Racing History

The late Max Mosley’s first racing wish was the usual one: to become Formula 1 world champion. He would get as far as Formula 2 – and there in short…

Back in what some like to call the ‘good old days’ racing drivers were freelancers, heroes for hire, hustling a grand prix car round Monte Carlo one weekend and taking…

Give me Goodwood on an Easter day… Some 55,000 people came to the Sussex track for this opening 1960 meet. Colin Weston was there too, capturing all the action Send us your…

Only two other teams have started more grands prix than Williams. Adam Cooper traces the story of one of Formula 1's great constructors

For those of a certain age, the 1990s is remembered as a halcyon period of great rivalries, epic races and dramatic deciders. The decade began with the heated relationship between Ayrton…

March, Shadow, Fittipaldi, Tyrrell, ATS, Toleman, Renault, Alfa Romeo, Brabham, Benetton; then there was a leftfield switch to Suzuki and Yamaha in motorcycling, before a return to four wheels to…

On May 13, 1950 Giuseppe Farina took the chequered flag at Silverstone, and thus by definition won a world championship race at his first attempt, for this was the first…

After the disappointing 1962 season, Commendatore Ferrari himself ordered the cars to be cut up and the pieces to be used in the concrete of the factory forecourt. And so…

The Ferrari 156 ‘Sharknose’ interrupted the British Formula 1 revolution led by Lotus and Cooper-BRM in the first year of the 1.5-litre engine regulations in 1961 and gave Maranello a…

Lewis Hamilton could win his fourth Monaco GP this month, putting him in the rarefied Riviera company of Alain Prost, one win off Michael Schumacher and Graham Hill, and a…

The scenery was spectacular, but few spectators would have been able to pull their eyes from the thrilling duel through Barcelona’s Montjuïch Park, which ended with Jackie Stewart claiming the…

Although no one would be so indiscreet or disloyal to say so, if it turned out that the Queen was beside herself with grief at the loss of her husband…

In the scale of Stirling Moss's sporting achievements, the 1958 International Trophy at Silverstone is barely worth a mention. During the disappointing May weekend, he retired from two races and…

Danny Sullivan ‘crashed’ at the Tyrrells' long before he drove for them in Formula 1. “Ken and Nora’s was the first place I stayed in the UK,” he says. That…

My uncle was there No, George Thompson isn’t old enough to have attended the 1935 Dieppe Grand Prix. These pictures are the work of his late uncle Anthony Butlin, who…

‘‘Nassau,” the US journalist turned racing driver Denise McCluggage wrote, “was a string of coloured lights across a tropical night. Nassau was the sharp blip of racing engines on a…

It’s a truism that the tougher times become, the more many of us take refuge in the comfort of the past. As one who can hardly bear to watch such…