Jim Smith: Clark's Indy mechanic
Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…
The FIA technical directive issued during the Barcelona weekend, regarding fuel flow, targeted a practice believed to have been used by Ferrari in the first four races of the season…
As moments go it was one of the more surreal of recent times. It was 1.00am and I was sitting in a fold-up chair in a pit garage, clad in…
By Oliver Gavin I always welcome back-to-back race weekends and I’ve certainly racked up a few air miles over the last month, with two visits to California punctuated by a…
By Lee McKenzie As you drive towards the circuit in Barcelona on Thursday, everything comes flooding back. You count the number of times you've been to the Circuit de Catalunya,…
Continuing the Jaguar theme on our classified spotlights, this week we turn our attention from D-type to E-type. The Jaguar focus is appropriate, given that the marque celebrates its 80th…
Main image: IMS Roger Penske’s four Dallara-Chevrolets – driven by three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves, 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, defending IndyCar champion Will Power and team newcomer Simon…
That was prime Jorge Lorenzo: grab the holeshot, then lay down the law, so there's no gunfight at the end. Perhaps there would've been a shootout in the final laps…
I only know one politician and we were chums long before he felt the call of his party. He is, at least as I write in this election week, the…
At 7.22am on May 1 Stirling Moss, a podium finisher in last year's Belgian Grand Prix, and Motor Sport's continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson will start the Mille Miglia. They are…
The countdown is on. As I write, there are just 45 days to go until the 83rd Le Mans 24 Hours rolls into action at the fabled Circuit de la Sarthe…
Had history been a benign guide rather than a harsh teacher, Kris Meeke might have followed the wheel tracks of fellow Northern Irishman Paddy Hopkirk and won a Monte Carlo…
It was a pleasure last week, at a function unconnected with motor racing, to run into Martin Whitmarsh, whom I hadn’t seen since the palace coup at McLaren early in…
By Darren Turner We’re getting into the best part of the season for sports car drivers now, when it seems that every race you do is epic. It’s my favourite…
Who's the fastest driver on the Formula 1 grid at the moment? Is Audi coming to F1? Why did Lee's father Bob do a naked lap of Silverstone? And which…
For years people like me have been moaning about the decline of manual gearboxes in the cars we like to drive, or at least would like to drive if we…
MotoGP Earlier this week Mat Oxley asked whether the battle between Marc Márquez and Valentino Rossi is developing into the best closely matched fight in GP history. For my money…