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How did Bottas stack up against Hamilton in F1 2017?

The numbers behind Lewis Hamilton's Formula 1 rivalries with team-mates past and present With the dust well and truly settled upon the 2017 season but the opening race of 2018…

Watch the Mazda 787B tear through Le Mans

Watch a video of the Mazda 787B completing a lap of Le Mans, and view our gallery of Kenichi Yamamoto's most notable rotary creations below Former Mazda chairman Kenichi Yamamoto,…

Can Yamaha give Rossi a winning bike?

Valentino Rossi’s chief engineer Silvano Galbusera explains what went wrong last year and what needs to go right this MotoGP season Yamaha has a lot of work to do: the…

2nd January 2018

By Mat Oxley

F1 2017: Was it better?

Faster, stronger, better? Did Formula 1 deliver on its promise in 2017? Back in March I wrote a column just after the Australian Grand Prix. In it I asked some…

Ducati: all about the middle of the corner

The second in our series of tech investigations into all six MotoGP factories: this week we reveal the main aims on Ducati’s 2018 R&D list Last season Ducati played its…

27th December 2017

By Mat Oxley

Top 5 F1 drivers of 2017

The Motor Sport editorial team voted for its top five Formula 1 drivers of 2017... 5 Esteban Ocon Essentially a rookie, Esteban Ocon was thrust into the Force India seat…

26th December 2017

Weekly Debrief – December 22

A round-up of the week's motor sport news, including McLaren's lack of title sponsor, Ferrari's latest quit threat, Aston Martin's new WEC driver, Loeb's return to WRC and more... McLaren without title…

Review: Project Cars 2's latest car packs

Our review of Project Cars 2's latest downloadable content packs Project Cars 2 is the console racer’s sim of choice for many, owing to its massive list…

Motor Sport's top images of 2017: part 2

Motor Sport staff photographer Lyndon McNeil picks the top 10 motor sport images of 2017 including shots from Dakar, Formula 1, WRC and WEC Motor Sport's top images of 2017:…

22nd December 2017

By Lyndon McNeil

Articles from the archive

TAP Rally

General classification 1st:S. Lampinen/J. Davenport (1.6 Fulvia) ..................7,009 2nd:S. Munari/A. Bernacchini (1.6 Fulvia) .................. 7,486 3rd:B. Waldegard/H. Thorszelius (Porsche 911S) ....... 7,920 4th:J. Lamprreia/C. Melville (Datsun 160SSS) ............ 8,786 5th:F.…

November 1970 Issue

By Gerry Phillips

Tyres for vintage cars

Veteran and vintage-car enthusiasts are fully aware that without a modern source of obsolete-size tyres, the entire old-car movement would cease. Tribute is paid to Dunlop for supplying such needs,…

November 1970 Issue

By Bill Boddy

Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans

A Question of Endurance, not Speed Some aspects of the international racing scene may change with almost frenetic haste from month to month, but other facets of the sport seems…

July 1979 Issue

Brooklands Society News

The A.G.M. was held, very conveniently, at the Headfort Place Hotel on April 15th, the Chair being taken by the senior Vice-President, Alan Hess. The report of the Committee and…

May 1969 Issue

Beaulieu fixtures

Those who regard the MMM as some sort of substitute for Brooklands, inasmuch as one meets fellow enthusiasts and unusual cars there, may like to make a note of the…

April 1971 Issue

A Model Lancia Lambda

Some time ago I referred to the beautifully made, finished, and detailed TOGI of Italy's model - it is to 1:23 scale and too large to be termed a miniature…

July 1979 Issue

By Bill Boddy

Formula Le Mans

The new Formula Le Mans one-make racer ran for the first time in November. The Courage-ORECA FLM09, 20 of which will take to the Circuit de la Sarthe on the…

January 2009 Issue

By Gary Watkins

Stud-u-like

When there’s ice underfoot, it’s time to unsheath the claws…John Davenport relates how a handful of tiny metal studs, plus a moment of inspiration, can win or lose a snowbound…

January 1998 Issue

By John Davenport

Letters, November 1992

Weights and measures Sir, The data table in the article on the TVR Griffith (August 1992) in an ingenious example of the gratuitous mixing of systems of units. Power is…

November 1992 Issue

By Jamie Howlett

Reviews

Edoardo Bianchi, by Antonio Gentile. Veloce Publishing, £39.95 Veloce has provided for those historians who collect one-make books this very complete coverage of the Bianchi concern, from Giorgio Nada Editore.…

Reviews Issue

By Jamie Howlett

Letters from Readers, September 1970

BLMH Service Sir, I always read with interest your series, "Fragments on Forgotten Makes". If the standard of present-day BLMH spares service is anything to go by, then all post-1960…

September 1970 Issue