2013 BTCC season review
The British Touring Car Championship is going through something of a renaissance. In 2013 the series boasted capacity grids, varied machinery and a five-way title fight heading into the last…
This is going to sound corny as hell – I believe the biggest winners of the 2013 MotoGP World Championship were the fans. MotoGP had had a dark few years…
By Anthony Peacock Frenchman Sébastien Ogier, in the debut year of the Volkswagen Polo R WRC, won nine rallies en route to his first world title, but if Sébastien Loeb…
Recently, and as you will in time be able to read about between the covers of Motor Sport, I was granted an exclusive audience with perhaps the most glittering of…
Gary Anderson has been a jewel in the BBC's F1 crown with his understanding, knowledge and experience of the sport's technical issues. He was the perfect guest for our 2013…
Our editor-in-chief’s archive post about Brian Redman last week was right in suggesting that Redman may be the most underrated racing driver of all time. I had the pleasure of…
Provisional results 1. Ian Duncan/Amaar Slatch: Ford Capri 16hr54m46s 2. Stig Blomqvist/Staffan Parmander: Tuthill Porsche 911 16hr58m00s 3. Gerard Marcy/Stephane Prevot: Tuthill Porsche 911 17hr39m45s 4. Steve Perez/John Millington: Datsun 260Z 17hr50m49s 5. Onkar Rai/Baldev Chager: Porsche 911 17hr54m16s…
Helmets off to Mark Webber on an excellent Grand Prix career. There was a time when it seemed he might become the best since Amon not to win one. That…
Talk about timing. It’s almost as if we planned it… Motor Sport has invited guest editors in before over the past couple of years: Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart,…
Hidden away at Southampton University is an engineering doctorate student called Rich McIlroy. He can be found in a pokey little room that is filled, almost entirely, by a Jaguar…
So here we are at the end of another season – and also the end of Formula 1 as we've recognised it in recent years. Whether or not we like…
I recently spent a week in Japan attending the Tokyo Motorshow and, among other less relevant things, driving the new Honda Civic Type-R. And when I explained the mechanics of…
As at every season finale there was much of note going on in Brazil, with Mark Webber's retirement from F1 and Felipe Massa's departure from Ferrari among the key events.…
Cleanliness, they say, is next to Godliness. Everywhere you look in the city of Baku someone is cleaning or sweeping something. Naturally, the Azeris had been working day and night…
Two days of rain meant that the circumstances were in place for an upset in Q3, but in the end the grid has a familiar look to it, with Sebastian…
Interlagos is a fabulous place, steeped in atmosphere, but as anywhere else rain does tend to put a literal dampener on proceedings. It can add a little spice to a…
"Yes, is a big weekend for Baku, for sure many challenges." The barman smiles diffidently, hands me a glass of the local red wine. "Enjoy your stay with us," he…