Far from the crash-fest some were fearing, the inaugural Azerbaijan Grand Prix was remarkably routine. No safety cars, mainly single-stop strategies, a start-to-finish demonstration up front by Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes.…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Two years after the dramatic seasonal finale in South Africa – Graham Hill taking race and…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Not a Grand Prix, per se, but such was the entry’s quality that it counts in…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). During 1962 Jim Clark and Graham Hill had emerged as Britain’s premier racing talents and their…
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…
Market forces Apart from the Mk1, Eric Broadley’s best designs have been drawn on a large canvas, and one immediately associates Lola with such as the T70, the T330 series…
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…
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…
Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari took off from the line way quicker than anyone expected, up from third into the lead within two seconds of the lights going out. But it came…
Suzuka, Sunday October 21 1990. The two engineers, formerly colleagues on the same team, were walking through the day’s events. “Well,” said Tim Wright of McLaren, “that was a bloody…
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…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). If you asked anyone in F1 at the time, plenty would have said that Michael Schumacher…
Inevitably, being mid-June, there's plenty from Le Mans in this week's round-up from the Archive. José Froilán González went without sleep and food during the epic in 1954, but still managed…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). As expected the title protagonists and ‘team-mates’ qualified 1-2, with Ayrton Senna ahead, but Alain Prost quietly…
The reward for an early start for the podcast team was an hour-long chat with David Richards, chairman of Prodrive. Winner of the World Rally Championship as co-driver for Ari Vatanen, he…
Recorded at his home in America, watch Dan Gurney accept his award for winning the US category of the 2016 Hall of Fame, as voted for by you. The other…
