Picture it now: a Mercedes W10 gunning down the Brooklands straight at Thruxton, or Ferrari's SF90 dicing with last year’s McLaren on the run up to Oulton Park’s Knickerbrook. British…
Damon Hill is often credited as the first second-generation Formula 1 world champion. But while Hill’s title in 1996 certainly made him the first champion son of a champion, there…
Alberto Ascari drove racing cars as though born to it – which, of course, he had been. Father Antonio – much admired by the formative Enzo Ferrari – had until…
Born December 6, 1948 in Stockholm to Finnish parents, Keijo ‘Keke’ Rosberg was a karting champion who moved into car racing and enjoyed success in Formula Vee and Super Vee.…
Jochen Rindt was super-cool and mega-quick. With the stylish, willowy Nina on his arm and stopwatches, this German-born Austrian epitomised motor racing in the second half of the 1960s. Even…
Given Mercedes’ current dominance, even a Max Verstappen win in a Red Bull is billed as a Formula 1 upset. But eight years ago, an upset happened on a monumental…
As the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya celebrates 30 years of hosting the Spanish Grand Prix, Damien Smith looks at the remarkable racing that the F1's unofficial home has hosted in its picturesque setting
A seat in a top team suddenly becomes vacant mid-season and a driver whose F1 career looked to be over is called in to fill the much-envied role. Nico Hülkenberg…
1954 brought the return of Mercedes to grand prix racing. In a story familiar to the hybrid era, its W196 was the class of the field. Peter Higham tells the story in an extract from Formula 1 Car by Car 1950-59
The sign reads: "International Donington Grand Prix Car Race" but some of the pictures are more reminiscent of a country drive, with farm buildings, rolling fields and hedgerows lining the…
James Hunt's finest race? From start to well beyond the finish, controversy dogged the 1976 British Grand Prix but the Brands Hatch display was a great drive from the home favourite
65 after Stirling Moss won the 1955 British Grand Prix, his first World Championship victory was commemorated at Aintree
Enzo Ferrari could be mulish: who on Earth would think it logical to place a prancing horse behind its cart? So surmised a man basking (from July 1960) in the…
Forty-five years ago today, a privately funded Formula 1 team notched up its only grand prix victory by the Dutch coast. We look back at James Hunt's winning drive with its patron, Lord Hesketh
Fifty years after the death of Bruce McLaren, we remember his remarkable accomplishments from a life cut tragically short
The huge crowd stood as one. Never before had two drivers battling for the lead of an Indianapolis 500 made their final pitstops simultaneously. Onboard air-jacks plugged in – these…
