This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring first-time winners, final wins and a Formula 1 world championship title. August 15 1905: Manfred von Brauchitsch is born. In profile…
Virtual reality and motor sport continues to produce excellence, with Ford being the latest to try out the new technology. You can now experience their 2016 Le Mans victory in 360-degree…
One of the benefits of having 26 years’ worth of racing history is that you have a little black book full of racing drivers to call on. There are scores drivers on…
How’s the season going so far? Interestingly! With a podium at Silverstone it all started well but since then we have had a DNF and a few average results. Having said…
The best driver never to win a world championship Grand Prix won plenty elsewhere. The late Chris Amon’s victory CV included: the outright win that set McLaren’s lucrative ‘Can-Am’ ball…
The Porsche 917 scored its first-ever race win 47 years ago today, when Jo Siffert and Kurt Ahrens won the 1969 Austrian Grand Prix, or the Austrian 1,000 Kilometres. Hear from Brian…
Last month's Silverstone Classic condensed into 99 seconds, featuring Dario Franchitti, Sir Stirling Moss, DFVs, Group Cs and some cracking race action.
It’s easy to forget, as glum-faced racing drivers rehash their lines through interview after interview on our TV screens, but most racing drivers are just like us: proper motor sport…
Chris Amon has passed away, aged 73, after an extended fight with cancer. Never have statistics lied more diabolically than when they summarise the F1 career of Amon 1963-1976. In…
Chris Amon has passed away in Rotorua Hospital, New Zealand on Wednesday morning after a battle with cancer. It's the 50th anniversary of his 1966 Le Mans success with Bruce McLaren…
The podcast has now been recorded and will be released on August 24. Simon Taylor will be joining the podcast team to talk about his life in motor sport, his 'Lunch…
This week in motor sport from the Database and Archive, featuring numerous German Grands Prix, birthdays for Le Mans winners and much more. July 25 1982: Nelson Piquet's retirement hands Renault a…
“Oh God, please don't crash a 911,” a disbelieving Ed Foster said – hopefully – in jest. Being Motor Sport’s only sports car driver it was down to me to take…
It took four and a half hours of build up, but the fourth round of the World Endurance Championship came to the boil for a thrilling final hour and a…
New management is expected to take responsibility in the next month or two for running Laguna Seca. Since it opened in 1957 Laguna Seca has been run by the Sports…
It's a big one... Our 100th podcast here at Motor Sport and it's the first one in partnership with Mercedes-Benz. It was also our first podcast al fresco in the…
