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This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a championship win for Jack Brabham – on foot December 12 1946: Emerson Fittipaldi is born. In profile 1959: Bruce…
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Nico Rosberg’s decision to leave Mercedes — and F1 — immediately after winning the 2016 World Championship was dramatic but not unique. Paul Fearnley looks back through F1’s championship winning partnerships that dissolved after tasting success
Why are more and more F1 fans watching MotoGP? And is this a good thing or a bad thing? You know the world is changing when the world’s most eminent…
Recorded live at the screening of Crash and Burn, Motor Sport’s Simon Arron interviews Tommy Byrne and director Sean O’Cualain about the film and Byrne’s career. Download on Soundcloud Simon Arron:…
Vic Elford was one of the fastest and most versatile of the ’60s and ’70s, and the man to beat according to Derek Bell Vic Elford Born: 10th June 1935, Peckham, London…
Last week we published Mark Hughes’s top 10 Formula 1 drivers of 2016, some of you agreed, some didn’t. Here’s how the two top 10s compare. 10. Valtteri Bottas The Finn’s…
Rob Widdows visits Porsche great Willi Kauhsen In our latest edition of the Track Torque radio show tapes from the Motor Sport sound archive we look back on a Formula…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a world title for Jacky Ickx and birthdays for some sports car stars December 5 2011: Peter Gethin passes away…
Felipe Massa to un-retire? That long tearful walk back to the pitlane from his crashed car, carrying the Brazilian flag he’d secreted away, there in the expectation of picking it up…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a championship win for Jack Brabham – on foot December 12 1946: Emerson Fittipaldi is born. In profile 1959: Bruce…
Great Read
Nico Rosberg’s decision to leave Mercedes — and F1 — immediately after winning the 2016 World Championship was dramatic but not unique. Paul Fearnley looks back through F1’s championship winning partnerships that dissolved after tasting success
Why are more and more F1 fans watching MotoGP? And is this a good thing or a bad thing? You know the world is changing when the world’s most eminent…
Recorded live at the screening of Crash and Burn, Motor Sport’s Simon Arron interviews Tommy Byrne and director Sean O’Cualain about the film and Byrne’s career. Download on Soundcloud Simon Arron:…
Vic Elford was one of the fastest and most versatile of the ’60s and ’70s, and the man to beat according to Derek Bell Vic Elford Born: 10th June 1935, Peckham, London…
Last week we published Mark Hughes’s top 10 Formula 1 drivers of 2016, some of you agreed, some didn’t. Here’s how the two top 10s compare. 10. Valtteri Bottas The Finn’s…
Rob Widdows visits Porsche great Willi Kauhsen In our latest edition of the Track Torque radio show tapes from the Motor Sport sound archive we look back on a Formula…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring a world title for Jacky Ickx and birthdays for some sports car stars December 5 2011: Peter Gethin passes away…
One year ago McLaren scored a shock Miami win, but it proved a changing of the F1 guard – can Red Bull do the same to fight back in Florida this weekend, asks Mark Hughes
Fears that one engine manufacturer will dominate F1 from 2026 are likely to see strugglers allowed to catch up. If power units are to be artificially equalised, how much of a technical competition will it be? asks Mark Hughes
When does a rookie have the edge over an F1 world champion? Perhaps in Jeddah, says Mark Hughes, where the unsettling effect of a softer tyre compound is less likely to faze younger drivers than the likes of Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Sergio Perez’s future looks bleak after another underwhelming performance, while George Russell can be upbeat despite his disqualification: 2024 Belgian GP diary
The 2025 Miami GP’s one-off liveries – particularly Ferrari’s – are a timely reminder that ‘special’ doesn’t always mean good
Mercedes star Antonelli secures Miami Grand Prix sprint pole at 18 years of age
Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri topped Friday practice for the Miami Grand Prix, which was interrupted by a late red flag. The McLaren driver, the winner of the last…
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