A new Queen settling in; no more rationing; and Bill Haley and his Comets had recorded Rock Around the Clock – although its global impact had yet to be felt. Yep, fun…

It’s all to play for in Abu Dhabi – unless you’re obsessed with showdowns. I’ve watched a few, it’s true. Smudgy Fuji images from 1976 are a vague memory, and…

Zoom-and-slump Lewis Hamilton is in exalted company. Fellow multiple world champions Juan Fangio, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher all suffered post-title ‘depression’.…

Three years ago freelance archivist Richard Wiseman (below) was tasked with locating the missing rushes of Steve McQueen’s film Le Mans. He reckoned on a one per cent chance of…

“Sensational on the flat and incredible uphill, he was in another league going downhill. “I remember it as clear as daylight: Hafren, 23.5 miles. We were quickest – 36 seconds…

Think of all the great drivers who drove all those great Ferrari prototypes and GTs that illuminated its golden age of sports car racing. Who was the best remains open…

They were an odd couple, the stooped yet tall Englishman with a stiff upper lip and clipped delivery and the little Mexican with luxuriant swept-back hair and clichéd Engleesh accent.…

Emerson Fittipaldi & Nigel Mansell They were champions with something to prove when they first stepped into an Indycar. Emerson Fittipaldi – born on the 12th of the 12th, 1946…

Mauro Forghieri and Gordon Murray Both designers were in their twenties when they were promoted by major teams undergoing a step change. Mauro Forghieri was 27 when Ferrari selected him…

A Hall of Fame special looking at four names from the shortlist: Rudolf Caracciola, Bernd Rosemeyer, Dan Gurney and Mika Häkkinen Caracciola and Rosemeyer Rudolf Caracciola was an old 34. Pain…

Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…

Main image: Angela George It had to be De Niro. The Taxi Driver playing The Godfather of motor racing. A generation’s greatest actor has announced that his biopic of Enzo Ferrari will take precedence over…