F1 is headed back to Zandvoort this weekend for the first time in 36 years. And the newly-banked corners have form when it comes to altering the direction of the championship
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Enthusiast tastes change inevitably with each generation. Most of us grow up in motor sport entranced by the successful cars of our personally formative era. Therefore it’s perfectly natural for…
I must have attended hundreds of press conferences across the years, but nothing compared to this one on Friday, September 4, 1987. The scene is the garden of St Georges…
“I had many great rivals over the years but the one who stands above the rest has to be Clay Regazzoni. He was my nemesis in both Formula 3 and…
This month marks 40 years since Team Enstone made its F1 debut, as Brian Henton laboured the ungainly Toleman TG181 to 23rd on the grid at the 1981 Italian GP.…
Throughout racing history we have seen clean drivers and dirty drivers, aggressive drivers, and timid ones too. Partisan – largely social media – outbursts plonked convenient labels on both the…
Ford recently announced a new ‘Heritage’ edition of its GT supercar, painted black and white in honour of the original 1964 GT40. And you might think it an odd car…
It was a record that stood the tests of time and distance for almost 40 years: 3315.21 miles in a 24 Hours of Le Mans. Yes, significant changes to the…
I was too young to see it race in its heyday, but the Porsche 917 has always had a special place in my heart. I guess it started in about…
“A brighter scene would be hard to imagine; sunshine, dresses, sumptuous cars, grass, trees, advertisements, and lastly the little green and blue projectiles themselves, such is the picture retained in…
The year was 1986. Porsche was powering McLaren to the Formula 1 World Championship; the mighty 962 would win that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours for the sixth time in…
I've had so many great rivals but I’m going back to my Formula 2 Superstox days from 1971 to ’74, racing with my dad and my Uncle Stan. It was…
Right now I’m remembering a very important year. It was 60 years ago, the summer of ’61, still a schoolboy, in my teens, sap rising – remember? Even then I…
We soon approach 50 years since Jo ‘Seppi’ Siffert won his final grand prix in Austria, just a few months before the Swiss suffered a tragic death at Brands Hatch.…
There were many highlights at this year’s Festival of Speed as we explain a little further on in this month’s magazine. But one thing that stood out and which it…
A permanent tribute to Murray Walker has been unveiled at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, remembering the legendary commentator who died in March. The commemorative plaque pays tribute…
