On October 2 we hosted a special readers' evening with John Surtees. After a three-course dinner editor-in-chief Nigel Roebuck and editor Damien Smith sat down with the 1964 Formula 1…
Bridgepoint’s announcement that MotoGP and World Superbike are to be run by the same company is the most significant happening in motorcycle racing since WSB’s launch a quarter of a…
Ever wondered what it'd be like to drive a Porsche 962 around the roads? Yesterday, Maiham Media released the online version of its short film, Racing in the Street. Originally…
I fear there will be some disparity between what we would like him to do (which according to polling on this website is drive at Le Mans) and how he…
The high-banked Talladega Superspeedway is renowned as the ‘Wild Card’ in NASCAR’s championship battle. For the past twenty-five years Talladega and Daytona have been constrained by the dreaded ‘restrictor plates’…
When you get older, everybody else seems so young, especially policemen and bank managers. And racing drivers. Talking to Tiff Needell on our podcast the other day, I was interested…
Chip Ganassi’s Grand-Am team won its third straight Daytona Prototype championship last weekend at Lime Rock, the series season-closer. It was the sixth Grand-Am title for Ganassi and the fifth…
They insist that they didn’t offer him more money and that he did not seek priority status. The other ‘they’, meanwhile, insist that they fought hard to keep him. So…
The Bathurst 1000 this weekend marks the 50th running of Australia's greatest race. Aussie racing doesn't get a huge amount of press in Europe, so it is sometimes difficult to…
Today, the hybrid rocket engine specially developed for the Bloodhound SSC land speed record project will fire for the first time. The project is headed by Richard Noble, who broke…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway president and CEO Jeff Belskus has denied reports that former IMS and IndyCar boss Tony George is leading an investor group bidding to take over management of…
This month we sit down with Tiff Needell – the star of Fifth Gear and Top Gear. He made it, briefly, to Formula 1, but his success came afterwards in…
Last week I speculated that McLaren would unveil the successor to the F1 at the Paris Motorshow so, of course, no sooner were the words up on the website than…
The Dean of American motor sport journalists, Chris Economaki, has passed away two weeks short of his 92nd birthday. Economaki was publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper National Speed…
Finally it’s been confirmed. Lewis Hamilton will move to Mercedes next year, taking the seat of the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time – Michael Schumacher. Replacing Lewis…
Bentley has announced that it is returning to motor sport with a GT3 version of its Continental GT road car. The prototype was launched at the Paris Motor Show and…
