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Just a 20-minute drive from San Francisco's busy downtown heart lies an oasis: Golden Gate Park. At 50 blocks long (3.5 miles) and half a mile wide its 1013 acres…

All we have to go on is a crumpled circuit map that magazine editor Paul Fearnley pressed into my hand back in England. That and the knowledge that, each year…

"Okay. But please ask the announcer to tell the crowd why I’m not waving.” Sir Stirling Moss – the original professional racing driver and at the age of 80 still…

Damon Hill’s Jordan 198, chassis number 3, sits quietly now under the spotlights at the Donington Grand Prix Collection. It is a far cry from the high emotions, drama and…

Rain drumming on your helmet as you snuggle into your BRM. Check the belts are tight. Release the clutch and off onto the warm-up lap. The track is flooded. A…

The Mercedes W154 is one of the machines in the running to be named Race Car of the Century; will it get your vote? Click below or scroll to the…

It's a slight problem to choose a car I didn't do because I've been associated with so many over the years, much more than most I suppose [Lola, Brabham, Gurney-Eagle,…

For me it's the Lotus 72 - an emotional choice as much as a design one. It came out in 1970 when I was 11 and getting interested in motorsport,…

I would go for the Williams FW07. Williams won their first GP with it, in 1979, and, refined for the following year, it won the championship with Alan Jones. It…

I was impressed by the BRM P160, designed by Tony Southgate. I took the car over and developed it when I rejoined BRM in 1972 (I first went there in…

The Lotus 79, the first real ground effect car was a very, very good package, the first realisation that aerodynamics were becoming crucial and that you could make ground effects…

When I think back to GP design milestones, it's pretty obvious, really: the first rear-engined F1 Cooper. Not so much from a technical point of view even though it was…

For more than a decade from the mid-1980s, aspiring professional racing drivers and club racers alike never had it so good. As car companies attempted to spice-up their image and…

He divides opinion. Always has done. And it tends to distil to a single, fundamental question: are you for Senna, or are you for Prost? Even Motor Sport can’t resist.…

Sat in a dusty cupboard in the bowels of the Royal Automobile Club, leafing through ancient volumes of The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling, the name jumped right out at…

September marked 60 years since the Ford Lotus Cortina made its competition debut. To celebrate that milestone, the world’s first all-Lotus Cortina race was a key element of April’s Members’…

Keith Duckworth and his team at Cosworth designed the Ford DFV for one task and one task only – to win in Formula 1. One hundred and fifty-five world championship…