You'll have heard about the Ferrari fuss with 'Mission Winnow'. Yet Formula 1's relationship with tobacco sponsorship was difficult from the very start... Winnow, verb: blow air through (grain) in order…
Teams used to regularly deliver their Formula 1 cars late, including Williams. Nowadays it's a different story... Alarm bells are ringing for Williams. Not that it’s slept much, I don’t…
At the Monte 40 years ago, the legendary Lancia Stratos pulled off a stunning comeback – in more than one sense Lancia’s Stratos was yesterday’s news, according to Big Brother Fiat. The…
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“It’s easy to forget that he spent barely a year in Formula 1 because everybody remembers him.” Stefan Johansson refers to the Belgian academic (slash economist/financier/novelist/philosopher/politician/self-publicist) – and convicted fraudster…
Bill Vukovich would have turned 100 on December 13 – here's what made the 'Mad Russian' so great Images courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway “He was madder than a wet…
Silverstone was soaked, Rosberg supreme – Paul Fearnley looks back on the 1978 International Trophy Keke is 70. Today. He was 29 – and clean-shaven – when he won the…
Three-time NASCAR Cup champion David Pearson died at the age of 83 on November 12. Paul Fearnley recounts Pearson's rivalry with Richard Petty Photos: ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images…
Peter Arundell was never Lotus's 'number one', but he deserved better Jochen Rindt – not yet crowned the ‘King of Formula 2’ – was chasing the ‘King of Formula Junior’…
Age was just a number, as Fangio, Farina and Fagioli proved... and Räikkönen Blimey, the Three Fs weren’t exactly a boy band. The pops (sic) combo that dominated the inaugural…
Stewart took the honours but this was Chris Amon's day – the 1968 Oulton Park Gold Cup Oulton Park’s 15th International Gold Cup was my first Formula 1 experience. Apparently.…
How Britain's pre-war superstar met conflict and chaos, winning in Nazi Germany
It arrived finally on 20 July 1957, at Aintree. Stirling Moss, having commandeered a Vanwall from injured team-mate Tony Brooks, crossed the line 26 seconds ahead of Luigi Musso’s Ferrari…
