Driving the $30m Ferrari 412P: ‘It was easy!’
A Ferrari 412P has just sold for more than $30m at auction and Andrew Frankel knows how special it is, having driven it at a landmark moment for Motor Sport and his own career
Explore more than a century of racing in the Motor Sport Database: thousands of drivers, teams, circuits and races in our interactive encyclopedia
3,496 Championships
20,273 Results
26,115 Drivers
14,841 Teams
935 Circuits
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Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 23/08/2026 2026 F1 World Championship |
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4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 23/08/2026 2026 European Le Mans Series |
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Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, DC 23/08/2026 2026 NTT IndyCar Series |
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Dollar Tree 301 23/08/2026 2026 NASCAR Cup Series |
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Zandvoort F1 Academy – Race 2 23/08/2026 2026 F1 Academy |
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2026 Virginia United Sports Cars Michelin GT Challenge at VIR 23/08/2026 2026 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship |
2026 Italian Grand Prix
Monza, Lombardy
6 September 2026
2026 Spanish Grand Prix
IFEMA, Madrid
13 September 2026
2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Baku
26 September 2026
2026 Bahrain Grand Prix
Sepang, Selangor
4 October 2026
2026 Singapore Grand Prix
Singapore
11 October 2026
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Watch F1 via live stream or on TV: dates and times for the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix, including qualifying and the grand prix
WRC legend Colin McRae made icons of the cars which he took sideways through some of the world’s most fearsome stages – now three favourite cars from his collection are set to be auctioned
From Pebble Beach to The Quail: the best in show from Monterey Car Week’s concours events
A long list of champions have run the gauntlet when choosing between staying loyal to a team and or ruthlessly putting themselves first – drivers should feel no qualms about looking after No1, says Damien Smith
At Zandvoort, Mercedes showed how decisive team orders should look. Ferrari showed, again, what happens without them
A mid-weekend rebalancing act turned McLaren’s tyre-eating sprint car into a Sunday winner in the hands of Lando Norris, as Mark Hughes explains
From farm to Formula 1: Jeremy Clarkson has suggested that some of this year’s Diddly Squat harvest could end up as components on grand prix cars
It’s always tough to step into a grand prix car at short notice, here are just a few of the occasions that replacement Formula 1 drivers have had limited time to make their mark