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90th anniversary special
Celebrating nine decades with the world's oldest and best motor racing magazine ‘From Brooklands to Bernie, Blower Bentleys to blown…
Celebrating nine decades with the world's oldest and best motor racing magazine ‘From Brooklands to Bernie, Blower Bentleys to blown…
The first-ever permanent race track was built in Surrey – but did Brooklands rest too long on its laurels? Writer…
Pre-war motor racing was well reported by the British weeklies The Motor and The Autocar, with Tom Moore and friends…
Necessity rendered this one of the briefest ‘decades’ in the annals of motor sport, yet it would also be one…
Alfa Romeo’s team of cherry-red Tipo 158s took the first three places in the inaugural round of the Formula 1…
The remarkable event that we celebrate in this issue – the fact that Motor Sport, after 90 years of publication,…
The space race wasn’t limited to matters extra-terrestrial. Some of the technology was having a significant impact on race tracks…
Once dismissed by Enzo Ferrari as a science for those who didn’t understand engines, aerodynamics proved to be manna for…
Power was king, but its generation was often more subtle than the wider world appreciated. Irrespective of methodology, the spectacle…
Huge advances in safety corresponded with real-world political and financial machinations that would change motor racing forever. And it can…
Rose-tinted spectacles are a wonderful invention, but they don’t always focus accurately. Modern life, then, is not necessarily rubbish… Writer…
The Bradford lad who took an early decision to target a career in America – a move that has served…
Steve McQueen – Le Mans, 1970 For Steve McQueen, making a film of the Le Mans race was a passion.…
What is it about Monaco? The high-rise apartments have trashed the old Victorian elegance, the streets and traffic are brain-fryingly…
The fourth Donington Historic Festival featured a weekend of stand-out races, topped by Simon Hadfield’s Gentleman Drivers’ victory over Olly…
The spectator banks were bustling rather than brimming, but the sense of occasion was tangible as Brands Hatch played host…
The taste of good heights Oulton Park, April 21 & Thruxton, May 4: British motor sport’s twin peaks… but could…
Astons in the blood A trip to Surrey uncovers a cache of Britain's finest, and a man with a fund…
In Jarrot's slipstream Retracing the route of the Circuit des Ardennes, where British pioneers made their names London’s first Chinese…
Just like the much-anticipated traction control rule change in 2001, F1’s latest flexi-wing clampdown in Spain proved more hype than genuine shake-up, as Mark Hughes explains
Leather-bound tomes and maps from the early 1900s are part of this fascinating auction Bonhams’ London to Brighton Run Sale (November 2) is an homage to the earliest days of…
Red Bull could do without Fernando Alonso's reputation for causing internal chaos, but then again, it's best equipped to deal with the two-time Formula 1 champion Christian Horner, on Formula…
Phil Hanson is only 19, but the British driver is racing in his third Le Mans 24 Hours, and has proved himself against team-mates including Fernando Alonso and Paul Di Resta. Here's…