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Welcome to German Legends
There’s no country with a motor sporting history quite like Germany. While the Italians Legends may have held the upper…
There’s no country with a motor sporting history quite like Germany. While the Italians Legends may have held the upper…
Taken from Motor Sport, June 2013 Thirty or so years ago I wrote a column for Autosport about Bernd Rosemeyer,…
Taken from Motor Sport, April 2020 At the end of a bright spring day at Monza, the timing sheets told…
Taken from Motor sport, June 2010 Hands and arms whirl, feet flit across the pedals in a blur. But somehow…
Taken from Motor Sport online, March 2017 Over the years, how many great motor racing dynasties have there been? Andretti…
For most of 2009, a quarter of the drivers on the grand prix grid were from Germany. And, thanks to…
Taken from Motor Sport, December 2020 Michael Schumacher is a complex subject. But perhaps quite a simple man. The F1…
The Formula 1 paddock will be greatly the poorer for the loss of Sebastian Vettel when he calls time on…
Taken from Motor Sport Online, December 2021 In 1933, a German car won only one major international race; the Finnish…
Dominant – that’s the word to describe the W154 (sometimes called 163) that engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut fielded to contest the…
The Silver Arrows Mercedes W154, at least the last three-litre V12 supercharged one, was so elemental with that great long…
I am full of admiration for the Mercedes W154. I believe in elegance and simplicity; a lot of people confuse…
Taken from Motor Sport, March 2020 It was a momentous decision. The Team Sauber Mercedes entries in the 1989 World…
On October 16, 1955, Stirling Moss and Peter Collins led a Mercedes-Benz 1-2-4 at the Targa Florio to clinch the…
The overalls still fit and so, by definition, does the cockpit. Thirty years on from the most successful season of…
Kenny Acheson’s return to the cockpit of a Sauber-Mercedes came about entirely by chance. Invited to a corporate event at…
Taken from Motor Sport online, June 2020 There are very few engines that have become so indivisible from their creator…
Taken from Motor Sport, November 2009 If you ask me, the blokes on the board at BMW lost their nerve.…
As driver punch-ups go, few are as notorious as the incident at Hockenheim in 1982, when Nelson Piquet set about…
Taken from Motor Sport, November 2011 It’s not unusual for a racing driver to describe a racing car as a…
Collection of Schumacher's winning Formula 1 cars displayed in free exhibition A long-awaited exhibition featuring cars from Michael Schumacher's Formula 1 career opened this weekend at the new Cologne MotorWorld…
Season review books are often a hit-and-miss affair. Try to take on too much and you risk diluting the subject matter; if you concentrate on specifics you run the risk…
The death and injury toll in the 1903 Paris-Madrid event was so severe that it was stopped early, and brought about a road racing ban in France and Spain. Among the grim list of casualties was Marcel Renault: one of the co-founders of the car-making empire
Porsche’s legendary 917 claimed its final Le Mans victory in 1971, with a crushing win in the hands of Gijs van Lennep and Helmut Marko. Motor Sport is giving you…