The 488 GTB, Ferrari’s new mid-engined supercar, is not naturally aspirated. Instead, Ferrari have bolted two turbochargers to a 3.9-litre V8 – that’s 0.488 litres per cylinder – hence the…
In Motor Sport this month, Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes addresses the ‘big questions’ we’ve posed ahead of the Formula 1 season, gathering all his information from the recent Spanish tests to offer a…
Crock of gold or poisoned chalice? Outstandin’ opportunity or stand-in joke? Be warned: it can go from Badoer to Wurz. The former responded to a misplaced call from Ferrari in…
In the autumn of 1969 Chris Amon went to say his goodbyes to Enzo Ferrari, and it was an occasion savoured by neither man. After three years of unreliability and…
Many of you probably already know something about bike racing's greatest story of industrial espionage, when East German Ernst Degner defected through the Iron Curtain at the height of the…
Fernando Alonso will miss the Australian Grand Prix as a medical precaution following his being knocked unconscious in last week’s Barcelona testing accident. Although McLaren stresses that the various scans…
I was fascinated to discover that Mercedes-Benz’s brand new AMG GT GT3 race car was, in one respect at least, not new at all. For years Mercedes had been hinting…
Porsche’s Weissach operation – responsible for all the manufacturer’s RS models – has been working hard over the winter. The Cayman GT4 burst onto the scene last month and the…
My question about the 2015 racing season is: will it witness the resurgence of the big, powerful super teams of the past? I’m talking about Penske in America in NASCAR and IndyCar…
We were saddened at Motor Sport to learn of the death last Thursday of Gérard Ducarouge, one of racing's great designers. The Frenchman's cars were winning at the top level…
British F3 Championship, Silverstone, June 8 1980 Check photographs of a modern mainstream Formula 3 grid and it will probably look a little busier than this, but such was the…
And so unto the shores of Lake Geneva do those pilgrims we call car constructors draw once more, for their annual gathering in the land of cuckoo clocks, chocolate and…
