Toyota’s bad luck at Le Mans may have reached a new height this year, but the bar hasn’t been raised too many notches. Go back 22 years and you’ll find…
It was the most remarkable press conference I have attended. It started out as the standard, once-a-year pre-Le Mans Porsche press briefing, and ended with Porsche motor sport boss Frank…
On May 31 Valentino Rossi was inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame. The man himself was busy preparing for his 114th world championship win at the time, but…
1) The main discussion pre-race was whether or not Baku is in Europe... Azerbaijan is not in Europe. However, it is part of the European Neighborhood Policy and the Council of…
One of the early success stories of the 2016 historic racing season is the boom in support of racing touring cars of the 1970s and 1980s. It has been a…
Only 30 or so years ago, the Le Mans pits were cramped beyond belief, quite grubby… and light years from the spacious working hubs they have since become. But by…
Dan Gurney was inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame on May 31 after a resounding win in the US racing category. Sadly Dan couldn't make the trip over…
Sean Edwards’ mother is on a crusade to prevent the kind of accident that claimed her son’s life in 2013 Writer: Rob Widdows October 15, 2013 Sean Edwards was killed in…
On May 31 five more motor racing luminaries were inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame joining the likes of Enzo Ferrari, Ayrton Senna, John Surtees and James Hunt.…
Image courtesy of Williams Martini Racing's trackwalk Cor! Baku City Circuit looks a bit quick. Not its average lap speed – a sequence of square corners and the narrowest section…
Josef Newgarden was lucky to escape from a big crash at the Texas Motor Speedway last weekend with no worse injuries than a broken right clavicle and hand. It’s a…
It has the biggest build-up of them all. Pushing the hyper-machines through 24 hours of full-steam racing requires it. As well as the cars, it tests the drivers to…
There was a new brand for the former Cholmondeley Pageant of Power this year as the Cheshire event morphed into Cholmondeley Power and Speed (10-12 June). Once again, there was…
It had to happen: VR is building his own museum in Italy Knock down the Leaning Tower of Pisa and turn the Grand Canal into a car park, because Italy…
1) In the seven races so far the pole-winner has only led the opening lap twice – Russia (Nico Rosberg) and Monaco (Daniel Ricciardo). 2) Sebastian Vettel qualified within 0.2 seconds of pole, the…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Modern racing is still capable of throwing up surprises now and again, and ground-breaking designs like…
