A few punctures avoided a Baku borefest – here's who and what's traversing our sliding scale after Azerbaijan

McLaren shareholder Mansour Ojjeh, who was a key figure in the team's early '80s revival with TAG-Porsche engines, has passed away at the age of 68

Jacques Villeneuve's FW18-3, with which he won three grands prix and famously used to overtake Michael Schumacher at Estoril, is up for sale at a price of £2.2m

Carlos Sainz Sr, Stéphane Peterhansel and Mattias Ekström have teamed up with Audi as it attempts to become the first manufacturer to win Dakar with an electric car next year

An eccentric celebrity backer, a crack racing squad run on a shoestring and six blown engines – Willy T Ribbs recounts his incredible tale of becoming the first black person to qualify for the Indy 500

In 2011, Dan Wheldon came in from the IndyCar cold to take a scarcely believable last-lap, last-corner win at the Indy 500 – his then-team boss Bryan Herta recounts the story

Jenson Button has gone into detail on why his JBXE Extreme E team joining forces with Lotus is a "childhood dream", whilst the latter says it indicates a wider "return to racing" for the Hethel brand

The Richard Burns 2000 Rally GB-winning Subaru Impreza has remained in the same condition that it finished the event – unusual for a car of this provenance

Charles Leclerc set fastest time in Q3 qualifying – then crashed out at the death, therefore red-flagging the session and taking pole

World champions Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen are all now being shaded by their young team-mates – time to call it quits?

The last ever Ford GT40 MkII to be made – one with a curious history – is going up for auction

Romain Grosjean took his first pole position in ten years and eight days at Indianapolis in just his third IndyCar qualifying session