My question about the 2015 racing season is: will it witness the resurgence of the big, powerful super teams of the past? I’m talking about Penske in America in NASCAR and IndyCar…
We were saddened at Motor Sport to learn of the death last Thursday of Gérard Ducarouge, one of racing's great designers. The Frenchman's cars were winning at the top level…
McLaren has released further details of Fernando Alonso’s Barcelona testing accident on Sunday, having completed analysing the data. The statement is reproduced below. We are pleased to confirm that, having…
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This is the car in which Gilles Villeneuve learned his Formula One craft, won over (most of) his critics, became the apple of Enzo’s eye, captured the tifosi’s heart –…
Fernando Alonso’s puzzling, hospitalising crash in the McLaren-Honda dominated the headlines from the final day of Barcelona testing. But amid that drama, a late lap by Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes strongly…
OK, so it looks like we are not going to get the mooted twin turbos or turbo V8s – but we will almost certainly be getting 1000bhp+ versions of the…
Graham Hill would have been 86 this week. His death 40 years ago robbed a family of a fun and loving father and husband, and British motor sport of…
Formula 1 cars, sports cars, Indycars... Mark Blundell must have driven more racers than most. We knew it was going to be a struggle getting his entire career into an…
Four days of testing in Jerez last week will have told the teams a lot – but only about themselves. Relative to their opposition, they will know very little more…
In configuring the new MP4-30 more along the lines of Red Bull, new aero chief Peter Prodromou – ex of Red Bull – is attempting to drag McLaren back onto…
To conclude our trilogy of significant French motor sport anniversaries, we rewind 60 years to the day that Mercedes-Benz returned to Grand Prix racing – and obliterated its rivals Writer…
McLaren unveiled its new MP4-30 today, it's first Honda-powered car since 1992. The response has been mixed, if we're being charitable. @Motor_Sport @McLarenF1 massive fail. Dull. Boring. Wasted opportunity. —…
One of the real feel-good aspects of the 2015 season would be if the recently unveiled Lotus E23 turns out to be good car. With Mercedes ’15 power having replaced…
Denis Jenkinson has been gone for nearly 20 years now, yet still there are times – many times – when something happens in the world of Formula 1, and I…
Forty years ago Penske Racing was getting ready to run its first full Formula 1 season. Roger Penske debuted his first F1 car, the PC1, at the end of 1974…
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Today, in almost any car and weather conditions, Silverstone’s Woodcote is not a corner but simply an acceleration zone leading onto the old pit straight towards Copse. But 40 years…
