A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Racing’s toughest nuts butted heads for almost two hours on a circuit that was hard on…
Two God-fearing men, one in a saffron skirt and the other in a Day-glo Ferrari...
‘Wattie’ is 70 today (May 4). In August he’ll celebrate 40 years without ‘the beard’. He grew it originally, he only half-jokes, to keep warm in his father Marshall’s “wind…
Click here to buy the lead image. A wild gypsy spirit surrounded the Ligier team. Father figure Guy could charm or shake the birds from the trees, while driver Jacques…
Click here to buy the lead image. The Australian Grand Prix enjoyed a long, proud and varied history before the Formula 1 World Championship came to town Down Under in…
Click here to buy the lead image. Familiar whipping boy Qualifying is to be revamped again. I’ve read the proposals and concluded that they might work – i.e. improve the…
Marshall Teague is famous for his ‘Fabulous Hudson Hornet’ that put NASCAR on the map and on a commercial footing in the early 1950s. But he was killed in a…
Recently I had cause to call the Attwood household. Mrs Attwood answered and we had a quick chat about dogs. When I asked if I might speak with her husband,…
A new Queen settling in; no more rationing; and Bill Haley and his Comets had recorded Rock Around the Clock – although its global impact had yet to be felt. Yep, fun…
It’s all to play for in Abu Dhabi – unless you’re obsessed with showdowns. I’ve watched a few, it’s true. Smudgy Fuji images from 1976 are a vague memory, and…
Zoom-and-slump Lewis Hamilton is in exalted company. Fellow multiple world champions Juan Fangio, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher all suffered post-title ‘depression’.…
Three years ago freelance archivist Richard Wiseman (below) was tasked with locating the missing rushes of Steve McQueen’s film Le Mans. He reckoned on a one per cent chance of…