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Having read for the nth time the contention that Formula 1 could not continue without Ferrari, perhaps being an American I can ask – who says so? What proof is…

So Formula 1, as we subtly put it on our cover, is back. After the fiasco in Australia at the start of the year it seems only fair to credit…

Renault is preparing for the Third Coming, as Fernando Alonso returns to F1 next year with the Enstone team for which he drove in 2003-06 and 2008-09. What a long…

Ducati’s v-twins are 50 years old in 2020. Few other motorcycles have created such a stir on road and track and, perhaps more interestingly, few have performed so well in…

How nice it was to see Formula 1 racing revived in July at what I still always think of as the Österreichring – or rather the Kleine Österreichring since the…

Like many of you, I am back on the road, and how good it feels. But it also feels as though something has changed, maybe not for long, but I’m…

Racing teams need targets, and Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler is no exception. These can be as simple as just knowing where we are going to race and when. Now it’s…

I thoroughly enjoyed every article in the June issues of Motor Sport, featuring the recently departed Stirling Moss. Yours is a very comprehensive tribute to a figure who deserves every…

In your July issue, the editor reports that the last time he questioned the wisdom of holding races in countries with poor human rights records, some readers had told him…

You’d be forgiven for thinking this was just about maestro Moss, but the word ‘with’ in the subtitle hints at what’s different. Hain was an amateur photographer and race fan…

Is it simply those bizarre nostrils that make the Ferrari 156 such a memorable machine? Or the striking name which so easily pins down one model among the huge variety…

July looks as if it will be the month that life gradually returns to some semblance of normality. At Motor Sport, we anticipate that after producing the last three issues…

One of the greatest fascinations of motor sport in all its forms is that its story has progressed from its earliest inception in the 1880s as an enduring serial to…

It’s been said that Sir Stirling Moss’s accident at Goodwood was the crash that saved his life. The logic is that had his racing career not effectively ended in 1962,…

The month of April is traditionally when the motor sport season gets into full swing. It’s when racing truly becomes the norm again at most given weekends. But it’s best…

It is perhaps a generational thing, but I find myself unable to get mildly enthused, let alone properly excited, about esports. When I was about nine years old, on Eastbourne…

Peter Higham is in some ways the keeper of the flame here at Motor Sport; our superbly comprehensive database of drivers, teams and results is his work, growing from his…