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The lights dim, then go out, followed by the familiar rumble of race engines, except this time it’s different. This…

The lights dim, then go out, followed by the familiar rumble of race engines, except this time it’s different. This…
Ron Howard movies are always well crafted, usually enjoyable and sometimes a little old fashioned. But they’re rarely ‘flashy’. He’s…
More than two years after it was announced, the eagerly awaited Rush will finally reach screens in September. The film…
Crystal Palace on a summer’s day, surrounded by Formula 3 cars, mechanics, team trucks and racing drivers. Did I mention…
Almost 30 years after he won the last of his three Formula 1 titles, Niki Lauda remains a popular paddock…
In Hollywood’s current roll-call, Ron Howard is an F1-stature director. Over the past 35 years this former child actor has…
One winter afternoon earlier this year, I went to the cinema in London. Not something I would normally do, but…
I’m not making a documentary, I’m making a drama,” Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard tells me as we walk back…
It’s not often that you get access to such a wealth of intriguing images from the set of a proper…
A 2008 Aston Martin DBS V12 with Milan plates caterwauls along a tunnel that skirts Lake Garda followed by an…
The unsung heroes of action films, those stunt performers working behind the scenes, have always intrigued moviegoers. Just how do…
There’s a natural assumption that documentaries are more authentic than ‘made up’ movies: if the footage is real then surely…
Much touted by those who have been lucky enough to see it, the eagerly-awaited Senna movie finally makes it into…
For a few days after seeing Senna, I couldn’t get the man out of my mind, and perhaps not surprisingly…
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Although it would prove one of the big hits of 2019, the commercially successful Ford v Ferrari didn’t exactly race…
He was known as Teddy Teabag, says Charlie Agapiou. “He’d use one teabag per race and by the end he…
The storyline of Ford v Ferrari – the 20th Century Fox film about Carroll Shelby leading the Ford factory team…
With its gritty, high-intensity race sequences, Ford v Ferrari has become a hit film with a swathe of motor racing…
Steve McQueen or James Garner? Michael Delaney or Pete Aron? Hilts ‘The Cooler King’ or Hendley ‘The Scrounger’? You’ll have…
Freddie Spencer discusses the big talking points from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, where Dovizioso showed his championship class and a title contender hit rare mechanical trouble The British…
Helmets worn by Fangio, Hawthorn and Senna, overalls of Hill and a Clark trophy – Bonhams’ Festival of Speed auction is packed with incredible memorabilia Updated with results Often, automobilia’s…
Could the Russian Grand Prix be exciting? Possibly. Verstappen and Hamilton resume their F1 title battle this weekend in Sochi
Testing, testing, one-two-three. We are now in the midst of the fourth and final pre-season Formula 1 test at the Catalunya circuit in southern Spain, where it has been unusually…