At Motor Sport’s centenary gala in 2024, Formula 1’s most successful car designer, Adrian Newey, attributed the origins of his engineering genius to a 1:12-scale, build-it-yourself model of a Lotus…

There are some opportunities in life that you shouldn’t pass up and one of those is the chance to cut two hot laps of the Montalegre track with Spanish rally…

It was September 3, 1939, an inauspicious date for Europe and the world; the day on which Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany after the invasion of Poland…

How do you turn a PR disaster into a winning strategy for the future of a racing series? Well, you could do worse than look at what the World Rallycross…

Before Cooper, Lotus and the 1960s British ‘takeover’ of F1, there was Vanwall. Active as a racing entity for a few short years, Tony Vandervell’s ‘teardrop’ racers paved the way…

Controversial? Yes, but only because it was so brilliantly clever. Gordon Murray’s marvel would have changed the game, which is why his boss – with one eye already trained on…

By 2002, Ferrari’s axis of power – shaped by Rory Byrne, Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher – had gone full supersonic. The F2002 was dominant – too much unless you…

I worked for Bernie Ecclestone at the Brabham Formula 1 team back in the 1980s and then in 1995 he asked me to look after his cars. The collection was…

Created in short order after an outrageously late change to Formula 1’s aerodynamic regulations, Gordon Murray conjured his most beautiful creation – a contender for the most aesthetically pleasing racing…

A quarter of a century before Jean Todt oversaw Ferrari resurgence with Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, Luca di Montezemolo set the template of how it should be done with Mauro Forghieri…

Motor racing has much for which to thank Bernie Ecclestone, although I wonder if even he sometimes regrets the hysteria and bling of today’s Formula 1 and the passing of…

There was a feeling in the air ahead of the new Formula E season that it was going to be a close and spectacular first race. But I don’t think…