X-ray spec: Colin Chapman’s Lotus 88
In 1981, the year before his death, Colin Chapman’s Lotus colleagues witnessed something incredible: the most creative racing car designer of the time fell out of love with motorsport. Convinced…
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A hot, dusty afternoon in southern Spain. It’s September 28 1990, Friday qualifying at Jerez. With eight minutes left, Jean Alesi’s Tyrrell has just produced a ripple of interest in…
Fitness is all-consuming in Formula One, I know, but still there is something depressing about the uniformity of drivers’ tastes today. Favourite drink: mineral water; favourite food: pasta. An exception…
For sheer driving satisfaction there are three races I’ll always remember above the rest. The first was in 1988 at Delmar, California, in an IMSA Jaguar, when I was nerfed…
What has a gestation period of 50 years? Cyril Kieft’s grand prix car. Conceived in 1953, part-built in ’54, abandoned by ’55, the incomplete car was forgotten by the racing…
A couple of years ago Roberto Moreno was asked to be the subject of a Worst Car I Ever Drove for Motor Sport. He refused. The reason? He wasn’t sure…
By Robert Kubica’s standards the answer was short, albeit tinged with the Pole’s slightly off-beat humour, which has endeared him to the rallying fraternity since he took up the sport…
Ron Dennis used to be based next door, during his Project Four days. His still-under-construction hi-tech temple to hi-tech, Paragon, lies only a few miles down the road, but it…
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you might not at first realise that there was anything of…
In 1981, the year before his death, Colin Chapman’s Lotus colleagues witnessed something incredible: the most creative racing car designer of the time fell out of love with motorsport. Convinced…
A hot, dusty afternoon in southern Spain. It’s September 28 1990, Friday qualifying at Jerez. With eight minutes left, Jean Alesi’s Tyrrell has just produced a ripple of interest in…
Fitness is all-consuming in Formula One, I know, but still there is something depressing about the uniformity of drivers’ tastes today. Favourite drink: mineral water; favourite food: pasta. An exception…
For sheer driving satisfaction there are three races I’ll always remember above the rest. The first was in 1988 at Delmar, California, in an IMSA Jaguar, when I was nerfed…
What has a gestation period of 50 years? Cyril Kieft’s grand prix car. Conceived in 1953, part-built in ’54, abandoned by ’55, the incomplete car was forgotten by the racing…
A couple of years ago Roberto Moreno was asked to be the subject of a Worst Car I Ever Drove for Motor Sport. He refused. The reason? He wasn’t sure…
By Robert Kubica’s standards the answer was short, albeit tinged with the Pole’s slightly off-beat humour, which has endeared him to the rallying fraternity since he took up the sport…
Ron Dennis used to be based next door, during his Project Four days. His still-under-construction hi-tech temple to hi-tech, Paragon, lies only a few miles down the road, but it…
Standing on a piece of dull Aberdeenshire countryside, shivering against the wind as it blasts off the North Sea, you might not at first realise that there was anything of…
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Two consecutive victories from pole for McLaren’s Lando Norris to bring him within 83 points of Kimi Antonelli’s championship lead with half the season still to go had Mercedes’ Toto…
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Monaco Lewis Hamilton Many had written off Lewis Hamilton in F1 – too long in the tooth at 41, a poor fit with Ferrari, the rise of rivals, and so…
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