A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Once Jack Brabham had deposited his leading Cooper in the bushes at Hatzenbach on the opening…
“Let us work in peace, please.” Sorry, Maurizio, but that’s not how it works. The comings and goings at Scuderia Ferrari has been the soapy operatic backdrop to motor racing…
Old Österreichring was Formula 1 at its most camp(site): green and pleasant, beery and cheery, all frankfurters and Würlitzers. It had a serious side, too: blind brows and bloodcurdling bends…
Image courtesy of Williams Martini Racing's trackwalk Cor! Baku City Circuit looks a bit quick. Not its average lap speed – a sequence of square corners and the narrowest section…
Congratulations to Alex Rossi: the ninth rookie winner from 100 runnings of the Indianapolis 500. Successful in Formula BMW, GP3, Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2, this Californian would rather have…
Grand Prix motor racing could not afford to be picky in financially straitened times, hence its ‘adoption’ of Formule Libre. As a consequence, the monstrous 7.1-litre Mercedes-Benz SSKL dwarfed Bugatti’s 2.3-litre…
Spa had become divisive. Jackie Stewart despised its naked dangers – and said so. If it rained, he told Ken Tyrrell, he would not race. And his team boss couldn’t…
It’s difficult to know which was the more remarkable: Max Verstappen’s maiden Grand Prix victory, aged 18 years 227 days, or the fact that his was the first Formula 1…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Ever since his pole-setting Renault team-mate René Arnoux had spun out of a big lead on lap…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jim Clark was spooked by Spa. He almost jacked in the sport after his ’58 international…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). He was a fraction over two-tenths slower than Q2’s fastest lap – but 11th on the…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jean-Pierre Beltoise had come close to winning a GP several times since his debut in 1966…