Michael Schumacher turns 50 years old today – features editor Simon Arron reflects on a dominant, divisive, driver Seven world titles, 91 Formula 1 victories, 155 podium finishes, 142 Grands Prix led……

Motor Sport’s features editor Simon Arron didn’t travel quite as widely as usual in 2018, but that still translated as attendance at about 50 events (and probably almost as many…

Comparisons aside, Hamilton's fifth title proves yet again he's among the best of all time Lewis Hamilton. Five times champion. Parity with Juan Manuel Fangio. Next stop Michael Schumacher. Blah,…

Simon Arron reviews Kimi Räikkönen's new authorised biography. Available from the Motor Sport shop Conceptually this is perhaps the least likely book ever to have been scripted – and therein lies its…

Simon Arron on a Japanese Grand Prix landmark that tends to be overlooked As sporting theatres go, it has few peers. From Osaka to the west or Nagoya to the…

Never mind the complications, consider the benefits… Silverstone, 1977. McLaren’s two works M26s are separated on the grid by an older M23, run by a satellite factory operation for a…

McLaren is a Formula 1 team with a history of fielding household names, but without Alonso in 2019, its decline could become more apparent than ever It was almost seamless.…

By Simon Arron It was a decade of contrast, conflict, controversy and change. Punk rock ceded to New Romanticism, John Lennon was assassinated in New York, America and others boycotted…

There are more than enough recent examples that would have dissuaded Daniel Ricciardo from jumping to a rival F1 team Racing driver switches to slower team. Voluntarily. It isn’t common…

1999 Belgian Grand Prix – when an all-nighter meant what it said on the tin On the surface all was bluster. The new British American Racing team had launched amid…

As the dust settles on Silverstone, teams prepare for the run south-east to Germany… but both legs of this traditional July double are in jeopardy Is something rotten in the…

As Thruxton turns 50, Simon Arron turns all nostalgic The vista has long since vanished, concealed behind raised earth banks designed to insulate the real world from motor racing’s sonic…