If you ask me, the blokes on the board at BMW lost their nerve. “We communicated our 2009 target four years ago,” said Mario Theissen in Valencia at the roll-out…

One day, somebody will write a great full-length biography of Ayrton Senna da Silva. Let’s hope it won’t take the couple of centuries for that someone to compile the balanced, well-informed…

£1,000 for 12-race series OF THE three major International racing formula, one has been sadly neglected when it comes to allotting Championships. The exception is Formula Three, the most junior…

There was a time when racing came to a dead stop towards the end of September, usually culminating in the presentation of the Motor Sport Brooklands Trophy at Goodwood. But…

—the designer of engines which win Grands Prix KEITH DUCKWORTH has the sort of talent which inspires others to work for him. On top of that, he has been responsible…

Elio de Angelis, whose death from race-track injuries 25 years ago will be commemorated on May 15, is remembered with endearing fondness by almost everyone who knew him during his…

Racing Cars from Lancashire At any British race meeting these days one is tempted to ask where sports-car racing would be without the marque Chevron. Most of this year's international…

1969 Analysis With the Formula Two season drawing to a close and this month's only Formula Two race, at Zandvoort, cancelled, it seems appropriate to take a look at the…

It is virtually a sine quo non of motor racing that the driver who wishes to get to the top of the tree in single-seater racing must, at one time…

Reflections on The Great Train Robbery… and how it interrupted a promising young driver’s career Writer Mike Doodson It is 50 years since the Glasgow-to-London mail train was brought to…

A second-generation Piquet created headlines in F1, albeit not in the manner of his father Mention the name ‘Piquet’ to motor racing fans today and the majority of them will…

June was quite a month for users of engines other than Cosworth, Ford or a combination of the two. It all started, of course, with BRM's win in the Belgian…