F1

The result was so remarkable, so perfect – fitting into the narrative of the Red Bull driver lead-up to the race and creating so many historical firsts – that it almost…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Ever since his pole-setting Renault team-mate René Arnoux had spun out of a big lead on lap…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jim Clark was spooked by Spa. He almost jacked in the sport after his ’58 international…

Mid-May on the Formula 1 calendar means Monaco. Alain Prost dominated the streets of Monte Carlo almost from practice to the flag in 1986, and Ayrton Senna did similarly in 1991.…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). He was a fraction over two-tenths slower than Q2’s fastest lap – but 11th on the…

UPDATE: Mercedes introduced TJI concept to F1 in 2014. Ferrari 2015. Renault Canada 2016-onwards. Following up on the confirmation in our previous story that Ferrari has been using a Mahle-developed…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jean-Pierre Beltoise had come close to winning a GP several times since his debut in 1966…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Racing’s toughest nuts butted heads for almost two hours on a circuit that was hard on…

"The whole racing world must have been sad at the death of Gilles Villeneuve," DSJ wrote in 1982, "especially those who admired him as an individual as well as a racing…

Two God-fearing men, one in a saffron skirt and the other in a Day-glo Ferrari...

Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Williams in the 1980s, Frank Williams, Patrick Head, the state of modern F1, the problem with overtaking, Toyota, Jarno Trulli, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost... There is…

The demotion of Daniil Kvyat from Red Bull to Toro Rosso and the accompanying promotion of Max Verstappen in the other direction typifies Helmut Marko’s intensely demanding running of the…

The privateer Rebellion team wins Le Mans. Better still, a second division LMP2 Ligier or ORECA lands the big one. Let’s take it a step further: a GT Ferrari, Aston…

Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd was born and brought up on the island of Oland in the Baltic Sea – a long way from Monte Carlo and even further from the…

The first surprise is that the Jersey taxi driver is Glaswegian, the second that Nigel Mansell seems to be in a good mood and happy to wait for us to…

‘Wattie’ is 70 today (May 4). In August he’ll celebrate 40 years without ‘the beard’. He grew it originally, he only half-jokes, to keep warm in his father Marshall’s “wind…

A look back at Northern Ireland's F1 drivers