In this day and age of “big money” Grand Prix motor racing, it is difficult to imagine any driver maintaining the same life style after he finished his active participation as he…

With two races following on successive weekends in Canada and the United States, most teams hoped that there would not be much heavy work to be done on their cars…

Hunt turns the screw Watkins Glen, New York, October 10th Immediately after the Canadian Grand Prix had ended, most of the Formula One teams loaded their cars onto giant lorries…

Ligiers in formation Sao Paulo, February 4th Two weeks after the Grand Prix season opened at Buenos Aires, the Formula One teams moved north to the spectacular 4.946-mile Interlagos circuit…

It is now fourteen years since Phil Hill won the World Drivers' Championship at the wheel of a 1½-litre V6-cylinder Formula One Ferrari, the quiet Californian having long since slipped…

Ligier landmark Buenos Aires, January 21st The new Grand Prix season started with a flourish in Buenos Aires, for not only were we seeing new combinations of drivers and teams…

Dijon, May 20th  Returning to the tortuous Dijon-Prenois circuit for the first time since 1981, this year’s edition of the French Grand Prix saw Niki Lauda deny the factory Renault…

Rio de Janeiro, March 25th In sharp contrast to previous years, the Formula 1 "close season" has been very much longer this winter, stretching from Kyalami in mid-October 1983 until…

Early season Formula One form can frequently be misleading, but be that as it may the McLaren International team caught all its rivals off guard in the first two events…

I well recall my personal enthusiasm for Niki Lauda who, apart from being a mate, was a driver I always reckoned had everything all weighed up. In 1977, when he…

“He’s getting to be another Chris Amon…” How many times have we heard that comment made over the years about Formula One drivers who, although undeniably talented, seem never quite…

When they were new An original road test taken from the Motor Sport archives, October 1982 | By Alan Henry For more than a decade the cornerstone of BMW’s sporting…