Racing History

I have to agree with Rob Widdows’ words about John Surtees. Without doubt the man deserves a knighthood and here’s hoping the honour will soon be bestowed. Here in America,…

Phew. Ford has recommitted to the World Rally Championship. No Blue Oval is akin to there being no Ferrari red in Formula 1: survivable, but unthinkable. A top privateer outfit…

I was like so many people very sad to hear that Peter Gethin had died. The news came to me on my mobile phone while I was at the charity…

The already much-missed Peter Gethin scored a singleton Grand Prix victory. But what a win it was. On the final lap of the 1971 Italian GP at Monza, in only…

It will be sad if we have seen the last of Rubens Barrichello in Formula 1. For the category’s most experienced competitor is also its most engaging. Unashamedly emotional, his…

Austin, Texas, my American friends tell me, is a pleasing town very different in character from such as Dallas or Houston, and ever since plans were announced for a new…

In the January issue of Motor Sport we asked Aston Martin works driver Sam Hancock to get behind the wheel of the Mazda 787B that Johnny Herbert used to win…

Of all the months we should ask Sir Jackie Stewart to be guest editor, it was fitting that it was this one. Three World Championships and nearly a one-in-three win…

For our November issue we included a supplement by Nigel Roebuck on the Formula 1 World Champions. It was only available to UK readers, however, so that no one misses…

Ideas for Motor Sport stories can spring from anywhere, and in my experience the best ones often come when you least expect them, totally out of the blue. Or in…

Monza on my mind. Sounds like some kind of Italian country and western song, if you can imagine such a thing. But this is not a race report – you…

The big question as we approach the German Grand Prix is this: can Ferrari win another one? Has Fernando Alonso finally got his hands on a winning car to go…

Motor Sport hosted a special evening in London on June 6 as a group of our enthusiastic readers joined us for a private viewing of the stunning new Ayrton Senna…

Andrew Frankel reflects on the end of an era, following the announcement that Stirling Moss has retired from racing

Imagine if James Hunt was still around today, I mused to Martin Brundle at Daytona a few weeks ago. “Well, if he was I’d be out of a job!”, the…

Jim Hall (below) is happy to hear that there’s so much interest in his Chaparral Can-Am and long-distance sport cars, as well as in the rapid rate of evolution motor…

While reading Simon Taylor’s account of his Lunch With… Alex Wurz I was briefly transported back to New Zealand and the Peter Jackson series in which the Austrian played a…