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“Stand back, they are all going off on a warm-up lap. Bonnier is very late starting; something wrong with a rear-wheel fixing; did his mechanic strip the studs?” “Here they…
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Big breath. I have to go there. The matter has to be raised. So best get it out of the way, no point pussyfooting around the edges. So I look…
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Having scaled the heights of back-to-back wins in both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 1959-60, Cooper found the terrain beyond steeply downhill. In 1961 it finished fourth in the…
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People – not the cars – are the essence of motor racing history. Unlike the chicken and the egg there’s no doubting which comes first. The Maserati 250F was the first…
In a book shop the other day, I noticed by chance a volume on the life and, for want of a better word, works of Mark Thatcher (no, please, stay…
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The lights blinked yellow before the day-glo car hit the wall. The puff of dust as it dived into Turn 1 had told USAC chief observer Walt Myers all he…
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport rivalled even that of Enzo Ferrari, and when he and…
Bruno Giacomelli 1990 LIFE F190 Italy’s economy boom threw up some strange F1 outfits, but none stranger than life, whose bizarre W12 engine gave 440BHP less than the Honda unit…
Teddy Mayer 1935-2009 Teddy Mayer passed away at home in Surrey at the end of January. Mayer, 73, was a stalwart of McLaren Cars through most of the company’s first…
“Stand back, they are all going off on a warm-up lap. Bonnier is very late starting; something wrong with a rear-wheel fixing; did his mechanic strip the studs?” “Here they…
Great Read
Big breath. I have to go there. The matter has to be raised. So best get it out of the way, no point pussyfooting around the edges. So I look…
Great Read
Having scaled the heights of back-to-back wins in both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 1959-60, Cooper found the terrain beyond steeply downhill. In 1961 it finished fourth in the…
Great Read
People – not the cars – are the essence of motor racing history. Unlike the chicken and the egg there’s no doubting which comes first. The Maserati 250F was the first…
In a book shop the other day, I noticed by chance a volume on the life and, for want of a better word, works of Mark Thatcher (no, please, stay…
Great Read
The lights blinked yellow before the day-glo car hit the wall. The puff of dust as it dived into Turn 1 had told USAC chief observer Walt Myers all he…
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport rivalled even that of Enzo Ferrari, and when he and…
Bruno Giacomelli 1990 LIFE F190 Italy’s economy boom threw up some strange F1 outfits, but none stranger than life, whose bizarre W12 engine gave 440BHP less than the Honda unit…
Corner-cutting, confusion, and chaos – the Mexican Grand Prix’s first laps summed up F1’s rulebook issues, Mark Hughes says
A closer look at the data shows Piastri’s recent struggles have everything to do with tyre dynamics, and nothing to do with team bias, as Mark Hughes explains
Lando Norris delivered a flawless Mexico City Grand Prix to take a one-point lead in the title chase, as Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri struggled to find the balance that defined the winner’s dominance, as Mark Hughes explains
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Felipe Massa is claiming the 2008 Singapore GP should be annulled due to the ‘Crashgate’ scandal – we look at whether his and Ferrari’s litany of errors that year did just as much damage to his title challenge
Felipe Massa’s lawyers have claimed that Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley tried to conceal their full knowledge of the 2008 Crashgate aftermath
Felipe Massa says his Ferrari team was extremely unhappy with comments he made about Fernando Alonso’s role in ‘Crashgate’
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