NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon turns 45 years old today, so we've delved into YouTube's archives and found the day he tested Juan Pablo Montoya's Williams FW24 at Indianapolis in 2003. “It…
Chris Amon has passed away, aged 73, after an extended fight with cancer. Never have statistics lied more diabolically than when they summarise the F1 career of Amon 1963-1976. In…
Chris Amon has passed away in Rotorua Hospital, New Zealand on Wednesday morning after a battle with cancer. It's the 50th anniversary of his 1966 Le Mans success with Bruce McLaren…
The podcast has now been recorded and will be released on August 24. Simon Taylor will be joining the podcast team to talk about his life in motor sport, his 'Lunch…
So the introduction of the ‘halo’ driver protection system now being considered as mandatory equipment on Formula 1 cars has been delayed until 2018. These devices anchor at three points…
1. Lewis Hamilton has won each of the last four Grands Prix, uniquely all in the same calendar month. 2. His streak of six wins in the last seven races matches his season-ending…
Pirelli has released the first photos of the new wider tyres that are to be used in Formula 1 from 2017. Sebastian Vettel and Esteban Gutiérrez are on testing duty…
The national anthem had finished, the cars were in their grid places, the drivers walking towards them. Lewis Hamilton paused for a time as he reached his Mercedes and stared…
“It’s about making the driver the limit once again – which he is not at the moment, not usually,” Sebastian Vettel tells Mark Hughes in our exclusive interview, published in…
This week in motor sport from the Database and Archive, featuring numerous German Grands Prix, birthdays for Le Mans winners and much more. July 25 1982: Nelson Piquet's retirement hands Renault a…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). If this race had played out as it started, there’s little chance the 1970 Monaco GP…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). He’d come this close, nothing would stop him now. Was this destiny? Perhaps, if you believe…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Fear of tyre failures is nothing new. But if modern Formula 1 drivers were prepared to…
A couple of my colleagues were looking rather doleful, I thought, as I walked into the Silverstone press room on the Thursday before the British Grand Prix. When I asked…
“Let us work in peace, please.” Sorry, Maurizio, but that’s not how it works. The comings and goings at Scuderia Ferrari has been the soapy operatic backdrop to motor racing…
The departure of Ferrari’s technical director James Allison following the recent death of his wife obviously leaves the Italian squad in something of a crisis. The former Renault/Lotus/Enstone technical boss…
