Enzo Ferrari’s chequebook: what Lauda’s 1977 pay row revealed
According to Niki Lauda, after he had named the fee – in Austrian schillings – that he wanted to sign up for the 1977 Formula 1 season, Mr Ferrari telephoned…
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Racing trophies are a rare collectible, purely because they can be among the most unpredictable of Formula 1 ephemera. Values vary wildly. Are they investment pieces? They’re possibly worth more…
As F1 arrives at Monza with championship leader Kimi Antonelli dreaming of a home win, Matt Bishop looks back at Ludovico Scarfiotti, the last Italian to triumph at the Italian Grand Prix — 60 years ago this week
Here is a lost circuit, and a story, that often comes up when dedicated fans get together for one of those ‘do you know’ sessions that more senior folk enjoy.…
5. Pacific GP not by the Pacific The Seto Inland Sea GP doesn’t really hold the same cachet as Pacific GP, but that would have been a more accurate name…
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
Forget Oxfordshire’s Motorsport Valley. If you want real racing heartland take a look at Norfolk. Obviously there is Snetterton race track with its once distinctive ’scary tree’ and, of course,…
F1’s 2027 grid was supposed to be shaken up by new rules – instead, almost nobody is moving
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
According to Niki Lauda, after he had named the fee – in Austrian schillings – that he wanted to sign up for the 1977 Formula 1 season, Mr Ferrari telephoned…
Racing trophies are a rare collectible, purely because they can be among the most unpredictable of Formula 1 ephemera. Values vary wildly. Are they investment pieces? They’re possibly worth more…
As F1 arrives at Monza with championship leader Kimi Antonelli dreaming of a home win, Matt Bishop looks back at Ludovico Scarfiotti, the last Italian to triumph at the Italian Grand Prix — 60 years ago this week
Here is a lost circuit, and a story, that often comes up when dedicated fans get together for one of those ‘do you know’ sessions that more senior folk enjoy.…
5. Pacific GP not by the Pacific The Seto Inland Sea GP doesn’t really hold the same cachet as Pacific GP, but that would have been a more accurate name…
Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
Forget Oxfordshire’s Motorsport Valley. If you want real racing heartland take a look at Norfolk. Obviously there is Snetterton race track with its once distinctive ’scary tree’ and, of course,…
F1’s 2027 grid was supposed to be shaken up by new rules – instead, almost nobody is moving
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
What’s the overlooked factor behind McLaren’s Zandvoort dominance? And can it survive the trip to Monza?
Kimi Antonelli all but secured the Formula 1 title with a champion’s drive at the 2026 United States Grand Prix, writes Mark Hughes. Behind him, forlorn rivals failed to make their superior pace stick
Christian Horner details how he rebuilt Red Bull from the ashes of Jaguar, and hired F1’s greatest designer from under the noses of rivals in his new autobiography, Drive. Mark Hughes found it fascinating
Mark Hughes analyses how Max Verstappen beat Charles Leclerc to victory in Singapore, and how Lewis Hamilton’s strategic gamble turned a promising Ferrari result into a costly disappointment
When it comes to sports car racing, it’s not just the American tracks that are markedly different from most of their international counterparts. The overall philosophy used by the FIA…
5. 2003: Solberg vs Loeb vs Sainz Subaru’s Norwegian star Petter Solberg, above – ‘Hollywood’ – lay a point adrift of Citroën pair Carlos Sainz and Sébastien Loeb going into…
Who to choose for our Drive of the Month after the pure theatre and sensational finish of the Bathurst 1000 at the Mount Panorama Circuit? How about Zach Bates and…
Desiré Wilson is the only woman ever to have won a Formula 1 race, and for all I know she may always carry that mantle. OK, her famous victory in…
Where their sons are concerned, mums have much to answer for. Certainly none other than Enzo Ferrari was deeply influenced, indeed in many ways shaped, by his formidable mother, Adalgisa…
1962 Porsche 804 December 1960: a gloomy silence descends on a test cell in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. A still relatively small – approximately 1250 staff – but realistically effective car company renowned…
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