Racing History

For the third lap in a row, Alain Prost gestured from his McLaren as he raced past the pitlane. The Frenchman believed the race he was leading was too dangerous…

The start/finish area at the old Kyalami was a wide apron atop a crest. This then was the broad, sunlit upland for the two striking, tall young men walking the…

The Australian Grand Prix is no stranger to uncertainty but at least in 2003, it was all on the track. After a fairly comprehensive Michael Schumacher/Ferrari whitewash in 2002, a…

At the end of a bright spring day at Monza, the timing sheets told the story. For Alfred Neubauer, studying the meticulously compiled chart headed Nachwuchsfahrer Ausbildung (New Driver Training),…

Tony Brooks turned 88 this week. My interest in him was piqued by a factoid within Cyril Posthumus’ year-by-year history of the German Grand Prix: that two-time winner Brooks was…

Imagine that Ayrton Senna, aged 30 and nearing the peak of his powers, had not taken part in the 1990 Formula 1 world championship. That, rather than claim the second…

It’s not the sexiest in motorsporting terms but I am guessing that we have all done it – and on occasion rather enjoyed it: ragged a front-wheel-drive car. Okay, so…

When Aston Martin returns to the Formula 1 grid in 2021, it will be the end of a 61-year absence of the British manufacturer. The announcement that Racing Point is…

From rallying royalty to racing at one of the highest levels, the Blomqvists have conquered two of the major disciplines in motor sport. Stig enjoyed a 33-year World Rally Championship…

Ferrari's 90 years in racing has included periods of domination, disaster and legend but the more things change, the more things stay the same for the Scuderia Ferrari's 90 years…

Early F1 races in Mexico were a popular fixture on the F1 calendar.... that was until the 1970 Mexican Grand Prix when a 200,000-strong crowd proved beyond control

Love Nigel Mansell? Or loathe him? It's hard to be indifferent about him, and this is so in large part as, whatever else you think of Mansell, gripping theatre was…

It was approaching two years since a McLaren-Honda – driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost – had been beaten in a straight fight in Formula 1. At the 1989…

On two-time Formula 1 champion and Le Mans winner Fernando Alonso's birthday, we look back to 2012 and likely his finest drive, at home on Valencia’s street track Fernando Alonso…

The German Grand Prix is most associated with the Nürburgring and Hockenheim. Yet sixty years ago it was held at the bland, but dangerous, AVUS track near Berlin. Here is…

Juan Manuel Fangio's 1957 German Grand Prix win at Nürburgring has gone firmly into legend.  Yet 12 months on at the very same event at the very same venue, the…

Formula 1 and the FIA have just provided more meat on the bones of the brave new world they propose for the 2021 season. And they have said that, to…