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Of all the conditions in which to drive one of Peugeot Sport’s precious and remarkable 908 HDi FAP LMP1 cars, this is the stuff of nightmares. The only thing worse…

“It’s easy to forget that he spent barely a year in Formula 1 because everybody remembers him.” Stefan Johansson refers to the Belgian academic (slash economist/financier/novelist/philosopher/politician/self-publicist) – and convicted fraudster…

Some youngsters discover motor racing through family influence, others stumble upon it by chance. Growing up in post-war Britain, Brian Henton barely knew such a thing existed – until his…

So this is the view. Staring down the sawn-off barrels of an unsilenced Coventry-Climax V8, ears pricked to the bark and crackle of this angry, pint-sized 1.5-litre race engine, eyes…

Dovizioso finished runner-up to Marc Márquez in 2017 and 2018, so how does the rider counter the skills of his greatest rival? How has riding technique changed since you came…

Rookie Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr sobbed during the post-race press conference at this year’s Daytona 500. His mother, Desiree, embraced the 24-year-old after he guided Richard Petty Motorsports’ no43 Chevrolet…

Moss and Jenks exchanged knowing glances across the cockpit of their Mercedes-Benz 300SLR as the car ahead of them weaved from verge to kerb and hurled tuffets of grass and…

People associate Colin McRae with Subaru, understandably. But he also drove for Citroën in the 2003 season, alongside team-mates Sébastien Loeb and Carlos Sainz – and that’s not a bad…

To some observers the World Rally Championship has lost its way in recent years. The fact every driver’s title since 2004 has been taken by a Frenchman named Sébastien is…

“Life without sideways is monotonous,” shouts Ari Vatanen as he slaloms up a dirt track towards his local restaurant. “We need salt in life and, for the rally driver, gravel…

In 1964, when the late Mike Twite picked up this very Alan Mann Mustang to write about it for Motor Sport, he expected that to be a final voyage before the…

Niki Lauda breaks every mould that has ever been made for a sports star. Or any normal human being, come to that. You will frequently read stories of how champions…

You walk to the Fiorano circuit, escorted from the reception area at the famous Ferrari gate in Maranello. Crossing Via Abetone Inferiore we’re marched between the contrasting vistas of the…

Back in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Bruce McLaren became renowned as a world-class racing driver – and also for being one of the nicest guys in motor…

It may be 60 years gone, but Tony Brooks has the details of his abortive 1957 Pescara Grand Prix to hand, in the racing journal he kept throughout his driving…

The death and injury toll in the 1903 Paris-Madrid event was so severe that it was stopped early, and brought about a road racing ban in France and Spain. Among the grim list of casualties was Marcel Renault: one of the co-founders of the car-making empire

Though turbos were stripped back by Formula 1 regulations in the late '80s, McLaren and Honda still managed to squeeze the most out of them as their extinction drew near