A couple of my colleagues were looking rather doleful, I thought, as I walked into the Silverstone press room on the Thursday before the British Grand Prix. When I asked…

‘The DNA of Formula 1’ is a phrase much used by Niki Lauda, with whom I conducted an interview in Montreal for the next issue of Motor Sport. It came…

A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). As expected the title protagonists and ‘team-mates’ qualified 1-2, with Ayrton Senna ahead, but Alain Prost quietly…

The 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix was memorable for a superb wheel-to-wheel battle in the late stages between the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, but that wasn’t the sum…

Mexico’s recent return to the world championship was a huge success, and that came as a surprise only to those who had never attended a race there in the old…

In Austin Lewis Hamilton duly clinched his third world championship, and there’s no reason why anyone should be surprised. Whatever the era in grand prix racing, enthusiasts have always argued…

In Singapore – where a 41st Grand Prix victory would have put him on par with his great hero Ayrton Senna – Lewis Hamilton blithely claimed to be unaware of…

The ‘silly season’ has been intrinsic to Formula 1 since Job was a boy, and traditionally goes on and on. Occasionally we get a year where no major contracts are…

The best-loved character in all of Formula 1: Sid Watkins was responsible for introducing F1 medical care that has saved the lives of many drivers, writes Nigel Roebuck

A retired Grand Prix driver told me recently that he was struggling to retain much interest in the 2015 season. For one thing, he said, the endless paddock dissension had…

Recently Michelin indicated its interest in returning to Formula 1, and that – given the shameful way it was treated during its last period of involvement – rather surprised me.…

It was a pleasure last week, at a function unconnected with motor racing, to run into Martin Whitmarsh, whom I hadn’t seen since the palace coup at McLaren early in…