Cholmondeley Power and Speed
There was a new brand for the former Cholmondeley Pageant of Power this year as the Cheshire event morphed into Cholmondeley Power and Speed (10-12 June). Once again, there was…
It had to happen: VR is building his own museum in Italy Knock down the Leaning Tower of Pisa and turn the Grand Canal into a car park, because Italy…
1) In the seven races so far the pole-winner has only led the opening lap twice – Russia (Nico Rosberg) and Monaco (Daniel Ricciardo). 2) Sebastian Vettel qualified within 0.2 seconds of pole, the…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Modern racing is still capable of throwing up surprises now and again, and ground-breaking designs like…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). If you asked anyone in F1 at the time, plenty would have said that Michael Schumacher…
Inevitably, being mid-June, there's plenty from Le Mans in this week's round-up from the Archive. José Froilán González went without sleep and food during the epic in 1954, but still managed…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). As expected the title protagonists and ‘team-mates’ qualified 1-2, with Ayrton Senna ahead, but Alain Prost quietly…
The reward for an early start for the podcast team was an hour-long chat with David Richards, chairman of Prodrive. Winner of the World Rally Championship as co-driver for Ari Vatanen, he…
Recorded at his home in America, watch Dan Gurney accept his award for winning the US category of the 2016 Hall of Fame, as voted for by you. The other…
Hopefully the creation of some kind of system that delivers the right kind of run-off for both MotoGP and Formula 1 Sadly, it is a reality of racing that safety…
If ever there was a weekend that showed the remarkable diversity of historic motor sport, this weekend was it. Action ranged from Group C cars dicing around the sweeps of Dijon…
Race Retro will be ‘powered by’ Motor Sport Magazine when the historic motor sport show returns to Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, in 2017. Held from Friday February 24 to Sunday 26,…
Michael Dunlop broke the Isle of Man TT race and lap record on the way to victory in the RST Superbike contest on Saturday June 4, becoming the first rider to break…
Formula 1 chiefs have come under renewed pressure from human rights groups over staging the European Grand Prix in Azerbaijan which takes place on June 17-19. Representatives from Sport for…
Sunday June 7, 1998. The day three-time Le Mans winner Allan McNish won the greatest race of them all for Porsche on just his second visit to Le Mans. The team of…
Writing a column is an essentially simple business. Not easy perhaps, but simple all the same. There are only two rules I have found in the least useful over time:…
TV car shows have a type: buy a shed and call it a barn find, find out it’s worse than it looked on the outside, fix it up, and do…