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…
F1 has heard it all before, but when Lando Norris insisted he was quicker than his leading team-mate Oscar Piastri in the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix, he had a point — and emphatically showed it in clean air. Could Lewis Hamilton have challenged him?
Mark Hughes crunches the numbers on Aston Martin’s big upgrade for the Hungarian Grand Prix – and asks whether it can be enough to close a four-second deficit to near the front of the F1 pack
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
June 7, 1970 Spa-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium By F1’s Round 4 at Spa in 1970, Jack Brabham was at the top of the standings with eventual title winner Jochen Rindt trailing by…
Toyota returned to the top step of the podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a three-year absence. Finally, the Japanese manufacturer triumphed against factory opposition, which was not…
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
Ferrari’s Hungarian Grand Prix weekend proved an F1 masterclass in how not to cash in a form advantage
As F1’s power units run out of energy, the series’ response has been to hide the evidence rather than explain it, and fans are noticing
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