Phil Remington was the Paul Bunyan – the US superhuman lumberjack folk hero – of American motor sports. During a career that stretched from pre-war hotrods to the carbon-fibre DeltaWing,…
Driving a Formula 1 car is just like riding a bike — you never forget. At least that's Jacques Villeneuve's view after he blasted out of the pits in a 2021 Alpine and found his brain was instantly back in the groove... even if his body wasn't
Alberto Ascari was the first double world champion; the first to win back-to-back titles and still holds the record of the most grand prix wins in a row. He deserves to be more revered, writes Andrew Frankel
His final action would be typical of the man. He didn’t like fuss. Inured by an upbringing devoid of shows of emotion – taskmaster father Clive had won a VC…
Gilles Villeneuve made his Formula 1 debut for McLaren at Silverstone. But the next time he lined up on a grand prix grid, the Canadian was driving for Ferrari. Team manager Alistair Caldwell recalls how McLaren lost out on one of racing's great talents
It is June 11, 1972 and what had always been a dream had come to nothing. What galled was that it was so close to coming true. What would it…
They are rarely mentioned in the same breath, but Mallory Park and Formula 1 are by no means strangers. The circuit was a staple on the British Formula 1 Championship…
Fuji, October 23 1977. A year on from the heart-in-mouth climax that crowned him an against-the-odds Formula 1 world champion, James Hunt has just completed his sole season as world…
F1 Retro August 2005 Manfred Winkelhock would have celebrated his 70th birthday this month. He might not have been the absolute fastest on the 1980s Formula 1 scene, but certainly was…
Few moments in Monza's 100-year history are as emotional as Jody Scheckter's 1979 Italian GP victory in a Ferrari, securing the drivers' and constructors' titles. Damien Smith revisits the F1 win with the South African veteran
Why was this race so important that its name was informally given to Ferrari's next supercar and, 55 years later, now officially bequeathed upon the SP3? Revenge, pure and simple.…
Chassis 72/5 Fittipaldi’s old faithful Emerson Fittipaldi crashed what would turn out to be his ‘old faithful’ on his first appearance in the car, in Friday practice at Monza 1970…
October 26, 1969 California, US From front: Dan Gurney (McLaren M6B), Chuck Parsons (Lola T163B) and Jackie Oliver (Autocoast Ti 22) at Riverside in October in the penultimate race of…
One of motor racing’s most iconic ‘long lost’ classic sports-racing cars was unpacked in June, on its return to British soil for the first time in 57 long years. The…
April, 1963 East Africa Greetings from Maasai onlookers as the Ford Anglia of Peter Hughes – the son of a Ford distributor in Kenya – and Billy Young tackles the…
You have taken pole position at your home grand prix driving for what is ostensibly your national team. You then lead the race, and once a pair of pesky rivals…
