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Le Mans — The most indulgent of all racing movies
LE MANS Released 1971 Director Lee Katzin, John Sturges Studio Cinema Center Films, National General Pictures Stars Steve McQueen Gross…
LE MANS Released 1971 Director Lee Katzin, John Sturges Studio Cinema Center Films, National General Pictures Stars Steve McQueen Gross…
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, JUNE 1999 “When I got to the paragraph in the contract where the terms of payment…
Le Mans was the movie Steve McQueen most wanted to make. The ultimate bloke’s bloke was mates with Jackie Stewart…
Crystal Palace on a summer’s day, surrounded by Formula 3 cars, mechanics, team trucks and racing drivers. Did I mention…
In Hollywood’s current roll-call, Ron Howard is an F1-stature director. Over the past 35 years this former child actor has…
Ron Howard movies are always well crafted, usually enjoyable and sometimes a little old fashioned. But they’re rarely ‘flashy’. He’s…
More than two years after it was announced, the eagerly awaited Rush will finally reach screens in September. The film…
Wherever possible Ron Howard used genuine 1976 Formula 1 cars to make the Rush story come alive, but his team also had…
Almost 30 years after he won the last of his three Formula 1 titles, Niki Lauda remains a popular paddock…
I’m not making a documentary, I’m making a drama,” Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard tells me as we walk back…
Although it would prove one of the big hits of 2019, the commercially successful Ford v Ferrari didn’t exactly race…
He was known as Teddy Teabag, says Charlie Agapiou. “He’d use one teabag per race and by the end he…
Works of Art - Gallery
The storyline of Ford v Ferrari – the 20th Century Fox film about Carroll Shelby leading the Ford factory team…
From its inception in 1927 to its final roar three decades later, the original Mille Miglia was the most prestigious…
Silverstone Circuit could have a new name this summer. No, not a branding exercise or title sponsorship deal, but it…
GRAND PRIX Released 1966 Director John Frankenheimer Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stars James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, Antonio Sabato Gross $20.8m…
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, AUGUST 2016 He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won…
WINNING Released 1969 Director James Goldstone Studio Universal Pictures Stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner Gross $14.6m (Budget $12m)…
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 Ask the man in the street to name a movie star racer and they…
Williams was first on track in the first test session of the 2020 F1 season this morning, drawing a line underneath 2019, when it missed the first two days of…
Round one went the way of the Mercedes driver but this time it was Max Verstappen's turn to secure a brilliant victory at Imola ahead of his title rival. Lewis…
Who would be a Formula 1 circuit designer? A bit like the tyre supplier you are taken for granted and never praised for doing your job, but always in the…
Lewis Hamilton, Sir Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost among the mourners at ceremony ahead of Niki Lauda's funeral Photo: Rex Formula 1 drivers have gathered at a Mass to commemorate Niki…