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Matters of moment: February 2018, February 2018
This issue cannot go to print without mention of Bette Hill, who has died aged 91. An extraordinary woman, of…
This issue cannot go to print without mention of Bette Hill, who has died aged 91. An extraordinary woman, of…
WTCC axed to accommodate new-look premier global saloon series The FIA World Touring Car Championship is no more. In name…
Porsche has quit LMP1, but is ramping up its GT assault We know that there will be no Porsches racing…
Haas has fared better than other recent Formula 1 newcomers, but do its performances deter or encourage would-be entrants? Haas…
British team shares victory in the world’s toughest classic rally An arranged tie brought the 2017 East African Safari Classic…
Report on spectator deaths recommends changes UK rallying has given a generally favourable response to the official investigation into the…
Is the British GP the finest race on the Northants/Bucks border? Not necessarily The wall of spray remained intense all…
He has become almost as integral a part of Formula Ford racing as the Kent engine. Stuart Kestenbaum, 68, made…
STICKING POINTS Ground-effect cars in Race Retro spotlight as legends of stage and track gather for popular historic showpiece Race…
SUZI PERRY Confirmed for Motor Sport Hall of Fame The 2018 Motor Sport Hall of Fame will be hosted by…
Google and Red Bull are bringing high-octane racing closer than ever – inches from your face This new Red Bull…
More tracks to come, with packed virtual paddocks One of the main complaints about GT Sport was the lack of…
McLaren launches ultimate track-day special Unveiled – McLaren’s fastest road car yet. And they’ve given it the name of the…
What could’ve been one of the greatest sporting comebacks ever, in Robert Kubica’s push to return to F1, may have…
Should recently built ‘classic’ cars be permitted to race at historic events? Join us for a stroll through a well-trodden…
The dystopian movie Rollerball, an orgy of over-corporatised, violent sport, was set in 2018. Obviously, it could never happen for…
You can’t help but buy into the romance of Alfa Romeo, even if the first one you bought blew up…
Ford has a reputation as a 1960s sports car racing giant, thanks to its four Le Mans victories. But the…
An exhibition on Ferrari you won’t want to miss, a chance to build your own aircraft – nearly – and…
Blasts from the past Dickie Meaden’s piece in the January issue, about time-travelling to the past, evoked a few fond…
As you can imagine, the hot topics of the weekend included Massa scoring his third consecutive victory in Turkey, the fact that McLaren has made progress in catching their rivals…
NASCAR arrived in my backyard last weekend for round 19 of the 36-race Sprint Cup championship. These days New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one of NASCAR’s most successful tracks, drawing…
The high-banked Talladega Superspeedway is renowned as the ‘Wild Card’ in NASCAR’s championship battle. For the past twenty-five years Talladega and Daytona have been constrained by the dreaded ‘restrictor plates’…
It’s time to resurrect another tape from our Motor Sport audio archive, to look back on the 1979 grand prix season with one of my Track Torque programmes from Radio…