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It’s taken him 98 races and 78 crashes but it’s all been worth it – Crutchlow has finally made it all the way to the top Andrea Iannone one week,…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Fussing over goggles steaming up in the rain and fretting about fouled spark plugs, Jim Clark…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Not the first motor race with a GP suffix – that was Pau in February 1901…

This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring first-time winners, final wins and a Formula 1 world championship title. August 15 1905: Manfred von Brauchitsch is born. In profile…

Virtual reality and motor sport continues to produce excellence, with Ford being the latest to try out the new technology. You can now experience their 2016 Le Mans victory in 360-degree…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jacky Ickx, arguably the greatest wet-weather driver, had seen enough. Twelve years on from finishing second…

One of the benefits of having 26 years’ worth of racing history is that you have a little black book full of racing drivers to call on.  There are scores drivers on…

Sir Stirling Moss won the Pescara Grand Prix 59 years ago today, a gruelling three-hour encounter over 18 laps of the 16-mile road circuit. Moss took victory by more than three…

How’s the season going so far?                   Interestingly! With a podium at Silverstone it all started well but since then we have had a DNF and a few average results. Having said…

Jackie Stewart won the Oulton Park Gold Cup today in 1968, and, remarkably, you can go back to that day courtesy fo this five-minute super 8 film. There's no sound,…

My life with the few old and unimportant cars I own is a perpetual quest to improve them. Oddly but in the overwhelming majority of cases this involves returning them…

Nick Padmore’s fast-growing reputation in historic racing stepped up another gear at the 44th annual Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring over the weekend when he scooped a double win…

…maniac by nature. What’s the beef with Austrian GP winner Andrea Iannone? I like Andrea Iannone. There, I said it. I like him because he is MotoGP’s pantomime villain, a…

Zak Brown and United Autosports prepared for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion by taking the fleet of historic race cars to Laguna Seca and the Monterey Pre-Reunion over the weekend, claiming victory…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). It had been 12 months since Rudi Caracciola wagged a finger, the established ace considering his…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Winning as slowly as possible was not Gilles Villeneuve’s usual modus operandi. He had no option…

Some of the greatest names in US racing remember the 1967 Indy 500, won by AJ Foyt. Parnelli Jones, who celebrates his 83rd birthday today (August 12), dominated the race…