This week in motor sport – July 18
This week in motor sport sees more British Grands Prix, plus Chris Amon and Jim Hall celebrate birthdays. July 18 1959: Jack Brabham leads the British Grand Prix from start…
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A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). The promise and optimism of his first F1 season seemed like a long time ago –…
For our latest foray into the Track Torque radio programmes in the Motor Sport sound archive we go back to the summer of 1978 with two Formula 3 champions on…
Derek Warwick will join the Motor Sport podcast team tomorrow for what will be the 100 edition. It will also be the first podcast in association with our new partner Mercedes-Benz, who…
Recently we’ve gone from an Italian Grand Prix being a protected ‘heritage’ fixture to the threat of no race there in 2017 as Monza has struggled to meet the terms insisted…
Thirty years ago, the motor sport world tilted on its axis. In one of the rare instances of technological step change, Team Lotus developed ground effect aerodynamics and with the…
It’s a podcast double this week as the Royal Automobile Club Talk Show in association with Motor Sport returns with special guest Damon Hill. Twenty years on from his championship win with Williams,…
Unfortunately due to circumstances outside of our control the Martin Whitmarsh podcast has been cancelled. We will be recording a podcast with Damon Hill on Thursday as part of the Royal Automobile…
“Grand Prix racing had certainly started on a new era of science vs the rest, with the rest found wanting,” concluded Denis Jenkinson at the end of his race report…
This week in motor sport sees more British Grands Prix, plus Chris Amon and Jim Hall celebrate birthdays. July 18 1959: Jack Brabham leads the British Grand Prix from start…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). The promise and optimism of his first F1 season seemed like a long time ago –…
For our latest foray into the Track Torque radio programmes in the Motor Sport sound archive we go back to the summer of 1978 with two Formula 3 champions on…
Derek Warwick will join the Motor Sport podcast team tomorrow for what will be the 100 edition. It will also be the first podcast in association with our new partner Mercedes-Benz, who…
Recently we’ve gone from an Italian Grand Prix being a protected ‘heritage’ fixture to the threat of no race there in 2017 as Monza has struggled to meet the terms insisted…
Thirty years ago, the motor sport world tilted on its axis. In one of the rare instances of technological step change, Team Lotus developed ground effect aerodynamics and with the…
It’s a podcast double this week as the Royal Automobile Club Talk Show in association with Motor Sport returns with special guest Damon Hill. Twenty years on from his championship win with Williams,…
Unfortunately due to circumstances outside of our control the Martin Whitmarsh podcast has been cancelled. We will be recording a podcast with Damon Hill on Thursday as part of the Royal Automobile…
“Grand Prix racing had certainly started on a new era of science vs the rest, with the rest found wanting,” concluded Denis Jenkinson at the end of his race report…
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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