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1959 was Aston Martin's last chance at a Le Mans victory - Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby and a high-risk strategy the ultimate keys to its success

Spurred on by the boost in car sales that winning Le Mans brought, Jaguar leapt into the 1950s fray, taking on an increasingly competitive field and winning again and again, with its futuristic C-types and D-types

It's been 88-years since Lagonda defied the odds, beating Alfa Romeo to earn its first Le Mans victory: a worthy triumph often overlooked in the race's long history

He’d put the wind up world champion Emerson Fittipaldi at Paul Ricard and might well have won the French Grand Prix without the Brazilian’s ill-judged lunge that led to words.…

I first met Craig at Black Rock Desert when we were running Thrust2 in 1983. He kind of busted in on us when we were in a technical meeting in Bruno’s…

Bentley's 2003 Le Mans victory was the result of a crack independent team operating within an automotive behemoth – its mastermind Brian Gush remembers the story

McLaren chassis designer Matthew Jeffreys remembers the MP4/8, the car in which Ayrton Senna valiantly took five wins against adversity in 1993 – including his last F1 victory

Thirty years on from a rain-soaked Donington Park, F1 still hasn’t seen anything like Ayrton Senna’s opening lap of the 1993 European GP. Matt Bishop remembers the magic

The traditional pre-season test at Phoenix International Raceway was usually a casual, under-the-radar affair – no fans to speak of, just a handful of photographers, sport writers and local reporters…

Mark Blundell's astounding 1990 Le Mans lap is often held up as the greatest ever round the legendary circuit – he remembers it to Motor Sport

Silverstone celebrates its 75th anniversary as a grand prix circuit this year. Andrew Frankel looks back to the moment where a former RAF bomber base welcomed racing heroes for its first British Grand Prix

The Subaru Impreza 555 swept all before it in the WRC, and became an icon in the hands of Colin McRae – its design team leader remembers the epic tale

A tap on the shoulder, nothing more. I opened an eye, which even through its blear could see a large white Ford Falcon parked outside the pit garage. Panic. Where…

Mauro Forghieri designed the cars that gave Mario Andretti his first Formula 1 win, as well as sports car success. The 1978 world champion recalls Ferrari's "inspirational" engineer who was determined to win at all costs

Ari Vatanen 1985 Monte-Carlo: 1st Comebacks don’t get bigger than this. Going up against Walter Röhrl in the mountains above Monte Carlo was usually a fruitless endeavour, as the Audi…

This might sound big-headed but when it came to my rivals I always believed I was as good as, if not better, than all of them. You have to have…

There’s a brutalist magnificence to the concrete sweep of the Mirafiori factory in Turin: a facility that was first inaugurated in 1939 under the gaze of Benito Mussolini – after…