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2025 Motor Sport calendar: 75 years of F1 The stunning shot above of Niki Lauda driving for Ferrari at the 1976 Spanish GP features in Motor Sport's 2025 calendar, celebrating 75…
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Mauro Forghieri – for 27 years the chief engineer of Ferrari’s racing operation – was on fine form. Ten days earlier, this tall, rangy man of enormous accomplishment had celebrated…
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This is quite something: the first time that cars from all three eras of Bentley’s racing history have been driven together. Each has their claim to fame: the GT3 is…
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‘This car was born from the regulations. It was a variant of the successful BT49. By then the car was so reliable – we knew it inside out. At that…
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The look on Martin Brundle’s face the minute he walks into the garage at Silverstone is a picture. There’s an instant flicker of recognition. The same reaction as meeting an…
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Formula 1 operated on very different principles during the early years of the world championship, when much of the technology had pre-WW2 roots, but in the late 1950s a revolution…
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Craig Breedlove has given us a choice. Either a smart restaurant in a vinery, or Hozy’s, a cheap and cheerful eatery. “Hozy’s,” explains Breedlove, “is where all the local racers…
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Roger Penske arrives at the Royal Automobile Club in London straight from the airport. He is here for a dinner to celebrate his remarkable career. At 5am tomorrow he flies…
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Nigel Roebuck F1 journalist Remembering Imola ’94, when the traumas seemed endless, I suppose what comes back to me as much as anything is the hush in the press room…
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The image of Roland Ratzenberger’s Simtek-Ford coming to rest after its heavy crash in the fast Villeneuve kink is haunting to this day. Rudolf Ratzenberger, now 85, saw it on…
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It was a plot that would have been regarded as too fanciful, even for Hollywood. Any self-respecting studio would have rejected a script involving a big-shot movie star going to…
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Cosworth's nascent 4WD F1 design featured a host of innovative engineering concepts, even if not all of them worked as intended. Here's a look under the skin of the machine,…
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“The oysters only lasted for three days,” says the suave Thierry de Montcorgé, who would not be out of place if thrown among a gaggle of unconventional and swashbuckling Rolls-Royce…
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I grew up in Guildford, Surrey, which is 10 miles east of where Mike Hawthorn lived, in Farnham on the Surrey/Hampshire border. About the only thing he and I otherwise…
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He was, according to Ferdinand Porsche, “the greatest driver of the past, present and future,” but racing fans in Britain had surprisingly few chances to witness the singular brilliance of…
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Of the many pinch-yourself moments routinely served to crowds and competitors at the Goodwood Revival, the Kinrara Trophy has quickly established itself as an absolute belter. Conceived to evoke the…
