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After 125 ‘Lunch with’ interviews, Simon Taylor is hanging up his… knife and fork. He reflects on 10 memorable years and an incredible body of work Last week, in Jackie Stewart’s…

By almost any measure, Jackie Stewart was the greatest racing driver of his era. Now, more than four decades after he hung up the white helmet with the tartan band,…

There are plenty of American racers who build up a reputation in their own country before they venture to Europe to set their sights on Formula 1. It is rare…

If you spend 35 years in Formula 1, successively (and often simultaneously) as aerodynamicist, computer programmer, R&D man, engineer, technical director and design consultant, you accumulate an up-close and personal…

He’d never raced abroad before, but he won first time at Le Mans. Now considered the US’s top endurance driver, he says it’s all due to Porsche   Writer Simon…

In these days of wall-to-wall Formula 1 television coverage, more people are aware of motor racing than ever before. Our fine world champion Lewis Hamilton is subjected to a degree…

In a working life spent in motor racing, most of it in Formula 1, Gary Anderson liked to do things his way. He preferred to work with smaller teams, striving…

"When I first started out in NASCAR in the 1960s,” says Darrell Waltrip, “it was pretty much just the good ol’ boys. Rough and ready on the track, rough and…

In these times of relentless specialisation in everything, including motor racing, true versatility is rare. In his day Mario Andretti was F1 world champion, won the Indianapolis 500 and won NASCAR’s…

Formula 1 drivers have to be extraordinarily fit: and a by-product of their fitness is that, if they have a serious accident, they are likely to recover much more quickly…

Andrew Cowan is a farmer, and he is a Scot: together, those ingredients can make a man resilient, resourceful and determined. Mix them with the talent to drive very fast…

Spend time with Professor Peter Stevens, and you learn a cornerstone of his philosophy: there should be as much satisfaction in designing something humble and workaday as in designing something…

In most branches of professional motor sport, the man who is doing the driving is not the same as the man who is doing the engineering back at the workshop.…

John Surtees has always been a man to speak his mind. Whenever he joined a team, he would be determined to concentrate the focus of everyone around him on maximising…

Motor racing is about much more than statistics; but in almost any driver’s CV there will be a statistic that points to the hallmark of his or her career. In…

A part from the name, Formula 1 today and Formula 1 of half a century ago have very little in common. The whole massive commercialised circus exists on a stratospherically…

Getting an audience with a Formula 1 driver these days usually involves a very brief time slot, an eaves-dropping PA to ensure that no comment can be remotely controversial, and…