The Isle of Man TT lap record hasn’t been broken since 2018, which is a long time in racing. There are a few reasons for this. Unlike Formula 1 and…
For the first time since passing my test over 40 years ago I have been banned from driving. Sort of. I’m still not clear whether I was technically allowed to…
The 2023 Festival of Greed – sorry, Miami GP – lived up to all the off-track hyperbole by delivering a race of little substance. Job done!
The 2023 Azerbaijan sprint saw another idea fail to galvanise F1 excitement – is it time for radical change, forcing drivers to race for every team in a single season?
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…
Max Verstappen stepped onto an F1 podium for the 81st time in Baku, surpassing Ayrton Senna's tally of 80. But there's a lot more that links the Red Bull driver with the three-time world champion, writes Matt Bishop
So we’re facing a season of Red Bull domination. That’s the takeaway from the first three Formula 1 grands prix. At a time when entertainment and ‘the show’ are in…
Unless it is timed correctly, a good idea is not merely no better than no idea at all; because of time, effort and money that goes into making it happen,…
A weekend of slightly reserved madness ensued in Baku with parc fermé fights, pitlane invasions and the wrong Red Bull winning – only in Formula 1
F1's new sprint race format was meant to bring unmissable on-track action on the Saturday of a GP weekend. But after withering criticism from Max Verstappen, James Elson can't help but agree that the result was lacklustre
Changes to F1 sprint races have been confirmed for 2023, designed to encourage more risk-taking and intense racing, following a similar concept to MotoGP. Chris Medland explores how well that's working
Motor racing trophies embody an enormously wide range of aesthetic, commercial and cultural taste. How often has one seen an eye-popping podium presentation of some garish oversized fridge magnet to…
Adrian Newey belongs in the company of Colin Chapman and Gordon Murray when it comes to great Formula 1 designers. He’s the most amazing in my time, largely because of…
How nice it was – compensation for a fundamentally boring opening race of this year’s Formula 1 World Championship – to see the beaming 41-year-old Fernando Alonso back on the…
Twenty-five years ago, Richard Attwood let me drive his Porsche 917. At the time it was the greatest automotive experience of my life and in the quarter century of unfathomable…
Forty years ago, on April 2, 1983, a British teenager made history at Le Mans. Eighteen-year-old Alan Carter won the French 250cc Grand Prix to become the youngest-ever intermediate-class GP…
