Matthew Jeffreys challenges Gordon Murray’s account of the McLaren MP4/4
I must confess I have a lot to be thankful to Gordon Murray for in keeping the ‘who designed the MP4/4’ debate alive and kicking. You will be aware, I…
Have you seen the reboot of The Grand Tour? Probably not if you’re not an Amazon Prime subscriber, but if you like car shows actually presented by car people, you…
All season we have been waxing lyrical about the brilliant progress that Kimi Antonelli has made between his rookie season last year and his second campaign in 2026, but the…
There’s literally nothing I could do as a driver today to do a better job,” said Lando Norris after being denied a near-certain victory in the Spanish Grand Prix by…
Just over a year ago one of the most dominant teams in the history of Formula 1 appeared to be on the brink of implosion. Its talismanic team boss had…
There are some drivers whose careers can be measured easily in statistics, their achievements neatly catalogued in tables of wins and championships. There are others whose contribution to motor sport…
According to Niki Lauda, after he had named the fee – in Austrian schillings – that he wanted to sign up for the 1977 Formula 1 season, Mr Ferrari telephoned…
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
July 2024 at The Dorchester in Park Lane, London. The glitterati arrive for a Motor Sport celebration dinner, held in honour of the centenary of the magazine you are reading.…
As the Greek tragedians demonstrated two millennia ago, every great protagonist demands an equally formidable antagonist. For Jackie Stewart, it was a bespectacled journalist with a long, wispy beard for…
Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
Kimi Antonelli Astonishing progression from his patchy and underprepared rookie season. Yes, he’s in the best car but he’s doing things with it that stand comparison with the finest. In…
Everybody knows you cannot judge a book by its cover but nor, it seems, can you judge a car by its photograph. In this space last month I wrote about…
Everyone knows Harley-Davidson doesn’t do racing motorcycles. The venerable Milwaukee marque appeals to a different tribe of motorcyclists, selling them machines christened Low Riders, Road Glides and Fat Boys. It’s…
Most fans of motor sport have heard of the Isle of Man TT. Stuart Barker’s Win, Lose or Die investigates motorcycling’s subculture of racing on the roads, from the TT…
The 2025 IndyCar championship was a snoozer, as Álex Palou clinched the title with several rounds remaining. The most compelling storyline in the closing weeks of the season was whether…