Opinions

It is fair to say that carrying a well-known name into the motor sport arena is going to get you noticed, specifically a name that is iconic in the sport.…

I was going to write a lament about the loss of Montréal’s Canadian GP and the absence of Formula 1 from North America for the first time in 50 years.…

Jenson Button (1st) Gifted first place on the opening lap after Vettel ran wide, but as the German pointed out after the race, “I wouldn’t have been able to hold…

Time to talk Turkey. How do you like it? Hot from the oven that is Istanbul in the summer? Or cold shoulder, as appears to be the attitude of the…

Traditionally the Milwaukee Mile follows the week after the Indy 500. It’s quite a contrast from the big Speedway to the humble one-mile oval in suburban Milwaukee which is the…

There may have been conspicuously less money in evidence in Monte Carlo this year, but still the emphasis of the weekend was on little else, for there remained the vexed…

Helio Castroneves scored a true storybook victory at Indianapolis on Sunday. The 34-year-old Brazilian led away from the final restart with just 18 laps to go and quickly built a…

Jenson Button (1st) He’s still having problems getting to the podium (he had to ask the way in Spain and here, he parked his car in the wrong place). “We’ve…

On Sunday afternoon I saw Valentino Rossi fall off his motorcycle. I will repeat that. On Sunday afternoon I saw Valentino Rossi tumble from his Yamaha. He was under no…

NASCAR’s most popular driver is having a tough year. When Dale Earnhardt Jr is introduced before the start of any NASCAR Sprint Cup race he enjoys more raucous cheers than…

Chris Mann, the publisher of Bodyshop Magazine, has kindly donated a limited number of Jim Dugdale prints showing the late Gerry Marshall driving his DTV Vauxhall Magnum at the 1977…

Hélio Castroneves and team-mate Ryan Briscoe traded the top spot back and forth during the six hours of Pole Day qualifying at Indianapolis last Saturday. On a windy afternoon nobody…

Another Grand Prix and another win for Button. He may have lost a place to team-mate Barrichello at the start, but the Brit got his head down and gave us…

The opening rounds of qualifying for this year’s 93rd Indianapolis 500 take place this weekend, with the first 11 starting positions determined on Saturday and the next 11 on Sunday.…

After Carl Edwards crashed into the fence at Talladega last month, with debris injuring seven spectators, the debate began about the state of safety on high-banked superspeedways. Edwards’ accident was…

Having never attended a British Touring Car Championships event, two of Motor Sport magazine’s very own motoring protégés headed to Thruxton to enjoy a day of fast cars and tight…

The racing season is on full song these days and almost all the major American series were in action last weekend. At Talladega, the giant 2.66-mile superspeedway in Alabama, 25-year-old…