Racing History

Twenty six years ago, on May 28, 1972, a driver with a degree in mechanical engineering from Brown University won the Indianapolis 500. His name was Mark Donohue. It was…

I first met Derek Bennett in 1965 when he brought over the original Chevron Clubmans car to Northern Ireland,  raced it at Kirkistown, then took it down to Dunboyne. As…

This was taken through the media centre window at Suzuka in October 1994. The circumstances may not have been conducive to producing a clear image but it was a rare…

F1 Retro – May 2017 click here for full article The 2024 Goodwood Revival reverberated to the beautiful cacophony of a John Surtees-themed parade, celebrating 60 years since the great…

On the soggy Sunday morning at the Goodwood Revival meeting one of my earliest memories flashed back to me. It was around 1948-49, when tiny me was raised from bed…

A 1954 Mercedes W196 streamliner is among 11 astonishing cars to be put up for sale this autumn by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, in a bid to secure the…

Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, September 25-29 Late September and it’s the first flush of autumn. The nights are drawing in, leaves are turning russet shades, Blackpool’s Illuminations have been switched on and...…

The Motor Sport interview Jamie Chadwick, triple W Series champion, has been racing since she was 11 years old, starting in karts and moving to Ginetta Juniors in 2013 having…

Winter, 1969 East Horsley, Surrey Long before the McLaren F1, Bruce McLaren had a vision of a fast, lightweight coupé road car, making it eligible for the Group 4 GT…

Phil Hill, who in September 1961 became America’s first Formula 1 world drivers’ champion, began his climb to the top 11 years earlier with his maiden significant victory. That happened…

You'll need a full day at the wheel to drive from London to Zandvoort even with the tunnel and the continuous thread of motorway that now lies between Calais and…

In a career that goes back to his own teenage fumblings as a kart racer, Tony Dowe has been linked as an engineer or manager with a couple of dozen…

While the ‘other half’ of the Chaparral team was off taking on Ford, Ferrari and Porsche around the world in prestigious endurance racing contests, Jim Hall was busy creating his…

Noel Pope watched the vast sweep of concrete banking rush towards him, his mighty supercharged Brough Superior snorting and shaking like an angry bull as he locked his arms against…

When Jonathan Palmer careered into the barriers at Spa’s Pouhon corner at the beginning of September 1985, it left the Richard Lloyd Racing team with a problem. Given the bespoke…

Voice of 90’s motor racing is completing project to revive hidden gems of motor sport film and television.

December 7, 1968 Riverside, California Twenty-eight-year-old hotshot American driver Mario Andretti gets up-to-date with the world of racing by leafing through the November 1968 issue of Motor Sport. He has…