Great Read

Before the Formula 1 circus kicks into gear, grand prix editor Mark Hughes looks back at the life and career of Cliff Allison

Silverstone in the 1940s: RAC International Grand Prix, October 2 1948 Murray Walker had already started commentating as British motor sport stirred from its war-enforced shutdown, but he was off…

Of all the conditions in which to drive one of Peugeot Sport’s precious and remarkable 908 HDi FAP LMP1 cars, this is the stuff of nightmares. The only thing worse…

“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…

So this is the view. Staring down the sawn-off barrels of an unsilenced Coventry-Climax V8, ears pricked to the bark and crackle of this angry, pint-sized 1.5-litre race engine, eyes…

Dovizioso finished runner-up to Marc Márquez in 2017 and 2018, so how does the rider counter the skills of his greatest rival? How has riding technique changed since you came…

Rookie Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr sobbed during the post-race press conference at this year’s Daytona 500. His mother, Desiree, embraced the 24-year-old after he guided Richard Petty Motorsports’ no43 Chevrolet…

People associate Colin McRae with Subaru, understandably. But he also drove for Citroën in the 2003 season, alongside team-mates Sébastien Loeb and Carlos Sainz – and that’s not a bad…

To some observers the World Rally Championship has lost its way in recent years. The fact every driver’s title since 2004 has been taken by a Frenchman named Sébastien is…

“Life without sideways is monotonous,” shouts Ari Vatanen as he slaloms up a dirt track towards his local restaurant. “We need salt in life and, for the rally driver, gravel…

Niki Lauda breaks every mould that has ever been made for a sports star. Or any normal human being, come to that. You will frequently read stories of how champions…

Back in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Bruce McLaren became renowned as a world-class racing driver – and also for being one of the nicest guys in motor…

So here it sits. McLaren M6A-1. Not McLaren’s first effort at building a sports car, nor even its first Can-Am car - that particular honour fell to the M1B -…

The death and injury toll in the 1903 Paris-Madrid event was so severe that it was stopped early, and brought about a road racing ban in France and Spain. Among the grim list of casualties was Marcel Renault: one of the co-founders of the car-making empire

As a large and somewhat unconventional executive saloon, the Rover SD1 made an unlikely tin-top hero. Yet in the space of just a handful of years it forged success from…

Forty years ago Frank Williams left the company he’d lost and started again – in an old carpet warehouse his friend Dave Brodie had found for him, with a second-hand…

2017 Williams FW40 All the way through the 2017 season I’ve been going to races and hearing drivers talk about just how amazing this generation of cars is. The bigger…