold claim with which to kick off an interview/profile: no one has ever devoted to motor sport…

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At home — but still flat-out — with François Delecour

It says a lot about the no-holds-barred François Delecour that even Colin McRae once described him as “probably the craziest…

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Second-generation Delacour carves out career on rally stage

There wasn’t one single moment that convinced Eliott Delecour he would follow in his father’s footsteps. It was always there;…

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Riding shotgun with Sébastien Loeb

The water is too hot. We must stop, right now,” said Sébastien Loeb calmly over the in-car radio and the…

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The revolutionary Marcos that’s prettier than a Jaguar E-type

Enzo Ferrari might (allegedly) have described the Jaguar E-type as the most beautiful car in the world – but for…

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Red hot drop top is world’s fastest convertible

Fancy a bit of wind-in-the-hair motoring? Well, it doesn’t come much more ‘windy’ than this custom conversion of the insanely…

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Bidding hits £3.3m for Lamborghini Miura SV

1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £3.3m Anyone who has seen the (original) Italian Job will likely…