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A catch-up with Mark Webber over lunch in a Buckinghamshire pub, near the delightful house in which he and his partner Ann have lived these many years. It was perhaps…
For the last three years the Henry Surtees Foundation has been holding a karting event for up-and-coming young drivers at Buckmore Park in Kent. The prizes on offer not only…
“Can we talk later on this afternoon?” he says. “I’m a bit tied up right now, working on a friend’s Morris 1000 Traveller. Is that OK?” Surely a Morris Traveller…
John Hugenholtz thought the project unfeasible at first sight. Soichiro Honda told him not to worry. Within days the paddy fields were drained and bulldozed. Honda had owned the land…
Henry Hope-Frost hosts a Credit Suisse Drivers' Forum with Derek Bell, Sir Stirling Moss, Jochen Mass, Alain de Cadenet and Max Chilton at the 2014 Goodwood Revival. While the topic…
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Just as in April 1962, the motor racing world is on tenterhooks as a giant who once bestrode the sport lies in a coma in a hospital bed. While we…
“To me,” said Derek Bell during last week’s Motor Sport podcast, “Fernando Alonso is the most talented driver out there. He always puts in an amazing performance – he drives the car to…
Piero Ferrari has always been something of an enigma to the world beyond the gates of Maranello. The illegitimate son of Enzo is ‘the man in the shadows of a…
Happy birthday to the man in the green helmet. Henri Pescarolo is 72 today. Fifty years ago he was a third-year medical student – a young non-shaver – winning for…
As well as being Motor Sport's 90th year, 2014 is also a landmark for John Surtees – he turned 80 in February. In tribute to his career and the fact…
By Lee McKenzie The Singapore Grand Prix week is one of extremes, this year’s in particular. Extreme heat, extreme rain, dehydration, happiness on one side of the Mercedes garage, despair on the…
Difficult to call which scene contained the greater tension: Nico Rosberg sitting on dummy grid not knowing if he was going to be able to start the race from the…
Red Bull has been famous for doing things its own way since coming into Formula 1 in 2005 and its latest video shows the seemingly unique culture of its factory…
If you are reading this on Wednesday and happen to have a glass in your hand, please raise it to Sir Stirling Moss on the occasion of his 85th birthday. He is,…
How would you define a ‘great’ racing car? Race wins and championship titles are an obvious place to start – and admittedly, when we began the process of rounding up…
While Goodwood’s Revival Meeting was for the 17th time reminding us of everything glorious that made our sport great, a vision for the future was being sparked into life on…
