This week in motor sport sees world champions winning – and being born – in Brazil, the Mexican and Long Beach Grands Prix and birthdays for a whole host of…
At least Bernie Ecclestone is “delighted”. No wonder: the recent announcement that Sky Sports has bought the exclusive rights to air Formula 1 in the UK from 2019 doubtless comes…
Yesterday the GPDA put out the following statement: The Grand Prix drivers would like to state our following position: We drivers love our sport! Since childhood, we dreamed of racing…
The Qatar weekend marked the passing of Sandy Rainey, the man who gave us one of the sport’s all-time greats. Wayne Rainey’s first bike – a highly modified Honda step-thru…
The Grand Prix Drivers Association have this afternoon released a statement (below), urging the owners and stakeholders of Formula 1 to consider restructuring its own governance. Regular readers of Motor…
The subject of winglets, or strakes, or whatever you want to call the infernal contraptions, was a big talking point in the Qatari desert. Several riders including Valentino Rossi, Dani…
Why was Jorge Lorenzo so fast on Sunday? Here’s one theory… The human brain is a wonderful thing; at least some of them are. Each rider at the front of…
Coinciding with the Australian Grand Prix, a country where Jim Clark had great success as a driver, Scottish Borders Council announced funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to support a…
Between 1968-94 the Unsers – Bobby, Al and Al Jr. – won nine Indy 500s, an incomparable record unlikely ever to be equalled. Older brother Bobby won three times in…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Click here to buy the lead image. From the editor Damien Smith The Grand Prix motor…
Click here to buy the lead image. 1) Nico Rosberg made it four wins in a row to start the new season. 2) There was barely a dissenting voice from…
Nico Rosberg led a Mercedes 1-2 at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, but Ferrari's pace will have the SIlver Arrows worried: Sebastian Vettel looked on course for victory until he lost out at a restart after Fernando Alonso's enormous 200mph crash
