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Reine Wisell: “I was Ronnie’s racing instructor”
There is precious little room in motor racing for ifs, buts and might-have-beens. As Keke Rosberg is fond of saying, if his aunt had a moustache and balls she’d be…
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Teddy Mayer obituary: team manager who led McLaren to ’70s success
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…
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1968 Belgian Grand Prix: Spa Francorchamps Monologue on McLaren’s debut win
“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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Andrea de Cesaris: The bigger picture
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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X-ray spec – Cooper T81-Maserati
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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The incredible Maserati 250F: “Buone, forte, veloce…”
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…
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How Reutemann’s 1981 F1 season unravelled: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
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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Mike Spence: Racing’s ‘Quiet Man’
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…
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F1’s only female winner: Why Desiré Wilson could have been world championship star
A few weeks after storming the Brickyard in May, Dan Wheldon arrived for the Indycar race at the Texas Motor Speedway wearing a T-shirt announcing, ‘Actually, I won the Indy 500’.…
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Reine Wisell: “I was Ronnie’s racing instructor”
There is precious little room in motor racing for ifs, buts and might-have-beens. As Keke Rosberg is fond of saying, if his aunt had a moustache and balls she’d be…
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Teddy Mayer obituary: team manager who led McLaren to ’70s success
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…
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1968 Belgian Grand Prix: Spa Francorchamps Monologue on McLaren’s debut win
“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
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Andrea de Cesaris: The bigger picture
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
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X-ray spec – Cooper T81-Maserati
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
Archive
The incredible Maserati 250F: “Buone, forte, veloce…”
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…
Archive
How Reutemann’s 1981 F1 season unravelled: Nigel Roebuck’s Legends
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
Archive
Mike Spence: Racing’s ‘Quiet Man’
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…
Great Read
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F1’s only female winner: Why Desiré Wilson could have been world championship star
A few weeks after storming the Brickyard in May, Dan Wheldon arrived for the Indycar race at the Texas Motor Speedway wearing a T-shirt announcing, ‘Actually, I won the Indy 500’.…
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MPH: Why Formula 1’s fastest car keeps changing hands
A season that opened with total Mercedes dominance is turning into a three-way fight for the fastest car in F1. Mark Hughes explains why
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MPH: Lawson’s Zandvoort showing leaves Red Bull with tough questions
Standing in for Hadjar at Zandvoort, Lawson made a strong case for himself with a very solid weekend. Now Red Bull will need to make some difficult decisions, writes Mark Hughes
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Mark Hughes: Detuned to win – How McLaren tamed its own car at Zandvoort
A mid-weekend rebalancing act turned McLaren’s tyre-eating sprint car into a Sunday winner in the hands of Lando Norris, as Mark Hughes explains
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McLaren’s short gearing explains its Zandvoort advantage over Mercedes
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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Karun Chandhok: McLaren’s pace puts Norris back in the F1 title fight
The Dutch Grand Prix was an exciting way to kick off the second half of the season after the summer break. Following on from Lando Norris’s dominant victory in Budapest…
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Kimi Antonelli’s mid-season charge reshapes Formula 1’s 2026 title fight
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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Mario Andretti in the rain at Montreal’s 1978 season finale
October 7, 1978 Montreal, Canada With the 1978 F1 title already in the bag for Lotus’s Mario Andretti, the final round of the season saw the American finish the race…
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Alex Wurz on the Benetton weight penalty that shaped his F1 career
There are some drivers whose careers can be measured easily in statistics, their achievements neatly catalogued in tables of wins and championships. There are others whose contribution to motor sport…
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John Watson returns to the McLaren MP4/1, 45 years after Silverstone victory
Pembrey in March is never a suntrap. The fifth of that month was no exception. Through the spray came John Watson’s 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with McLaren Heritage test driver Rob…
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