Single-Seaters

The Mercedes advantage is, if anything, bigger than ever. Lewis Hamilton’s pole was 1.61 per cent faster than the best non-Merc. The biggest advantage it had last year was 1.26…

By Perry McCarthy There I was, mid-January, on the phone to Ed Foster and I said, “Guess what! I’m going to all the Formula One tests.” Then, Ed says, “Why?…

It's that time of year again: Formula 1 testing's over, the driver line-ups are more or less set, a competitive order has started to emerge... and we still don't really…

In Motor Sport this month, Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes addresses the ‘big questions’ we’ve posed ahead of the Formula 1 season, gathering all his information from the recent Spanish tests to offer a…

Crock of gold or poisoned chalice? Outstandin’ opportunity or stand-in joke? Be warned: it can go from Badoer to Wurz. The former responded to a misplaced call from Ferrari in…

In the autumn of 1969 Chris Amon went to say his goodbyes to Enzo Ferrari, and it was an occasion savoured by neither man. After three years of unreliability and…

Fernando Alonso will miss the Australian Grand Prix as a medical precaution following his being knocked unconscious in last week’s Barcelona testing accident. Although McLaren stresses that the various scans…

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…

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…