Racing History

Being a three-time Formula 1 world champion puts you in a select band. Only 10 have done it. And, of the 10, one stands apart, but for the wrong reasons.…

The lack of live racing has left a vacuum in the weekend of motor sport fans and plugging the gap will be a serious undertaking. Up steps Amazon Prime’s The…

Making tracks: Always in control, Fred Craner inspects the latest development of the Donington circuit in 1937 In early 1931 and just as he was coming to realise the enormity…

In May 1969, Tim Marshall witnessed one of the all-time great Le Mans 24 Hours, featuring Jacky Ickx’s safety protest and a Ford victory by mere feet after a fierce…

Ayrton Senna's great drives trip off the tongue. Monaco 1984; Portugal ’85; Japan ’88; Brazil ’91; Donington ’93; qualifying for Monaco in ’88; holding off Nigel Mansell in those scintillating…

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…