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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

As a large and somewhat unconventional executive saloon, the Rover SD1 made an unlikely tin-top hero. Yet in the space of just a handful of years it forged success from…

Forty years ago Frank Williams left the company he’d lost and started again – in an old carpet warehouse his friend Dave Brodie had found for him, with a second-hand…

2017 Williams FW40 All the way through the 2017 season I’ve been going to races and hearing drivers talk about just how amazing this generation of cars is. The bigger…

The public persona of Red Bull’s ‘driver chief without portfolio’ Dr Helmut Marko is very different from the man behind that mask. And he doesn’t give a fig about that;…

David Brabham remembers asking his dad Jack what it takes to be a truly great racer. It was a big question for the young driver, but if he was expecting…

In the late 1990s, there were rumours of a Nigel Mansell comeback. Would it be with Jordan in Formula 1; with Porsche at Le Mans? In 1998, the answer arrived, as Mansell lined up alongside Ari Vatanen at Chamonix

It’s July 1988 and I’m at Brands Hatch, waiting impatiently between Druids and Graham Hill Bend for the manic pack of RS500 Cosworths, E30 M3s and assorted Class C and…

Patrick Head: Former technical director, Williams Neil Oatley: Design & development director, McLaren Peter Stevens: Respected automotive & industrial designer Tony Southgate: Creator of the Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-9   Engine…

Blyton Park is by no means the most beautiful track in the UK and, tucked away in a remote part of Lincolnshire, nor is it the easiest to access. But…

Adolf Hitler was first to take advantage of the opportunity offered by modern international sport to ambitious leaders looking for ways of demonstrating the irresistible power of the forces at…

Today, Caitlyn Jenner is best known as the transgender star of US reality TV show Keeping up with the Kardashians. Forty years ago, as Bruce Jenner, he was a gold…

From February 24-26, the Race Retro exhibition at Stoneleigh, Kenilworth is in part being “powered by Motor Sport”. That merits something special, and on the Motor Sport stand one of…

This January marks 50 years since Donald Campbell took his jet-powered boat Bluebird K7 to Coniston Water to gain another new speed record. He never came back. A new book by…

Maranello and Mladá Boleslav: both are touchstones on motor sport’s landscape, yet one is famous the world over while the other is known barely at all. The less celebrated of…

There may be more exciting things you can do with a steering wheel in your hands than guide an Aston Martin DB3S around Goodwood, but few are more satisfying, fewer…

"Do you know what he looks like?” I’m asked. “Yes. No. Well, I did.” I reply. Looking up to the popular and part-packed Paddock Hill bank I’m pointed towards a…