Donington Park Grand Prix, 1938: Frozen in time
From the first loose-surfaced tracks of 1931 to staging four grands prix, Donington Park’s expansion in just a few years was astonishing. The unlikely but formidable partnership of John Gillies…
Ten years. That’s how long Tom Hartley Jnr tracked Ferrari 312T no023, featured here in our pictures, before he finally landed one of the most prestigious deals of his career.…
To Mr Ferrari, the only Formula 1 car that mattered was his current one; retired grand prix cars were redundant. But that’s not how many of us may see it.…
Forty-five years ago today, a privately funded Formula 1 team notched up its only grand prix victory by the Dutch coast. We look back at James Hunt's winning drive with its patron, Lord Hesketh
Fifty years after the death of Bruce McLaren, we remember his remarkable accomplishments from a life cut tragically short
The huge crowd stood as one. Never before had two drivers battling for the lead of an Indianapolis 500 made their final pitstops simultaneously. Onboard air-jacks plugged in – these…
Rudi Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the stupendous W196 Mercedes, described the Lancia D50 Formula 1 machine as “the only car we really feared”. Although the W196 and Maserati 250F were…
Jack Brabham clinched the 1959 F1 championship by pushing his car over the line; the story of how he got there is one of meticulous planning, determination and a dose of craftiness
While there had been grands prix before and after the Second World War, a sunny May 13, 1950 at Silverstone marked the start of the modern era. Roads into the…
Stirling Moss reflects on his life and career in this previously unseen video interview, recorded before his retirement from public life
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE Racing driver 17th Sept 1929-12th April 2020
A 14-year-old Graham Nevill managed to get close to his idol Graham Hill at the 1971 British Grand Prix at Silverstone... before a bungled flag drop took him out of…
He was simply always there. Over eight decades that name, crisp and snappy as the man himself, never stopped figuring in Motor Sport. We used to comment if an issue…
Let us go back to the beginning, for this win was not a fluke on the spur of the moment, it was the result of weeks, even months, of preparation…
Lytchett Minster, 1947 Moss in action during one of his very first competitive events, driving his father Alfred’s Frazer-Nash BMW in the Poole Speed Trials, just a few days short…
I suppose I first met Stirling at Goodwood in the 1950s, and I raced with or against him for seven years on and off. Although we were both forced to…
The Lotus 18 – introduced to F1 in 2.5-litre form in 1960 – represented Colin Chapman’s acceptance that the Cooper format of placing the engine behind the driver was the…