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Gordon Kirby – The US Scene
Driven to race far from home Phil Hill’s passing near the end of the summer got me thinking about the…

Driven to race far from home Phil Hill’s passing near the end of the summer got me thinking about the…
The shape of things to come A thousand issues ago, just as the first edition of The Brooklands Gazette was…
The dirt track tradition It sounds like someone has just unbolted the Gates of Hades. A deep and mournful groan…
America deserta Sir, These are depressing times, particularly here in North America. We’re in the midst of a global economic…
"This place,” says Lewis Hamilton, gazing out over Spa-Francorchamps from the top floor of the McLaren emporium, “is so fantastic…”…
If Valentino Rossi's father had been less unlucky as a motorcycle racer Rossi might now be ruling Formula 1 instead…
In 60 years the Stuttgart firm has produced some glorious cars. Picking the 10 best models would be tricky enough,…
After a tough season Frank Williams and Patrick Head weren’t in the mood to celebrate the team’s 500th GP. So…
Foreword by Sir Stirling Moss Motor Sport is an institution. Now it’s celebrating its 1000th issue, and I reckon I…
I knew nothing of Denis Jenkinson until I published a letter from him in Motor Sport, but when we met…
Nine long years before Mike Hawthorn became the first British World Champion driver, this country’s first-ever motor sporting world titles…
Everyone remembers Jenks’ epic Mille Miglia story from 1955. But when he rejoined Moss for 1957, his report was slightly…
For years Motor Sport’s home was a seedy block on the edge of the City, where integrity flourished among intrigue…
In the relentless theatre of Formula 1, the members of the complex cast – drivers, team chiefs, designers, organisers, circuit…
It’s pure motor sport entertainment – drivers from different disciplines tearing round Wembley stadium to find out who is the…
The Nissan GT-R has made a deep impression in Britain this year. But with so much praise to live up…
Gian Paolo Dallara and new business partner Andrea Pontremoli are the men behind the world’s most successful yet understated racing…
Patrick Watts will return to racing in 2009 to campaign a Ford Mustang in Top Hat Masters races. The former…
More races for 1-litre Formula 3 cars are planned in Britain next season as the HSCC seeks to expand the…
Almost exactly 35 years to the day after the tragic accident that claimed the life of François Cevert, American racer…
A Formula 1 race without Lewis Hamilton for the first time since 2006, and therefore without this season’s already-crowned drivers’ champion, but in his absence F1 still delivered something special.…
This year’s Sebring 12 Hours was a fierce race all the way with 10 different leaders and more than half a dozen cars capable of winning. In the end, it…
If ever there was a weekend that showed the remarkable diversity of historic motor sport, this weekend was it. Action ranged from Group C cars dicing around the sweeps of Dijon…
Williams to miss another day of F1 testing in Barcelona Williams announced on Sunday that it would miss the first day of Formula 1 winter testing in Spain, but deputy…