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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…

Just over a dozen years ago I briefly crossed over to the dark side. Which in motoring journalist jargon means I started working for a car company. It wasn’t something…

A Porsche winning its class at Le Mans is nothing new but the events of this year's 24 Hours made the company's victory celebrations harder to manage. It seems wrong…

For all that was good about it, and there was more about what I love about Le Mans in 2013 than any I can recall – constantly changing weather, unbelievable…

It was inevitable that triumph would be tempered by tears. Given what had happened at the start of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, it would have been fitting to…

In the end there was immense relief, deep emotion, satisfaction at a job well done in the most extreme circumstances… but more than anything an overwhelming sadness that the 2013…

Sunday, 9am-midday A notional concept, rest. It doesn’t matter how many times you cover Le Mans, nor how well you appreciate the benefits of a break: your thirst for information…

Sunday, 12am-3am Canadian Tony Burgess was lucky to escape serious injury in a huge crash that cut his Lola coupé in half as the half-way point of the race loomed.…