Twenty six years ago, on May 28, 1972, a driver with a degree in mechanical engineering from Brown University won the Indianapolis 500. His name was Mark Donohue. It was…
The Porsche Sprint Challenge offers a crucial stepping stone towards a realistic career in sports car racing – this weekend the crunch title battle at Brands Hatch represents a chance to make it
Mercedes now has a long history of sporting success – in this month's magazine, Andrew Frankel drives one the marque's earliest winners
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I’m sitting outside a bistro in the warm Paris sunshine, enjoying a pre-lunch aperitif with Henri Pescarolo. Not for nothing is this man known as Monsieur Le Mans. He has…
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The true value of most great technological breakthroughs can usually only be appreciated with the benefit of hindsight. Life didn’t change the moment Karl Benz first swung his Motorwagen into…
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We’ve noted before the potency of the motor-racing gene, the father-and-son successions such as the Hills and the Villeneuves, and dynasties from the Unsers to the Andrettis. More rarely, a…
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Just imagine for a moment that it’s the spring of 1962. The telephone rings and your friend and employer on the other end asks you to fly to Italy and…
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Phil Hill, who in September 1961 became America’s first Formula 1 world drivers’ champion, began his climb to the top 11 years earlier with his maiden significant victory. That happened…
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Frequented by ordinary, everyday drinking folk there isn't, and never has been, anything particularly remarkable about the Horse & Groom pub in Eign Road, Hereford. However, 20 years ago and…
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By the end of 1973 Mark Donohue had achieved most of his goals in motor racing. Since 1967 he had worked for Roger Penske, the pair of them synonymous almost…
At TWR USA, we were very sharp by 1990. We had finished first and second at the Daytona 24 Hours that year, thanks to some excellent engineers. In fact we…
Chatter, the clatter of plates and children screaming doesn’t amount to the ideal soundtrack when you’re trying to interview a legend. But that’s the background distraction I faced when I…
Dan Gurney is one of just a handful of drivers whose grand prix careers stretched from the fifties to the seventies. Certainly as far as Formula 1 was concerned, the…
From his very early days in the sport Jackie Stewart made sure he always had good machinery at his disposal, and not just in Formula 1. Even when moonlighting in…
"I drove some bad grand prix cars," says Martin Brundle, "but I don't want to waste a whole article talking about the 1987 Zakspeed! Then there was that '85 Tyrrell-Renault,…
Mario Andretti has raced so many cars, over a career that stretches back four decades, that you might expect him to hesitate over the question of which was the worst.…
