Single-Seaters

I frequently find myself straddling F1’s past and present in my writing. For Motor Sport my current assignment is to bring you all that’s happening in present day F1, in racing terms,…

Lotus employed some great names during its remarkable history. Five of its drivers won world championships, while several others went on to lift the crown after completing at least part…

By Lee McKenzie It wasn't quite the spectacle that we had last year, but it seems that when the darkness falls in the Bahrain desert, the temperature rises in the…

Well, the Mercs still have it – Lewis Hamilton took his third win from four and the Ferraris never had quite the raw pace needed to beat him – but…

Explained by Mark Hughes Further details are emerging about the Ferrari SF-15T's unique rear end layout. The Ferrari's exhausts feed through a hole in the gearbox casing, lowering the centre…

On a charge World Endurance Championship The WEC got off to a great start at Silverstone, with Audi taking a close win over Porsche. Audi’s 2014 season got off to…

Main image: Angela George It had to be De Niro. The Taxi Driver playing The Godfather of motor racing. A generation’s greatest actor has announced that his biopic of Enzo Ferrari will take precedence over…

By Lee McKenzie I’m sitting in Bahrain having landed in a storm. The winds have whipped up the sand and unsettled the calm that is the norm here. As I…

What did you think of the race on Sunday? If you found it anything other than utterly spellbinding from flag to flag, it is possible you and I were tuned…

In Shanghai on Sunday there were echoes of Malaysia in how Ferrari’s tyre usage applied pressure to Mercedes – but only faint ones. They were heard mainly when Lewis Hamilton…

A week from Sunday I’ll be trackside at Long Beach as I have been for all 40 previous street races in Southern California. From 1976-83 Long Beach was a Formula…

As Rob mentions when introducing the podcast Mike Earle has spent five decades in the sport. I knew we were covering a lot of ground during the recording so when…

José Froilán González did a good grumpy. His emotions tended to run close to the surface: the unbridled joy of winning the 1951 British Grand Prix; the inconsolable tears after…

It’s not your usual month here at Motor Sport – hence my appearance at the helm of this newsletter. Our editor Damien Smith’s absence is wholly excusable because he has just become…

With Formula E coming to London on June 27-28, we decided to drag Mahindra Racing's Karun Chandhok around the Battersea Park circuit. He's one of the drivers tasked with ensuring…

Sebastian Vettel’s victory this weekend was not the first time Ferrari has unexpectedly beaten a dominant Mercedes-Benz racing team, but it was the first I can recall in which Ferrari…

By Lee McKenzie I bet you never thought you'd look forward to seeing the pointing, celebratory finger of Sebastian Vettel after four years of consecutive world titles. But who wasn't…