Toyota’s GR Kart brings Gazoo Racing thinking to the family kart track
I wasn’t expecting this None of us were. When Toyota’s factory racing arm Gazoo Racing (better known as just GR these days) said it was launching a new performance product…
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…
Can you think of a worse time to have launched a business selling an expensive, single-seat racing car for the road than 2009, just months after markets went into meltdown…
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…
During the summer of 1980, a car that would push Formula 1 into a new era was starting to take shape. The McLaren MP4 would famously laminate a new technology…
Bonneville SpeedWeek is in its 78th year. It possesses a spirit akin to the Isle of Man TT, its sprawling paddock emanating the same camaraderie and robustly mutual respect that…
Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic on land. To witness him holding court in the local,…
This may not be the car readers of this august journal have been waiting for, for these last 10 years, but it is the car its creator has wanted and,…
It’s been ages since we had a new Indycar Sure has. The current Dallara DW12 – named in honour of the much-missed Dan Wheldon – was introduced back in 2012…
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…
Netherlands August 21-23 Lando Norris made it two grand prix wins on the trot with victory for McLaren in a dramatic and ever-twisting-and-turning Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. The race…
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…
Let us start with an audacious understatement: there are not many drivers whose Formula 1 preparation involved making coffins. Perhaps there is only one, for that is where Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s…
Forty years ago Gordon Murray introduced the world to the Brabham BT55, a car whose roller-skate profile looks extraordinary even today, never mind when compared with some of its ungainly…
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…
There was a time when circuit corner names were utilitarian labels, nothing more. Even for the greatest curves, inspiration was drawn from local landmarks or topography: think of Eau Rouge…
As you read this the first update of the so-far disastrously slow Aston Martin-Honda AMR26 will have appeared for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Until this point the car had received…