F1
Moss: in a category reserved for icons
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1999 issue of Motor…
Racing History
Explore news, articles and features from years gone by in our category all about the history of racing and those that made it. From iconic people to iconic moments with interviews, opinions and much more.
F1
The farce of the 1999 title decider
Sepang, October 1999. Somewhat against his will – for he had little enthusiasm for helping another Ferrari driver to win the world championship – Michael Schumacher, fully recovered from the…
Colin Chapman
Chapman's final years
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman died 31 years ago this week. He was 54. Peter Warr and Colin Chapman, 1982 He looked older. The toll exacted by a hectic life of…
F1
Fangio: the morning I met the Maestro
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the November 2010 issue of Motor…
F1
Bruce McLaren's first win at Sebring
Bruce McLaren shouldn’t have been there. Masten Gregory should. Cooper team leader Jack Brabham reckoned the latter the most fearless man he met. Yet even the gung-ho ‘Kansas City Flash’…
F1
Nuvolari: the man who knew no fear
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1953 issue of Motor…
F1
Ken Gregory and Stirling Moss
In honour of the late Ken Gregory, here's an article we published in the October 2009 issue of Motor Sport. Stirling Moss: “It’s often been said that I was the…
F1
F1's number conundrum
Think of a number. Go on, Formula 1 is. Next Monday the good burghers of its Strategy Group will for a second time within a few months discuss a proposal…
F1
Ferrari: the World Champions
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. If you would like to order any of…
F1
Enzo Ferrari: the mantle of mystique
In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the October 1988 issue of Motor…
F1
Dan Gurney with Porsche
It happened 51 years ago in the summer of 1962. Porsche had raced a couple of F2-based four-cylinder cars for Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier in the ’61 World Championship.…
F1
I was there when... 2008 Brazilian GP
Sport had rarely witnessed such hyperbolic overdrive. Lewis Hamilton needed to finish only fifth to clinch his maiden world title. There are no racing certs in F1, but in a…
F1
Carlos Pace, São Paulo's hero
Emerson Fittipaldi was born in São Paulo. So, too, were Rubens Barrichello and Felipe Massa. Ayrton Senna was born in São Paulo. Yet Interlagos is named after José Carlos Pace.…
F1
Roebuck's legends: Dallas 1984
Taken from the April 1998 issue of Motor Sport Some weekends you can come back from a Grand Prix with a notebook relatively clean. There will be a lap chart…
F1
Formula 1's travels through the USA
Whisper it: the United States Grand Prix might at last have found a new spiritual home. The Circuit of the Americas’ difficult birth was eased by the enthusiastic response of…
F1
I was there when... 1979 United States GP
I always adored Watkins Glen. The circuit itself was one of the best on the World Championship trail, and to go to upstate New York in the autumn – excuse…
F1
Sporting dominance
Mission Complete in the 2.40 at Chepstow: there could be no better name for AP McCoy’s 4000th winner. Destiny called. Except that the seven-year-old gelding was withdrawn because the going…