When talk turns to Ayrton Senna’s rivals, most people think of the Brazilian’s on-track battles with Frenchman Alain Prost. But wind the clock back a little further to 1983 and…
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
Winging over the scrub-clad dunes, it looked like a space invader executing a terrifying attack on a remote outpost. We had never even imagined such an otherworldly apparition. Yet here…
10. Mario Andretti + Ronnie Peterson 1978 Win rate: 57% Win count: 6 + 2 out of 14 GPs One drivers’ title One constructors’ title In the mid-70s, Mario Andretti…
As ever the recent June magazine was full of interesting articles and I may be able to enlighten you regarding one or two. Andrew Frankel remarked on Stirling’s signature [If…
On Sunday, July 25, 1976, Barry Sheene won the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp, crossing the finish line with both hands raised in V-for-victory salutes to celebrate securing his first…
Aside from his regular report on the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, won by James Hunt for McLaren, Motor Sport devoted a page to Denis Jenkinson’s take on a new…
Writing after Kimi Antonelli’s much-lauded win in the Monaco Grand Prix, one can’t escape the thought that perhaps the fuss accorded to his admittedly notable success is rather disproportionate. I…
Chris Ellard first popped onto our radar in the early 2000s with his book The Forgotten Races, which documented the non-championship Formula 1 events from the beginning of the 3-litre…
Hockenheim is another great circuit that no longer exists as many of us remember. It was one of the most frightening and dramatic places to go racing. There is still…
It’s like an R8 but… Looks like somebody in the design office broke out the set squares, right? To some, presumably those who willingly look twice at a Tesla Cybertruck,…
5. 1980: Desire’s Double A second consecutive win, following the Monza 1000Kms, for the Cosworth DFV-powered Lola of Alain de Cadenet, above, right, and Desiré Wilson, above, left. A shutdown…
June 2, 2026 Mountain Circuit, Isle of Man With a record 36 wins and 55 podiums at the Isle of Man TT, Michael Dunlop, 37, knows every nook, cranny and kerb…
May 12, 1979 Zolder, Belgium Legends in their own lunchtime, from left, Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault), Jody Scheckter (Ferrari), Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) and René Arnoux (Renault). Villeneuve was leading the F1…
Abrighter scene than Brooklands on August 7th, 1926, would be hard to imagine; sunshine, dresses, sumptuous cars, grass, trees, advertisements, and lastly the little green and blue projectiles themselves, such…
At the dawn of motor sport, it was one of the most famous racing cars in the world. From 1909 to 1916, iconoclastic American inventor J Walter Christie’s one-off, 20-litre,…
