Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…
Had history been a benign guide rather than a harsh teacher, Kris Meeke might have followed the wheel tracks of fellow Northern Irishman Paddy Hopkirk and won a Monte Carlo…
Formula 1 was undeniably underwhelming Down Under. The lead battle in Melbourne was cagey rather than a cage fight; the rest were nowhere; and now everybody – not just Sauber…
Crock of gold or poisoned chalice? Outstandin’ opportunity or stand-in joke? Be warned: it can go from Badoer to Wurz. The former responded to a misplaced call from Ferrari in…
Graham Hill would have been 86 this week. His death 40 years ago robbed a family of a fun and loving father and husband, and British motor sport of…
The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is a FWD/AWD LMP1-H racer that meets FIA WEC and ACO criteria and features a 3-litre TTV6 IC engine with DI, in conjunction with an…
Niki Lauda is of the opinion that a 1000bhp-plus Formula 1 car (on durable slicks, nice and wide and big and fat) would resonate with a disillusioned public. He’s probably…
“Without a moment’s hesitation Jean-Pierre executed a perfect handbrake turn. In a great big Mercedes V8 saloon. In the wet. On a street of modest width. With cars parked either…
They’d said it would be over by Christmas. Yet by 1915 the vast Vickers ‘shed’, built in response to the spiralling mechanised demands of an already entrenched conflict, loomed over…
“I finally got going after a push and spent a dismal race in the middle of the pack… unable to think much save that Boxing Day was a crazy day…
Max Verstappen is a veteran. Having karted competitively since before he was five, and at an international level from the age of 12, he was a world champion by 15.…
The haves and have-lots are playing high-stakes poker with the sport we love. Its soul long since sold, the devilment now lies in Formula 1’s financial detail: an apparent streamlining…