Sports Car News

The Ferrari Dino 206 S might just be the best looking car ever to emerge from Maranello – Andrew Frankel gets behind the wheel in this month's magazine

In the same year that Ford has announced its return to Le Mans' top echelon, Scalextric has chosen to honour one of its most famous drivers. We look back on the cars that defined Ken Miles

Two of racing's biggest rivals are on collision course once more, with the Ford v Ferrari battle for overall Le Mans victory due to resume in 2027 after six decades — and Ford is already talking up the fight

Ford will develop a new top-tier sports car to compete for overall victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship Hypercar class from 2027 onwards, aiming to continue where its GT40 left off in the 1960s

Sébastien Buemi WEC, Bahrain, 2/11/24 Each issue, we nominate a driver from a recent race who deserves recognition for a job well done. This month’s finest performance came in Sakhir…

Jota’s Porsche 963 No.38 – Motor Sport’s cover star in June – driven by Jenson Button, Philip Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen bows out of the WEC season at the Bahrain…

Jim Hall is tall for a racing driver — for that's what he was to begin with. He would be taller still but for a knock-kneed stance decreed by injuries…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…