This week in motor sport – Gilles, von Trips and Haywood
“The whole racing world must have been sad at the death of Gilles Villeneuve,” DSJ wrote in 1982, “especially those who admired him as an individual as well as a racing…
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Two God-fearing men, one in a saffron skirt and the other in a Day-glo Ferrari…
Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Williams in the 1980s, Frank Williams, Patrick Head, the state of modern F1, the problem with overtaking, Toyota, Jarno Trulli, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost… There is…
The demotion of Daniil Kvyat from Red Bull to Toro Rosso and the accompanying promotion of Max Verstappen in the other direction typifies Helmut Marko’s intensely demanding running of the…
The privateer Rebellion team wins Le Mans. Better still, a second division LMP2 Ligier or ORECA lands the big one. Let’s take it a step further: a GT Ferrari, Aston…
Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd was born and brought up on the island of Oland in the Baltic Sea – a long way from Monte Carlo and even further from the…
The first surprise is that the Jersey taxi driver is Glaswegian, the second that Nigel Mansell seems to be in a good mood and happy to wait for us to…
‘Wattie’ is 70 today (May 4). In August he’ll celebrate 40 years without ‘the beard’. He grew it originally, he only half-jokes, to keep warm in his father Marshall’s “wind…
A look back at Northern Ireland’s F1 drivers
“The whole racing world must have been sad at the death of Gilles Villeneuve,” DSJ wrote in 1982, “especially those who admired him as an individual as well as a racing…
Two God-fearing men, one in a saffron skirt and the other in a Day-glo Ferrari…
Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Williams in the 1980s, Frank Williams, Patrick Head, the state of modern F1, the problem with overtaking, Toyota, Jarno Trulli, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost… There is…
The demotion of Daniil Kvyat from Red Bull to Toro Rosso and the accompanying promotion of Max Verstappen in the other direction typifies Helmut Marko’s intensely demanding running of the…
The privateer Rebellion team wins Le Mans. Better still, a second division LMP2 Ligier or ORECA lands the big one. Let’s take it a step further: a GT Ferrari, Aston…
Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd was born and brought up on the island of Oland in the Baltic Sea – a long way from Monte Carlo and even further from the…
The first surprise is that the Jersey taxi driver is Glaswegian, the second that Nigel Mansell seems to be in a good mood and happy to wait for us to…
‘Wattie’ is 70 today (May 4). In August he’ll celebrate 40 years without ‘the beard’. He grew it originally, he only half-jokes, to keep warm in his father Marshall’s “wind…
A look back at Northern Ireland’s F1 drivers
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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