This week in motor sport – August 1
This week in motor sport from the Database and Archive, featuring a double Tyrrell double, and a whole host of German Grands Prix. August 1 1899: ERA and BRM founder Raymond…
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We shared the covers of the Motor Sport team (month and year of birth) on Twitter and Facebook, and we challenged – dared, for some – our Twitter following and Facebook-ers to do…
NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon turns 45 years old today, so we’ve delved into YouTube’s archives and found the day he tested Juan Pablo Montoya’s Williams FW24 at Indianapolis in 2003. “It…
Chris Amon has passed away, aged 73, after an extended fight with cancer. Never have statistics lied more diabolically than when they summarise the F1 career of Amon 1963-1976. In…
Chris Amon has passed away in Rotorua Hospital, New Zealand on Wednesday morning after a battle with cancer. It’s the 50th anniversary of his 1966 Le Mans success with Bruce McLaren…
The podcast has now been recorded and will be released on August 24. Simon Taylor will be joining the podcast team to talk about his life in motor sport, his ‘Lunch…
So the introduction of the ‘halo’ driver protection system now being considered as mandatory equipment on Formula 1 cars has been delayed until 2018. These devices anchor at three points…
1. Lewis Hamilton has won each of the last four Grands Prix, uniquely all in the same calendar month. 2. His streak of six wins in the last seven races matches his season-ending…
Pirelli has released the first photos of the new wider tyres that are to be used in Formula 1 from 2017. Sebastian Vettel and Esteban Gutiérrez are on testing duty…
This week in motor sport from the Database and Archive, featuring a double Tyrrell double, and a whole host of German Grands Prix. August 1 1899: ERA and BRM founder Raymond…
We shared the covers of the Motor Sport team (month and year of birth) on Twitter and Facebook, and we challenged – dared, for some – our Twitter following and Facebook-ers to do…
NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon turns 45 years old today, so we’ve delved into YouTube’s archives and found the day he tested Juan Pablo Montoya’s Williams FW24 at Indianapolis in 2003. “It…
Chris Amon has passed away, aged 73, after an extended fight with cancer. Never have statistics lied more diabolically than when they summarise the F1 career of Amon 1963-1976. In…
Chris Amon has passed away in Rotorua Hospital, New Zealand on Wednesday morning after a battle with cancer. It’s the 50th anniversary of his 1966 Le Mans success with Bruce McLaren…
The podcast has now been recorded and will be released on August 24. Simon Taylor will be joining the podcast team to talk about his life in motor sport, his ‘Lunch…
So the introduction of the ‘halo’ driver protection system now being considered as mandatory equipment on Formula 1 cars has been delayed until 2018. These devices anchor at three points…
1. Lewis Hamilton has won each of the last four Grands Prix, uniquely all in the same calendar month. 2. His streak of six wins in the last seven races matches his season-ending…
Pirelli has released the first photos of the new wider tyres that are to be used in Formula 1 from 2017. Sebastian Vettel and Esteban Gutiérrez are on testing duty…
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
The 18-3 scoreline looks decisive, but a closer look at Haas’s season shows a car that hasn’t been giving both drivers the same chance to score
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