Kevin Rice describes what you are seeing over these pages as “a barn find”, and it’s hard to disagree. The man who took these images, Charles Strickland Laird, was a…
Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic on land. To witness him holding court in the local,…
The centenary celebrations of the first grand prix to be staged in Britain were held recently at Brooklands, and the Halford Special was one of the star turns. Just as…
The Zolder circuit, host of the Belgian Grand Prix most years from 1973 to ’84, has always had a bad rap, primarily for two reasons: one, it has the temerity…
Had Alan Stacey not perished during the tragic Belgian Grand Prix of 1960, what might he have gone on to accomplish in motor sport? Lotus chief Colin Chapman had given…
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From sprint cars to two-seater Indy machines, there isn't much Mario Andretti hasn't driven – we look back on his best and most infamous competition cars
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From Tony Brooks's Pescara police chase to Ford's doomed 'other' sports car, here are your favourite archive features from throughout the year
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Racing movies can be divisive – we run through the winners and losers for you in one handy list
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Thirty years ago, in September 1995, David Coulthard scored the first of his eventual 13 grand prix wins at only his 21st attempt, and what turned out to be his…
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When the teaser trailer for F1 dropped during the British Grand Prix in July 2024, it included footage filmed at Silverstone the previous year, with Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt hustling…
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July 8, 2025 London Tuesday morning, two days after the British Grand Prix. Christian Horner is attending a meeting called the previous day by the Red Bull company’s senior Austrian…
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It happened 10 years ago on the last lap of NASCAR's traditional season-opening Daytona 500. Everyone was jammed together in a massive pack, feet flat on the throttle in typical…
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In the end, it is just a car. You sit with a steering wheel in your hands. You change gear by shifting a lever fore and aft, working your way…
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Jean Rondeau did not always play by the rules; anyone who had the nerve to test pukka Le Mans cars on the public roads was bound to be a little…
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We coasted up the pit lane, the Aston Martin DBR1 and I, engine now silent. Helmet in the passenger seat, I listened to the utter silence in my ears that…
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The scene: the Glen Motor Inn, Watkins Glen. The date: September 1979. I am sitting at a table with a couple of colleagues, and studying the menu, unable to make…
