Comebacks: Sinatra, Elvis – now, that was Special – and Formula One world champions. The smell of the grease and the roar of the exhausts have tended to prove hard…

Overtaking used to be an art form. Unrestricted by six-point harnesses, its rules were unwritten, its boundaries proscribed by buildings and/or trees plus a sense of self-preservation that was, admittedly,…

Talk of Lewis Hamilton’s forming of a superteam alongside Sebastian Vettel has been cut dead in its chats by Red Bull’s re-signing of a rejuvenated Mark Webber. There has been…

Porsche only contested two years in Formula 1 before slipping away for good. But, as Paul Fearnley recounts, Dan Gurney helped the German car giant save face with three memorable performances

How good was Fernando Alonso in Valencia. (No question mark required.) As capable as the current Formula 1 crop is, only he is capable of “If you go there, he’ll…

How do the works drivers prepare for the 24-hour slog-sprint – because that’s what it is nowadays – of Le Mans? Their ‘journey’ will have started with a winter fitness…

Roy Salvadori knew his limitations. He’d come close enough to death – (eventually) flung from a somersaulting Frazer Nash Le Mans Rep at Silverstone in 1951 – to realise that…

Blimey, that was cagey. Monte Carlo is restrictive at the freest of times, but with the most talented Formula 1 grid since the 1960s resigned to playing the long game…

The Indianapolis 500 is the world’s largest annual, single-venue, one-day sporting event. Its cavernous grandstands seat more than a quarter of a million, while its infield viewing areas can swallow…

As with its first win, so with its 114th: Pastor Maldonado’s surprise ending of Williams’ long drought elicited the same reaction as Clay Regazzoni’s surprise opening of the floodgates all…

Jean-Pierre Beltoise, having harried the victorious Lotus 72D of Emerson Fittipaldi in the closing stages of April 1972’s International Trophy at Silverstone, climbed wistfully from his BRM P160: had he…

The man from Haguenau in Alsace is a phenomenon: 106 podiums from 156 World Rally Championship starts; 831 fastest stage times; and 1372 points. Record after record after record. His…