12 – 1985 Portuguese GP
In time the unexpected would become the expected, but this was only Ayrton Senna’s 17th Championship Grand Prix – and the first for which he’d taken pole. Sunday dawned dry,…
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Alex Brooker, presenter of Channel 4’s The Last Leg, paid tribute to the incredible Alex Zanardi after the Italian won his fifth Paralympic silver medal, 15 years to the day since…
Damien Smith looks ahead to the latest issue of Motor Sport, featuring his interview with Paralympic hero Alex Zanardi. The Italian this week added a third gold to the two won…
How’s the season going so far? For my first season I would say we are doing good so far. We’ve already had a few podiums, even though we have had…
Fernando Alonso may have been the first driver to win a grand prix in Marina Bay but was far from the first driver to win in Singapore. Paul Fearnley looks back at the history of the Asian GP and the crowning of its first champions
It’s an oft-repeated cliché that this was the apotheosis among many fine moments in Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix career, but the full circumstances bear repetition. In April 1968 the Scot fractured…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Reverse grids might be anathema to F1 purists, but when they’re caused by natural phenomena –…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring no fewer than 19 Italian Grands Prix and much more. September 5 1954: Juan Manuel Fangio takes a lucky win…
The tension had deeper roots than a mere motor race when teams and drivers gathered at Lyon in July 1914. Little more than a month afterwards, the world would be…
In time the unexpected would become the expected, but this was only Ayrton Senna’s 17th Championship Grand Prix – and the first for which he’d taken pole. Sunday dawned dry,…
Alex Brooker, presenter of Channel 4’s The Last Leg, paid tribute to the incredible Alex Zanardi after the Italian won his fifth Paralympic silver medal, 15 years to the day since…
Damien Smith looks ahead to the latest issue of Motor Sport, featuring his interview with Paralympic hero Alex Zanardi. The Italian this week added a third gold to the two won…
How’s the season going so far? For my first season I would say we are doing good so far. We’ve already had a few podiums, even though we have had…
Fernando Alonso may have been the first driver to win a grand prix in Marina Bay but was far from the first driver to win in Singapore. Paul Fearnley looks back at the history of the Asian GP and the crowning of its first champions
It’s an oft-repeated cliché that this was the apotheosis among many fine moments in Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix career, but the full circumstances bear repetition. In April 1968 the Scot fractured…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Reverse grids might be anathema to F1 purists, but when they’re caused by natural phenomena –…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring no fewer than 19 Italian Grands Prix and much more. September 5 1954: Juan Manuel Fangio takes a lucky win…
The tension had deeper roots than a mere motor race when teams and drivers gathered at Lyon in July 1914. Little more than a month afterwards, the world would be…
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
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
Formula 1’s two-year return to Portimao may be less a long-term endorsement than a holding pattern, as the championship keeps calendar space open for future street races
Two Australian F1 drivers who came to Europe at the same time: one became world champion, the other faded from memory. But both Alan Jones and Brian McGuire have their place in racing history
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
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