The greatest story ever told,” we proclaimed in 2005 on the 50th anniversary of Stirling Moss’s epochal victory on the Mille Miglia, and its subsequent capture – in neat long-hand,…
Our late little bearded mate Jenks obviously features prominently in this issue’s Mille Miglia pages, but I’m also reminded of his regular Continental Notes column, which in many ways fuelled…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jpFtWH2i0 1 Porsche (19 wins) Jo Bonnier delivered Porsche its first Sebring 12 Hours win in 1960 with a 718 RS60 entered by the Swede for Hans Herrmann and Olivier…
10. Fangio Five-time world champion who set the benchmark for the professional F1 driver “He was the greatest of them all,” said Stirling Moss. Who are we to argue? Especially…
It’s a hot Thursday in late 1985, and the sleepy city of Adelaide is about to be changed forever. Nineteen eighty world champion Alan Jones, only the second Australian to…
Webber’s ‘podium’ (2002) A Minardi on the podium? Well, not exactly. But fifth place was a near-miracle for home hero Mark Webber on his Formula 1 debut. Protocol be damned:…
It was a clear, crisp summer morning and I was walking the dog across a deserted Cornish beach when my phone rang. The number was Italian. No one likes these…
1. Luigi Fagioli 53y 0m 22d (1951 French GP) The great Italian’s career began as early as 1926 (and we think Fernando Alonso has been plugging away a long time).…
Six decades after Motor Sport's famous continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson ran his Porsche 356 across Europe, it's now racing again following a long and careful restoration
‘Replica’ is too often considered a dirty word, but it isn’t when it comes to the beautifully engineered masterpieces created by Dick Crosthwaite and John Gardiner. Ecclestone’s Auto Union is…
It was September 3, 1939, an inauspicious date for Europe and the world; the day on which Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany after the invasion of Poland…
Before Cooper, Lotus and the 1960s British ‘takeover’ of F1, there was Vanwall. Active as a racing entity for a few short years, Tony Vandervell’s ‘teardrop’ racers paved the way…
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There was a lot to think about. But Bruce Leslie McLaren — boss / designer / engineer / tester / racer — preferred it that way. Three years of his…
This odd-looking motorcycle that Barry Sheene is sitting on is a monocoque Seeley-Suzuki TR500. Sheene had been testing the bike pre-season in ’73 alongside Seeley’s official rider Pat Mahoney –…
Every year yields a champion, many campaigns feature a spectacular title battle, but few produce legends of heroic failure. Fernando Alonso’s near-miss for Ferrari in 2012 stands as one of…
Just imagine that a Formula 1 team was fined nearly £50m by the FIA and disqualified from the constructors’ championship, as a result of its chief designer having been caught…
