This week in motor sport – February 6
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, with a home winner in the first Brazilian Grand Prix, plus a birthday for the only world champion on both…
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It’s taken us a while to pin two-time Le Mans winner Alex Wurz down – he’s a busy man with work in both the World Endurance Championship and Formula 1…
Step back to Zandvoort, 1967, when Jim Clark gave the Lotus 49 a victorious debut, after team-mate Graham Hill had claimed pole at record speed. The Ford film is packed…
In 1967, Ford commisioned model maker Henri Baigent to build eight models of Jim Clark’s Zandvoort-winning Lotus 49, one for each driver, designer, team member and one for Colin Chapman. The…
Highlights from the 2016 Royal Automobile Club Talk Show, featuring Ross Brawn and Nick Fry lifting the lid on the success of Brawn GP, TT hero John McGuinness, Alistair Caldwell on…
The March issue of Motor Sport focuses on the ground-breaking, Hitler-beating Alfa Romeo P3. Among the 17 pages dedicated to the Tipo P3, Andrew Frankel drives the historic ‘monoposto’ at Blyton…
Double Le Mans winner and former Benetton, Williams and McLaren Formula 1 driver Alexander Wurz will be guest on the Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz tomorrow (Wednesday February 8). …
Daytona 24 Hours through the years, and a Ligier 1-2 in Brazil; this week in motor sport from the Archive and Database January 30 1901: Rudolf Caracciola is born. In profile…
The first podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz will be recorded next week, with 1979 Formula 1 world champion Jody Scheckter joining the team. Scheckter was the very first guest on…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, with a home winner in the first Brazilian Grand Prix, plus a birthday for the only world champion on both…
It’s taken us a while to pin two-time Le Mans winner Alex Wurz down – he’s a busy man with work in both the World Endurance Championship and Formula 1…
Step back to Zandvoort, 1967, when Jim Clark gave the Lotus 49 a victorious debut, after team-mate Graham Hill had claimed pole at record speed. The Ford film is packed…
In 1967, Ford commisioned model maker Henri Baigent to build eight models of Jim Clark’s Zandvoort-winning Lotus 49, one for each driver, designer, team member and one for Colin Chapman. The…
Highlights from the 2016 Royal Automobile Club Talk Show, featuring Ross Brawn and Nick Fry lifting the lid on the success of Brawn GP, TT hero John McGuinness, Alistair Caldwell on…
The March issue of Motor Sport focuses on the ground-breaking, Hitler-beating Alfa Romeo P3. Among the 17 pages dedicated to the Tipo P3, Andrew Frankel drives the historic ‘monoposto’ at Blyton…
Double Le Mans winner and former Benetton, Williams and McLaren Formula 1 driver Alexander Wurz will be guest on the Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz tomorrow (Wednesday February 8). …
Daytona 24 Hours through the years, and a Ligier 1-2 in Brazil; this week in motor sport from the Archive and Database January 30 1901: Rudolf Caracciola is born. In profile…
The first podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz will be recorded next week, with 1979 Formula 1 world champion Jody Scheckter joining the team. Scheckter was the very first guest on…
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
Back in Malaysia for the first time in nine years, plenty of Formula 1 teams were caught out by the unique characteristics of the Sepang circuit where one decision had a devastating effect on their whole Bahrain GP weekend
Mark Hughes dissects how Sepang’s brutally abrasive surface and restricted tyre allocation are turning this weekend into a strategic gauntlet where the right compound choice could matter more than raw pace
The first few months of this season were nervous ones for the bosses of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team. Victories were not on the agenda. The car Red Bull had…
Who knows what riches Max Verstappen was offered to lure him away from Red Bull Racing? A blank cheque, the keys to any kingdom he might desire and all the…
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy – established a decade ago by the seven-times MotoGP king to create a new generation of Italian talent – has so far produced one MotoGP…
A software bug, a long wait for the rain to clear and a track that produced better racing than the streets: Sepang reminded Formula 1 of some of the things it has lost
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
Hamilton backed Vasseur at Sepang while saying the hierarchy above him is “a question”. A day later, Vasseur’s answers were only about relationships and unity
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