I knew immediately. Radio Luxembourg: 'plane crash, Elstree airfield. It could only be them: Graham Hill, driver Tony Brise, our designer Andy Smallman, the team manager Ray Brimble, and fabricators…
Ferrari's Sharknose 156 may be extinct but this faithful replica gives a clear picture of Enzo's first mid-engine racer. Matthew Franey climbs aboard. For reasons I will never quite understand,…
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Early September, a couple of days after the Belgian Grand Prix and a few before the Italian at Monza. Christian Horner has just walked into the Silverstone garage, still sporting…
Silverstone is deserted while, in the pitlane, Jackie Stewart's F1 car awaits your pleasure...for Stephen Sutcliffe, this was no dream. Thanks to the Tyrrell-Ford 005, it became start reality photography…
It was like a Hollywood script: an underdog team, a chassis from an unproven designer, and the first flash of genius from a champion-to-be. Ayrton Senna's '84 drive through the…
This BRM won the fastest, closest World Championship Grand Prix in history and the third slowest too. It also gave BRM its last win. After 25 years in pieces it…
Italy 1953. Ferrari designer Aurelio Lampredi wheels out Maranello's answer to Mercedes' W196. Sleek and low, with curvaceous side-tanks, the 553 Squalo looks like a mean rival to the silver…
It's called an Eagle-Weslake T1G, completed just one full season of competition and is perhaps the most beautiful Grand Prix car ever built. From the curl of its exhausts to…
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What was the most impressive aspect of the 1962 Formula 1 season? This month's cover story answers that, we hope: the starburst arrival of the monocoque Lotus 25. Okay, what…
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How difficult is it to win in Formula 1? Ask Toyota. For the eight seasons and 140 races that the world's largest car company contested between 2002 and 2009, not…
The car on the left never won a race but its arrival in F1 changed the face of the spor forever. Matthew Franey samples a piece of Grand Prix history…
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We all remember our first grand prix. You can watch it for years on the television but until you actually go and watch a gridful of Formula 1 cars come past, feel…
BRM entered its final Formula One phase — its V12 era — with a car conceived by a freelance designer, built by an unproven firm and fitted with a sports…
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There are numerous cars greater than the sum of all their parts. There are few, though, infinitely greater. And this is one of them. From its Unipart-sourced pressure cap to…
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When I say there will never be another track test like this, I say so with a confidence inspired not simply by the subject's unique, six-wheeled selling point. It's also…
Their laughter fills the place. Morning in the Goodwood pitlane. Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are a couple of shop floor boys, trading gentle insults. Dick Scammell feels as easy…
