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Harsh as it may sound of a grand prix driver who scored 31 victories from 187 starts, Nigel Mansell could so easily have landed the unwanted label of Formula 1…

Forty years. Who knows where the time goes? In the midst of one of grand prix racing’s most unpredictable seasons, a friendship pivoted in one controversial afternoon into a deadly…

For a driver–team pairing that never made a race start, Perry McCarthy's torrid Andrea Moda tale is like no other – he remembers it 30 years on

Denis Jenkinson read the situation perfectly. In early 1962, as the dust settled following the ‘Palace Revolt’ in which a number of senior figures had left Maranello, Jenks wrote in…

Sixty years ago, a car regarded by many as the greatest road racer of all time was launched. And this month – March 1962 – it made its competitive debut…

Fifty years ago when a BRM P160 burst out of a giant cigarette packet at Paul Ricard to signify Marlboro’s first F1 sponsorship deal, smoking was synonymous with glamour –…

135 years of innovation: making of the internal combustion engine, Part 6 Just as the Coventry Climax racing effort was fading in the mid-1960s, a new contender was waiting in…

A scheming team boss, a bitter team ripped apart by rivalry and one conflagrated Vauxhall – Jason Plato recalls how he somehow came through it to win the 2001 BTCC title

Ferdinand Porsche's radical V16 engine was the perfect fit for grand prix racing's new pre-war formula. In the hands of Auto Union's Bernd Rosemeyer, it brought German dominance to circuits across Europe

Twenty years after the event, all that’s left is a sentimental blue and yellow kaleidoscope of memories: a vertiginous rush of details made all the more poignant by the fact…

At the end of a year in which Honda of Japan have shone so brightly in Formula 1, let’s spool back some 30 years to the Group C World Sportscar…

Yann Ehrlacher, the World Touring Car Cup champion and nephew to Yvan Muller, is 25 years old – which means he was born in 1996. By then, Gabriele Tarquini’s Formula…

"It was a great club. I’m amazed somebody hasn’t restarted it.” That’s Sir Jackie Stewart’s take on the Steering Wheel Club, Mayfair home from home for racing drivers. In the…

There’s a new Mecca for British rally fans and it’s a surprise beacon of colourful exotica shining bright from a run-of-the-mill industrial estate in Chichester. Situated a stone’s throw off…

We have already rated Lewis Hamilton's F1 wins from 100 to 90 in order of greatness, and now comes the top 10: the finest victories from Hamilton's grand prix career.…

André Lotterer has a hunch he might be the most experienced single-seater racing driver in history, despite his record including just one solitary Formula 1 grand prix start. He must…

John Barnard's all-carbon fibre chassis McLaren MP4/1 changed F1 for good – four decades on, he recalled the design journey with James Elson