The last race of the season
It’s all to play for in Abu Dhabi – unless you’re obsessed with showdowns. I’ve watched a few, it’s true. Smudgy Fuji images from 1976 are a vague memory, and…
This week in motor sport, Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard started life as world champions, winning the title in Porsche’s second season since it returned to sports car…
Sheene, Dunlop, Duke… it would be difficult to find three more different motorcycle racers, let alone three more different human beings. We all know the iconic images of these three…
This week in motor sport, Gunnar Nilsson – a talented Swede who lost his battle with cancer aged just 30 – was born 67 years ago. Friend Chris Witty remembered…
Jochen Mass 1975 Spanish GP winner, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours winner It would be a lot easier to name my least favourite car… but if I have to name…
Zoom-and-slump Lewis Hamilton is in exalted company. Fellow multiple world champions Juan Fangio, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher all suffered post-title ‘depression’.…
Single-seaters designed and manufactured by Pilbeam Racing Designs (PRD) won 17 British Hillclimb titles between 1977 and 1997. That record has just been eclipsed by Gould Racing after Alex Summers…
On their own the numbers are impressive, but they neither tell the full tale nor convey the delicious sonic reality. In 2014 the inaugural HSR Classic 24 at Daytona attracted…
Gorilla in the midst He had a dyno in his basement and deserved much more credit. Vittorio Brambilla, 'The Monza Gorilla', would have been 78. Read the full feature here > Sign up…
It is slightly strange to think that one of Ferrari’s most-recognised models is more grand tourer rather than out-and-out supercar. Yet that is precisely the case with the Ferrari Testarossa.…
British racers Aaron Scott (March 761) and Greg Thornton (Lotus 91/5) were the stars of the weekend as Masters Historic Racing provided two support races to the Gran Premio De…
A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here Click here to buy the above image From the editor Damien Smith How would you define…
It’s gone down as one of the most renowned mano a mano duels in American motor racing history. Parnelli Jones and Mark Donohue battled furiously for Trans-Am supremacy in 1969…
A field of 21 Formula 1 cars of the 1970s and early 1980s from Masters Historic Racing will race at the Gran Premio De Mexico this weekend as contemporary Grand…
By Sam Smith Jo Ramírez is probably one of only a handful of people to bestride the pioneering years of the original Mexican Grand Prix track, located in the world’s…
There are a great many reasons why Stirling Moss is still the most famous racing driver on the planet, this despite Lewis Hamilton’s unstinting efforts to establish himself as what…
The thunderstorms and torrential rain that threatened to de-rail the US Grand Prix in Texas cost the Masters Historic Racing Historic Formula 1 cars any chance of racing at the…