Each season we await the opening round of the Formula 1 World Championship with baited breath. Some of us – despite the sport’s ever-improving reliability and spiraling exclusive budgets –…

Who is the most influential designer to have worked in Grand Prix motor racing: Vittorio Jano, Colin Chapman, Adrian Newey? It’s a trick question. And my answer is: the man…

And then there were none: Italian drivers in Formula 1. The home of the most famous team in motor racing and of international karting, plus the lair of the world’s…

Nürburgring Nordschleife and its (4.8-mile) Sudschleife offshoot never made ‘sense’. Built in the euphoric aftermath of the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation of the early 1920s to create employment and generate income…

If it looks right, it is right: Renault AK 90CV, Bugatti Type 35, Alfa Romeo Tipo B, Maserati 250F, Lotus 25, and 72, Ligier JS11, McLaren MP4/4 and Ferrari 641.…

The combination of Triple Eight Engineering and Jason Plato, with more than 160 wins and 12 titles between them – the most successful team and driver in the championship’s history…

Twenty-four years into my journalistic career and finally a story lands in my lap. When my new neighbour expressed an interest in motor sport our conversation soon turned to her…

Carlos Reutemann was a racing driver from Central Casting: blue eyes, chiseled jaw, dimples, brooding Brando brows, luxuriant hair, tanned. To think, he shared F1 grids with Peter Revson, François…

There’s so much sport on the goggle-box these days that even the most ardent armchair hero must pick and choose. Beyond motor sport – I draw the line at Supermoto…

The Dakar is but a shimmering mirage in Britain’s public sporting consciousness. Thirty years ago, however, it was suddenly front-page news: Mark Thatcher had gone missing in the Sahara. TE…

Stratos versus 96 V4: no contest. An eight-year-old could tell you that. The 1975 RAC Rally, the Lombard, was behind schedule and my feverish anticipation had given way to a…

Phew. Ford has recommitted to the World Rally Championship. No Blue Oval is akin to there being no Ferrari red in Formula 1: survivable, but unthinkable. A top privateer outfit…