This week in motor sport – March 20
A busy week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, with fan-favourites born, fortuitous wins for Prost, Sebring victories and much more March 20 1895: Grand Prix winner, Le Mans winner,…
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Lance Stroll makes his F1 bow this weekend – Paul Fearnley suggests he reads up on Peter Revson for comfort Okay, now I’m feeling old. It wasn’t so very long ago, was…
Looking ahead to the Australian Grand Prix, via the Database Nico Rosberg led a Mercedes-Benz 1-2 in the 2016 Australian Grand Prix and the team has won the opening Formula 1…
Karun Chandhok, Mark Hughes and the podcast team preview the 2017 Formula 1 season in the latest Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz. New year, new rules, new tyres. Lots…
The Royal Automobile Club Talk Show in association with Motor Sport returns this week with Tiff Needell fielding the questions. A podium finisher at Le Mans, one-time Grand Prix starter and…
The world of e-racing is growing by the day, so we tried the pay-as-you-play Let’s Race for our own Australian Grand Prix. With mixed results… It must only be coincidence, being…
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…
Meeke got away with it in Mexico, which is more than can be said for some. Motor sport’s late gaffes… It used to be in gravel rallying that to finish…
Taken from the February issue of Motor Sport, available as a back issue from the shop Nico Rosberg won’t be the only significant absentee from Mercedes technical briefings in 2017.…
A busy week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, with fan-favourites born, fortuitous wins for Prost, Sebring victories and much more March 20 1895: Grand Prix winner, Le Mans winner,…
Lance Stroll makes his F1 bow this weekend – Paul Fearnley suggests he reads up on Peter Revson for comfort Okay, now I’m feeling old. It wasn’t so very long ago, was…
Looking ahead to the Australian Grand Prix, via the Database Nico Rosberg led a Mercedes-Benz 1-2 in the 2016 Australian Grand Prix and the team has won the opening Formula 1…
Karun Chandhok, Mark Hughes and the podcast team preview the 2017 Formula 1 season in the latest Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz. New year, new rules, new tyres. Lots…
The Royal Automobile Club Talk Show in association with Motor Sport returns this week with Tiff Needell fielding the questions. A podium finisher at Le Mans, one-time Grand Prix starter and…
The world of e-racing is growing by the day, so we tried the pay-as-you-play Let’s Race for our own Australian Grand Prix. With mixed results… It must only be coincidence, being…
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…
Meeke got away with it in Mexico, which is more than can be said for some. Motor sport’s late gaffes… It used to be in gravel rallying that to finish…
Taken from the February issue of Motor Sport, available as a back issue from the shop Nico Rosberg won’t be the only significant absentee from Mercedes technical briefings in 2017.…
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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