The Roebuck-Hughes Show II
Part two of the Roebuck-Hughes Show is finally here (the last one we recorded in March this year…). After our Formula 1 season review with Pat Symonds we sat Nigel…
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A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here To buy the lead image click here. From the editor Damien Smith How would you define…
Rick Mears was an off-road racer and dirt tracker who was hired by Roger Penske to drive Indy cars in 1978. Mears won three races in his first year with…
It’s that time of year again – the F1 season review podcast is here! Even though Motor Sport changed offices recently, the team repaired to the friendly confines of our old local,…
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. Colin Chapman died 33 years ago, a man remembered most for being a revolutionary designer and team…
My Hungarian journalistic colleague Károly Méhes was pulled into a love of F1 almost single-handedly by one driver: Gilles Villeneuve. He was a devastated teenager when Zolder 1982 played out…
A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here From the editor Damien Smith How would you define a ‘great’ racing car? Race wins and…
McLaren has been here before. The day after the death of its founder in 1970 it bravely decided to continue – because Bruce would have wanted them to. It won…
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. Emerson Fittipaldi, a champion on both sides of the Atlantic, turns 69 on December 12. Eight years…
Part two of the Roebuck-Hughes Show is finally here (the last one we recorded in March this year…). After our Formula 1 season review with Pat Symonds we sat Nigel…
A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here To buy the lead image click here. From the editor Damien Smith How would you define…
Rick Mears was an off-road racer and dirt tracker who was hired by Roger Penske to drive Indy cars in 1978. Mears won three races in his first year with…
It’s that time of year again – the F1 season review podcast is here! Even though Motor Sport changed offices recently, the team repaired to the friendly confines of our old local,…
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. Colin Chapman died 33 years ago, a man remembered most for being a revolutionary designer and team…
My Hungarian journalistic colleague Károly Méhes was pulled into a love of F1 almost single-handedly by one driver: Gilles Villeneuve. He was a devastated teenager when Zolder 1982 played out…
A series taken from the 164-page Motor Sport special Great Racing Cars, which is available to buy here From the editor Damien Smith How would you define a ‘great’ racing car? Race wins and…
McLaren has been here before. The day after the death of its founder in 1970 it bravely decided to continue – because Bruce would have wanted them to. It won…
The big stories from the past week in motor sport from the Archive. Emerson Fittipaldi, a champion on both sides of the Atlantic, turns 69 on December 12. Eight years…
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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