'International motor racing, meet Fernando Alonso' – Simon Arron recounts his first impressions of the now double F1 champion back when he was competing in Formula 3000 It was always…
Simon Arron recounts how, with the pulling of multiple strings, he helped Perry McCarthy (Top Gear's former Stig) compete in the penultimate round of the 1989 Formula 3000 Championship One of…
The start of an occasional series in which Simon Arron recalls oddball moments from four decades of covering motor sport By the 1990s Formula 1 drivers were pretty much different…
Features editor Simon Arron picks his top 16 photographs from a year on the road Simon Arron has covered more than 50 events (and counting) for Motor Sport in 2017.…
Ended 30 years ago on safety grounds, the Group B era is still regarded by many as the World Rally Championship's apotheosis. Brutality, meet romance.
Simon Arron winds back the clock to a fresh-faced Lewis Hamilton's Grand Prix debut and beyond It seems barely plausible that 10 years have passed since he made his Grand…
In 2007 the Paulistas had embraced Lewis Hamilton – a mixed-race tyro chasing the F1 championship in a mixed-race city – but one year on attitudes had changed. He was…
The fifth Monaco Grand Prix would be a landmark event, in that the grid would be determined by practice times rather than ballot – an idea borrowed from America. Eighty…
In time the unexpected would become the expected, but this was only Ayrton Senna’s 17th Championship Grand Prix – and the first for which he’d taken pole. Sunday dawned dry,…
It’s an oft-repeated cliché that this was the apotheosis among many fine moments in Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix career, but the full circumstances bear repetition. In April 1968 the Scot fractured…
The tension had deeper roots than a mere motor race when teams and drivers gathered at Lyon in July 1914. Little more than a month afterwards, the world would be…
You’ll notice that Bruce McLaren’s name doesn’t feature in the top three… even though he finished less than two tenths behind Jackie Stewart’s winning Matra. At pre-chicane Monza, such margins…
