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For some, like Cosworth's Keith Duckworth, Formula 1's turbo era was a crazy aberration. When F1 's return to power had arrived in 1966, the rules included a provision for…

It is one of motor racing’s enduring images – a BRM P25 cartwheeling down the track shedding components, one being the driver, who appears to be kneeling on the road,…

I have particularly fond memories of Clermont-Ferrand in 1972 - I thought I could walk on water that day. Clermont stands out as almost a perfect day - I had…

One day, somebody will write a great full-length biography of Ayrton Senna da Silva. Let’s hope it won’t take the couple of centuries for that someone to compile the balanced, well-informed…

The inaugural Mexican Grand Prix of 1962 should have been a celebration. The country's racing prodigy, Ricardo Rodriguez, was to perform in front of his adoring countrymen. These people, who'd…

Trouble is, the irony has faded a bit. Once it was amusing to win races in a Skoda, but nowadays the rejuvenated Czech firm makes good cars, and has a…

After the euphoria of VE day and VJ day, and the demobbing of the armed forces, Britain woke up to a post-war reality summarised in a single word: austerity. Food…

The McLaren M23, unfamiliar in blue and white, tried to leave its pit. A 'heavy' in a Goodyear shirt blocked its way. Threats were issued and the car was (temporarily)…

The sharknose Ferrari was every schoolboy's epitome of the early 1960s Formula 1 car, and it still has a place in the affections of the man who won the 1961 World…

In streaming rain on Bathurst's 190mph Conrod Straight, the yellow BMW M3 appeared to aquaplane gently onto the grass verge. It glanced the wall and crossed the track, still clearly…

Ayrton Senna was the most committed man I ever met. The sheer depth of his approach to his profession was something few ordinary people could truly understand. We speak of…

Forty years after he won his first World Championship, Sir Jack Brabham is showing no signs of slowing down. He is always in demand for historic events and PR appearances,…

A large Greek called Demis Roussos topped the charts. Water was rationed as Britain sweated in the hottest summer on record. Björn Borg beat Ilie Nastase to take the first…

The name of Lotus, absent since 1994, returns to Formula 1 this year, and if that name is all it shares with its legendary forbear still I think it something…

Many of you, I'm certain, will remember him, head tilted slightly forwards, in the cockpit of that elegant gold pin-striped jet black JPS Lotus 72. Rear tyres chirping audibly as…

A wintry day at Oulton Park in 1962 seemed unlikely to be the stuff of racing history. The chill wind of recession was biting. Club events had yet to feel…

Adrian Newey has achieved remarkable success during the past decade with Williams and McLaren. Indeed, it would not be wrong to say that in recent times the world championship has…