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Motor sport book reviews in brief: January 2021
The Irish International Grand Prix Bob Montgomery Considering there were only three of these Irish grand prix meetings this seems…
The Irish International Grand Prix Bob Montgomery Considering there were only three of these Irish grand prix meetings this seems…
Aston Martin AMR-C01 simulator Sim-racing systems aren’t exactly rare in this section – well, not since the lockdown boom in…
Formula E, R1&2 Santiago ePrix January 16-17 Formula E is back with a double-header in Chile to kick off its…
This is the McLaren pit at the end of a practice session for the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix. It’s a…
My rivalry with Niki at Brabham in 1978 and McLaren in 1982 to ’83 was not so much about the…
The name, in gold lettering, on the black bodywork of the JPS Lotus-Renault 98T was Johnny Dumfries. Well, John Colum…
There’s no shortage of watch brands that have been set up to take advantage of the link between timekeeping and…
While not being particularly enamoured with current Formula 1, I was most impressed with the changes made to the Imola…
The emotive appeal of victory in a home grand prix spreads beyond the winner himself. When preparing preview material, any…
Jim Clark Silverstone 1965 For the first half of the British Grand Prix it had looked fairly straightforward, Jim Clark pulling…
Does Romain Grosjean, coming to the end of his F1 career, still feel he could go up against anyone? “Yes,…
To the left sits Jody Scheckter’s history-making Wolf WR1 and an Alan Jones Williams FW07. Further down the line there’s…
“When I first met Zak, I was racing in Formula 3000, trying to eke a living and pay the rent…
It took a long time. In the 35 years following my first trip to Modena in 1965, I wrote much…
Fourteen years in the making, the two-volume Maserati: The Family Silver by Nigel Trow is the ultimate company history by…
He won the Targa Florio twice, raced for Scuderia Ferrari, had his own grand prix team, created a car that…
Lead image: Targa Florio May 1966 The Targa in a nutshell, as the Alpine A110 of Jean-Pierre Hanrioud and Jean-François…
It’ll be one of those eerie things. The sort where you know what’s happening, yet your brain struggles to compute…
It’s difficult to imagine a Lotus 47 ending up in a scrapyard nowadays, but that was allegedly where this one…
In 1976, Pete Davies won the Avon Roadrunner race series riding a bike that was virtually street-legal. The machine in…
Jonathan Rea gave himself and Kawasaki a huge boost when he outpaced half the MotoGP grid at Jerez last week, but how was it possible? Racers love to prove a…
On Sunday morning, I met up with a mate who was sampling his first taste of Silverstone and Formula 1. He wasn’t doing it by halves, having arrived with his…
Design legend Gordon Murray joins Motor Sport editor Nick Trott, editor-at-large Gordon Cruickshank and features editor Simon Arron for the latest Royal Automobile Club Talk Show. From Brabham and Bernie…
Charles Leclerc’s crashing his Ferrari out of the lead gifted Red Bull’s Max Verstappen victory in the French Grand Prix. But that’s not to say he wasn’t going to win…