This week in motor sport – September 19
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring some dramatic Portuguese and Canadian Grands Prix, and a birthday for a bona fide Le Mans legend September 19…
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The rumoured Apple takeover of McLaren – and why Andrew Frankel hopes it doesn’t happen. Is Apple about to take over McLaren? And, if so, what are the ramifications for its…
How’s the season going so far? It’s been a difficult season so far for the #5 car. Before Austin we had finished only one race out of five, so that says…
Jochen Mass joined Ed Foster and the returning Rob Widdows to talk about his career and to answer readers’ questions in the latest Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz.…
1. At 1h 55m 48.950s, the 2016 Singapore Grand Prix was the quickest at Marina Bay to date. 2. It also maintained the 100 per cent record for safety cars in Singapore – in…
With victory in the time trial and the team relay at the Rio Paralympic Games, former CART and Formula 1 racer Alex Zanardi added two more gold medals to the two won at London 2012 – the…
Singapore is always a glitzy and atmospheric event, a breathtaking spectacle of sliding cars between the night-time floodlit walls, 900 horsepower, degrading grip, rubber marbles waiting menacingly off line. But…
The 1958 Argentine Grand Prix is rightly regarded as one of Moss’s greatest races, but until late in the day it had seemed as if Stirling would not even be…
The fifth Monaco Grand Prix would be a landmark event, in that the grid would be determined by practice times rather than ballot – an idea borrowed from America. Eighty…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring some dramatic Portuguese and Canadian Grands Prix, and a birthday for a bona fide Le Mans legend September 19…
The rumoured Apple takeover of McLaren – and why Andrew Frankel hopes it doesn’t happen. Is Apple about to take over McLaren? And, if so, what are the ramifications for its…
How’s the season going so far? It’s been a difficult season so far for the #5 car. Before Austin we had finished only one race out of five, so that says…
Jochen Mass joined Ed Foster and the returning Rob Widdows to talk about his career and to answer readers’ questions in the latest Motor Sport podcast in association with Mercedes-Benz.…
1. At 1h 55m 48.950s, the 2016 Singapore Grand Prix was the quickest at Marina Bay to date. 2. It also maintained the 100 per cent record for safety cars in Singapore – in…
With victory in the time trial and the team relay at the Rio Paralympic Games, former CART and Formula 1 racer Alex Zanardi added two more gold medals to the two won at London 2012 – the…
Singapore is always a glitzy and atmospheric event, a breathtaking spectacle of sliding cars between the night-time floodlit walls, 900 horsepower, degrading grip, rubber marbles waiting menacingly off line. But…
The 1958 Argentine Grand Prix is rightly regarded as one of Moss’s greatest races, but until late in the day it had seemed as if Stirling would not even be…
The fifth Monaco Grand Prix would be a landmark event, in that the grid would be determined by practice times rather than ballot – an idea borrowed from America. Eighty…
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
Ferrari’s latest leadership rumour ignores two decades of history: swapping team principals won’t work until Maranello hands real power to the person in the role, says Mark Hughes
George Russell had it his way for most of the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, thanks to an underwhelming McLaren and rare error from Kimi Antonelli. But then came the late safety car
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…
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
Tropical storms, team orders and some legendary drives. We pick the best F1 races in Malaysia, plus a bonus two-wheel spectacular
Formula 1 wants its 2030 engine simpler, cheaper and louder. Now it needs to agree how to get there quickly
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