Green issues

Well, here it is. Since late 2004, when the cover of Motor Sport was changed from its traditional green to red, it’s been pretty frustrating in this office. While many people have been kind enough to tell us that they absolutely love the content of the magazine, it has nearly always been with the postscript that they preferred the green cover.

As it happened, going green was the easy part! We’ve pulled out all the stops for you on this one, and off the top of m head I can’t think of any motorsport magazine to have brought you exclusive articles – in the same issue – with three former World Champions, in this case Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti and John Surtees. Not content with that, we sent Simon Taylor to Monaco to interview FIA president Max Mosley about his views on historic racing. I’m not giving anything away, but we’re expecting rather a large postbag…

We hope you enjoy the new look and the innovations to the content that we’ve introduced. This is a new era for the magazine and we’d be delighted to hear your comments, either by post or to our e-mail address: editorial@motorsportmagazine.co.uk.

Just one other thing: I’ve got a pile of red Motor Sport stickers sitting on my desk. Can anyone give us any suggestions as to what to do with them?…

Marcus Simmons, Editor