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The Long and Winding Road
The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport…

The clues to greatness were there to be seen, even in that first car. Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s passion for motorsport…
Photography Jayson Fong | Taken from Motor Sport, March 2021 This was a little like digging priceless historical artefacts out…
Photography Getty Images. Taken from Motor Sport, August 1962 Every five years the Grand Prix de l’ACF leaves the Reims circuit…
Photography Getty Images Taken from Motor Sport, November 2013 Porsche had raced a couple of F2-based four-cylinder cars for Dan…
If you wanted success at Le Mans during the 1970s or 1980s, then the easiest way to get ahead at…
The future of Porsche in motor sport is something to behold. It has its Formula E programme and its works…
Each month for the past five years it’s been my privilege, on your behalf, to take a motor racing name…
Photography Porsche Archives & Getty Images Taken from Motor Sport, April 1968 When the Porsche factory finally gave up production…
It was a plot that would have been regarded as too fanciful, even for Hollywood. Any self-respecting studio would have…
How much would you pay for a piece of automotive history which came complete with a sprinkling of Hollywood stardust?…
They were all just stories. They had to be. Of course a Porsche 917/30 would not actually spin its rear…
Being first is perhaps what matters most in all of motor racing. But some firsts are bigger than others. Richard…
Taken from Motor Sport, July 2015 Many of us remember the days when a grand prix driver would happily race…
Photography Brian Cleary, Porsche Archives & Getty Images . Taken from Motor Sport, February 2016 From conception its road-car roots…
Photography Getty Images Taken from Motor Sport, July 1970 Safe to say that our continental correspondent, Denis Jenkinson, wasn’t all…
On a sunny early-January day in the Black Forest a new era began in earnest for the king of sports…
Photography Jayson Fong. Taken from Motor Sport, May 2021 Some are older, many are faster, but if you were to…
Photography Porsche/Jürgen Tap. Taken from Motor Sport, May 2021 If you want to know how far removed from even the…
It seems somewhat bizarre that Vic Elford got started in motor sport never actually intending to be a driver. But,…
It’s one of those eternal motorsport quiz questions: ‘When and where did Ayrton Senna make his only appearance in a…
Formula 1's on its summer shutdown, so Mark Hughes, Motor Sport's Grand Prix editor, joins Jack Phillips, Simon Arron and Motor Sport's new production editor, Rob Ladbrook, to look at…
Roaring through the breathtaking New Zealand wilderness, the 2024 Silver Fern Rally again provided exciting sideways action from classic off-road machines
One of the biggest events on the historic motor racing calendar takes place next month, the Silverstone Classic. The on-track timetable captures the full breadth of circuit racing history, with…
In the fourth part of our special Jochen Rindt tribute, we hear from three more of his rivals who were due to race against him at the fateful 1970 Italian…