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It was like bumping into an old flame. Forty years ago, in our distant youth, we’d shared just one dance. In the intervening decades we’d both moved on; inevitably, we…
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Seeing it lined up, in the Goodwood paddock at the Revival Meeting, with such as the Dino 246, the 250F and the Mercedes-Benz W196, it struck me again how small is the Lancia D50, how astonishing…
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Just minutes after picking up the mountain pass we come to the first hairpin. I look at my photographs of behemoth Mercedes and Auto Unions scrabbling around tight Alpine bends…
F186 (1986) There have been less successful Ferraris than the F186 (it did score podium finishes) but it was Maranello’s only turbo car to fail to win a race. Stefan Johansson…
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When Mateus goes to bed he settles down on the kitchen floor beside the cooker. There are seven people living in two rooms. It is hot and there is no…
The newspapers didn’t sensationalise; the facts were hideous enough. ‘Grand Prix Ace in Helicopter Crash’ read the headlines. ‘Life not in danger’ they assured, in smaller type. But then phrases…
Friday evening at Monaco, and a drink or two on Keke Rosberg’s boat, moored near the chicane. The host, as usual, was chattering away about this, that and the other,…
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“My God, I had so many! Which one will I choose, huh?” Jacques Laffite is talking about his myriad team-mates, recalling a long racing career that brought him many accolades…
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Pragmatists, not purists: That was Cooper compared to design-led Lotus, or the intensive engineering of BRM. While Colin Chapman was stripping out every gramme and making components double up, Cooper’s…
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It was like bumping into an old flame. Forty years ago, in our distant youth, we’d shared just one dance. In the intervening decades we’d both moved on; inevitably, we…
Great Read
Seeing it lined up, in the Goodwood paddock at the Revival Meeting, with such as the Dino 246, the 250F and the Mercedes-Benz W196, it struck me again how small is the Lancia D50, how astonishing…
Great Read
Just minutes after picking up the mountain pass we come to the first hairpin. I look at my photographs of behemoth Mercedes and Auto Unions scrabbling around tight Alpine bends…
F186 (1986) There have been less successful Ferraris than the F186 (it did score podium finishes) but it was Maranello’s only turbo car to fail to win a race. Stefan Johansson…
Great Read
When Mateus goes to bed he settles down on the kitchen floor beside the cooker. There are seven people living in two rooms. It is hot and there is no…
The newspapers didn’t sensationalise; the facts were hideous enough. ‘Grand Prix Ace in Helicopter Crash’ read the headlines. ‘Life not in danger’ they assured, in smaller type. But then phrases…
Friday evening at Monaco, and a drink or two on Keke Rosberg’s boat, moored near the chicane. The host, as usual, was chattering away about this, that and the other,…
Great Read
“My God, I had so many! Which one will I choose, huh?” Jacques Laffite is talking about his myriad team-mates, recalling a long racing career that brought him many accolades…
F1 has heard it all before, but when Lando Norris insisted he was quicker than his leading team-mate Oscar Piastri in the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix, he had a point — and emphatically showed it in clean air. Could Lewis Hamilton have challenged him?
Mark Hughes crunches the numbers on Aston Martin’s big upgrade for the Hungarian Grand Prix – and asks whether it can be enough to close a four-second deficit to near the front of the F1 pack
George Russell’s Belgian Grand Prix was wrecked by a software fault buried deep in Mercedes’ code. Mark Hughes explains what really happened
June 7, 1970 Spa-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium By F1’s Round 4 at Spa in 1970, Jack Brabham was at the top of the standings with eventual title winner Jochen Rindt trailing by…
Toyota returned to the top step of the podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a three-year absence. Finally, the Japanese manufacturer triumphed against factory opposition, which was not…
When Ford turned to Andy Rouse to spearhead its British Touring Car Championship ambitions in the 1990s, a return to the glory days of the RS500 seemed on the cards.…
Ferrari’s Hungarian Grand Prix weekend proved an F1 masterclass in how not to cash in a form advantage
As F1’s power units run out of energy, the series’ response has been to hide the evidence rather than explain it, and fans are noticing
The 18-3 scoreline looks decisive, but a closer look at Haas’s season shows a car that hasn’t been giving both drivers the same chance to score
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