In celebration of the upcoming Motor Sport Hall of Fame, we look back on the careers of our founding members and inductees. Taken from the November 2010 issue of Motor…

Taken from the July 1998 issue of Motor Sport One evening, several years ago, and over a degustivo or two, Jenks was reminiscing about the Mille Miglia. “I’ve often thought,”…

Taken from the April 1998 issue of Motor Sport Some weekends you can come back from a Grand Prix with a notebook relatively clean. There will be a lap chart…

“I think,” smiled Fernando Alonso, “they could put a GP2 engine in it – and still be on pole…” No prizes for guessing which car he was talking about, of…

The weather for the first day of practice at Circuit of the Americas was considerably warmer than the couple gone before – but that brought a new problem. Where there…

For two days the skies have been cloudless, the sun blinding, in central Texas, but the temperatures have been a surprise. In November you don’t expect to find frost on…

I always adored Watkins Glen. The circuit itself was one of the best on the World Championship trail, and to go to upstate New York in the autumn – excuse…

Why are we drawn to this sport? Through my 20-odd years as a Grand Prix journalist, I have been repeatedly surprised by the drivers’ lack of childhood enthusiasm for motor…

Taken from the February 1998 issue of Motor Sport It is 21 years, I realise with some amazement, since I began covering Grand Prix racing for Autosport, and in that…

Every year, shortly before Christmas, a letter arrives from a woman I have never met. The only connection between us is that she is the second wife of a friend…

Taken from the December 1997 issue of Motor Sport No one ever had Enzo Ferrari’s number better than Phil Hill. “The Old Man used to produce these annuals at the…

So Monza is over for another year, and this time the race was hardly a thriller. Afterwards Sebastian Vettel pointed out that traditionally the celebrated Autodromo had not been one of…