This week in motor sport – August 8
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring one of the greatest Grand Prix drivers ever, Hungarian and Austrian Grands Prix and much more. August 8 1904: Tazio…
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The greatest win for one of the greatest ever Grand Prix drivers, Tazio Nuvolari at the Nürburgring in 1935. It’s 63 years to the day since the Italian died of a…
Our next journey into the Motor Sport sound archive resurrects a Track Torque radio show with a difference. My loyal chief mechanic Mike Lawrence presents this one, the first and…
The best driver never to win a world championship Grand Prix won plenty elsewhere. The late Chris Amon’s victory CV included: the outright win that set McLaren’s lucrative ‘Can-Am’ ball…
Happy-go-lucky Frenchman Patrick Depailler would have been 72 today. If you need a reminder of his flair, car control and fearlessness, go onboard with him at a sodden Montreal in…
Last month’s Silverstone Classic condensed into 99 seconds, featuring Dario Franchitti, Sir Stirling Moss, DFVs, Group Cs and some cracking race action.
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Ayrton Senna could ‘do business’ with Nigel Mansell. Racing against Alain Prost was akin to nailing…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Scuderia Ferrari’s Alfa Romeos mopped up while the Germans prepared for action: 1-2s at Monaco and…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Once Jack Brabham had deposited his leading Cooper in the bushes at Hatzenbach on the opening…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring one of the greatest Grand Prix drivers ever, Hungarian and Austrian Grands Prix and much more. August 8 1904: Tazio…
The greatest win for one of the greatest ever Grand Prix drivers, Tazio Nuvolari at the Nürburgring in 1935. It’s 63 years to the day since the Italian died of a…
Our next journey into the Motor Sport sound archive resurrects a Track Torque radio show with a difference. My loyal chief mechanic Mike Lawrence presents this one, the first and…
The best driver never to win a world championship Grand Prix won plenty elsewhere. The late Chris Amon’s victory CV included: the outright win that set McLaren’s lucrative ‘Can-Am’ ball…
Happy-go-lucky Frenchman Patrick Depailler would have been 72 today. If you need a reminder of his flair, car control and fearlessness, go onboard with him at a sodden Montreal in…
Last month’s Silverstone Classic condensed into 99 seconds, featuring Dario Franchitti, Sir Stirling Moss, DFVs, Group Cs and some cracking race action.
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Ayrton Senna could ‘do business’ with Nigel Mansell. Racing against Alain Prost was akin to nailing…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Scuderia Ferrari’s Alfa Romeos mopped up while the Germans prepared for action: 1-2s at Monaco and…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Once Jack Brabham had deposited his leading Cooper in the bushes at Hatzenbach on the opening…
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
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
Alain Prost has given his view on Renault exiting F1 as an engine manufacturer
Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s has now been re-elected as FIA president, after a controversial first term. But how did he become the first non-European president in the FIA’s history?
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