Motor sport has lost one of its most distinguished, yet unassuming, characters with the death of Ron Tauranac, aged 95. Born in Britain, Tauranac emigrated to Australia with his family…
Sir Stirling Moss 1929-2020 One of the legends upon which the whole sport rests has now left us, but Stirling Moss’s deeds never will. He was one of those very…
The engineer behind the Porsche 917 and Audi Quattro, Ferdinand Piëch reversed the fortunes of the Volkswagen Group and built it into one of the world's largest car makers It…
A courageous, shrewd and quick driver, Niki Lauda also had a rare human quality Lauda at the 1977 United States Grand Prix Motorsport Images Extraordinary will forever be too weak…
Ralf Waldmann: obituary Photo: MotoGP It’s been one of those horrible weeks for motorcycling. First, journalist and broadcaster Henry Hope-Frost died in a road accident last…
By Brian Barham Andy John Scriven, who died aged 57 in December following a road accident, was an accomplished motor sport designer whose career spanned nearly four decades. The accident occurred in…
For many, Jack Sears will be remembered as the first British Saloon Car champion back in 1958. But Sears, who died on Sunday August 7 2016, will also be remembered as…
Gerard 'Jabby' Crombac Flat-cap wearer, pipe smoker. Anglophile and incurable motor racing addict. this Frenchman was the doyen of Formula One journalists. Crombac died in November. having notched up an…
The Hon Patrick Lindsay Patrick Lindsay died on January 9th at the age of 57 after an illness of several months. Known to the public most of all in his…
He may not have been the most famous driver in the sport's history, but when the news came through that Michele Aboreto had been killed testing an Audi R8 at…
Roger Clark MBE, Britain's greatest rally driver of the pre-four-wheel drive era, and arguably its finest ever exponent of the art, died on January 12, following a stroke. He was…
Roland Ratzenberger typified the spirit that takes men to the highest echelon of motorsport. He was born in Salzburg in 1962 and began to establish his unusual name in the…
