Brazilian Grand Prix Fittipaldi wins at home Sao Paulo, January 27th Two weeks after the Argentine Grand Prix, opening round of the 1974 World Championship series, the Formula One teams…

F5000 Long Beach (September 28th) AT A TIME when open road racing appears to be suffering its death throes, at least in Europe, it may come as a surprise to…

Few drivers of the post-War Grand Prix era have prompted such debate over their talents as Karl Jochen Rindt, the arrogant, self-confident Austrian who claimed the sad distinction of becoming…

At the end of the 1981 season Motor Sport carried a detailed account of the Formula One achievements of Williams Grand Prix Engineering which had just won its second successive Constructors' Championship.…

It was five years ago, in the summer of 1979, that BMW first offered the Baur cabriolet conversion on the 3-series bodyshell. It was an instant success, arguably the most…

Many of you, I'm certain, will remember him, head tilted slightly forwards, in the cockpit of that elegant gold pin-striped jet black JPS Lotus 72. Rear tyres chirping audibly as…

Just as British race fans inevitably leap to the defence of Silverstone as an iconic cornerstone of the country’s motorsporting bedrock, so Brazilian fans revere the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace…

Scheckter is the new national hero, Kyalami, March 1st The six-week break between the Brazilian Grand Prix at the end of January and the South African Grand Prix on March…

Whilst the idea of a journalist carrying out a serious evaluation of a present-day grand prix car is as unlikely as it is presumptuous, it's not every day that the…

Evans and Redman win Formula 5000 titles The world of the 5-litre V8-powered single seaters, Formula 5000, has been dominated this year on both sides of the Atlantic by British…

More refinement, but is it yet a Mercedes beater?  There was a time, about ten years ago, when the aspiring business executive might content himself with his Ford Granada, secure…

Senna makes his mark It would probably be a very slight exaggeration to suggest that Ayrton Senna has brought a fresh standard of driving excellence to Formula One simply on the…