Matters Picture Special

September: Charles Leclerc, Singapore

Perhaps the height of Ferrari’s intra-team feud. Leclerc looked nailed on to win before the team favoured Sebastian Vettel on race strategy


September: Ferrari, Monza

Charles Leclerc made history by becoming the first Scuderia driver for a decade to win the Italian Grand Prix, and celebrate with the adoring Tifosi


November: Carlos Sainz, Brazil

It had to endure 118 races without a rostrum finish since the 2014 Australian GP – amounting to some 2072 days – but Carlos Sainz finally ended McLaren’s drought in Brazil, albeit a few hours after the race had finished. He also helped McLaren to fourth in the Constructors’ Championship


December: Lewis Hamilton, Abu Dhabi

To cap his dominant year – in which he secured his sixth F1 world title – Hamilton performs donuts in the dark after victory at Yas Marina


February: NASCAR, Daytona

Sparks flew as the Daytona 500 ended prematurely for many in this huge pile-up, which accounted for 21 of the runners with 10 laps to go


February: Formula E, Mexico

The all-electric single-seater series continued to gain momentum, racing in front of a bumper crowd in Mexico City


November: Hyundai, WRC

The Korean firm scored its first major motor sport crown by landing the World Rally Championship teams’ title. The i20 WRC scored four wins, three with Thierry Neuville and one for Dani Sordo


December: Nyck de Vries, Formula 2

After a roller-coaster ride, Dutchman de Vries finally landed the F2 title at his third attempt, a year after splitting from McLaren’s Young Driver programme


November: Aussie Supercars, Newcastle

Fabian Coulthard hops his whale-tailed Mustang over the kerbs on his way to twin podiums at the street circuit


November: WEC, Shanghai

A fan of cars of all colours, shapes and sizes pleasingly assembles in China


January: Mini, Dakar Rally

Carlos Sainz gets stuck into the dunes at the wheel of his X-raid Mini JCW. He’d finish down in 13th after suspension damage early on


February: Bathurst 12 Hours

They don’t call it Mount Panorama for nothing: Porsche, Mercedes and Bentley battle it out as the Australian sun sets on the spectacular view ahead


September: Dario Franchitti, Goodwood

The four-time IndyCar champ and three-time Indy 500 winner made his racing return at the glorious Revival


November: DTM/Super GT, Fuji

In the shadow of Mount Fuji, Alex Zanardi handles his BMW M4 DTM in the combined ‘Dream Race’ between the two series


March: Marc Márquez, Thailand

In a rare moment when he wasn’t winning everything in MotoGP, Márquez walked away from this spectacular accident during practice at Buriram


November: Kyalami 9 Hours, RSA

The return of world-class GT racing to South Africa also brought turbulent weather. Drew Gibson captured these stunning lightning strikes


May: Simon Pagenaud, Indianapolis 500

On his eighth attempt, Frenchman Pagenaud collected the biggest prize in American motor sport, and stops to salute the crowd at The Brickyard after winning the Indy 500


December: Ford GT, WEC

After a four-year run that included a Le Mans victory in 2016, Ford ended its factory GT programme in both the WEC and IMSA


October: BTCC, Brands Hatch

The BTCC season finale was dramatic for many reasons. Sadly Jack Goff’s weekend ended early after this heavy hit in race two


August: Chadwick’s W Series triumph

After a fraught race in which she started on pole, Jamie Chadwick’s fourth place at Brands Hatch was enough to take the $500,000 prize


April: Porsche’s 917 at 50

With one of racing’s great icons turning half-a-century old in 2019, Porsche recreated its famous Stuttgart factory rollout image with a host of 917 variants