By Oliver Gavin I’ll be living on adrenaline for the rest of the week, unable to process the roller coaster of the past seven days, which culminated with me becoming…
Who do you think was more satisfied with their Le Mans weekend, Toyota or Nissan? On first glance, this is a question not requiring a serious answer. Sure, Toyota was…
Those of you who tweet will be familiar with Audi’s hashtag #welcomechallenges. Well, the team from Ingolstadt sure had some challenges at Le Mans 2015, and of course the biggest…
By Oliver Gavin A lot of people at Corvette Racing would look at winning Le Mans as winning the season – that’s the level and prestige of the 24 Hours.…
It’s been 40 years since Derek Bell took the first of his five victories at Le Mans in the Mirage-Ford GR8 run by John Wyer and sponsored by Gulf. This…
By Oliver Gavin Main image: taking 2015 very seriously indeed Le Mans week is here! The build-up to the 2015 24 Heures du Mans is now well and truly under…
By Jamie Howlett Oxford Brookes University is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and as part of a series of special events it hosted 'Motorsport: Past, Present and Future' on May 29…
By Sam Smith JOTA Sport’s new star Mitch Evans is looking forward to making his Le Mans 24 Hours debut next weekend in the highly competitive LMP2 class. The Kent-based…
Next weekend, at La Sarthe, Oliver Jarvis will step aboard an LMP1 Audi R18 e-tron Quattro, replacing Tom Kristensen in the team that has made a habit, in recent years,…
Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans held little interest for me. A motor racing fan since I was five years old, when my parents took me to Goodwood, it was Grand…
By Oliver Gavin It was a dark and stormy race… The 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans was certainly a baptism of fire. In fact, the extended periods of torrential…
We were very sad in the Motor Sport office to hear of the death of Frank Matich yesterday. His is a name that might not be familiar to casual fans,…
By Oliver Gavin I always welcome back-to-back race weekends and I’ve certainly racked up a few air miles over the last month, with two visits to California punctuated by a…
The 1955 Mille Miglia is approaching fast and Mercedes-Benz team manager Alfred Neubauer is dictating the final details of the race to his secretary Gertrude. He starts by outlining the…
At 7.22am on May 1 Stirling Moss, a podium finisher in last year's Belgian Grand Prix, and Motor Sport's continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson will start the Mille Miglia. They are…
The countdown is on. As I write, there are just 45 days to go until the 83rd Le Mans 24 Hours rolls into action at the fabled Circuit de la Sarthe…
