Hockenheim’s forest straights: the circuit Formula 1 left behind
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,…
Exactly 75 years ago, on July 14, 1951, Enzo’s Scuderia won a round of the Formula 1 World Championship for the first time. Many racing fans’ love affair with the…
The Isle of Man hosted its last round of motorcycling’s world championships – now known as MotoGP – 50 years ago this June. To help explain the TT’s demise as…
Your article about the Lotus 49 brought back memories [Rebirth of an F1 wonder, June]. In the 1990s I lived in a small village outside Northampton. On Sunday afternoons I…
You can almost hear the echoes of long-time Motor Sport Formula 1 expert Mark Hughes apologising to the magazine’s readership. Jenson Button, now a grand elder statesman of the sport,…
Pondering on Kimi Antonelli’s precocious run of early Grand Prix successes this year highlights the Italian’s youth at the time of his first World Championship-qualifying Grand Prix victory at Shanghai,…
In our line of work we often get asked to help authenticate signatures. When you see as many as we do, you pick up on some telltale trends that can…
Trips down the more arcane and lesser-trodden byways of Formula 1 history are always a treat. So this book, which tells the stories of the efforts of numerous South Africans…
Tijmen van der Helm made a mess of Laguna Seca’s famous Corkscrew during Friday practice for the recent IMSA race in the No5 Porsche, locking up on entry into the…
How about a concours d’elegance with a difference? Making its debut in June, the Wilton House Concours des Légendes will offer much more than the usual fare – and that’s…