When Peter Wright was pitched in to keep Team Lotus alive at the beginning of the 1990s, he was both out of his comfort zone and out of his depth.…
What’s the second-fastest category of motor racing on the planet after Formula 1? Formula 2? IndyCar? WEC Hypercar? Think again. The answer in fact is Super Formula, Japan’s top single-seater…
The FIA Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship turned 75 in May. Later that month the series for constructors celebrated its centennial. For Vanwall did not win the first of these…
In this month's magazine, Motor Sport went to see the garage that two of the most significant Porsches in racing history
In 1985, the world of rallying unexpectedly collided with that of…indie rock. Having been formed a year earlier (and splitting up, for the first time, only a year later) Half…
Though the why and the how were hard to fathom, the where and the when were easily pinpointed: Geneva University’s auditorium in 1983. For it was after only a fortnight’s…
We were there... On his third attempt Jim Clark won the annual American classic race on the rectangular Indianapolis track. In 1963 he finished a close second in a rear-engined…
Just like this season’s Formula 1, 60 years ago, in 1965, we saw the swansong of a set of technical regulations, due to be replaced at season’s end. In that…
6000 miles to Caracas October 2005 Imagine a parallel 1950s where Juan Manuel Fangio never travelled to Europe and instead turned his back on motor racing to focus on his…
The man who would be Kling... Oct 1997 In 2025 a Mercedes-powered Formula 1 car rules the roost, and 70 years ago it was a similar story. Mercedes made its…
Despite the ever-present risk of retreating into rosy-glow nostalgia, the Monday morning after this year’s Goodwood Revival meeting leaves me with a pressing need. Anyone with half a heart who…
1. 1965 Monte Carlo Rally Stuart Turner, BMC competitions chief from 1961, rated the drive by Timo Mäkinen in the Mini Cooper S as among the greatest he witnessed. Co-driven…
At Silverstone, our Lola T70 reunion was completed by a spry 80-something ex-mechanic who has a fascinating connection to SL76/141: David Westley, inset, ran the car when it ‘raced’ (and…
PHOTOGRAPHY: JAYSON FONG Just another race, just another distant memory. Jackie OIiver reckons he doesn’t remember much about the 1970 Buenos Aires 1000Kms and his drive in the Lola…
When editor Joe Dunn messages to ask if it is OK to share your email address with Mercedes-Benz, it is intriguing to know why. Then when Mercedes-Benz Heritage almost immediately…
Jim Clark's 1965 diary, originally published in Motor Sport, August 2015 January 1st Clark celebrates New Year and his almost full recovery from a slipped disc – the result of…
