Adrian Newey isn’t a genius – but only because overuse of the word reduces the wiggle room required should you ever wish to debate the merits of Leo da Vinci,…
The 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion took place over the weekend of August 15-18, forming an important part of Classic Car Week on the peninsular. Among the usual historic races…
There was racing aplenty across North America last weekend. MotoGP was in action at Indianapolis, NASCAR Sprint Cup ran at Michigan, the American Le Mans Series was at Elkhart Lake,…
Jerry Grant passed away last week. Grant, 77, was renowned as a nearly man who threw away the 1972 Indy 500 when he made a confused, unscheduled pitstop with a…
If any one man personifies historic and vintage racing these days it’s Brian Redman. Between 1968-’81 ‘Our Brian’ won seventeen World Championship sports car races driving for Porsche and Ferrari,…
As a world-class cynic who fled his hometown for the duration of the London Olympics, I have to admit that even I enjoyed the Games. Team GB’s performance proved that…
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…
