Clay Regazzoni: ‘I was never thinking about the F1 title. I enjoyed life’
Everything changed for Clay Regazzoni on March 30 1980. The accident at Long Beach that left him in a wheelchair ended a grand prix career that had lasted for 10…
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Over the decades every top racing driver has lost a potential victory in unfortunate circumstances, but few have suffered a greater blow than that experienced by John Love, an underdog…
In the calm after the storm of a grand prix, Marc Surer sat still for a moment in his hire car. And then just drove. Out of the paddock compound,…
Favours of fortune Within a period of two weeks Nelson Piquet led less than 30 miles of Grand Prix motoring — but bagged 18 points in the 1987 World Drivers…
Mexico City, October 25th For the final race of what has been a fascinating year of Grand Prix racing the action moved southwards down the North American continent to Mexico…
It’s been long awaited, this autobiography of the man Stirling Moss would have in his ideal team, yet Tony Brooks has extraordinary recall not only of his own races but…
Remember the Alan Mann Ford Falcons? Alain de Cadenet at Le Mans? Rondeau winning at the Sarthe? Renault in touring cars? There’s one common factor – Keith Greene, team manager.…
Roland Ratzenberger typified the spirit that takes men to the highest echelon of motorsport. He was born in Salzburg in 1962 and began to establish his unusual name in the…
Not many people have known Formula 1 from the inside better than John Hogan. For countless years he was ‘the man from Philip Morris’, the man responsible for Marlboro’s involvement…
Everything changed for Clay Regazzoni on March 30 1980. The accident at Long Beach that left him in a wheelchair ended a grand prix career that had lasted for 10…
Over the decades every top racing driver has lost a potential victory in unfortunate circumstances, but few have suffered a greater blow than that experienced by John Love, an underdog…
In the calm after the storm of a grand prix, Marc Surer sat still for a moment in his hire car. And then just drove. Out of the paddock compound,…
Favours of fortune Within a period of two weeks Nelson Piquet led less than 30 miles of Grand Prix motoring — but bagged 18 points in the 1987 World Drivers…
Mexico City, October 25th For the final race of what has been a fascinating year of Grand Prix racing the action moved southwards down the North American continent to Mexico…
It’s been long awaited, this autobiography of the man Stirling Moss would have in his ideal team, yet Tony Brooks has extraordinary recall not only of his own races but…
Remember the Alan Mann Ford Falcons? Alain de Cadenet at Le Mans? Rondeau winning at the Sarthe? Renault in touring cars? There’s one common factor – Keith Greene, team manager.…
Roland Ratzenberger typified the spirit that takes men to the highest echelon of motorsport. He was born in Salzburg in 1962 and began to establish his unusual name in the…
Not many people have known Formula 1 from the inside better than John Hogan. For countless years he was ‘the man from Philip Morris’, the man responsible for Marlboro’s involvement…
Sepang’s abrasive tarmac did more than shred Formula 1 tyres – it scrambled team simulations and may well have handed Red Bull an unassailable advantage in the Bahrain Grand Prix, that reshaped the competitive order, as Mark Hughes explains
Back in Malaysia for the first time in nine years, plenty of Formula 1 teams were caught out by the unique characteristics of the Sepang circuit where one decision had a devastating effect on their whole Bahrain GP weekend
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
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…
A software bug, a long wait for the rain to clear and a track that produced better racing than the streets: Sepang reminded Formula 1 of some of the things it has lost
Formula 1 returns to Sepang, 13 years after Red Bull’s Multi 21 controversy joined some of the most notorious team orders in grand prix racing
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
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