For those of a certain age, the 1990s is remembered as a halcyon period of great rivalries, epic races and dramatic deciders. The decade began with the heated relationship between Ayrton…

...a team that established Bernie in F1   Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac formed Motor Racing Developments while the former was still racing for Cooper in Formula 1. The first…

It hosted only one world championship F1 GP, but that was enough to earn it a place in the record books The Gran Premio di Pescara was elevated to world…

Known as ‘The King’, he retired 25 years ago but still holds many records writer PETER HIGHAM NASCAR legend Richard Petty turns 80 on July 2. The son of three-time champion…

Dan Gurney’s All-American marque, which triumphed in Formula 1, at Indianapolis and in USAC and IMSA Motor Sport Hall of Fame inductee Dan Gurney enjoyed a spectacular eight days some…

Its time in the world championship spotlight was brief but spectacular, with nine wins from 28 starts H aving entered a series of Ferraris as Thinwall Specials to promote and…

The head of Toyota’s recently revived WRC programme has a very impressive rally pedigree The son of triple 1000 Lakes and RAC Rally winner Timo, Tommi Mäkinen’s competition career began…

For many years this was the final hurdle before reaching racing's peak The FIA introduced Formula 2 in 1948 but it was Easter 1967 before it organised a European Championship…

Roger Penske turns 80 this month, and the team he has run for 50 years remains at the top of North American motor racing. Simon Pagenaud’s 2016 IndyCar title was Team…

This year, for the first time, there are four sons of ex-GP drivers on the Formula 1 grid  writer Peter Higham When Jacques Villeneuve made his Formula 1 debut in…

Runner-up in the 1991 FIA F3000 Championship, Alex Zanardi made his F1 debut for Jordan in the season’s final three Grands Prix. It marked the start of a faltering F1…

We crunch the numbers of the series during its first-generation prime writer Peter Higham So to summarise… the first and original Canadian-American Challenge was a noisy, well-funded series for Group 7…