Winter, 1969 East Horsley, Surrey Long before the McLaren F1, Bruce McLaren had a vision of a fast, lightweight coupé road car, making it eligible for the Group 4 GT…
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Phil Hill, who in September 1961 became America’s first Formula 1 world drivers’ champion, began his climb to the top 11 years earlier with his maiden significant victory. That happened…
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You'll need a full day at the wheel to drive from London to Zandvoort even with the tunnel and the continuous thread of motorway that now lies between Calais and…
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In a career that goes back to his own teenage fumblings as a kart racer, Tony Dowe has been linked as an engineer or manager with a couple of dozen…
While the ‘other half’ of the Chaparral team was off taking on Ford, Ferrari and Porsche around the world in prestigious endurance racing contests, Jim Hall was busy creating his…
Noel Pope watched the vast sweep of concrete banking rush towards him, his mighty supercharged Brough Superior snorting and shaking like an angry bull as he locked his arms against…
When Jonathan Palmer careered into the barriers at Spa’s Pouhon corner at the beginning of September 1985, it left the Richard Lloyd Racing team with a problem. Given the bespoke…
Voice of 90’s motor racing is completing project to revive hidden gems of motor sport film and television.
December 7, 1968 Riverside, California Twenty-eight-year-old hotshot American driver Mario Andretti gets up-to-date with the world of racing by leafing through the November 1968 issue of Motor Sport. He has…
Bugatti Type 35C Over the second half of the 1920s, the Bugatti Type 35 was one of the most successful race cars both with the factory team and in the…
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Brooklands: birthplace of motor sport – and of Motor Sport. For years the Surrey autodrome, first race circuit in the world, was the centre of motor racing in Britain, and…
A pivotal decade in our history. First, Bill Boddy is stood down as editor – except Mr Tee forgets to tell him. “Who do you think you are, telling me…
1991 The British Touring Car Championship adopts a single-class structure for the first time. The 2-litre era banishes the crowd-pleasing, flame-spitting Cosworth RS500s, but kick-starts a global touring car racing…
1980 Audi reveals its Quattro at the Geneva Motor Show. Having already successfully lobbied to make 4WD legal for rallying, a Quattro appears on the Algarve Rally as a non-competitive…
“The Magazine that gave its name to the Sport” becomes the tad more pompous “AUTHORITATIVE VOICE OF THE SPORT” (1) in January 1986 (Mr Tee’s idea) – as the…
One hundred years ago a man called Oscar Seyd decided that the world of motor racing needed a dedicated publication on the subject. Back then motor racing in Britain was…
