Opinions

Don’t ask how it happened, but last weekend I took three Fiat 500s to the pub. In fact three of us took one each to a pub, had a swift…

One of the most powerful signs that NASCAR was going to expand into all corners of the United States and dominate America’s motor racing landscape came at Watkins Glen a…

Deputy editor Gordon Cruickshank has been working at Motor Sport for 30 years and in honour of the occasion we sat him down to ask about the 'good' old days…

It was no surprise that Dodge announced this week it is pulling out of NASCAR at the end of the season. In recent years Dodge has been reduced to being…

Plenty of records have been broken at the Olympics in London this year. Most noticeably, Usain Bolt beat his own Olympic record over 100m, finishing in 9.63s even after a…

What do a Porsche Boxster, a BMW 528i SE, a Jaguar XF 3.0 V6 diesel and a London Taxi TX4 Elegance Automatic have in common? That’s right: they all cost…

IndyCar’s championship battle got a little tighter at Mid-Ohio last weekend as Scott Dixon kept his title hopes alive by scoring an excellent win while Will Power retook the points…

A GP3 test with Carlin Motorsport and a simulation session at the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team are just two of the amazing prizes on offer to young racing…

Wouldn’t it be just great if there was an Olympic Grand Prix? Imagine, a race around the Olympic park for the fastest, most sophisticated racing cars in the world, driven…

Slowly but surely, amid the continuing development of the internal combustion engine, we’re witnessing the arrival of new power sources in motor racing. Audi pioneered the successful use of diesel…

As the teams headed away from Budapest to begin the five-week break before the next race, at Spa, the standings in the Constructors’ Championship looked liked this: Red Bull 246,…

Here’s one way in which at least part of the world is changing. Twenty years ago Italy was one of Ferrari’s top three markets, vying for the top position with…

I like to think that Valentino Rossi is currently in the midst of a US road trip, driving some big ol’ gas guzzler the 2000-odd miles from California to Indiana,…

The Hungarian Grand Prix weekend was a good one for Lewis Hamilton. Despite the speed of the Lotus cars he managed to preserve his tyres well enough to bag the…

Any doubts about Jimmie Johnson’s ability to challenge for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship were dispelled in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. Johnson dominated the race, leading 99 of…

In the world of Formula 1, constant updates are necessary for teams to keep up with their rivals. Since 2009 there has been a ban on most mid-season testing, meaning…

'Silly Season’ is approaching. Formula 1’s August break is usually the time of year when rumours start to fly; with no racing for close to a month, our minds begin…