A crow flying the 87 Middle English miles that unite Stevenage and Upton-upon-Severn would enjoy at mid-distance a view of Silverstone – scene of many memorable moments for Our Nige…
Forty years ago – a time when running a World Championship Grand Prix in Russia was only marginally more likely than running one in, say, Azerbaijan – Formula 1 staged…
John Hugenholtz thought the project unfeasible at first sight. Soichiro Honda told him not to worry. Within days the paddy fields were drained and bulldozed. Honda had owned the land…
Happy birthday to the man in the green helmet. Henri Pescarolo is 72 today. Fifty years ago he was a third-year medical student – a young non-shaver – winning for…
While Goodwood’s Revival Meeting was for the 17th time reminding us of everything glorious that made our sport great, a vision for the future was being sparked into life on…
You don’t realise how fast you’re going until you get on the grass. That motor racing truism was (almost) rammed home to the increasingly impressive Daniil Kvyat when his brake…
“The era of radical innovations has passed. From now on we will proceed by detail improvements.” That was Colin Chapman’s view of Formula 1 at the end of 1973. Blimey.…
Main image: Keith Greene in the Len Terry-designed Gilby-BRM 1962 Len Terry worked quickly. A blessing given that he was by his own admission difficult to work with, apt to…
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was an aesthete from an artistic family. His paternal grandfather was an architect; his father designed avant-garde Art Nouveau furniture, jewellery and musical instruments; and his younger brother,…
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Was Jean Behra the greatest driver never to win a World Championship Grand Prix? Paul Fearnley examines his case with the 1957 season where the Frenchman racked up non-championship and sports car wins as he raced with and against the likes of Fangio and Moss
His test pilot father was Concorde Brian Trubshaw’s ‘wingman’ as they flew Vampires and Venoms through pea-soupers to assist the development of instrument landing systems during the 1950s. He also…
The Iron Curtain was just beginning to twitch when the mechanised might of Formula 1 first rolled into Budapest town. Well, not quite ‘town’ – rather a few clicks northeast.…
