Unlike the tyres during the race, the atmosphere at the British Grand Prix couldn’t be burst quite so easily. While the race might not have been the best advert for…
Sunday, 12am-3am Canadian Tony Burgess was lucky to escape serious injury in a huge crash that cut his Lola coupé in half as the half-way point of the race loomed.…
Taken from the July 1973 issue of Motor Sport By Andrew Marriott Last year’s victory by Matra was somewhat hollow thanks to the lack of opposition, notably from Ferrari, but…
Taken from the July 1965 issue of Motor Sport By Denis Jenkinson There were 51 starters in the Le Mans race, but to all intents and purposes it was a…
Taken from the July 1953 issue of Motor Sport The Le Mans 24 Hour race carries with it more tradition and history than any other event in the minds of…
Taken from the July 1949 issue of Motor Sport Before the war Le Mans was a household word in British motor racing circles, as well it might be, with British…
Mick Jagger couldn't get "no satisfaction" and yet "I tried, and I tried, and I tried, and I tried"! That was four times for Mick, so you've got to feel…
Join top F1 engineers to debate future of motor racing with Motor Sport Magazine and Formula Student. Formula 1 is set for the biggest technical overhaul in its history –…
Whenever I’m watching a Grand Prix I’m trying to come up with a 'story of the race' for every driver. It begins at the start and ends wherever they do…
It’s quite reassuring that a sport – which measures itself in thousandths of a second and billions of dollars – can survive politics and even alleged war zones, but has…
According to Motor Sport readers, Jim Clark is by far the most popular British Formula 1 World Champion. Last month, in association with The Daily Telegraph, we launched an online…
The oval at Sitges only hosted one Gran Premio de España and that was in 1923, the year that it opened. The race was won by Albert Divo in a…