November 2024

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2024 McLaren Artura Spider review: Here comes the sun

Actually, the fact it’s the Spider version is not of any great concern. For those who are interested, the roof…

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Lancia 037s to take centre stage at the Tour de Corse Historique

Once a firm fixture on the World Rally Championship calendar, the Tour de Corse was known in period as the…

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Fast, Faster, Fastest: The Bill Sadler Story book review

Sadler cars I knew a little about – attractive and muscular sports racers from Canada. Sadler the man was a…

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Inside OSCA book review: New view of Maserati brothers’ sports car firm

Not a history of OSCA per se, this hangs on the stills of Walter Breveglieri, a fashion and society photographer…

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Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill’s unlikely chinwag at Suzuka

This was taken through the media centre window at Suzuka in October 1994. The circumstances may not have been conducive…

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Letters: Carroll Shelby’s memory and F1’s modern terminology

I read with interest the interview with Carroll Shelby [Carroll Shelby: The Lost Interview, September] on the creation of the…

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Jones, Foyt, Gurney and Andretti – America’s golden generation of racers

Gordon Johncock sat on the outside of the front row of the grid for the 1967 Indianapolis 500, but he…

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The two faces of F1: why Austin and Las Vegas Grands Prix are chalk and cheese

Two grands prix in the same country, separated by a month, different time zones and 1200 miles. Yet for what…

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Why COTA and Las Vegas will deliver first-rate F1 racing — and challenge drivers

COTA This is one of the most interesting layouts out of the wave of modern tracks that have joined the…

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Is Aston Martin’s £20m-a-year Adrian Newey good value? Lawrence Stroll reckons so

Adrian Newey could have gone anywhere – but he’s gone to Aston Martin, the Silverstone-based outfit which started life as…

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Motorcycle legend Mick Doohan on why son Jack is the right man for Alpine

Amid the inevitable noise around the impending arrival of Andrea Kimi Antonelli on the Formula 1 grid his fellow 2025…

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Formula 1’s 2025 rookies

After an off-season that saw the entire 2023 Formula 1 entry list transferred to 2024 unchanged there has been a…

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The 1970s Alpine rally wreck brought painstakingly back to life

Sometimes all it takes is a fleeting moment; a rapid blur of colour, speed, sound and heat that changes everything.…

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Jean-Luc Thérier and the Musketeers

Jean-Luc Thérier, was one of that select band of rally drivers who can connect with the people in a way…

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F1 on water: the America’s Cup craft at the cutting edge of sailing tech

America’s Cup yacht racing is often described as Formula 1 on water, but how alike is it really? Daniel Bernasconi…

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What is the America’s Cup?

The high sea has always attracted swashbuckling adventurers and, since the founding of the America’s Cup in 1851, larger-than-life characters…

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‘Chocolate drop’ — the breathtakingly brown Chevron B26

John Watson loved his Chevron sports car cameo. Especially his dalliance with this, the 2-litre B26 known universally as ‘Chocolate…

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Brian Redman

It was me who asked Derek Bennett to build the B16 spyder. We got to the inaugural European 2-litre race…

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John Watson: The Derek Bennett I knew

I first met Derek Bennett in 1965 when he brought over the original Chevron Clubmans car to Northern Ireland, raced…

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Jan Lammers: The Motor Sport Interview

Born in the seaside town of Zandvoort, not far from the famous circuit, Jan Lammers has done so much to…