As we celebrate in this issue four of US motor sport’s greatest racing drivers, it was fitting this should coincide with Álex Palou sealing his third IndyCar championship in four…

In December 2015 at London’s Shard, soon-to-be Jaguar team principal James Barclay spoke amid a throng of media on a return to international motor sport. The ‘Big Cat’, which was…

While the ‘other half’ of the Chaparral team was off taking on Ford, Ferrari and Porsche around the world in prestigious endurance racing contests, Jim Hall was busy creating his…

Chatter, the clatter of plates and children screaming doesn’t amount to the ideal soundtrack when you’re trying to interview a legend. But that’s the background distraction I faced when I…

More than 250 guests and a galaxy of stars from the track dined at The Dorchester in London in early July to celebrate Motor Sport’s centenary – hosted during the…

It was the one time I needed not to get into a bad car. It was 1972 and I'd bought my way into Formula 1 with March; I'd agreed to…

There’s a cheery “Good morning” from over our shoulders and Ian Sanders, the original chief mechanic of the Richard Lloyd Racing Group C team – or GTi Engineering as it…

In the end it came down to a two-car race between cult heroes. In the red corner was the car many regard as the ultimate expression of 1980s simplicity and…

From David Wesley Tee, Production Manager of Motor Sport when owned by his father, Wesley J Tee. Congratulations to the editor and all the Motor Sport staff for what I…

The Pebble Beach Concours is best known as the ultimate venue in which to see the world’s finest classic (i.e. ‘old’) cars in one place but, as concours chairperson Sandra…

It’s the painful hangover decade. But amid political and economic uncertainty – and increasingly lairy fashions – Motor Sport and its signature cover stripes (1) offer sober continuity and the…

I was fortunate to race with and against so many great characters in the 1970s, some of whom became close friends. I didn’t get to race in F1 for a…