Motor sport photo galleries

Long Beach wasn’t the most scenic circuit, but racers race hard regardless. Michael Harris attended US GPs in 1980, ’81 and ’82 and was able to capture some candid images…

Our recent feature on 1967 prompted Julian Nowell to recall his trips that wonderful season – two UK F1 meets plus one of the great sports car races. And all…

Press guest with extra privileges: Being Ford’s guest at Le Mans in 1966 is already pretty lucky, but Robert Ames also became a film extra while Grand Prix was being shot…

A drive in the woods: In autumn 1971, Fred Gerkens and some of his friends headed to Watkins Glen for the US Grand Prix and their first taste of F1.…

  A round of the European Touring Car Challenge at Mallory Park? The 1960s were ripe with possibilities that would nowadays be unthinkable, as these photos from Chris Mitchell confirm

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With time on his hands in lockdown, Richard Andrews found images taken by his father, Stan, of their trip to watch Champ Cars at Michigan in 1968

Porsche set the standard in the Group C era, but it faced rare stern opposition at Silverstone in 1983. Brian Blair was there to see the Stuttgart marque prevail and…

A 14-year-old Graham Nevill managed to get close to his idol Graham Hill at the 1971 British Grand Prix at Silverstone... before a bungled flag drop took him out of…

In May 1969, Tim Marshall witnessed one of the all-time great Le Mans 24 Hours, featuring Jacky Ickx’s safety protest and a Ford victory by mere feet after a fierce…

Bob McIntyre tackles the Governor’s Bridge hairpin ahead of John Surtees on his way to victory in the 1957 Isle of Man Senior TT. McIntyre and his Gilera 500cc four,…

Michele Robecchi was only ten when he took a few snaps at the 1981 Italian Grand Prix — and family connections got him into the Monza paddock

Longridge: Lancashire’s muddy racing jewel, long forgotten Perhaps there’s another similar venue obscured in the mists of time, but none springs to mind. Longridge was a circuit apart, crammed into…

It used to be a source of mild irritation that motor racing in north-west England shut down in October while continuing elsewhere (mostly at Brands Hatch, far beyond comfortable cycling…

For the most part, Formula 1 support cards tend to be homogenised: GP2 and GP3 in Europe and the Middle East, the Porsche Supercup or a regional equivalent at all…

For many years Silverstone was Bernie Ecclestone’s circuit enemy number one, accused of being a building site (which it wasn’t) while he mentioned nary a word about the dilapidated charm…