Racing History

Always there’s a frisson when the Formula 1 cars hit the track for the first time each year. Indeed it’s been rather too exciting for some at Jerez: Nico Rosberg…

Mere weeks ago I asserted that Formula 3 has long been the most accurate arbiter of future F1 talent. And I stand by that. Matters are changing fast, though. F3’s…

In the March issue of Motor Sport, Nigel Roebuck mentions a video of Lotus in 1968 so we thought we'd share it with you. 1968 was a year of ups…

This month the team sat down with Richard Attwood, winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1970. Regular listeners will know how entertaining Richard can be after Ed's evening…

In Motor Sport’s January issue Michael Green writes from California in the Letters column about Dan Gurney’s unhappy episode testing one of Tony Parravano’s Ferraris at Willow Springs in the…

Footage. Not the billion specks of memory imprinted on sanitised microscopic chips. Rather the reels of it stacked in dusty storerooms: analogue stuff that you can touch – if not…

Jody Scheckter mooching around the less-than-salubrious support race paddocks of Snetterton, Brands and Thruxton was a common, but always surreal, sight in British motor sporting circles during the late 1990s.…

Where do we start when discussing memories of Jackie Stewart? Which era? There are so many pictures in the mind of JYS doing his thing. For me, Monaco stands out,…

The feel-good slipstream of the London 2012 Games caused me to miss an anniversary that I had long intended to honour: the death, 60 years ago last September, of John…

Somehow it was fitting that I should be watching the modern iteration of the World Sportscar Championship when the chaps in the office e-mailed over the wonderful photos that take…

After reading Paul Fearnley’s excellent blog about David Bruce-Brown I thought, on the eve of Formula 1’s return to the United States, that I should add a few words about…

I read with great interest Gordon Kirby’s recent blog about the USA’s declining influence on international motor racing. On the flip side, Formula 1 will this weekend again attempt to…

It's approaching deadline day here in the Motor Sport office, and as Ed Foster put it on Twitter, "chat has dropped and tea rounds have multiplied". So while a thought…

Did Kimi Räikkönen enjoy his most recent Grand Prix victory more than his previous 18? He deserved to. It’s so difficult to tell. I thought I spotted a couple of…

On October 31, 2012, John Cooper Fitch sadly died at his home in Connecticut. In honour of his life we have reprinted the 'Lunch With' that Simon Taylor did for…

Michael Schumacher brought out the best – and the Devil – from our clean-cut, square-jawed hero. It’s telling that six times in Formula 1 he finished second to David Coulthard.…

Felipe Massa deserves our heartiest congratulations for saving his Ferrari bacon, something that looked beyond him for the much of this season. The dent in his skull left by that…