Racing History

After an 11-year absence we’re back at Spielberg; the old A1-Ring has been renamed the Red Bull Ring and the press room has been moved to the opposite side of…

Everybody loves a trier – although I’m not sure that the world’s biggest manufacturer of cars will (initially) thank me for calling it such. Admittedly Toyota is today more of…

In September Scotland will decide whether it wants to split from Great Britain, after three centuries together. Two months later the Catalan people will vote in a referendum to decide…

Formula 1 can tend to be a cruel, cold place: a glamorous grind. But moments like Sunday’s light it up. And that’s before Daniel Ricciardo flashed his pearlies. Few things are…

A series in which Motor Sport’s features editor raids the loft to salvage grainy fragments from his racing past Race of Champions, Brands Hatch, April 15 1979 “Did someone forget to…

It’s said that he didn’t much like the circuit; too many slow corners apparently. But, being an efficient sort, he dealt with it: again and again and again, then again…

Mercedes-Benz and its drivers will be taking a long, hard look at themselves and each other after the smoke and mirrors – that lock-up at Mirabeau – of Monaco. Niki…

At this weekend's Masters Historic Festival at Brands Hatch David Brabham will lead a parade of cars built and raced under the Brabham name. "I think it will be one…

A series in which Motor Sport’s features editor raids the loft to salvage grainy fragments from his racing past Staw Renault 5 Elf Challenge, Oulton Park, August 9 1980 Here’s…

Brabham had yet to celebrate a second Formula 1 birthday when in 1964 it scored its first World Championship Grand Prix victory. It took the mercurial Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus twice…

Dan Gurney e-mailed us yesterday with his statement on the passing of Sir Jack Brabham It is with great sadness that I received the news that my former Formula 1…

  Sir Jack Brabham OBE, who passed away peacefully on Sunday evening UK time, was more than just one of the great drivers and a triple world champion. As he…

Taken from the May 1999 issue of Motor Sport Forty years after he won his first World Championship, Sir Jack Brabham is showing no signs of slowing down. He is…

Though ‘The Boy’ was not yet 25, it was time to man-up. Mike Hawthorn, just six months his senior, already had. It wasn’t entirely Stirling’s fault. The British constructors in…

Henry Hope-Frost hosts the Credit Suisse Drivers' Forum over the Grand Prix Historique de Monaco weekend. His panelists include Stirling Moss, Jochen Mass, Derek Bell and current factory Porsche driver…

The Ecclestone Era is nearing its end: death and taxes and all that. But when did it start? Forty years ago next Monday, I reckon. Even our esteemed Continental Correspondent…

Motor racing was spiritual for Ayrton Senna and Monaco was his cathedral: a special race in a special place for a special driver. He was ‘baptised’ there (in 1984). Explored…