Gordon Murray looks back at the notorious Brabham fan car
If you’re looking for an example of the ingenious and outlandish thinking that F1 breeds, then the Brabham fan car remains a stand-out example, forty years after it appeared. It…
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Martin Donnelly was dealt a severe recent blow with a leg break in a charity moped ride. But, as he explains to Motor Sport, he is someone who knows how…
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris teamed up to win the virtual Spa 24 hours for sim racing’s Team Redline PRT. The younger generation: Lando Norris and Max Verstappen won as team-mates in the…
Refuelling is back on the Formula 1 agenda, to reduce car weight as part of new 2021 regulations. But it’s not a solution to all of the sport’s problems Michael Schumacher’s…
Formula 1 and the FIA have just provided more meat on the bones of the brave new world they propose for the 2021 season. And they have said that, to…
David Coulthard is expected to be the next president of the BRDC, after Eddie Jordan leaks the news during British Grand Prix coverage Photo: Motorsport Images David Coulthard is expected to…
Formula 1 and the FIA have revealed ‘key pillars’ for its forthcoming rules for 2021, including ground effect, cost caps and “prescriptive” aerodynamics to close the pack up Artist’s impression…
Witness unearthed British Pathé footage of Fangio’s incredible 1957 German Grand Prix comeback win at the Nürburgring in a Maserati Juan Manuel Fangio takes the applause on the way to…
Having been beaten in qualifying by team-mate Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton had his own private strategy of how he wasn’t going to let that happen in the race. Mercedes knew…
If you’re looking for an example of the ingenious and outlandish thinking that F1 breeds, then the Brabham fan car remains a stand-out example, forty years after it appeared. It…
Martin Donnelly was dealt a severe recent blow with a leg break in a charity moped ride. But, as he explains to Motor Sport, he is someone who knows how…
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris teamed up to win the virtual Spa 24 hours for sim racing’s Team Redline PRT. The younger generation: Lando Norris and Max Verstappen won as team-mates in the…
Refuelling is back on the Formula 1 agenda, to reduce car weight as part of new 2021 regulations. But it’s not a solution to all of the sport’s problems Michael Schumacher’s…
Formula 1 and the FIA have just provided more meat on the bones of the brave new world they propose for the 2021 season. And they have said that, to…
David Coulthard is expected to be the next president of the BRDC, after Eddie Jordan leaks the news during British Grand Prix coverage Photo: Motorsport Images David Coulthard is expected to…
Formula 1 and the FIA have revealed ‘key pillars’ for its forthcoming rules for 2021, including ground effect, cost caps and “prescriptive” aerodynamics to close the pack up Artist’s impression…
Witness unearthed British Pathé footage of Fangio’s incredible 1957 German Grand Prix comeback win at the Nürburgring in a Maserati Juan Manuel Fangio takes the applause on the way to…
Having been beaten in qualifying by team-mate Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton had his own private strategy of how he wasn’t going to let that happen in the race. Mercedes knew…
China March 13–15 Like Round 1, the season’s second race was another Mercedes lockout, but the outcome at Shanghai differed from Albert Park: a 2-1 rather than a 1-2. Make…
He’s only 19, but Kimi Antonelli has shown F1 championship-winning pace and may never get a better title shot. The ingredients are there for another historic battle between one experienced team-mate and a thrusting newcomer, says Mark Hughes
Kimi Antonelli looked like he’d have blasted to victory in the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, no matter what rules F1 was racing under, says Mark Hughes. However, the result was once again overshadowed by the shortcomings of the series’ new regulations
He wasn’t the fastest driver in Kenya – he failed to win a single stage – but traditionalists will tell you that speed is not the most important thing on…
March 21, 2026 Nürburgring, Germany A hero’s welcome for Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring pitlane after what appeared to have been victory in NLS2 as the four-time Formula 1 champion…
March 21, 2026 Sebring, Florida, USA Porsche Penske Motorsport trio Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich completed a double in the ‘36 Hours of Florida’ when they added Sebring…
There is a word for what happens when platforms stop serving the people who made them great. Should Formula 1 learn it?
Motor Sport F1 Show with Mark Hughes
Leading the world championship aged 19, Kimi Antonelli has proved he has the pace to win the title — and this could be his best shot. Plus: how GPs could be shortened over safety fears, and why Max Verstappen is serious in threatening to quit
July 5, 1970 Clermont-Ferrand, France Smiles here, but the reigning Formula 1 champion Jackie Stewart and Motor Sport’s continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson were embroiled in a bitter war of words…
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