MotoGP’s dark side: the twits and the trolls
Valentino Rossi talks about rider bullying on social media: “it’s very bad” Technology is usually amoral – it can be used for good or for ill. Nuclear fission can be…
1) Max Verstappen is the youngest man ever to win a Grand Prix at 18 years old. The next youngest is Sebastian Vettel who won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Ever since his pole-setting Renault team-mate René Arnoux had spun out of a big lead on lap…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jim Clark was spooked by Spa. He almost jacked in the sport after his ’58 international…
Mid-May on the Formula 1 calendar means Monaco. Alain Prost dominated the streets of Monte Carlo almost from practice to the flag in 1986, and Ayrton Senna did similarly in 1991.…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). He was a fraction over two-tenths slower than Q2’s fastest lap – but 11th on the…
Just under two years ago, sports car manufacturer Prodrive started work on a hydraulic control system for the foils on a prototype America’s Cup boat. Since then it has become a…
Looking back at Le Mans and forward to the greatest race of the year Was Jorge Lorenzo’s runaway victory at Le Mans the sign of many more to come or…
UPDATE: Mercedes introduced TJI concept to F1 in 2014. Ferrari 2015. Renault Canada 2016-onwards. Following up on the confirmation in our previous story that Ferrari has been using a Mahle-developed…
Every other May, historic motor racing has one of its biggest occasions and this weekend the 10th running of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique has drawn a sensational entry…
If you believe the press blurb, the new Aston Martin DB11 is the most important car in its history. To put that into context, Aston is suggesting it is a…
Twenty years ago Arie Luyendyk set the track record at Indianapolis by averaging 236.986 mph over four qualifying laps that took 2 minutes 31.908 seconds. The 1996 Indy 500 was…
Historic Sporting Trials is booming right now and Saturday’s event at Long Compton in Warwickshire drew a record-breaking 55-strong entry of historic and post-historic cars. Back in the 1950s trialling…
Audi's Lucas di Grassi, Loïc Duval and Oliver Jarvis won a frantic second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps, beating the recovering Porsche 919 of Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb. Rebellion…
Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne was speaking to FUCHS Silkolene, one of the main partners of the four-time British Superbike Champion Our weekend at Oulton Park didn’t go to plan. Our team…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Jean-Pierre Beltoise had come close to winning a GP several times since his debut in 1966…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Racing’s toughest nuts butted heads for almost two hours on a circuit that was hard on…