Back in the 1970s, Formula 1 regulations occupied barely three pages of the FIA Yellow Book, despite appearing in both French and English. Before that, in the 1950s, effectively two…
Had Alan Stacey not perished during the tragic Belgian Grand Prix of 1960, what might he have gone on to accomplish in motor sport? Lotus chief Colin Chapman had given…
How many of us, who don’t live in Germany, remember the Motodrom Gelsenkirchen? We’d wager very few but it remains a part of the country’s illustrious motor racing history. This…
Wait, isn’t Lola dead? It was. The original Lola ceased trading in 2012 but was revived in 2022 when businessman and racer Till Bechtolsheimer (who handled a Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini…
5. Will Power With apologies to Palou, Marcus Ericsson, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Alexander Rossi, we’ve plumped for Will Power for the final spot. The Australian veteran’s only win from his…
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
One moved the Land Speed Record up to 152.33mph in 1926; the other took it supersonic to 763.035mph in 1997. One hundred years to the day since Sir Henry Segrave…
If you were expecting fanfares, ceremonials or a parade of marching elephants – like Verdi’s epic Aida chorus – to celebrate Lancia’s return to rallying, you would have been disappointed.…
It has always taken a little more time than usual to get things done at Indianapolis. It is a city that operates at a deliberate pace. Do not go too…
Barry Sheene’s nickname for me was ‘Moriarty’, James Hunt simply called me ‘Arm’ based on the initials I wrote under for this magazine and the sister publication Motoring News. As a founding director…
The broad-brushstrokes generalisation of 1976 is that this was the year when motor sport moved from the back pages of the newspapers to the front. But, in reality, it had…
Brands Hatch, which this year celebrates its centenary since opening as a venue for cycling, enjoyed its inaugural car racing meeting on April 16, 1950. The event, organised by the…
Reaction to this year’s Australian Grand Prix was certainly ‘mixed’ but, while Mercedes and Ferrari expressed delight with the promise shown by their new-era Formula 1 cars, it was (predictably)…
It’s not cheap, but this mighty double-volume set of hardback books in slipcase (295mm x 290mm) is a beautifully evocative delve into the story of what must be regarded as…
Sometimes a historics journey serves you to the seat of a gleaming V12 screaming down the back straight of a European circuit in the spring air. Sometimes it’s an Astra…
