F1
Roebuck's legends: Phil Hill on Ferrari
Taken from the December 1997 issue of Motor Sport No one ever had Enzo Ferrari’s number better than Phil Hill. “The Old Man used to produce these annuals at the…
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F1
Roebuck's legends: Alfred Neubauer
Taken from the September 1997 issue of Motor Sport On July 17 1937, during practice for the German Grand Prix, Bernd Rosemeyer fought his wayward Auto Union around the Nürburgring…
Opinion
F1
Italian Grand Prix – epilogue
So Monza is over for another year, and this time the race was hardly a thriller. Afterwards Sebastian Vettel pointed out that traditionally the celebrated Autodromo had not been one of…
F1
2013 Italian Grand Prix report
Two of the season’s classic Grands Prix in two weeks and both, unfortunately, were distinctly lacking in excitement. As at Spa Sebastian Vettel won as he liked at Monza, once…
Opinion
F1
Italian Grand Prix - day one
Traditionally Ferrari has chosen the Monza weekend to announce any forthcoming changes in its driver line-up: it was immediately after the race here in 2006, for example, that the signing…
Opinion
Le Mans News
Roebuck's legends: Andretti at Le Mans
Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…
F1
I was there when... 1971 Italian GP
Hard as it may be to believe now, time was when there were no chicanes at Monza, when the track – prior to 1972 – was uncompromisingly fast. “You had…
F1
Roebuck's legends: Monaco 1972
Taken from the May 1997 issue of Motor Sport The first thing to say about the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix is that it came close to being called off. Not…
F1
2013 Belgian Grand Prix report
After taking pole position – his fourth on the trot – for the Belgian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton admitted he was surprised to find he had done it. On a…
Opinion
NASCAR News
In praise of NASCAR's Tony Stewart
These days my enthusiasm for NASCAR is not, I confess, what it was, in part because I like the look of the cars way less than I did, and in…
F1
I was there when... 2000 Belgian GP
It was Flavio Briatore who famously said that Kimi Rӓikkӧnen made Mika Hӓkkinen seem like Jerry Lewis, but Mika, too, had that unemotional Finnish way with him. Far less dour…
Opinion
Drag Racing
Extreme feats in motor sport
“Whatever you do,” Bobby Rahal warned me, “do not immediately try to play the big hero, by which I mean don’t go and stand right behind the cars when they…
