Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd made its race debut half a century ago. In 10 short weeks thereafter it experienced the gamut of its glorious but gladiatorial era. Not only…

The anticipation helped. It always does. Two qualifying sessions postponed until Sunday morning because of rain didn’t do any harm either. Revved up! The armies masquerading as Formula 1 teams…

Bruce McLaren shouldn’t have been there. Masten Gregory should. Cooper team leader Jack Brabham reckoned the latter the most fearless man he met. Yet even the gung-ho ‘Kansas City Flash’…

Think of a number. Go on, Formula 1 is. Next Monday the good burghers of its Strategy Group will for a second time within a few months discuss a proposal…

Helmets off to Mark Webber on an excellent Grand Prix career. There was a time when it seemed he might become the best since Amon not to win one. That…

Emerson Fittipaldi was born in São Paulo. So, too, were Rubens Barrichello and Felipe Massa. Ayrton Senna was born in São Paulo. Yet Interlagos is named after José Carlos Pace.…

Whisper it: the United States Grand Prix might at last have found a new spiritual home. The Circuit of the Americas’ difficult birth was eased by the enthusiastic response of…

Mission Complete in the 2.40 at Chepstow: there could be no better name for AP McCoy’s 4000th winner. Destiny called. Except that the seven-year-old gelding was withdrawn because the going…

Sebastian Vettel is a remarkable young man. Not so long ago he was staring adoringly at bedroom posters of Michael Schumacher. Now he’s a four-time world champion, at 26. Like…

“I’d been racing for so many years and in so many different cars and countries that nobody knew who I was.” Paul Radisich speaks without bitterness. He’s a self-sufficient, quietly…

Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix all but settled the Drivers’ World Championship. Even feisty Fernando Alonso had to concede that his distant fourth at Suzuka would serve only to prolong Ferrari’s…

The incredible Nico Hülkenberg has every right to be angry. His real-world size, all 6ft and 11st 9lb of it, not only outweighs his talent in some Formula 1 team…