The Editor: A-Z of Le Mans 24 Hours
I missed Le Mans’ 100th anniversary in 2023 so I was determined to make the race this year, which it turns out was a classic. Here are 26 things I…
Oscar E Seyd, the first editor of this great magazine, was at pains to stress in his editorial of July 1924 that his journal was “something entirely new. It regards…
"On May 1st motor-racing history was made, for Stirling Moss won the 1000-mile Mille Miglia, the first time in twenty-two years that this has been achieved by a British driver,…
The Goodwood Members’ Meeting always arrives as a blessed relief. After the gloom of winter and an enforced absence of domestic racing the drive to the Sussex track is as…
Zak Brown once got himself a tattoo after losing a bet with Daniel Ricciardo when the Australian won at Monza in 2021. He has reportedly made a similar bet with…
The news that Lewis Hamilton was to move to Ferrari for the 2025 season was leaked to an Italian outlet and then quickly picked up in the UK where it…
Our sport doesn’t half make life difficult for itself. After a mammoth Formula 1 season that culminated in a gruelling three-race schedule, where teams were sleepwalking through time zones, everyone…
One hundred years ago Oscar E Seyd sat down at his desk and typed out the following: “In introducing a new journal, it is usual to commence with a word…
There is nothing quite like an arresting photograph. And the one that caught my eye last month was of Bernie Ecclestone snapped by a passer-by standing in a queue at…
So the constructors’ title returns to Milton Keynes where it will take its place in Red Bull’s towering trophy cabinet that greets visitors to the team’s HQ. It has been…
Could this be the end of a racing series before it has properly begun? Anyone who was at Lydden Hill in late July to witness the return of World Rallycross…
Our thirst for live motor sport shows no sign of abating. This summer I have been struck by the sheer scale and popularity of some of the headline events I…
We report this month on a new film telling the remarkable story of Nigel Mansell. The documentary was due to be shown on Sky on the weekend of the British…
It is at this time of year that thoughts turn inevitably to the British Grand Prix, that highlight of our domestic racing calendar. And it is also a good time…
The first Le Mans 24 Hours took place 100 years ago this month on 26-27 May 1923. It had been dreamt up by Emile Coquille, a French importer of Rudge-Whitworth…
Ahead of the new Formula 1 season, I sat down with Motor Sport’s F1 experts Johnny Herbert and Mark Hughes to discuss the key talking points and themes of 2023.…
One of the most extraordinary episodes in motor racing played out 65 years ago this month. The setting was the Hotel Lincoln in central Havana where on the evening of…