Through the 1959 season John Cooper's little company in Surbiton was still the only one building, and racing, rear-engined grand prix cars. Colin Chapman was running his ‘mini-Vanwall', the Lotus…

With Nigel Roebuck & Martin Brundle Lunch with Martin Brundle in an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, the plan to spend a relaxed couple of hours talking over the World Championship…

Thanks to Sir Jackie Stewart’s wife Helen, we now have a unique perspective on his racing career By Nigel Roebuck I have always loved scrapbooks. When I was a kid,…

It seems to me that John Cooper's place in motor racing has always been underrated. There is an abiding reverence for Colin Chapman, and rightly so, but Cooper put the…

Flavio Briatore has always run a tight ship at Renault, which is why he’s so pleased about the drive to cut costs in F1 By Nigel Roebuck It was going…

Probably there is no one in motor racing with whom I enjoy talking more than Sir Stirling Moss. His memory is not what it was before, as he puts it,…

When Nico Rosberg took the fastest lap in his first grand prix, in Bahrain, it was pointed out to him that he was only the fourth driver in history to…

For a time, Derek Gardner's unique P34 helped Tyrrell overcome a Cosworth power shortfall

The man who did more for modern motor racing than any other has left us. Professor Sid Watkins died at the King Edward VII Hospital in London on September 12,…

Reflections – The importance of the edge of risk in Formula 1 – Why losing traction control is symbolically vital – Life after Alonso and the spy scandal at McLaren…

It is 21 years, I realise with some amazement, since I began covering Grand Prix racing for Autosport, and in that time I have come to know a good many…

The scene: the Glen Motor Inn, Watkins Glen. The date: September 1979. I am sitting at a table with a couple of colleagues, and studying the menu, unable to make…