'80s month: Watson’s landmark British GP success
Simon Arron continues '80s month as he recalls a trip to Silverstone for the 1981 British Grand Prix equipped with the A to Z of ale – and not much else.…
Simon Arron continues '80s month as he recalls a trip to Silverstone for the 1981 British Grand Prix equipped with the A to Z of ale – and not much else.…
'International motor racing, meet Fernando Alonso' – Simon Arron recounts his first impressions of the now double F1 champion back when he was competing in Formula 3000 It was always…
Simon Arron recounts how, with the pulling of multiple strings, he helped Perry McCarthy (Top Gear's former Stig) compete in the penultimate round of the 1989 Formula 3000 Championship One of…
Features editor Simon Arron picks his top 16 photographs from a year on the road Simon Arron has covered more than 50 events (and counting) for Motor Sport in 2017.…
Ended 30 years ago on safety grounds, the Group B era is still regarded by many as the World Rally Championship's apotheosis. Brutality, meet romance.
Simon Arron winds back the clock to a fresh-faced Lewis Hamilton's Grand Prix debut and beyond It seems barely plausible that 10 years have passed since he made his Grand…
In 2007 the Paulistas had embraced Lewis Hamilton – a mixed-race tyro chasing the F1 championship in a mixed-race city – but one year on attitudes had changed. He was…
In time the unexpected would become the expected, but this was only Ayrton Senna’s 17th Championship Grand Prix – and the first for which he’d taken pole. Sunday dawned dry,…
It’s an oft-repeated cliché that this was the apotheosis among many fine moments in Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix career, but the full circumstances bear repetition. In April 1968 the Scot fractured…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Six pit stops, one puncture, two collisions, a drive-through penalty, and taking a race restart in last…
It was always going to be a momentous day. Since reopening the Donington Park circuit in 1977, driving force Tom Wheatcroft had pledged to bring Grand Prix racing back there…
The first clue to the weekend’s significance could be seen just south of Rouen – a stationary Triumph Stag with bonnet up and driver alongside, chatting into his mobile. Some…