Putting the work in away from the track
In hindsight I shouldn’t have asked. If you want a short list of drivers who also had interesting jobs outside of motor racing don’t ask Motor Sport writers Paul Fearnley…
Porsche Supercup driver Sean Edwards has sadly been killed in an accident at Queensland Raceway in Australia. He was the son of former Grand Prix driver Guy Edwards. The 26-year-old…
Taken from the December 1997 issue of Motor Sport No one ever had Enzo Ferrari’s number better than Phil Hill. “The Old Man used to produce these annuals at the…
If there’s one thing most racing fans agree on about motor sport today is that it’s become too specialised, lacking the variety and versatility the sport once enjoyed. One of…
OK, I’m sold. I’d been told it was the case and now I know it’s true. Austin is a great city to drop in on. Not that I needed much…
Loïc Duval, Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen stretched their lead at the top of the FIA World Endurance Championship points table after fending off Toyota’s challenge at the Circuit of…
Formula 1, MotoGP, Grand-Am and even the Australian V8 Supercars have all given a big thumbs up to Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, and this weekend it’s the turn of…
You hear stories like it all the time: “I was in a boring nine-to-five IT job and I decided to pack it all in”. This time, though, the man in…
Dick Skipworth’s Ecurie Ecosse collection, one of the finest single-theme collections ever assembled, will be sold in December. The flag-blue squad celebrates the small but eager Scottish team which won…
Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…
There’s no particular order to our list of 100 reasons why we love Aston Martin. The point of our October issue cover-story tribute during this, the marque’s centenary year, was…
At first glance Bob Alexander’s introduction to racing was much like that of every designer, engineer or mechanic in motor sport. “When I was seven years old my parents took…
Written in 2013... The last Grand Prix I attended was at Silverstone in 2003. It was an epic race, enlivened by Neil Horan’s potentially suicidal track invasion, the best victory…
We often write about the 1960s in the pages of Motor Sport, and here on the website too, and for good reason: the '60s were a remarkable decade for motor…
John Coombs sadly passed away on Saturday August 3, 2013. In celebration of his life we are posting Simon Taylor's Lunch With feature from May 2009. Motor Sport would like…
You may remember that at the start of the season I wrote about the rise and rise of some talented young Danes, all of them beginning to attract some serious…
In 1987 I was one of a few thousand people to cram into the Albert Hall to see a young auctioneer called Robert Brooks sell a Bugatti. In his last…