Racing History

The Renault of Jean-Pierre Jabouille – who died in February age 80 – enters the pits during practice at the 1979 Dutch GP. Apart from a win at the French…

The operators of Goodwood Circuit have announced a string of celebratory events across the course of the 2023 season to mark 75 years since the opening of the racing venue.…

Silverstone’s forthcoming Festival event will celebrate the circuit’s 75th anniversary with a packed racing programme of classic and historic machinery, with front-engined Formula 1 cars getting a prime slot.

Whether it was grand prix stunners, sports car stars or even shock Le Mans winners, McLaren has an illustrious history of churning out interesting, innovative and sometimes just plain gorgeous racing cars. Robert Ladbrook takes a look at some of its best.

Ford is staying out of team management in its latest F1 partnership with Red Bull and AlphaTauri, potentially still shuddering at its attempt to run Jaguar "the Ford way", witnessed first-hand by Johnny Herbert and others

Silverstone. Thursday February 4, 1993. The media, out in force, has not come to admire the Jordan-Hart F1 car or witness a new lap record. The story on this foggy…

Joest, Kremer, Richard Lloyd, John Fitzpatrick… where would Group C have been without the great Porsche customer teams who were let off the leash to race, and sometimes beat, the…

Carroll Shelby proved himself a savvy racing driver in a hectic career cut short by a heart condition, laying the foundations for his even greater achievements to come, writes Paul Fearnley

The passing of time can obscure reputations. Relying on the written word and second-hand reports can amplify inaccuracies through repetition and like the old game of Chinese whispers result in…

The three cars poised on the rough concrete banking look right at home – largely because that’s precisely where they are. Strictly speaking, they’re French-minted racing royalty, but nevertheless Brooklands…

Some of these guys [F1 drivers] don’t appreciate where their paycheques come from. The F1 system changes people. Success makes it hard for them to keep their heads straight. They’re…

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Jacky Ickx proved himself to be one of the true greats of motor racing. Hugely successful and versatile, he raced at the highest…

With a terse eight words a decade ago, Kimi Räikkönen coined his F1 epitaph, with the series' most-celebrated radio message. More than a meme, writes Damien Smith, it's a throwback to the classic racing spirit

Ari Vatanen 1985 Monte-Carlo: 1st Comebacks don’t get bigger than this. Going up against Walter Röhrl in the mountains above Monte Carlo was usually a fruitless endeavour, as the Audi…

The noble art of chasing land-speed records is approaching the 60th anniversary of a significant crossroads. On August 5, 1963, Craig Breedlove’s jet-powered Spirit of America was clocked at 407.447mph…

There’s a brutalist magnificence to the concrete sweep of the Mirafiori factory in Turin: a facility that was first inaugurated in 1939 under the gaze of Benito Mussolini – after…

Phil Remington was the Paul Bunyan – the US superhuman lumberjack folk hero – of American motor sports. During a career that stretched from pre-war hotrods to the carbon-fibre DeltaWing,…