This week in motor sport – March 13
A busy week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a host of Race of Champions and more. March 13 1947: Lyn St James, class winner at the 24…
From ingenious tweaks to car swaps and deliberate accidents, racing has an inglorious history of rule-bending. Welcome to Motor Sport’s Hall of Shame Carbon fibre? At the Revival? That was…
Racing's most versatile – and coolest – Mario Andretti at 77 There are some among us labouring under the misapprehension that Super Mario is an Italian plumber of at least…
NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace is bitten by the Ferrari bug at Daytona in December Rusty Wallace is sat in a vast Winnebago, at the Daytona International Speedway, where he is…
Gordon Kirby's latest book uncovers the story of American racing's quiet winner Penske’s Maestro tells the biographical story of Penske’s longtime chief mechanic and engine builder Karl Kainhofer, who ran Penske…
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has emerged as one of the greatest, most complete racing drivers of the modern era. His seventh championship has tied him with NASCAR legends Richard…
As Tony Stewart finishes his NASCAR Sprint Cup career with three championships, Mobil 1 The Grid speaks to Jenson Button, Donny Schatz, AJ Allmendinger and his team-mates Kevin Harvick and Danica Patrick about…
Gordon Kirby looks ahead to the final three races of NASCAR's chase Three races remain in NASCAR’s marathon 36-round Sprint Cup and thanks to the organisation’s fiendishly complex ‘Chase for the…
Sprint Cup leader Jimmie Johnson is in no mood to slow down, he tells Gordon Kirby Long time coming – Johnson after win number 78, the 2016 Bank of America 500…
The Liberty Media purchase of a controlling stake in Formula 1 is far from a done deal. However, in the latest issue of Motor Sport Gordon Kirby spoke to the Long Beach…
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…
Blair Dupree runs ARCX (American Race Car Experience) at Rockingham and he’s in full flow before we’re let out on track in thoroughbred NASCAR racers. “I’m going to talk to…
Carl Haas has passed away aged 86 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Chicago-based Haas was one of the major figures in American racing over the past half century. He was…
'Big Bill' France ushered American motor racing into the modern era. He was the driving force behind NASCAR and the Daytona International Speedway, the USA’s first modern, high-banked superspeedway. France…
Denny Hamlin edged out team-mate Martin Truex Jr. by four inches in an enthralling photo finish in Sunday’s 58th Daytona 500. Hamlin had taken victory in the Sprint Unlimited race…
To buy the lead image, click here Jean Behra was born 95 years ago this week, a childhood hero of Nigel Roebuck and a man who 'never knew the meaning…
Four legends of NASCAR are leading contenders in the Motor Sport Hall of Fame voting. Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon all raced successfully at the top…