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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N: mighty impressive bid to turn EV into a driver’s car
It is, I think, the incongruity of it all that appeals most. Meet the Hyundai hatchback with more power than…
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2024 Aston Martin DBX707 review: pacy SUV is finally complete
It always felt a bit like making Usain Bolt run the 100m in Doc Martens. Here was something superior to…
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Incredible Bugatti Tourbillon watch has crystal ‘engine’ with moving pistons
If you happen to have seen a Bugatti Veyron recently, you might have looked into the cockpit and got the…
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High-speed Austria set to stretch the MotoGP championship contenders
Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria, August 16-18 Two wheels, 28 laps and average speeds of 115mph – the Red Bull…
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A rare mix of empathy, grit and honesty: Derek Warwick’s autobiography reviewed
Derek Warwick should write another book, about his Uncle Stan. A rambunctious figure, ever ready with his fists, he colours…
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Flashback : September 2024
Flavio Briatore was in the news for reasons good and bad in 1994. Thirty years on, nothing has changed. This…
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Letters - September 2024
May I congratulate fellow Motor Sport readers for selecting the Lotus 49 as their all-time favourite racing car [Race Car…
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McLaren’s F1 revolution, the inside story: from rock bottom to title contenders
McLaren has travelled far since hitting rock bottom in 2018. Ditching its ill-starred Honda partnership at vast expense to switch…
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Lando Norris: I’m fed up of the excuses
Building a frontrunning car is one thing, but converting that into regular victories is another. McLaren’s recent strike rate isn’t…
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Emerson Fittipaldi: ‘McLaren has strong leaders — just like when I won in ‘74’
The McLaren M23 gleams on the Goodwood start line, radiant in its red and white livery. The Cosworth DFV engine…
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Carroll Shelby: The lost interview
Chatter, the clatter of plates and children screaming doesn’t amount to the ideal soundtrack when you’re trying to interview a…
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‘Pedro Rodríguez is my hero — I had to buy the BRM he raced’
Six Mexicans have started Formula 1 world championship grands prix. Adrián Fernández isn’t among them. Even so, there was a…
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The car that made BRM a winner again
The BRM P153, designed by new recruit Tony Southgate, represented a conscious (and visual) break from the company’s dwindling 1960s…
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Motorcycle racing at Brooklands: ‘Like a wall of death, the track unwinding before you’
Noel Pope watched the vast sweep of concrete banking rush towards him, his mighty supercharged Brough Superior snorting and shaking…
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Chaparral 2E: the car that changed everything
While the ‘other half’ of the Chaparral team was off taking on Ford, Ferrari and Porsche around the world in…
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Tony Dowe: feats of endurance
In a career that goes back to his own teenage fumblings as a kart racer, Tony Dowe has been linked…
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Dowe on Le Mans 1990...
At TWR USA, we were very sharp by 1990. We had finished first and second at the Daytona 24 Hours…
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Insuring the weird and wonderful
Sponsored by Peter Best Insurance Fun fact: insurance comparison sites are useless if you try to input the details of…
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The rare Lotus Elan boosted by BRM
No fan of 1960s Formula 1 racing could fail to recognise the livery of BRM on the car pictured here…
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Auction results: The most immaculate Jensen Interceptor III in the world?
1974 Jensen Interceptor III Sold by Dore & Rees, £62,150 If you’re on the lookout for what is probably the…
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