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Statistics are never the whole story. But they are often a good place to start, so here’s a man who won the Le Mans 24 Hours at his first attempt…

It’s been a little sad watching one of F1’s truly great drivers making up the numbers in an uncompetitive McLaren-Honda for the past couple of seasons, each underpowered, low-key weekend…

“This is a victory meeting.” It wasn’t – far from it – and querying glances were exchanged. But Leo Beebe didn’t blink: “Next year, we’re going to come back and win, and we might…

Ronnie Peterson made his F1 debut with March – and he gave it a final grand prix win, as Paul Fearnley remembers

The past 20 years have not been kind to Formula 1 newcomers. Of the three that arrived in 2010 only Manor survives – and then in much-recycled form. BMW’s brief…

Fernando Alonso may have been the first driver to win a grand prix in Marina Bay but was far from the first driver to win in Singapore. Paul Fearnley looks back at the history of the Asian GP and the crowning of its first champions

"When I first started out in NASCAR in the 1960s,” says Darrell Waltrip, “it was pretty much just the good ol’ boys. Rough and ready on the track, rough and…

Mike Hailwood took easily to Formula 1. Its driving aspect at least. At the second time of asking, that is. His first was premature, beset by distraction, frustration and unease.…

He sticks his head through the door of the meeting room. “What are you doing here?” Great mock confused/puzzled expression – and then the Hollywood smile. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has…

Shooting the breeze with Berger is a glorious oasis in a desert of political correctness. There is no messing around, no ducking and diving. Gerhard’s shots are fired from the…

Contributing to Motor Sport I meet a great many people and some make a big impression. Maria Teresa de Filippis was one of those. There was always that twinkle in the…

Thirty years ago, the motor sport world tilted on its axis. In one of the rare instances of technological step change, Team Lotus developed ground effect aerodynamics and with the…

The handsome middle-aged man playing with his train set was once the scourge of grand prix motor racing, the sport’s wild man, the new kid on the grid who, said…

Stirling Moss is the most famous racing driver in the world and the greatest all-rounder the sport has ever seen, even if he never won a Formula 1 world championship.…

Formula 1 drivers have to be extraordinarily fit: and a by-product of their fitness is that, if they have a serious accident, they are likely to recover much more quickly…

Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd was born and brought up on the island of Oland in the Baltic Sea – a long way from Monte Carlo and even further from the…

The first surprise is that the Jersey taxi driver is Glaswegian, the second that Nigel Mansell seems to be in a good mood and happy to wait for us to…