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David Coulthard's 13th and final F1 win at the 2003 Australian GP was packed with incident from start to finish – a strong contender for the championship's best-ever opening race

Mark Blundell's astounding 1990 Le Mans lap is often held up as the greatest ever round the legendary circuit – he remembers it to Motor Sport

Silverstone celebrates its 75th anniversary as a grand prix circuit this year. Andrew Frankel looks back to the moment where a former RAF bomber base welcomed racing heroes for its first British Grand Prix

The Subaru Impreza 555 swept all before it in the WRC, and became an icon in the hands of Colin McRae – its design team leader remembers the epic tale

The passing of time can obscure reputations. Relying on the written word and second-hand reports can amplify inaccuracies through repetition and like the old game of Chinese whispers result in…

A tap on the shoulder, nothing more. I opened an eye, which even through its blear could see a large white Ford Falcon parked outside the pit garage. Panic. Where…

Alastair Caldwell’s life in motor racing began in early 1967, stepping off the plane from New Zealand and onto the first rung of the ladder as a fabricator for Bruce…

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Jacky Ickx proved himself to be one of the true greats of motor racing. Hugely successful and versatile, he raced at the highest…

Mauro Forghieri designed the cars that gave Mario Andretti his first Formula 1 win, as well as sports car success. The 1978 world champion recalls Ferrari's "inspirational" engineer who was determined to win at all costs

With a terse eight words a decade ago, Kimi Räikkönen coined his F1 epitaph, with the series' most-celebrated radio message. More than a meme, writes Damien Smith, it's a throwback to the classic racing spirit

Ari Vatanen 1985 Monte-Carlo: 1st Comebacks don’t get bigger than this. Going up against Walter Röhrl in the mountains above Monte Carlo was usually a fruitless endeavour, as the Audi…

This might sound big-headed but when it came to my rivals I always believed I was as good as, if not better, than all of them. You have to have…

There’s a brutalist magnificence to the concrete sweep of the Mirafiori factory in Turin: a facility that was first inaugurated in 1939 under the gaze of Benito Mussolini – after…

Volkswagen will be on the Formula 1 grid come 2026. Its Audi brand has confirmed its entry to the motor sport big time, while sister marque Porsche may or may…

Why was this race so important that its name was informally given to Ferrari's next supercar and, 55 years later, now officially bequeathed upon the SP3? Revenge, pure and simple.…

"The Lotus 72 was such an important car for me –definitely the best car of my career. I have driven it recently at the Goodwood events and it still feels…

Motor racing’s path from Down Under to Up Top is well trod: Jack Brabham, Denny Hulme, Alan Jones. It’s too far to travel to fail. Though South Australian Vern Schuppan’s…